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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2010
Luther Gates, Honey Brook, PA (US);
Fred Buckingham, Elkhart, IN (US);
Mark Main, Bremen, IN (US);
Graco Children's Products Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
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.