Infant vehicle safety restraint
AssigneeSecure Concepts, Ltd.
InventorGregory A. Reighter
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Abstract
A compliance, compact, collapsible, lightweight infant or child restraint device is provided which is detachably secured directly to an unaltered lap belt which can contain a shoulder harness in a vehicle such that the restrained infant is positioned in a face-to-face relationship with the attending adult yet the restrained infant is not attached in any manner to or dependent for security upon the attending adult. The infant restraining device secures the infant against the body of the attending adult in a "lap-down, face-up" relationship such that the needs of the infant are able to be attended to without the attending adult removing his/her seatbelt or having to "turn around" in relation to the infant to be attended.
Claims12
A safety restraint device for use in combination with an unmodified seat belt to secure an infant in a face-to-face relationship with an attending adult occupying and using the seat belt which comprises:
- (a) a pouch means having an opening adapted to receive an infant and being of a shape effective to support the head, backside and rump of said infant to secure said infant therein;
- (b) at least two connector means attached to said pouch means approximately at each end of said opening for immovably securing said pouch assembly to said seat belt, said pouch supportedly secured by said connectors independent of the said attending adult.
A safety restraint device for use in combination with an unmodified seat belt to secure an infant in a face-to-face relationship with an attending adult occupying and using the seat belt which comprises:
- (a) a pouch means for securing an infant therein and being of a shape effective to support the head, backside and rump of said infant;
- (b) at least two connector means attached to said pouch means for immovably securing said pouch assembly to said seat belt independent of the said attending adult, wherein at least one of said connector means detachably and frictionally engages said unmodified seat belt, and wherein said at least one connector means comprises a first, flattened pair of seat belt engaging arms;
- a second, flattened pair of seat belt engaging arms disposed apart from but substantially parallel to said first pair of seat belt engaging arms;
- a substantially perpendicular connecting portion communicating with said first and second pair of seat belt engaging arms to maintain said first and second pair of seat belt engaging arms in a spaced apart position relative one another;
- and a tongue member substantially parallel to said second set of seat belt engaging arms, such that said first and second pair of seat belt engaging arms cooperate with said tongue member in conjunction with said connecting portion to frictionally engage said seat belt, thus immovably attaching said device to said seat belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.