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US 4,733,909 AGranted
Multi-mode child restraint system
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsArthur W. Single, II, Thomas J. Bryans
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Abstract
A multi-mode child restraint system is disclosed, comprising a seat and a bolster adapted to receive and releasably engage the seat. The seat provides a seating unit and means for propping the seating unit rearwardly, such propping means being mounted within the seat of the seating unit. The restraint seat, either with or without the bolster, is adapted to be secured to a motor vehicle seat by a seat belt associated with such motor vehicle seat.
Claims7
A child restraint system comprising:
- (A) a child seat comprising:
- a seating unit having a seat portion having a seating surface and a bottom, a back portion extending upwardly from said seat portion, and a pair of side walls extending forwardly from said back portion, said back portion, seat portion and side walls each being unitary with the others;
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- means for propping said seating unit in a reclined position, said means comprising a prop pivotably mounted under the seating surface of said seating unit within a concavity defined by said seat portion thereof, said prop being releasably engagable in a first position substantially entirely within said concavity and being releasably engagable in a second position in which it extends below the bottom of said seat portion in such location that said means and a bottom rear portion of said seating unit together support said seating unit in a rearwardly reclined position;
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- (B) a bolster means for supporting said child seat, which bolster means is releasably engagable with said child seat, wherein said prop is adapted to releasably engage the seating unit to the bolster by abutting against a surface of said bolster, said prop being spring biased downwardly into such abutment with said bolster.
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