Two position motor vehicle safety screen assembly

Details Two position motor vehicle safety screen assembly Two position motor vehicle safety screen assembly

1998-02-02

2000-05-09

Dickson, Paul N.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Attachment

296 241, B60R 2106

Patent

active

06059313&

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to an improved motor vehicle safety barrier assembly which is arranged to be selectively fitted in one or more positions within a vehicle to inhibit the forward movement of an unrestrained load carried behind a driver or passenger in the vehicle, and in particular to improved fixing means by which the safety screen is secured in either of two positions within the vehicle.
A two position motor vehicle safety screen is described and illustrated in the applicant's Australian patent specification 583738 entitled "Vehicle Safety Screen Fixing Means". The fixing system described therein comprises several pairs of securing straps each of which is pivotally secured at its forward end to an attachment point on the safety screen frame, with its rear or trailing end being secured by a fastener to an anchorage point fixed in the vehicle roof or vehicle floor. The securing straps are permanently connected to the screen frame. There are two pairs of bottom straps for anchoring the bottom corners of the screen to the vehicle floor, one of those pairs comprising short-length straps for securing the screen when in its rear position. The other pair comprises relatively long straps which, when the screen is in its rear position, are folded inwardly to lie alongside the base of the screen frame. In order to mount the screen in the forward position, the relatively long straps are swung outwardly to respective positions whereat their rear ends are secured by fasteners to anchorage points fixed in the vehicle floor panel adjacent the wheel arches.
Although the above described screen assembly has proven generally satisfactory in use, it has been found that by having two-sets of bottom straps permanently connected to the screen frame, it is awkward for a person to shift the screen from one position to the other. In particular the straps tend to catch on objects or surfaces within the vehicle when the screen is bodily moved either rearwards to its rear position or from its rear position to its forward position. Still further when in the rear position, the relatively long straps are stored behind the screen at the base thereof and hence interfere with the storage space at the rear of the vehicle.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is the main object of the present invention to provide an improved securing system for a motor vehicle safety screen which allows the safety screen to be simply and quickly installed in a selected one of two or more positions within the vehicle.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved securing system for a multi-position motor vehicle safety screen whereby the screen can be very readily and conveniently shifted from one position to another.
Broadly according to this invention, a two position assembly comprises in the interior of the vehicle so as to extend transversely thereof between a load carrying area and a vehicle seat, and rear position, said securing means comprising: to the vehicle floor, each upper corner of the safety screen, each said upper strap having its forward end attached to the screen and its rear or trailing end adapted for securement, in each position of the screen, to the vehicle roof (or in the vicinity thereof), releasably attached at its forward end by a quick-release connector means to a lower region of said screen, with its rear or trailing end being anchored to a respective said anchorage fitting, and lower portion of the safety screen directly to said anchorage fittings when the screen is in said rear position, position, said relatively long bottom straps secure the lower portion of the screen to the vehicle floor and extend approximately longitudinally thereof, with each bottom strap extending between a rear attachment point on its associated anchorage fitting and its quick-release forward end attachment point on the screen, while (ii) when said screen is mounted in the rear position, the forward ends of the lower straps are detached from the screen and the straps moved to a storage position with the l

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patent: 4703669 (1987-11-01), Hyodo
patent: 4924814 (1990-05-01), Beaudet
patent: 5026231 (1991-06-01), Moore
patent: 5529341 (1996-06-01), Hartigan
patent: 5735564 (1998-04-01), Coogan

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