Rotatable car seat with locking feature

A car seat comprising:

• a seat shell comprising:
• a seat bottom, and
• a seat back extending upwardly away from the seat bottom;
• and
• a base including a receiving portion that interfaces with a lower side of the seat shell, the base including one or more engagement members at a central area of the receiving portion and movable between a locking position where the seat shell is secured to the receiving portion of the base and an unlocking position where the seat shell is removable from the base, wherein when the one or more engagement members are in the locking position, the seat shell is rotatable relative to the base,
• wherein in the locking position, the one or more engagement members are engaged with the seat shell through one or more lock openings on a lower side of the seat bottom, and in the unlocking position, the one or more engagement members are disengaged from the seat shell.

A car seat comprising:

• a base having a receiving portion;
• a seat shell being rotatable relative to the base within the receiving portion;
• a lock for securing the seat shell to the base, wherein the seat shell is not removable from the base when the lock is in a lock configuration and is removable from the base when the lock is in an unlock configuration;
• an actuator for changing the lock from the lock configuration to the unlock configuration, the actuator movable from a lock position corresponding to the lock configuration and an unlock position corresponding to the unlock configuration;
• and
• an actuator locking arm having a first end, a second end, and a pivot point between the first end and the second end, the second end aligning with a recess in one of the seat shell or the base when the seat shell is rotated to a first position, wherein when the actuator moves to the unlock position and the second end of the actuator locking arm aligns with the recess, the actuator locking arm pivots until the first end interferes with the actuator moving back to the lock position.