Chairs and seats – Supplemental seat – Having a front guard or barrier
Patent
1995-11-06
1997-10-28
Cuomo, Peter M.
Chairs and seats
Supplemental seat
Having a front guard or barrier
297131, 2972705, A47C 1029
Patent
active
056810822
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an infant seat, as defined in the first part of claim 1.
When placed on a flat support surface--with the auxiliary support in its inoperative position--such a seat may roll with its curved bottom on the support surface and thus perform a rocking motion about a substantially lying mid position. Moving the auxiliary support towards its operative position brings the seat in a rather upright position, in which it is supported in a stable manner--with the forward part of the bottom and the rear free end of the auxiliary support resting on the support surface.
DESCRIPTION OF RELATED ART
In a well-known embodiment the auxiliary support is formed by a substantially U-shaped member that is slidably movable in its plane from a forward retracted position rearwardly into an extended position. Pulling the auxiliary support into the extended position and pushing it back into the forward retracted position respectively is rather difficult and causes inconvenience to the child in the seat. For the seat has to be tilted forwardly for seizing the auxiliary support under the bottom.
The invention aims at removing this drawback of the well-known seat.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with the invention this aim is achieved in that the U-shaped auxiliary support is mounted with the free ends of its legs about a transverse axis for a downward swinging movement, said axis being located adjacent the centre of the rocking bottom, a locking device being provided, adapted to be actuated at the top behind the backwall of the bucket-shaped seat to lock the auxiliary support in its active and inactive positions.
With an infant seat performed in accordance with the present invention, the seat needs to be lifted at its backside only to a small extent--corresponding with the desired more upward and stable sitting position--from the support surface to cause the auxiliary support to swing down into its operative position. The lifting of the seat and the unlocking of the auxiliary support may take place in one single action.
It is to be noted that EP-A-0218444 discloses an infant seat, comprising a bucket seat body with two sidewalls, a bottom, a seat and an inclined backwall and a pivotally connected carrying handle, with which there is also an auxiliary support that is pivotally mounted about a transverse axis. In this case the transverse axis is located at the rearward end of the bottom of the seat which bottom extends--as seen in the rearward direction--only slightly beyond the position of the transverse swinging axis of the carrying handle and, as a consequence of this, does not by itself constitute a rocker bottom. When it is desired to rock the seat body on a supporting surface, the platform-like auxiliary support has to be set in a position in which it constitutes a rearward and curved extension of the seat bottom.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The invention will be hereinafter further explained by way of example with reference to the drawing.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view, partially in longitudinal section, or the infant seat according to the invention, with the rearward auxiliary support in the lowered position and
FIG. 2 is a side view similar to that of FIG. 1, but with the rearward auxiliary support in the lowered position.
The infant seat shown in the drawing comprises a bucket-shaped seat body with a lower support portion 1 having a curved bottom 2, and a seat portion 3 provided with an inclined beck wall 4. The lower support portion 1 comprises, in a well-known manner, two transversely spaced sidewalls, which are formed by two lateral downwardly directed bulges of the seating portion 3.
Under the backwall 4, between the two sidewalls of the support portion 1, a storage space 7 is formed, which is accessible through a rearward cover 6.
5 designated a part of a carrying handle, the ends of which are pivotally connected on the outer side of the bucket-shaped seat body. This carrying handle does not make part of the present invention and may be of a well-k
B.V. Machine-en Metaalwaren-fabriek Dremefa
Bednarek Michael D.
Cuomo Peter M.
Vu Stephen
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