US 2018/0279724 A1Published application

Safety Buckle for a Child Seat

OwnerMelinda Davis, David Boobarinventors

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Abstract

Improvements child or baby seat are disclosed. The improvements include a common design that accommodates different types and styles of child seats. The standard platform can be used across a variety of baby to child seats. The belt has a button on the front, with a safety mechanism on the back that must be articulated to enable activation of the belt buckle. The buckle may take4 the configuration of an adapter allows a parent to install the safety buckle for a child seat. Adapter on a pre-existing seat. The belt ideally configured for a “Y” style buckle where straps extend over each shoulder and a single strap passes between the legs of the child. This allows the safety to pass or be blocked between the two belt buckle components of the shoulder straps. This also accommodates most of the buckles that are being produced.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A safety buckle for a child seat comprising:

a housing;
said housing having a fixedly secured first belt;
said housing having a latch mechanism having a securing mechanism for at least a second belt that releasably interlocks with a seat belt tongue;
said latch mechanism including a pushbutton located on a front of said housing, said pushbutton being manually movable from a rest position to a release position to cause said latch mechanism to release said seat belt tongue from interlocked engagement with said latch mechanism;
a safety apparatus comprising a wedge release lock located on a back of said housing such that said wedge release lock is not visible when said button is viewed;
said wedge release lock has a normal position that is retained by a spring whereby in said normal position said pushbutton is prevented from releasing said latch mechanism, and
said forces from said spring must be overcome to displace said wedge release lock from said normal positon to allow release of said seat belt tongue.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/927,748Filed 21 Mar 2018
Priority: 3 Apr 2017
Published: 4 Oct 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A44B 11/2573
Safety measures: locking means preventing an unauthorised opening, e.g. by children
A44B 11/2511
Actuated by a push-button: acting perpendicularly to the main plane of the buckle, e.g. placed on the front face of the buckle
A44B 11/2534
Safety buckles: with the sliding motion of the buckle providing the opening or closing action
A44B 11/2549
Details: fastening of other buckle elements to the main buckle