Storage device for a safety belt
AssigneeHans Kolb KG
InventorGunter Tibbe
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Abstract
A storage device for a safety belt in which the safety belt is wound up on a shaft rotatably mounted in a housing. A ratchet wheel is carried by the shaft and rotation of the ratchet wheel is arrested by a pawl. The pawl is moved into engagement with the ratchet wheel by an inertia member comprising a ball which, in a normal position of rest, sits on a circular edge of a recess or aperture in a base member. The pawl is of such construction that its tip, which engages with the ratchet wheel, is longitudinally displaceable under a predetermined loading.
Claims9
A storage device for a safety belt with vehicle-sensitive locking of the belt in the direction of pullout, said device comprising a housing, a coiling shaft rotatably mounted in said housing, a ratchet wheel provided with peripheral teeth and with teeth on an end face, said ratchet wheel being axially movable on said coiling shaft, a pawl, an inertia member for moving said pawl into engagement with the peripheral teeth of the ratchet wheel, and teeth fast with the housing with which the end face teeth of the ratchet wheel co-operate and lock upon axial displacement of said ratchet, the pawl including a separately formed tip for engaging the peripheral teeth of the ratchet wheel, and means mounting said tip for displacement longitudinally of the remainder of said pawl under a predetermined loading in response to engagement with said ratchet wheel peripheral teeth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.