Jay D Jensen, 66Spokane Valley, WA

3945586, Mar 23, 1976

Feb 4, 1974

5/439114

Wallace C. Higbee - Sterling Heights MI
Jay W. Jensen - Sterling Heights MI
Ronald J. Walker - Sterling Heights MI

The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

A62B 3500
B65H 7548

2421074D

A locker retractor for seat belt harness and the like which includes an interposer element articulated by movement of the drum or reel to selectively block or release a spring biased pawl bar and holding the pawl bar away from locking a ratchet on one or both of the reel flanges or selectively freeing the pawl bar so that it may lock the ratchet in prevention of further drum rotation in the withdrawal direction. The shift from blocking to non-blocking position is achieved by a slight retraction of the webbing after initial free withdrawal, whereupon the interposer element falls free of its blocking relation. The interposer is a latch-like element pivotally and slidably connected to the frame and oriented and frictionally directed by a ring element turned by the moving of the drum. The interposer described is also useful in providing quiet free-pull and retraction in inertial retractors as described in copending application Ser. No. 258,576 filed on June 1, 1972 now U. S. Pat. No.

4030648, Jun 21, 1977

Sep 20, 1976

5/724646

Melvin Kermit Johnson - Lake Orion MI
Regis Victor Pilarski - Utica MI
Jay Walter Jensen - Romeo MI

The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company - Akron OH

B62J 128

224 31

A carrier support apparatus is provided for attachment to a bicycle frame and connection to auxiliary structures such as baskets, hampers and the like and which comprises a horizontally oriented support rack adapted for mounting on the rear portion of a bicycle frame. The support rack is provided with an integral biased buttress-engaging latch in the forward narrow neck portion thereof, the sides of the rear portion thereof are tapered rearwardly and outwardly so as to form a wide tapered rear support platform. An auxiliary detachable bicycle seat or carrier element is provided which is adapted for selective snap engagement with the support rack. The bottom portion of the bicycle seat or carrier element is provided with a downwardly extending support rack engaging channel portion adapted for selective mating engagement with the tapered portion of the support rack. A downwardly extending buttress element is provided on the bottom portion of the bicycle seat ahead of the channel portion and is adapted to lockably engage the upwardly biased latch provided on the support rack so as to lockably retain the bicycle seat on the support rack with the tapered portion of the support rack in mating locked engagement within the tapered channel portion. Various carrier elements with identical support rack channel structure are useable interchangeably with the seat.