Device in connection with safety belts for vehicles

• US 4,244,601 A
• Filed: 08/21/1978
• Issued: 01/13/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Thomas Nilsson
• Original Assignee: Thomas Nilsson
• Inventors: Nilsson, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Love, John J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mar, Michael
• Application Number:
  US05/935,176
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: 280/744, 280/745, 280/747, 280/801, 280/807, 280/808, 280/805, 297/468, 297/472, 297/473, 297/483
• US Class Current: 280/805
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/22 secured to the vehicle floor

Abstract

A device for anchoring a portion of a safety belt to the floor of a vehicle in the form of a bar extending in longitudinal direction of the vehicle along which a looped portion of a safety belt may move.

Claims

1. In a vehicle:

a vehicle body having a floor, a seat and a door post, a safety belt having a retractor device and being looped through connecting means at said door post one end of said belt being connected to said retractor device, and means for attaching said safety belt to said vehicle body, said attaching means including a substantially stiff bar which is deformable when subjected to a high load and extending substantially horizontally near said floor and substantially in driving direction of said vehicle behind said seat and having front and rear ends connected to said vehicle body, the other end said safety belt having a portion forming a loop around said bar, said belt having a width considerably narrower than the length of said bar so that said loop is adapted to move along said bar, said loop having a width transverse to said bar which is large compared to the transverse size of said bar whereby when said safety belt is in use, said loop is drawn to the front end of said bar and when said safety belt is not in use, said loop is drawn towards the rear end of said bar.