ES1069303U - Protector for vehicle security belt closures (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Protector for fastening vehicle safety belts, especially for belts intended for fixing small and composed by a flexible band, a buckle mounted on said band, and an anchor box with release button, which is attached to the vehicle, characterized in that it is constituted by a clamp fixed to the flexible band, in a position adjacent to the buckle, whose clamp is composed of two arms that are articulated at one end and have on the opposite side releasable mutual releasable means, one of said arms constituted by a plate that is shaped to cover the buckle and anchor box, when the buckle is inserted in said box, hiding the release button. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Belt locks protector vehicle safety

Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a protector for vehicle seat belt closures, especially applicable to belt locks intended to secure children in vehicle seats, whether they do it directly as through children's chairs.

Background of the invention

The traditional seat belts for vehicles are composed of a flexible, removable band, a buckle that is mounted on said band, with the possibility of displacement along it, and an anchor box fixed to the vehicle To secure the belt, the buckle of the Same in the anchor box. The opening of the belt takes out through a buckle release button, which carries the anchor box, and whose activation is achieved simply exerting a slight pressure on said button.

This ease of opening, which is necessary to release the belt easily and quickly in certain  emergency cases, however, is a problem when try to secure children, usually through child seats, because they can access the closure and accidentally press or voluntarily the button, producing the unwanted release buckle, which makes the child seat run out of restraint, thus canceling the protection of the child.

Description of the invention

The present invention is intended to eliminate the exposed problems, by means of a protector for closures of belts that prevent access to the anchor box button to the little ones, once the belt closure is completed, but that however, it is not an obstacle for older people to release the belt to the little ones through operations simple and fast on the protector.

In accordance with the present invention, the protector is constituted by a clamp that is fixed to the band flexible belt, adjacent to the buckle, immediately above it. This clamp is composed by two arms that are articulated to each other by one end and they have in the opposite of releasable mutual anchoring means, but that require, to carry out the release operation or openness, a certain effort and skill, usually superior to those that a child can develop, but which are easily operated by an elderly person. In this way ensures that the clamp anchoring means cannot be released by the little ones.

One of the arms of the clamp is constituted, according to the invention, by a plate that is shaped to cover the buckle and anchor box, when the buckle is inserted in said box, hiding the release button.

According to a preferred embodiment, the clamp is composed of a straight arm and a contour plate  approximately rectangular, shaped to fulfill the function before exposed. The arm is articulated by one end to one of the longitudinal edges of the plate, adjacent to its edge upper transverse, arranging the arm at its free end and the facing edge plate of mutual anchoring means Releasable before commented. The plate, as indicated previously, it is shaped to cover the buckle and case of anchor, when said buckle is inserted in the box, leaving the hidden button, so that it is not accessible to little ones.

With the constitution described there is a security element against opening, by the small, safety belt that serves as a means of securing them in the seat of a vehicle and all thanks to the direct access of the pushbutton of release of the anchor box, by the small ones, when said button be hidden by the plate that becomes part of the clamp.

The two arms that make up the caliper, arm straight and plate, will form a single piece, the joint being defined by a section reduction that determines a line of weakening or articulation

The anchoring means of the two arms of the Clamp can take the form of clip, retention tabs, etc., preferably the clamp is made of material plastic.

The straight arm of the plate that forms the clamp  it will have on its opposite surfaces means of securing The flexible band. These means may consist of a teeth that protrudes along at least one of the facing surfaces of one of the arms of the clamp, between whose teeth and the opposite surface of the other arm will press the band flexible.

Brief description of the drawings

The attached drawings show an example of  realization, not limiting, being:

Figure 1 a front elevation of a protector for vehicle seat belt closures consisting of  according to the invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof protective.

Figure 3 a top floor of the protector of the invention, seen according to the cutting line III-III of figure 1.

Figure 4 is a partial side elevation of the protector, according to direction A of figure 3.

Figure 5 is a cross section of the protector, according to the V-V cut line of the figure 3.

