Convertible baby safety car seat assembly

A convertible baby safety car seat assembly, comprising:

• an upper seat having a backrest portion and a feet portion;
• a seat manipulation mechanism operable to manipulate the upper seat between an upright state and an extended state, the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a first angle therebetween in said upright state of the upper seat, the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a second angle therebetween in said extended state of the upper seat, the second angle being greater than the first angle;
• legs having distal ends associated with wheels and operative to be manipulated between a storage state and an operational state, the car seat assembly with the legs in said storage state being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein, the car seat assembly with the legs in the operational state being rollable on said wheels;
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• a seat manipulation prevention arrangement operative to prevent manipulation of the upper seat from the upright state to the extended state at least when the legs are in the storage state, said seat manipulation prevention arrangement comprising a seat trigger member and a seat arresting member, wherein the seat trigger member is operative to operate the seat arresting member upon being triggered by the legs, when the legs are in the operational state thereof.

A convertible baby safety car seat assembly comprising:

• a lower support having front and rear portions and a reference plane horizontally passing through a lowermost area of the lower support;
• an upper seat articulably connected to said lower support and having a backrest portion articulated to the rear articulation portion of the lower support and a feet portion articulated to the front articulation portion of the lower support;
• legs having wheels, the legs being manipulable between a storage state and an operational state, in said storage state at least the wheels being located above the reference plane and the assembly being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein, and in said operational state at least the wheels being located below the reference plane so as to enable the seat assembly to be rolled on of said wheels;
• a leg manipulation mechanism operable to manipulate the legs between the storage state and the operational state;
• a seat manipulation mechanism operable to manipulate the upper seat including articulation of the backrest and the feet portion with respect tot eh respective rear and front articulation portions of the lower support, between an upright state and an extended state, in said upright state of the upper seat the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a first angle therebetween, and in said extended state of the upper seat the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a second angle therebetween, the second angle being larger than the first angle;
• a seat manipulation actuator configured to enable a user to manipulate the seat manipulation mechanism and at least one leg manipulation actuator configured to enable a user to manipulate the leg manipulation mechanism, wherein the seat manipulation actuator and the at least one leg manipulation actuator being positioned one at a location associated with the front articulation portion of the lower support and the other one at a location rearwardly spaced from the front articulation portion of the lower support.

A convertible baby safety car seat assembly suitable for securing an infant therein, and having a first, storage mode and a second, operational mode, in the first, storage mode the assembly being suitable for being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein, and in the second, operational mode the assembly being rollable along an external supporting surface, the assembly when in the storage mode and positioned on an external supporting surface being rockable thereon between a neutral position and at least one of front and rear inclined positions, the assembly comprising:

• one or more lowermost areas that are operable to contact the external supporting surface in the neutral position;
• at least one of front and rear areas that is operable to contact the external supporting surface when in said corresponding at least one of front and rear inclined positions;
• a horizontal reference plane including the one or more lowermost areas of the assembly when in the neutral position and imaginarily representing said external supporting surface;
• a lower support having front and rear portions and a seat lowermost area closest to the horizontal reference plane when the assembly is in the neutral position;
• an upper seat connected to said lower support and having a backrest portion associated with the rear portion of the lower support and a feet portion associated with the front portion of the lower support;
• legs connected to the lower support at their proximal ends and having distal ends with wheels fixed thereto at least in the operational mode, the legs being manipulable between a storage state associated at least with the storage mode of the assembly and an operational state associated at least with the operational mode of the assembly, in the storage state of the legs at least a part of each leg with the wheel being located above the reference plane, and the operational state of the legs at least said part of each leg with the wheel being located below the reference plane so as to enable the seat assembly to be rolled on said wheels;
• the legs constituting a pair of rear legs and a pair of front legs,
• the legs of at least one of the pairs having a curved shape such that, when in the storage state, the legs of the at least one pair have a first area that is positioned above the reference plane in the neutral position, at least one second area constituting said at least one of front and rear areas, and at least one third area spaced from the first and the second area, at least the second area having a rocking-participating portion made of a material other than that of the at least one third area, said material being such as to improve at least one rocking quality compared with that which said rocking-participating portion would have if it were made of the material from which the third area is made.

A baby seat comprising at least in use:

• a shell made of a plastic material and having an external side facing an exterior and an internal side at which a fabric cover of the seat can be attached to the shell, the shell having a back wall and two sidewalls, each having corresponding inner and outer surfaces merging at respective upper edges, the upper edges of the back wall and sidewalls merging continuously and constituting a shell upper edge, the fabric cover for covering at least the internal side of the shell when the fabric cover is detachably connected thereto;
• a canopy;
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• a zipper arrangement for detachably connecting the cover and the canopy to the shell adjacent the shell upper edge, the zipper arrangement comprising a canopy zipper and a cover zipper, each of the zippers being of a separating type and comprising a zipper box and a zipper pin and having
• a shell zipper half with one of the zipper box and the zipper pin, sewn to the shell adjacent to the shell upper edge, at the outer surfaces of the back wall and the sidewalls at least along portions thereof adjacent to the back wall, and
• a matching zipper half with the other of the zipper box and the zipper pin, the matching zipper half of the cover zipper being sewn to said cover and the matching zipper half of the canopy zipper being sewn to said canopy.

A convertible baby safety car seat assembly, comprising:

• a lower support having front and rear portions and a reference plane horizontally passing through a lowermost area of the lower support;
• an upper seat connected to said lower support and having a backrest portion associated with the rear portion of the lower support and a feet portion associated with the front portion of the lower support;
• legs having wheels, the legs being manipulable between a storage state and an operational state, in said storage state of the legs at least the wheels being located above the reference plane and the assembly being suitable for being positioned in a car or on a supporting surface at a position suitable for securing an infant therein;
• in said operational state, at least the wheels are located below the reference plane so as to enable the seat assembly to be rolled on said wheels;
• the legs constituting a pair of rear legs associated with rear wheels, and a pair of front legs associated with front wheels, the front wheels protruding sidewards from the lower support in the storage state thereof, to a greater extent than the rear wheels at least in the rear view of the assembly;
• said front legs being pivotable for being manipulated from the operational state to the storage state such that in the storage state said front wheels are positioned closer to the backrest portion than the feet portion;
• wherein at least the front wheels are connected to the front legs by a quick-release mechanism and are removable from the front legs in a wheel-removal direction extending sidewards with respect to the lower support;
• wherein each of said front wheels comprises a leg-connection element extending along the wheel-removal direction when the wheel is connected to the corresponding front leg, and each of the front legs comprises a wheel-connection element extending along said wheel-removal direction, said leg-connection element and said wheel-connection element being detachably connectable to each other allowing rotation of the wheel together with the leg-connection element with respect to the wheel-connection element about a wheel-rotation axis parallel to the wheel-removal direction, said leg-connection element and said wheel-connection element at least partially constituting the quick release mechanism.