Child safety seat

Details Child safety seat Child safety seat

1999-11-02

2001-11-13

Cuomo, Peter M. (Department: 3636)

Chairs and seats

Supplemental seat

C297S423100

Reexamination Certificate

active

06315359

ABSTRACT:

FIELD
This invention relates to a child safety seat of the type adapted to be positioned in a rearward facing orientation on a vehicle seat and having a seat body and a support member adapted to abut against the seat back of the vehicle seat, the seat body comprising a seat portion and a backrest.
RELATED ART
A child safety seat of this type is described in EP-A-751035. Continued use of known seats of this type as a child grows, is limited by abutment of the child's feet against the vehicle seat back. One solution for this problem is to increase the distance between the vehicle seat back and the child seat body. However, this has the disadvantage of reducing the distance between the child's head and the structure of the vehicle in front of the vehicle seat on which the child seat is positioned. In addition, this has the result of increasing the length of belt required when the child seat is secured to the vehicle seat using the vehicle seat belt. A further disadvantage is that parents may be tempted to alleviate the problem by setting the child's seat in a more upright position. This can be uncomfortable and, in extreme cases, risk damage to the child's spine.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, in a child safety seat of the type described above, the seat portion has a static rear part and a movable front part which is movable between a deployed position in which its upper surface is contiguous with that of the rear part and a stowed position leaving an opening in front of the rear part for receiving the legs of an older child occupying the child seat with his knees bent and his feet positioned below the level of the static rear part.


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