Safety harness for motor vehicles

• US 4,056,282 A
• Filed: 05/19/1976
• Issued: 11/01/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hakanssons Manufaktur AB
• Original Assignee: Hakanssons Manufaktur AB
• Inventors: Nordh, Rolf Goran
• Primary Examiner(s): McCall, James T.
• Application Number:
  US05/687,880
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 297/389, 297/385, 297/384, 292/16, 292/43, 280/744, 280/747
• US Class Current: 297/483
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/201 with the belt anchor connected to a slider movable in a vehicle-mounted track for passive restraint systems B60R22/06

Abstract

An arrangement in a motor vehicle safety harness permitting said harness to be fastened in various positions of adjustment and comprising a slide to which one end of the harness is attached, said slide running along a guide member and provided both with a locking pin moving freely in a bore in said slide, and also with a clamping bolt, said bolt arranged, when turned in one direction, to press said locking pin into engagement with said guide member, thus fastening the harness in the desired position along the guide member.

Claims

1. An improved device in safety harnesses for motor vehicles, said device comprising a first fastening device for securement, of the harness at its lower end inwardly of a vehicle seat and a second fastening device for securement of the harness at the upper end outwardly of the vehicle seat, a slide provided on at least one of said fastening devices, said slide having one end of said harness attached thereto and arranged to be set in various positions of adjustment, the improvement comprising a guide member along which said slide is arranged to run, said guide including a pair of parallel rods, brackets affixed to both ends of the rod pair to retain same in fixed relative position, means on said brackets for attaching said guide to the desired vehicle portion, said slide comprising a body portion having parallel openings therein sized to slidably fit on the aforesaid parallel rods, said slide body having a bore made therein and provided with at least one locking means, said locking means moving freely in said bore in said slide body in a direction towards and away from one of the guide rods, the inner end of said locking means having a conical configuration, said slide body also provided with a clamp bolt formed with a conical portion and disposed in a position wherein it is at an angle to said bore containing said locking means, said clamp bolt arranged, upon its displacement in the axial direction, to urge its conical portion against the conical end of said locking element so as to press said locking means into abutment against one of the guide rods.

2. The invention as set forth in claim 1 and wherein the slide bore extends transversely of the parallel openings in the slide body and further wherein the locking means portion which engages one of the guide rods is configured to evenly grip said rod.

3. The invention as set forth in claim 2 and wherein the guide brackets are provided with means to make them movable fore and aft for adjustment purposes.