Guide ring assembly for seat belts

A guide ring assembly adapted to mount a seat belt on a vehicle for longitudinal sliding movement therethrough comprising:

• an outer ring having a mounting portion by which the assembly is mounted on the vehicle and a load bearing portion over which the belt is longitudinally slidable, said load bearing portion having a length equivalent to more than the width of the belt and including a central rectilinear segment over which the belt slides during normal use and curvilinear segments located each side of the central segment to permit lateral shifting of the belt from the central segment to the curvilinear segments to thereby accommodate variation in the angle of belt departure and entry relative the mounted position of the guide ring assembly;
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• an inner spacer means mounted on the mounting portion of the outer ring and having a spacer wall extending in parallel spaced relation with the rectilinear and curvilinear segments of the outer ring load bearing portions at a distance therefrom less than twice the thickness of the seat belt to prevent the belt from doubling over during longitudinal sliding or lateral shifting movement over the load bearing portion of the outer ring from, to, and between the central rectilinear segment and the curvilinear segments thereof.

A guide ring assembly adapted to mount a seat belt on a vehicle for longitudinal sliding movement of the belt through the guide loop assembly comprising:

• a ring member having a mounting portion by which the ring member is adapted for mounting on the vehicle body, said ring member having a load bearing wall and a spacer wall spaced apart from one another and defining a belt passage slot therethrough having a length substantially greater than the width of the belt, at least one endmost portion of the belt passage slot being arcuately disposed to permit curvilateral shifting movement of the belt along the load bearing wall to thereby accommodate variation in the angle of belt departure and entry relative the mounted position of the guide ring member, and said spacer wall extending in parallel spaced relation with the load bearing wall at a distance therefrom less than twice the thickness of the seat belt to prevent the seat belt from doubling over during longitudinal sliding or curvilateral shifting movement of the belt through the slot.