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US 2025/0018847 A1Published application
Cupholder for a juvenile seat
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorCory R. SMITH
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Abstract
A juvenile seat includes a seat bottom and a cupholder support coupled to the seat bottom. The juvenile seat further includes a cupholder coupled removably to the cupholder support. The cupholder includes a cupholder mount coupled to the cupholder support to retain the cupholder to the cupholder support and a cupholder base at least partially defining an interior container-receiving space.
Claims20
A juvenile seat comprising:
- a cupholder support formed to include a mount aperture, and
- a cupholder coupled to the cupholder support, the cupholder including:
- (i) a cupholder mount arranged to extend into the mount aperture to interlock with the cupholder support and retain the cupholder to the cupholder support, (ii) a cupholder base having a base rim, a base sidewall extending downwardly from the base rim and formed to include a first slot, and a base floor coupled to a lower end of the base sidewall and an upper end of the cupholder mount, the base sidewall at least partially defining an interior container-receiving space located radially inward from the base rim and the base sidewall and above the base floor, and (iii) a cupholder mode-changer coupled to the cupholder base and formed to include a second slot,
- wherein, when the cupholder mode-changer is coupled to the cupholder base, the cupholder mode-changer rotatable relative to the cupholder base to change the cupholder from a volume-maximizing mode, in which the second slot of the cupholder mode-changer is offset circumferentially from the first slot so that the cupholder base and the cupholder mode-changer cooperate with one another to establish a continuous cupholder sidewall that extends circumferentially around a vertical axis of the cupholder, and a handle-receiving mode, in which the first slot is aligned circumferentially with the second slot so that a container having a handle can be received within the interior container-receiving space while the handle of the container extends radially outward past the cupholder sidewall and into first and second slots.
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A juvenile seat comprising
- a cupholder support and
- a cupholder coupled to the cupholder support, the cupholder including:
- (i) a cupholder base at least partially defining an interior container-receiving space and (ii) a cupholder mode-changer fixed to the cupholder base and configured to pivot relative to the cupholder base within the interior container-receiving space to change the cupholder from a volume-maximizing mode to a handle-receiving mode,
- wherein the cupholder base and the cupholder mode-changer are configured to cooperate with one another to establish a cupholder sidewall that extends circumferentially around a vertical axis of the cupholder when the cupholder is in the volume-maximizing mode and to establish a handle-receiving space in the cupholder sidewall after movement of the cupholder mode-changer relative to the cupholder base to arrange the cupholder in the handle-receiving mode,
- wherein, when cupholder base has:
- (i) a first diameter along a first plane extending through a vertical axis of the cupholder base and (ii) the first diameter along a second plane perpendicular to the first plane and extending through the vertical axis of the cupholder base.
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A juvenile seat comprising
- a cupholder support and
- a cupholder coupled to the cupholder support, the cupholder including:
- (i) a cupholder base and (ii) a cupholder mode-changer fixed to the cupholder base and configured to rotate relative to the cupholder base while being coupled to the cupholder base to change the cupholder from a volume-maximizing mode, in which the cupholder base and the cupholder mode-changer cooperate with one another to establish a cupholder sidewall that extends circumferentially around a vertical axis of the cupholder, and a handle-receiving mode, in which a handle-receiving space is formed in the cupholder sidewall,
- wherein the cupholder has:
- (i) a first circumference in the volume-maximizing mode and (ii) the first circumference in the hand-receiving mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.