Chairs and seats – Headrest – Portable – with seat attacher
Patent
1993-09-14
1995-01-24
Brown, Peter R.
Chairs and seats
Headrest
Portable, with seat attacher
5636, 5640, 297464, 297DIG6, A47C 738
Patent
active
053837118
ABSTRACT:
A head support for use with infant retaining devices such as infant and children's car seats, infant carriers, cribs, bassinets, bouncer seats, high chairs, baby strollers, toddler booster car seats, and the like, and also for use by adults traveling on trains, busses, cars, airplanes, etc., particularly to retain a user's head in an upright orientation while sleeping, includes at least one flexible support member connected to a base member and at least one fastener, such as VELCRO (.TM.) or snaps, for securing the support member to the base member in an at least partially over-folded orientation for supporting the head of an infant or small child. More preferably, the head support includes two flexible support members connected to the base member and having respective free end portions adjustably secured to the base member and forming A-frame supports for supporting opposite lateral portions of the head of an infant or child therebetween. The support members preferably comprise resilient foam pieces disposed within a fabric cover. An optional liner sheet connected to the base member and dimensioned to at least partially support the torso of an infant or child includes slotted portions dimensioned to receive retaining straps to secure the infant or child in an infant retaining device. A pair of clips secured by elastic straps to the base member allow securement of the head support to a wide variety of different infant retaining devices.
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Catalog advertisement for new infant car seat w/pump date unknown-admitted prior art.
Catalog advertisement for Proppie.TM. infant support liner date unkown-admitted prior art.
Catalog advertisement for Sleeping Wings head supports. date unknown-admitted prior art.
Catalog advertisement for Heads Up Cuddler head support. date unknown-admitted prior art.
Catalog advertisement for Ride and Rest head support. date unknown-admitted prior art.
Advertising literature for The Right Fit universal seat insert. date unknown-admitted prior art.
Copies of product packaging for Auto Pillow. date unknown-admitted prior art.
Copies of product packaging for Head's Rite stroller cover with Head Support System by Pansy Ellen 1988.
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