Child safety seat
AssigneeBritax-Excelsior Limited
InventorGeoffrey W. Barley
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Abstract
A child safety seat has a seat body, a support structure, a first releasable coupling for connecting the support structure to a motor vehicle and a second releasable coupling for connecting the seat body to the support structure. The support structure includes an upwardly facing abutment surface positioned above the seat portion of an adult vehicle seat and in front of the backrest portion thereof, when the first coupling is engaged. The second coupling is arranged to hold the seat body in rigid abutment with the abutment surface on the support structure either so that the seat body is facing forwardly in the vehicle or so that the seat body is facing rearwardly in the vehicle.
Claims9
A child safety seat in combination with an adult vehicle seat for a motor vehicle with a seat portion and a backrest portion the child safety seat comprising:
- a support structure,
- a seat body having first and second abutment surfaces which are alternatively engageable with the support structure to support the seat body at respective first and second angles to the support structure,
- first releasable coupling means arranged to provide a rigid connection between the support structure and the motor vehicle,
- upwardly facing abutment means on the support structure positioned above the seat portion of the adult vehicle seat and in front of the backrest portion thereof,
- second coupling means arranged to hold the first abutment surface in rigid abutment with the support structure only when the seat body is facing rearwardly in the vehicle and to hold the second abutment surface in rigid abutment with the support structure only when the seat body is facing forwardly in the vehicle.
A child safety seat in combination with an adult vehicle seat for a motor vehicle with a seat portion and a backrest portion, the child safety seat comprising:
- a seat body including a backrest,
- a support structure,
- first releasable coupling means arranged to provide a rigid connection between the support structure and the motor vehicle,
- upwardly facing abutment means on the support structure positioned above the seat portion of the adult vehicle seat and in front of the backrest portion thereof,
- second releasable coupling means on the support structure,
- first complementary coupling means on the seat body engagable by the second releasable coupling means to hold the seat body in rigid abutment with said abutment means on the support structure only when the seat body is facing forwardly in the vehicle and the backrest thereof is at a first angle to the abutment means, and
- second complementary coupling means on the seat body engagable by the second releasable coupling means to hold the seat body in rigid abutment with said abutment means on the support structure only when the seat body is facing rearwardly in the vehicle and the backrest thereof is at a second angle to the abutment means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.