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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akira Tanaka, Northridge, CA (US);
Assignee:
American Safety Equipment Corp., Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A62B / ; B65H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242107 ; 2421 / ;
Abstract
A safety belt retractor of the emergency locking type having a safety belt wound upon a spool rotatably journaled in a retractor frame is provided with a friction clutch operated dual tension belt retraction means wherein a first biasing means is provided for biasing the spool in a belt rewind direction, friction clutch means are interconnected between a second biasing means and the first biasing means and actuator means are provided for operating the friction clutch means to selectively apply and prevent operation of the second biasing means upon the first biasing means.