Support structure for maximizing or equalizing luggage space under vehicle seats

Claim 1

A support structure for permitting the storage space under the seats of a multi-passenger aircraft seating unit to be maximized or equalized when the unit is to be mounted to a pair of spaced, parallel slotted floor tracks which, if used to directly mount the unit's rear legs, would provide unequal space under the seats, said structure comprising frame means for supporting at least a major portion of the width of at least one seat position in said unit in a cantilever fashion; a pair of vertically positioned front legs attached to said frame means at their upper ends and having fittings at their lower ends adapted to directly engage said slotted floor tracks; a pair of vertically positioned rear legs attached at their upper ends to a rear portion of said frame means at locations laterally spaced from said front legs; a pair of diagonal braces, each of said braces being arranged in a vertical plane and mounted at its forward end to said frame means and at its rearward end to one of said pair of rear legs at the lower end thereof; a lower, elongated rear stretcher element having a length considerably less than the length of the frame means, said lower rear stretcher element being mounted at spaced locations along its length to said pair of slotted floor tracks; said pair of rear legs being mountable at their lower ends to said lower rear stretcher element at one of a plurality of points laterally spaced from said slotted floor tracks so that the storage space adjacent the rear legs and under each of the seats of said seating unit will be generally maximized or equalized.