Installation for displacing a belt band

US4589680A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Franz Gurtler · Unterschleißheim, DE
• Robert Wimmer · Dietach, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 19, 1984
• Grant date: May 20, 1986
• Expiry date: Jan 19, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R22/03
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An installation for the displacement of a belt band, i.e., a safety belt in a vehicle, into a position favorable for being seized by the passenger, in which a vehicle lateral wall, especially a vehicle door, includes a guide rail in which a guide element is retained movable to and fro in the driving direction; an entrainment member is pivotally secured at the guide element, which in the rest position is pivoted into the vehicle door out of sight; during the transporting, the entrainment member pivots out of the vehicle door, engages the belt band from behind and displaces the same into a position favorable for pick-up by the passenger.