Combination child seat and travel safety vest for wheeled luggage
OwnerDavid S. McFarland, Dale C. Sommers +1inventors
InventorsDavid S. McFarland, Dale C. Sommers, Mary Evelyn Arnold
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Abstract
An improved lightweight, portable and compact combination seat and serape' for travel ease and safety while traveling with a small child. The device is releasably attached to the telescoping handle upon wheeled luggage, is disposable in an unfolded position for use wherein it functions as a seat and when used as a serape' for travel safety is draped over the head and shoulders of the juvenile to be secured with the parent into the airline seatbelt, and when in its storage condition is separated from and compactly contained within the luggage for carry-on in an airliner or other public transportation.
Claims15
An improvement to luggage adaptors comprising:
- A combination juvenile seat and travel safety vestment, attachable and detachable to telescoping, extensible handles for conventional wheeled luggage, wherein said combination includes;
- a cushioned seat portion and a cushioned backrest portion, each having a front face and a back face, and each having right, left and leading outer edges;
- said portions are connected together along a central fold line, to form an elongated rectangle shape integrally formed into one sheet, for disposition between an unfolded position in which the portions form a seat, and a folded position in which the portions define an over the shoulder travel safety vestment sized to fit a small child;
- said seat portion is adapted to rest on the top face of said item of wheeled luggage, and said backrest portion is adapted to engage the extensible handle of said wheeled luggage;
- said backrest portion has an attachment sleeve bonded to its back face, including Velcro closure bonded to the free ends of said attachment sleeve, said sleeve is sized to fit over, encompass and engage said telescoping handle upon said wheeled luggage, forming a first attachment means;
- said attachment sleeve has two opposing lengths of web strap bonded on to said sleeve;
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- said web straps have individual length adjuster and snap buckles upon the free ends;
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- said web straps cooperate to serve as a torso and shoulder restraint belt for said juvenile seat;
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- a widened web strap center restraint member, bonded to said seat portion, and upon the upper face of said seat portion;
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- said center restraint has a duplicity of snap buckle receivers upon its free end, with Velcro portions upon said web surface exterior;
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- said center restraint and said torso shoulder restraint belt elements interconnect to one another through use of said buckles and buckle receivers;
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- a duplicity of adjustable length side bolster web straps, bonded to the right and left outer edges of both said seat portion and said backrest portion, providing means to define a seat
- from said portions, said seat portion has a portion of Velcro upon its back face, forming a second attachment means to said wheeled luggage;
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- a central opening passing completely through said seat and backrest portions, at said fold line, said central opening is sized to permit safe passage through of a juvenile head and neck while worn as a juvenile travel vestment;
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- said torso and shoulder restraint belt buckles enable connection to one another, for use as a strap to engage an adult seat belt while used as a juvenile travel vestment;
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- said adjustable length side bolster straps further serve as side cinches to hold close said travel vestment upon and onto said juvenile;
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- said backrest portion has a flexible primary carrying handle and Velcro closure bonded upon said leading edge, and said seat portion has a complementary Velcro section upon its leading edge, wherein said backrest portion and seat portion may be folded together forming a closed position package that can be carried alone or stored inside said wheeled luggage.
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