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US 4,065,836 AGranted
Safety belt buckle
AssigneeAllied Chemical Corporation
InventorRobert L. Stephenson
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Abstract
A safety belt buckle is provided with plural locking and ejecting features that increase its holding strength and decrease fastening and release effort. The buckle has a housing containing means for receiving the tongue of a seat belt. A latching means engages the tongue and cooperates with locking and ejecting means to hold it within and eject it from the housing. The buckle is small, light, strong, reliable, easy to fasten and unfasten, comfortable to wear and inexpensive to produce.
Claims11
A vehicle safety belt buckle comprising:
- a. a housing having an opening therein and provided with a cavity extending from said opening to a wall of said housing opposite said opening;
- b. inlet means communicating with said cavity for receiving a tongue of a seat belt;
- c. connecting means for connecting the housing to an anchorage point on the vehicle;
- d. latching means for engaging said tongue;
- e. first biasing means connected to said housing for biasing said latching means into engagement with said tongue;
- f. locking means slidably mounted on said housing for locking engagement with said latching means;
- g. second biasing means connected to said housing for biasing said locking means into said locking engagement;
- h. release means slidably mounted on said housing for rotating said latching means to move said locking means out of locking engagement therewith;
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- i. ejecting means for ejecting said tongue from said housing comprising a plurality of ejecting slides and a plurality of spring means, a first of said spring means being connected between said housing and a first of said ejecting slides for biasing said ejecting slides toward said inlet means and a second of said spring means being connected between said first and a second of said ejecting slides for biasing said second of said ejecting slides toward said inlet means.
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