Automotive headrest with emergency adaptations
OwnerAlyse Laudonioinventor
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Abstract
A seatback-engageable automotive headrest including a buoyant cushion body within a casing, a rigid structure with an internal portion within the casing and an external portion outside the casing for detachable connection with the top of an automobile seatback, all as typical for automotive headrests, but also having the improvement of the casing being configured to define an accessibility opening, and a tether inside the casing adjacent to the accessibility opening and permanently attached to the rigid structure, such that, with the headrest detached from the seatback, a portion of the tether can be grasped through the accessibility opening and withdrawn for securement to a person to facilitate flotation.
Claims24
In a seatback-engageable automotive headrest having (a) a cushion body of polymeric foam within a casing and (b) a rigid structure including (i) an internal portion within the cushion body and engaged therewith and (ii) a pair of rigid seat-attachment shafts spaced from one another and projecting downwardly from the cushion body for withdrawable engagement with the seatback, the improvement comprising:
- the casing being configured to define an underside accessibility opening between the projecting shafts;
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- a tether positioned within the casing adjacent to the accessibility opening and attached with respect to the rigid structure,
- whereby, with the headrest withdrawn from seatback engagement, a portion of the tether can be grasped through the accessibility opening and withdrawn for securement to a person to facilitate flotation.
A headrest including (a) a buoyant cushion body within a casing and (b) a rigid structure with an internal portion within the casing and an external portion outside the casing detachable from an automobile seatback, the improvement comprising:
- the casing configured to define an accessibility opening;
- and
- a tether inside the casing, positioned adjacent to the accessibility opening, and attached to the rigid structure,
- whereby, with the headrest detached from the seatback, a portion of the tether can be grasped through the accessibility opening and withdrawn for securement to a person to facilitate flotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.