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Abstract

A safety belt apparatus for vehicles, in particular motor vehicles having at least one safety belt, which is wound to a greater or lesser degree onto a belt reel rotatably secured on the vehicle chassis about an axis of rotation and preferably biased by a spring retraction mechanism. A toothed ratchet wheel is rotationally coupled to the belt reel and cooperating with a blocking pawl secured to the housing. The blocking pawl is movable into and out of engagement with respect to the toothed ratchet wheel by a cam ring concentric to the belt reel axis via a step down transmission. A toothed control wheel is connected to the belt reel via an eccentric transmission and has at its periphery a preferably wavelike arrangement of teeth which is surrounded by an inner toothed ring fixed to the housing of larger diameter and with complementary, but with a smaller or preferably larger number of teeth. As a results, the toothed control wheel stands in meshing arrangement with the inner toothed ring over a restricted peripheral region and diametrically opposite thereto. The two arrangements of teeth have a radial spacing such that the toothed control wheel rolls off on the inner toothed ring on rotation of the belt reel. The total draw out length of the safety belt corresponds to an angle of rotation of the toothed control wheel relative to the axis of rotation of substantially 180.degree.. The toothed control wheel is rotationally fixedly connected to the cam ring, but radially displaceable in the context of its eccentric movement. The cam ring has a switching means along a first angular region for the engagement and disengagement of the blocking pawl and at least one switching element along a second angular region for at least one further belt draw out dependent switching operation.

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