Tongue plate slidably fitted on safety seat belt in motor vehicle
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
InventorsYukio Kokubo, Mitsuo Inukai
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Abstract
A tongue plate slidably fitted on a safety seat belt which comprises a continuous webbing which consists of a lap belt and a shoulder belt. A projection or a plurality of projections are provided in a slotted opening formed in the tongue plate, which opening provides for the passage of webbing therethrough whereby abrasion or frictional resistance of the lap belt is to be reduced when the lap belt is moved only in the direction of the shoulder belt. Suitable slack of the shoulder belt can be achieved by making the slack of the lap belt considerably smaller than that of the shoulder belt by means of said reduced frictional resistance of the lap belt.
Claims6
A tongue plate for a safety belt means having an engaging portion for locking engagement with a buckle device on one end thereof and a slotted opening providing for the passage of a continuous webbing on the other end thereof, characterized in that said slotted opening is provided with at least one resilient projection offset with respect to the middle of the depth of said opening formed along one longitudinal enlongated edge of the tongue plate at the upper portion thereof, said projections extending inwardly from said upper portion in the direction of the thickness of the webbing and defining a space between said projections and the opposite longitudinal elongated edge of said slotted opening having a width not greater than the thickness of said webbing to retain said webbing between said projections and opposite edge of said slotted opening.
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