Adjustable holder for vehicle safety belt

• US 4,522,426 A
• Filed: 05/09/1983
• Issued: 06/11/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Klippan GmbH Sicherheitsgerate of Kohfurth 15 2000 Noderstedt West
• Original Assignee: Klippan GmbH Sicherheitsgerate
• Inventors: Weman, Olaf
• Primary Examiner(s): Bertsch, Richard A.
• Application Number:
  US06/492,591
• Time in Patent Office: 764 Days
• Field of Search: 280/801, 280/808, 297/483, 297/486
• US Class Current: 280/801.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 22/202 the slider comprising spring-actuated locking means B60R22/205 takes precedence

Abstract

A holder for a pass-through fitting for holding and conducting straps, particularly a safety belt in a motor vehicle, has fastening devices for attaching it to a support, e.g. a door column, and has a deflection piece, around which the belt passes. In order to make more rapid installation and good adjustablility in height possible, for adaptation to the anatomical dimensions of the passenger of a vehicle in each case, the invention provides that a connecting piece of the holder can be moved along the length of the toothed rack, and can be locked into it, and that the deflection piece is set on the connecting piece. It is practical for this, if the connecting piece has two flanges which surround the toothed rack, forming an approximately U-shaped cross-section.

Claims

1. A holder device for adjustably securing, to a motor vehicle door column or other support member, a deflection member around which a motor vehicle safety belt or other strap is adapted to pass, said holder device comprising:

a. A toothed rack member secured in vertical position to said door column or other support members;

b. A connecting member of U-shaped cross sectional shape having upper and lower flanges each of which has a hole therethrough through which said toothed rack member is adapted to pass; and

c. Compression spring biasing means for biasing said connecting member horizontally in a direction to lock said connecting member on said toothed rack member;

d. The position of said connecting member on said rack member being manually adjustable vertically by pressing said spring means to unlock said connecting member from said rack member.

2. A holder device according to claim 1 characterized in that said toothed rack member is circular in cross section and in that the teeth of said rack member extend approximately over only one half of its circumference as viewed in cross section.

3. A holder device according to claim 2 characterized in that said holes in said upper and lower flanges of said connecting member have a diameter approximately equal to that of the said toothed rack member which is adapted to pass therethrough.

4. A holder device according to claim 3 wherein a slot is provided at the ends of the flanges of the connecting member to permit limited angular movement of said connecting member relative to said door column or other support.

5. A holder device according to claim 1 wherein:

a. At least one hook projects forwardly from said connecting member approximately perpendicular to said toothed rack member, and

b. A suspension member is supported on said hook.

6. A holder device according to claim 5 wherein said deflection member is supported by said suspension member.

7. A holder device according to claim 6 wherein a cover cap is hinged pivotally to said suspension member.