Chairs and seats – Supplemental seat
Patent
1989-06-15
1992-06-16
Brown, Peter R.
Chairs and seats
Supplemental seat
297283, A47D 110, B60N 112
Patent
active
051219654
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a child's car seat, which can easily be adapted to different usages and to different ages of the user.
For properly protecting children during a journey, families travelling with children in a car must use a plurality of different protective products for the children, depending on their ages.
A number of protective devices for children travelling in a car are known in the patent literature and in practice. These devices can be divided substantially into the following four categories:
A. Backwardly facing seats. These are placed facing backwards so that the back of the child is facing the travelling direction, thus ensuring that, should there be a collision, the back of the seat will protect the child's head, back and pelvic region. These seats are generally used from the birth of the child and until the child is about three years old.
B. Forwardly facing seats with their own harnesses. These put the child in the travelling direction, and arrest it if a collision occurs, using the harness fitted to the seat. These seats are generally used from when the child is about 9 months until it is about 6 years old.
C. Forwardly facing belt seats. These seats also place the child in the travelling direction, and are arranged to suit the car belt to the child's body by lifting it up and/or by guiding the belt down away from the child's throat to its chest. This type of seat is also provided with a back.
D. Safety belt cushions. These cushions also put the child in the travelling direction. The cushion adapts the car belt to the child's body by lifting up the child. This cushion has no back.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to achieve an improved child's car seat, which can be easily changed in shape and function. It will thus be possible to use the seat for children of all ages, who need special protection during car travel, i.e. children from the time when they are born and up to when their hip joints have been developed, when they are about ten years old.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will now be described in more detail with the aid of an embodiment, not to be taken as restricting it, and with reference to the drawing, wherein:
FIG. 1 illustrates a child's car seat embodying principles of the present invention, used as a belt cushion on a car seat,
FIG. 2 illustrates the inventive child's car seat used as a forwardly facing belt seat fastened to a car seat,
FIG. 3 illustrates the seat used as a forwardly facing car seat with its own harness, and
FIG. 4 illustrates the inventive seat used as a backwardly facing seat.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
In FIG. 1, the child's seat embodying principles of the present invention is illustrated fastened to a car seat 11, and used, in this instance as a belt cushion. The child's seat includes a lower slab or cushion member 1, fastened to the car seat 11 with fastening straps 5. The child's seat also includes a second slab or cushion member 4, providing a raised sitting surface for a child. The second slab 4 is hingedly joined to the first slab 1, and is provided on the portion of it near to brackrest 12 of the car seat 11 with guide means 9 for the lap portion of the car seat belt 13. In this instance, the child's car seat functions as an ordinary belt cushion, in the above-described category D.
In FIG. 2 the child's seat is used as a forwardly facing belt seat, as already mentioned. Similar to the previous instance, the first, lower slab 1 of this seat is fastened by straps 5 to the car seat 11. However, in this case the second slab 4 is folded up against the back 12 of the car seat to form a back for the child's seat. It will be seen from FIG. 2 that the second slab 4 is provided with side portions serving as side supports for the child sitting on the seat. As before, the car belt guide means 9 guide the lap portion of the car seat belt 13, while an upper guide means 10, attached to the free edge portion of the side portion of the second slab 4 serves as guide for th
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Skold Bjorn-Ake
Tingvall Claes
AB Akta Barnsakerhet
Brown Peter R.
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