Figure 6 is a vertical section of the anchoring means of the two arms of the clamp, taken according to the VI-VI cut line of figure 4.

Figure 7 is a view similar to Figure 3, showing a variant of execution in the anchoring means of the Two arms of the clamp.

Detailed description of one embodiment

The constitution, and advantages of the protector of invention will be better understood with the description of the example of embodiment shown in the attached drawings.

The protector of the invention is applicable for seat belt closures on vehicles that are composed of a flexible band 1, a buckle 2 that is mounted in the flexible band, usually with the ability to travel to along it, and by an anchor box 3 that is fixed to the vehicle and will receive and retain the buckle 2 in the position of closing, providing the box 3 of a button 4 for release of the buckle 2 and belt opening.

The protector of the invention is constituted by a clamp, which is generally referred to with the number 5 and that in the example represented in the drawings it is composed of a straight arm 6 and by a plate 7, these two components forming a single piece, obtained for example based on plastic material.

As seen in Figure 1, plate 7 is of approximately rectangular contour and arm 6 runs in position adjacent to the upper transverse edge of said license plate.

The joint between arm 6 and plate 7 it may be constituted by one or more transverse lines of weakening 8, figure 3, which will allow the approximation or separation of arm 6 and plate 7. On the opposite side of articulation, arm 6 and plate 7 have anchoring means mutual, means. which in the case of figures 3 to 6 are constituted by a lug 9 protruding from the plate 7, in position approximately perpendicular to arm 6, and which has an oblong opening 10 into which end 11 of the arm 6, all as can be seen in figures 3 to 6. The lug 9 may be elastically deformed outwards, in the direction of arrow B in figure 3, when supporting and pressing the end 11 of arm 6 against said lug until said end penetrate the oblong opening 10. To get the opening of the clamp will be necessary to pull the lug 9 in the direction of arrow B, until the end 11 of the arm is released 6.

The fixing means may also consist,  as shown in figure 7, on fingernails 12 and 13 of arm 6 and plate 7, which will be attachable when pressed against each other, previous slight elastic deformation of one of them, and releasable through a similar process.

One of the clamp components, the example represented in the drawings of the arm 6, has on its surface internal of a longitudinal teeth 14 between which and the surface internal facing of the plate 7 will be pressed and bitten the flexible belt band 1.

As can be seen in Figures 1 and 2, the plate 7 is shaped so that when the clamp is fixed to flexible band 1 adjacent to buckle 2 and this inserted in the anchor box 3, said plate 7 covers the buckle 2 and box 3, hiding button 4. Thus, once closed the belt and mounted the protector of the invention in the flexible band 1 in the position shown in figures 1 and 2, buckle release button 4 is not accessible to small, thus ensuring its support in the seat of the vehicle.

Claims (4)

1. Protector for vehicle seat belt closures, especially for belts intended for fixing small and composed of a flexible band, a buckle mounted on said band, and an anchor box with release button, which is fixed to the vehicle , characterized in that it is constituted by a clamp that can be fixed to the flexible band, in a position adjacent to the buckle, whose clamp is composed of two arms that are articulated at one end and dispose in the opposite of mutually releasable anchoring means, one of said arms constituted by a plate that is shaped to cover the buckle and anchor box, when the buckle is inserted in said box, hiding the release button. 2. Protector according to claim 1, characterized in that the clamp is composed of a straight arm and an approximately rectangular contour plate, whose arm is articulated by one end to one of the longitudinal edges of the plate, adjacent to its edge upper transverse, with the arm at its free end and the plate at the facing edge, releasable mutual anchoring means; said plate being formed to cover the buckle and anchor box, when the buckle is inserted in said box, hiding the button. 3. Protector according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the straight arm and plate that make up the clamp have opposite surfaces for securing the flexible band. 4. Protector according to claim 3, characterized in that said means consist of a preferably serrated rib, which protrudes along at least one of the aforementioned facing surfaces, between which the flexible band is pressed against the opposite surface of the other arm. .