Seat anchoring element for child safety seats or baby carriers

A seat anchoring element for child safety seats or baby carriers on a vehicle seat, which is fastenable to fixing elements in or at the vehicle seat or the vehicle bodywork behind the vehicle seat by connectors at ends of a belt system comprising laterally and/or rearwardly accessible first and second belts or at ends of a transverse belt or at ends of rearwardly protruding rods connected to the first and second belts and mounted to be displaceable laterally with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the seat anchoring element, which seat anchoring element has at an upper side at least one front fastening element and at least one rear fastening element for fixing the child safety seat or the baby carrier thereto and at least one tensioning device for the child safety seat or the baby carrier, ends of which being configured for connection to the connectors, wherein the first and second belts of the belt system or the first and second belts connected with the rods or a common tensioning belt connected with the first and second belts can be wound up on a ratchet drum at the tensioning device and after unlocking of a blocking device of the ratchet drum can be at least partly unwound, which ratchet drum is rotatably mounted in the seat anchoring element, and a lever, which is pivotably mounted in the seat anchoring element and which is pivotable into a recess in the seat anchoring element from an upright ratchet actuating setting for tensioning the first and second belts or the common tensioning belt to a recessed rest setting, is coupled with the ratchet drum, wherein at least the axis of the pivot of the lever extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the seat anchoring element.