Gebr. Happich Gmbh

Gebr. Happieh Gmbh

Gunter Dietz

Volker Dabringhaus

Peter Wegel

Manfred Nowak

Jurgen Korber

Gert Mahler

Klaus-Peter Kaiser

Horst Seidl

Klaus P Kaiser

Heinz-Jurgen Falkenroth

Friedhelm Flagmeyer

Udo Gutlein

H David Bowman

Hans-Joachim Haase

A hand grip for pivotal attachment to a surface of a body, as on a vehicle. The hand grip has a U-shaped grip body with a web joining two arms. The free end of each arm is attached on a bearing pin. The bearing pin is swingably mounted on a bearing bracket so that the grip pivots around the axis of the bearing pin with respect to the bracket. A torsion spring normally returns the grip to a position of non-use. To prevent excessive impact and resulting noise upon the return movement, a friction brake, consisting of a molding of a wear resistant viscoelastic plastic material, has a bore which receives an axial region of the bearing pin. The bore diameter is smaller than that of the bearing pin or least is of a size that permits relative movement between the molding and the bearing pin while braking the movement of the bearing pin with respect to the bracket, for slowing the return of the grip to the non-use position.

Pivot control for hand grip useful for vehicles

A tiltable ashtray, e.g. for motor vehicles, includes an ash receptacle, a support housing for a lighter and a lighter which are removably disposed in a receiving housing that is tiltably pivotally supported in an external frame receivable in a recess. The ash receptacle, receiving housing and lighter can be removed from the receiving housing and replaced with a storage bin. Detachable clip connectors hold those elements in the receiving housing enabling the bin to replace the other elements, and vice-versa. A contact assembly on a circuit board in the receiving housing is connectable to an electrical system. It includes an electrical contact for the cigarette lighter and an additional contact connection to an electric light in the receiving housing.

Tiltable ashtray or storage bin for motor vehicles, or the like

A drawer for being held in and removable from a housing, particularly an ashtray in a housing, and including an unlocking mechanism normally in engagement with a stop in the housing and unlockable to enable removal of the drawer from the housing. A slide supported outside and below the container is movable toward the rear of the container. The end of the slide is V-shaped, and the underside of one leg of the V engages an upright bolt for moving the bolt down as the slide is moved rearward, which moves the bolt out of position to abut the housing stop. A push element is engaged by the upper side of the slide for being pushed up to press a spring up inside a recess in the bolt as the slide is pushed in. The slide, bolt and push element having cooperating oblique surfaces for accomplishing the respective pushing. In one embodiment, a push button acts directly on the slide. In another embodiment, a push button acts on the bolt through an intermediate rocker, instead of a slide. The push button and bolt are articulated to the rocker.

Ashtray for vehicles

An ashtray, particularly for automotive vehicles, includes a receiving frame which can be fastened in a wall recess, a receiving housing pivotably connected to the frame, and an ashtray insert removably arranged in the housing. The ashtray insert is mounted in the receiving housing in such a manner that it can be lifted toward an opening between the frame and the housing by an actuating element such as a spring-steel strip. A detent spring includes a detent projection which releasably holds the insert within the housing and a deceleration projection which prevents the insert from being ejected when it is released.

Tiltable ashtray suitable for automotive vehicles

A sun visor for vehicles is disclosed which has a cushioning sun visor body surrounded by a cover layer and stiffened by an incorporated reinforcement insert. At one end of one of the longitudinal edges of the body, a support shaft is mounted with one end in the body and the other end held by a swivel bearing. At the other end of the same longitudinal edge, a support pin is mounted extending across a recess defined in that edge. The support pin is approximately parallel to that longitudinal edge and can be detachably engaged with the support receiver of an outer support. The support pin is formed, in whole or in part, of a plastic body which is injection molded directly onto a region of the cover layer.

Sun visor for vehicles

An instrument panel for an automotive vehicle is attached to a rigid beam that extends across the vehicle body beneath the windshield. The instrument panel is a plastic injection molding. Its outer surface may be provided with cushioning material. At the underside of the panel, beneath its top portion, at least two ribs are provided, which extend across the width of the vehicle and of the instrument panel, are spaced apart and have free edges that rest against the beam inside the vehicle, so that the instrument panel, the ribs and the beam together define an air duct extending across the width of the instrument panel. A seal may be provided at the free edge of each rib for sealing it to the beam. The air duct communicates with windshield defroster nozzles, or the like in the instrument panel.

Air duct, or the like, for instrument panel for automotive vehicles

A sun visor for automotive vehicles including a mirror supported in a housing which is in a recess defined in a surface of the visor body. The mirror is reversible for exposing its reflecting or non-reflecting sides. One edge of the mirror is swingably supported in bearing pedestals which are slidable in lateral guide slots defined in the housing in the recess, whereby as the mirror is reversed in position, the pivot axis thereof slides along the guide slots.

Sun visor, particularly for automotive vehicles, with reversible mirror

The disclosure concerns an actuating knob which is particularly useful for the window crank of an automotive vehicle, wherein the actuating knob is adapted to break off in the event of high impact. The knob comprises an outer knob part to be grasped and an inner knob part which serves as a pivot pin for the outer knob part. A tapered thickness region of the pivot pin is adapted to break off upon impact. Detent pins beneath the pivot pin connect with the crank arm. A blocking member installed between the detent pins holds them apart and the blocking member is detent connected to the pivot pins to prevent subsequent removal. The pivot pin has a widened lower borehole for receiving the blocking member and a narrowed diameter upper portion of that serves as the pivot pin for the outer knob part.

Actuating knob, particularly for window cranks of automotive vehicles

Safety harness comprising a waistband to be wrapped around a person, shoulder suspenders projecting from the top of the waistband and means for coupling the waistband to a supportive body, such as an automobile; the coupling means comprises two separate belts joining opposite sides of the waistband to the supportive body; an openable coupling in each belt, which coupling includes a swivelable lock handle, which is adapted to be swiveled substantially simultaneously with the grasping and removal of the person from the supportive body; in additional embodiments, means connect the swivelable handles for both belt couplings so that swivel of one handle also swivels the other and releases the waistband.

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Wuppertal, Germany

Gunter Dietz