Child restraining safety belt or harness

A device for restraining young children in a shopping cart of the type having a foldable seat, including a bench section and a back section, comprising:

• an elongate, flexible middle strap member having opposite ends and a center;
• fastening means for releasably securing together said opposite ends of said middle strap member;
• said middle strap member having a preselected length sufficient to wrap around a child's torso and a preselected part of the back section of said shopping cart seat;
• said opposite ends of said middle strap member being releasably securable to one another behind the back of a child seated in said shopping cart seat;
• a pair of elongate, flexible shoulder strap members;
• each of said shoulder strap members having a first end fixedly secured to said middle strap member, said respective first ends being disposed on opposite sides of the center of said middle strap member in equidistantly spaced relation thereto;
• said shoulder strap members disposed in converging relation to one another so that a second end of a first strap member overlies a second end of a second strap member;
• a shoulder strap connecting means disposed where the second ends of said first and second strap members converge, each of said second ends being fixedly secured to said shoulder strap connecting means;
• a loop means formed in said shoulder strap connecting means;
• a pair of large "D" ring members, each of said "D" ring members having a linear in configuration portion and an arcuate portion;
• each of said linear in configuration portions of said large "D" ring members being captured by said loop means;
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• an elongate, flexible bottom strap member having a first end fixedly secured to said middle strap member at the center thereof and a second end releasably securable to said large "D" ring members behind said child's back;
• whereby a medial part of said middle strap member is placed in overlying relation to the stomach of a child seated in a shopping cart seat, said shoulder strap members are passed over the child's head so that said shoulder strap connecting means is positioned in overlying relation to the child's back, said bottom strap member is passed under the bench section of the shopping cart seat, said middle strap member is passed around at least a portion of said shopping cart back and fastened behind the child's back, and said free end of said bottom strap is brought upwardly behind the child to said large "D" ring members and fastened to said large "D" ring members to unite said shoulder strap members and said bottom strap member;
• whereby all fastening means are out of the reach of a small child seated in a shopping cart seat.