Abstract: An occupant restraint belt system for a motor vehicle of the type having front driver and passenger side doors and a single rear side door on the passenger side of the vehicle. A two-passenger bench seat structures and a three-passenger seat structure are adapted to be removably coupled to the vehicle floor pan. The invention enables a single occupant restraint belt system to be selectively used by an outboard occupant of either one of the seat structures. The occupant restraint seat belt system has its one free end provided with a snap-action hook adapted for selective engagement with either a floor pan anchorage or a vehicle wall anchorage depending upon which seat structure is being used in the vehicle.

Abstract: A seat belt strap assembly allowing for longitudinal adjustment of a vehicle seat such that it maintains and restores an anchor strap pivotally secured to the seat fixed base. The tether assembly comprises an elastic band having each free end thereof engaged by one of a pair of identical plastic retainer clips. Each retainer clip is adapted for ready snap-in insertion in an associated one of a pair of normally opposed elongated apertures formed in the anchor strap and the seat side shield, respectively.

Abstract: A seat belt latchplate is disclosed for use in association with a three-point seat belt harness wherein the latchplate is mounted at an intermediate point on the belt formed with a tongue portion adapted to be releasably anchored to an associated releasable buckle positioned inboard of the vehicle passenger seat. The latchplate has a trough-shaped depression providing a cross bar defined by a pair of symmetrically disposed belt slots located in each sloped side of the depression. A J-shaped lock bar is supported on the cross bar enabling the belt to be weaved through one slot and over the lock bar for passage through the other slot. With the latchplate in its free running stowed mode the belt is straight allowing the lock bar to float for free sliding travel of the belt through the latchplate slots. In its latched mode the belt is pulled around a hook-shaped portion of the lock bar causing the bar to rock and pinch the belt in its cinching mode releasably locking the passenger in the vehicle seat.