Emergency locking vehicle safety belt retractor

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An emergency locking safety belt retractor reel device includes a U-shaped bracket with a cross wall and side walls and a belt take-up reel rotatably supported between the side walls and spring biased to rotate in a belt retraction direction and including a shaft projecting beyond a side wall. A first circular brake member having a number of regularly annularly spaced openings is affixed to the shaft proximate the inside face of a side wall and a second brake member is axially movably mounted on the shaft proximate the side wall outer face and includes longitudinally projecting fingers movable through corresponding guide openings in the side wall into an advance position into engagement …