Harness strap adjuster

A juvenile seat comprising

• a seat shell including a seat bottom and a seat back cooperating with the seat bottom to form a child-receiving cavity on a front side of the seat shell, the seat back being formed to include a first strap-receiving slot having a front opening on the front side of the seat shell and a rear opening on a back side of the seat shell,
• a child-restraint harness coupled to the seat shell and arranged to lie in the child-receiving cavity to restrain a child seated therein, the child-restraint harness including a first harness strap arranged to pass through the first strap-receiving slot to locate a free end of the first harness strap outside of the infant-receiving cavity and along the back side of the seat shell, and
• a strap-length adjuster coupled to the seat back and arranged to lie along the back side of the seat shell in close proximity to the rear opening of the first strap-receiving slot, the strap-length adjuster including a frame anchor coupled to the seat back, an H-shaped strap receiver frame having a first end mounted on the frame anchor for pivotable movement about a pivot axis and an opposite second end, and a standoff coupled to the opposite second end and arranged to abut the seat back normally to orient the H-shaped frame at an acute angle relative to the seat back.

A juvenile seat comprising

• a seat shell including a seat back,
• a harness strap coupled to the seat shell, and
• a strap-length adjuster including a strap gripper including fixed and movable grip members, an anchor coupled to the strap gripper to support the strap gripper for pivotable movement relative to the seat back about a pivot axis, and a standoff coupled to the strap gripper and arranged to abut the seat back to block unwanted pivoting movement of the strap gripper about the pivot axis.