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US 4,069,557 AGranted
Safety belt buckle
AssigneeAllied Chemical Corporation
InventorYogendra S. Loomba
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Abstract
A safety belt buckle is provided with plural locking 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 a locking means to hold it within the housing. The buckle is small, light, strong, reliable, easy to fasten and unfasten, comfortable to wear and inexpensive to produce.
Claims6
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 having a raised portion for engaging said tongue and a plurality of shoulders each of said shoulders having a notch therein and a forward face having a corner;
- e. first biasing means connected to said housing for biasing said latching means into engagement with said tongue;
- f. locking mean slidably mounted on said housing for locking engagement with said latching mean said locking means including a lock bar having a forward face adapted to mate with the notch of each shoulder to form said locking engagement;
- g. second biasing means connected to said housing and to said lock bar for biasing said lock bar of said locking means into said locking engagement;
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- h. release means slidably mounted on said housing for moving said latching means to move said locking means out of locking engagement therewith.
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