Chairs and seats – Supplemental seat – Back-connected
Patent
1980-07-03
1982-09-07
Zugel, Francis K.
Chairs and seats
Supplemental seat
Back-connected
297437, A47D 110
Patent
active
043480497
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to means for carrying children notably inside motor vehicles, more particularly a protection device comprising a wrapping back-rest provided with a head-rest overlying a seat surrounded by upholstered sides, a foot-rest, the assembly being adapted to be secured by suitable means between the front and rear seats of a vehicle, against the back thereof.
In this field, various prior art structures are known.
The U.S. Pat. No. 1,380,678 to PRICE discloses a child armchair comprising a back-rest, arm-rests and a foot-rest mounted through hooking means to the back-rest of the front bench-seat and comprising leg means bearing on the floor of the vehicle.
The U.S. Pat. No. 2,890,740 to LARSON relates to a child's seat comprising a foot-rest, means for hooking same to the backseat and vertically adjustable leg means.
The U.S. Pat. No. 1,629,834 to MILLER discloses a child's seat detachable secured to the back-rest.
The French Patent Application 76 27055 discloses a child's armchair for automobile, which comprises more particularly a back-rest provided with a head-rest, a device for maintaining the child against the back-rest, arm-rests, a foot-rest mounted for vertical adjustment on a rigid frame structure provided with leg means bearing on the floor of the automobile, said frame structure being held in position between the front and rear seats of the automobile by means for anchoring same to the back-rest of the front bench, characterized in that the distance between the back-rests of the armchair and the front bench is determined by the adjustable length of the armchair arm-rests.
The inconveniences common to these constructions lie in the fact that the child's safety, in the event of a shock from the rear is not sufficient, on the one hand, and in that separating the seat from the means for anchoring same in the vehicle constitutes a tedious operation, on the other hand.
The scope of the invention is to provide a protection device for the occupant which is both efficient with respect to shocks, irrespective of their direction, and self-contained so that it can be quickly removed from the vehicle without having to remove the child from its protection casing in which he can be transported also outside the vehicle.
For this purpose, the device according to the invention is characterized by the fact that it consists of at least two separate elements provided with means for quickly uncoupling them from each other, one of said elements consisting of a rigid shell enveloping the child from head to feet, which comprises an open face of which the major portion of the periphery lies in a single plane substantially parallel to the solid bottom of the shell, said shell being a unitary structure comprising several sections, a hood, a bottom, a seat, a cradle for the legs in which a suspended foot-rest is slidably mounted, the other element being a rigid frame provided with means for securing same to the back-rest of the vehicle seat, means for quickly fastening the shell to the frame, means for holding the latter in a predetermined position in relation to said frame.
The main advantageous features characterizing this device lie in the fact that the rigid shell protects the child from all shocks, both within the vehicle or when it is used as a cradle for transporting the child, and in the fact that fitting the shell in position in a car, as well as removing it therefrom, constitute easy and fast operations, without requiring the removal of the child from the shell in which he can ball asleep or at least feel comfortable and wriggle without any risk.
Other advantages will appear from the following description of a preferred but not limiting form of embodiment of the device, and from the drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 is a general view of the device fitted to the back-rest of a car;
FIG. 2 is a side view of the shell;
FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of the shell;
FIG. 4 is a front elevational view of the frame structure;
FIG. 5 is a side view of the frame structure.
FIG. 1 affords the view of the two elements
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Monot Hubert
Monot Michel
Adams Bruce L.
Burns Robert E.
Lobato Emmanuel J.
Zugel Francis K.
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