Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1975-07-28
1976-09-21
Song, Robert R.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
24230AT, B62B 3500
Patent
active
039815196
ABSTRACT:
A seat belt buckle assembly includes a male buckle member attached to a length of belt for movement with the belt and a female latch member mounted on a member of the vehicle body. The male buckle member is provided on the seat belt and has a round cylindrical pintle attached to a buckle member housing. A plunger is telescopically mounted inside the pintle and is normally retracted therein by a spring. An occupant actuatable device in the form of a push-button and linkage is provided in the buckle member housing for selectively moving the plunger from the normal retracted position to an extended position. The female latch member has a round cylindrical opening in the housing thereof for receiving the pintle of the buckle member at any degree of orientation of the pintle about its axis. A pair of latch plates are pivotally mounted in the latch member housing at diametrically opposed positions relative the round cylindrical opening. The pintle has a circumferentially extending groove defining a shoulder which is engaged by the pair of latch plates to retain the male buckle member in the female latch member. A release lever is associated with each of the latch plates and is engageable by the plunger upon movement of the plunger to the extended position by the occupant actuatable means to disengage the latch plates from the shoulder of the pintle. Since the release push-button of the buckle arrangement is carried by the male buckle member mounted on the belt, the female buckle member may be recessed in flush relationship with the seat cushion or other member of the vehicle body.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2902737 (1959-09-01), Moran
patent: 3146846 (1964-09-01), Gutshall
patent: 3249328 (1966-05-01), Knowles
patent: 3907361 (1975-09-01), Lehmann
General Motors Corporation
Leahy C. E.
Song Robert R.
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