Safety seat, suspended in a land vehicle, aircraft or vessel
AssigneeAutoflug GmbH
InventorHolger Hansen
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Abstract
A safety seat for land vehicles, aircraft or vessels, comprising a harness for suspension from fixed points of a vehicle and for supporting a vehicle occupant. Belt retractors are disposed at the fixed vehicle points, and fabric supporting belts extend from the harness to the retractors, which pretension the belts in a direction of retraction. A manually operable switching device allows the belt retractors to be switched into a free running state, a blocking state, or a positioning state. The free running state permits free withdrawal of the belts in a direction opposite to the pretension. The blocking state effects a complete blocking of the belts in both the withdrawal and the retraction directions. The positioning state effects blocking of the belts in only the withdrawal direction.
Claims18
A safety seat for land vehicles, aircraft, or vessels, comprising:
- a harness (10) that is adapted to be suspended from fixed points of a vehicle and to be placed on an occupant of the vehicle, without fixed components, for supporting the occupant;
- belt retractors (18, 20, 22, 24) disposed at the fixed points of the vehicle;
- fabric supporting belts (17, 19, 21, 23) that extend from said harness (10) to said belt retractors (18, 20, 22, 24), wherein said belt retractors pretension said supporting belts in a direction of retraction;
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- a switching device (25, 26) that is adapted to be operated by the occupant for switching said belt retractors (18, 20, 22, 24) into a free running state, a blocking state, or a positioning state, wherein said free running state permits free withdrawal of said supporting belts in a direction opposite to said pretension, wherein said blocking state effects a complete blocking of said supporting belts in both said withdrawal and said retraction directions, and wherein said positioning state effects a blocking of said supporting belts in only said withdrawal direction.
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