Safety harness device

Claim 1

AN INERTIA-OPERATED SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOUNTING IN A VEHICLE TO RESTRAIN THE MOVEMENT OF A BODY WITHIN THE VEHICLE WHEN THE BODY IS SUBJECTED TO ACCELERATED MOVEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE VEHICLE COMPRISING A TENSION MEMBER FOR COUPLING TO THE BODY, A REEL ON WHICH SAID TENSION MEMBER IS WOUND, YIELDABLE RESILIENT MEANS COUPLED TO SAID REEL TENSIONED SO AS TO URGE SAID REEL IN THE DIRECTION TO WIND UP SAID TENSION MEMBER THEREON, SAID REEL BEING ROTATABLE AGAINST THE TENSION OF THE RESILIENT MEANS IN A DIRECTION TO UNWIND THE TENSION MEMBER FROM THE REEL RESPONSIVE TO MOVEMENTS OF THE BODY, A FLYWHEEL ROTATABLY MOUNTED IN AXIAL ALIGNMENT WITH SAID REEL, YIELDABLE MEANS COUPLING SAID FLYWHEEL TO SAID REEL TO ROTATE SAID FLYWHEEL IN UNISON WITH SAID REEL DURING ROTATION THEREOF IN THE UNWIND DIRECTION BELOW A CERTAIN ACCELERATION, SAID YIELDABLE MEANS YIELDING DURING ROTATION OF SAID REEL AT SAID CERTAIN ACCELERATION WHEREBY SAID REEL ROTATES RELATIVE TO SAID FLYWHEEL, LOCKING MEANS OPERATED IN RESPONSE TO THE YIELDING OF SAID YIELDABLE MEANS FOR LOCKING SAID REEL AGAINST FURTHER ROTATION IN THE UNWIND DIRECTION, SAID LOCKING MEANS HAVING A NORMAL POSITION IT ASSUMES WHEN THE REEL IS IN AN UNLOCKED CONDITION AND A LOCK POSITION WHEN THE REEL HAS BEEN LOCKED AGAINST FURTHER UNWIND OF THE TENSION MEMBER, MANUALLY OPERATED MEANS FOR MOVING SAID LOCKING MEANS FROM SAID LOCK POSITION TO SAID NORMAL POSITION, AND MEANS OPERATING TO PREVENT RELATIVE ROTATION BETWEEN SAID FLYWHEEL AND SAID REEL DURING THAT SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WHEN SAID LOCKING MEANS IS FIRST MOVED FROM ITS LOCK POSITION AND BEING RETURNED TO ITS NORMAL POSITION.