Graco Children's Products, Inc.

Neapco, Inc.

Luther Gates

Mark E Main

Fred Buckingham

Joseph W Lonergan, Iii

Mark Main

A harness retractor () for a harness system () of a child safety harness, which has a tensioning web () and buckle connectors () coupled to straps of the safety harness. The tensioning device has a rotatable retractor mechanism () connected to the tensioning web () and biased to wind up the tensioning web in a wind up rotation direction. The tensioning device has a locking device () biased to a first position preventing rotation of the retractor mechanism in the wind up direction. The tensioning device has a buckle housing () coupled to the retractor mechanism. The buckle connectors () are releasably connectable to the buckle housing (). A release mechanism is connected between the locking device () and the buckle housing () and can switch the locking device from the first position to a second position permitting rotation of the retractor mechanism in the wind up direction.

Child safety seat harness tensioning device

A torque-limiting device assembly is provided that includes a bell having a top wall and a circumferential side wall defining a bell interior. A plurality of radially-arrayed engagement grooves are formed on an inner surface of the top wall. A clutch stub shaft having a stem and a plurality of engagement protrusions formed on a clutch flange is disposed within the bell interior. A resilient member is secured to the bell, and the resilient member biases the clutch stub shaft towards the top wall of the bell such that the engagement grooves frictionally engage the engagement protrusions to transfer torque from the stem to the bell when the stem is rotated. An input torque applied to the stem that is greater than a predetermined input torque causes the engagement protrusions to disengage from the engagement grooves such that the input torque is not transferred from the stem to the bell.

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Honey Brook, PA, United States of America

Luther Gates