Pick-up style utility vehicle with expandable cargo bed
View Patent ↗A pick-up style utility vehicle has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed. The cargo bed is expandable forward and has a screen shield for partitioning at a front end thereof. The rear seat has a seat bottom for the rear seat detachably attached to a rear seat attaching portion provided on a vehicle body. The screen shield has a seat holding portion to which the seat bottom, detached from the rear seat attaching portion, is attachable.
1. A pick-up style utility vehicle comprising:
a front seat;
a rear seat; and
a cargo bed; wherein:
the cargo bed is expandable forward and has a screen shield for partitioning at a front end thereof;
the rear seat is attached to a seat attaching plate;
the seat attaching plate is rotatably supported by a vehicle body between a fallen position and an erected position about a rotational shaft in a vehicle width direction and has a pair of toggle clamps positioned so as to be spaced in a vehicle width direction;
each of the toggle clamps has a clamp lever rotatably provided on the seat attaching plate, and a wire ring coupled to the clamp lever;
the bottom surface of the seat bottom has at least two hook portion rows each of which has a plurality of hook portions arranged so as to be spaced in a front-rear direction and the at least two hook portion rows are spaced in a vehicle width direction; and
the wire ring of each of the toggle clamps selectively engages the hook portions of one of the hook portion rows so that, upon rotation of the clamp levers, the seat bottom is fixed to the seat attaching plate and thereby the position of the seat bottom relative to the seat attaching plate is changeable forward and rearward.