Adjustable guide for a vehicle safety belt
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1. A safety-belt guide assembly for an automotive vehicle, comprising:
- a rectangular cross-section tube formed as a rear upright frame member of an automotive vehicle side window and having a first side turned in a direction of travel of the vehicle and a second side opposite said first side, said first side being formed with an upright slit;
a slide received in said tube and provided with and arm projecting outwardly through said slit and formed with a passage externally of said tube through which a safety belt is guided, said slide being movable up and down in said tube; and
mating formations on said second side of said tube and on said slide mutually engageable at a plurality of heights of said slide in said tube for securing said slide against movement at a selected one of said heights and by a tilt of said slide corresponding to a downward movement of said arm, said mating formations being mutually disengageable upon an opposite tilting movement of said slide to enable said slide to be shifted to another of said heights.
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Abstract
A rear window frame member of a passenger vehicle has a slit for a slider allowing vertical displacement of the upper guide for a shoulder belt. The slider has rearwardly projecting noses engaging in holes in a rear wall of the rectangular tube and the slider can be tilted in its plane, utilizing an arm projecting through the slit has a handle for indexing the slider at different heights along the tube.
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1. A safety-belt guide assembly for an automotive vehicle, comprising:
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a rectangular cross-section tube formed as a rear upright frame member of an automotive vehicle side window and having a first side turned in a direction of travel of the vehicle and a second side opposite said first side, said first side being formed with an upright slit; a slide received in said tube and provided with and arm projecting outwardly through said slit and formed with a passage externally of said tube through which a safety belt is guided, said slide being movable up and down in said tube; and mating formations on said second side of said tube and on said slide mutually engageable at a plurality of heights of said slide in said tube for securing said slide against movement at a selected one of said heights and by a tilt of said slide corresponding to a downward movement of said arm, said mating formations being mutually disengageable upon an opposite tilting movement of said slide to enable said slide to be shifted to another of said heights. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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