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US 5,664,833 AGranted
Child's car seat with improved rotatable overhead shield
AssigneeCentury Products Company
InventorsMaryAnn Celestina-Krevh, William T. Ward, Jr., Michael P. Green
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Abstract
An overhead safety shield for an infant's car seat is rotatably coupled to the arms connecting the shield to the sides of the car seat. A detent mechanism provides positive locking engagement for the shield relative to the arms so that the shield can be fixed at one of several different angular positions about the pivot axis. The attitude of the shield can be set at the most convenient position for the occupant of the seat.
Claims8
An adjustable overhead shield for an infant's car seat, said shield comprising:
- first and second arm members, each having an attachment end and a distal end;
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- a shield member having a longitudinal axis and first and second ends, each of said first and second ends being pivotally attached to the attachment end of a corresponding one of said first and second arm members, each end of said shield member including a detent member retractably mounted therein along a retraction direction substantially normal to said longitudinal axis, each attachment end of said first and second arm members having a detent socket provided with a plurality of angularly spaced detent channels, each of said detent channels being defined by a pair of spaced wall portions provided in said socket, said detent member being releasably engageable with said plurality of angularly spaced detent channels so that said shield member can be rotatably positioned to any one of a plurality of rotational positions and fixed therein.
In combination:
- an infant's car seat having a main body portion;
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- an adjustable overhead shield attached to said main body portion of said infant's car seat, said shield comprising:
- first and second arm members each having a distal end attached to said main body portion of said car seat and an attachment end;
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- a shield member having a longitudinal axis and first and second ends, each of said first and second ends being pivotally attached to the attachment end of a corresponding one of said first and second arm members, each end of said shield member including a detent member retractably mounted therein along a retraction direction substantially normal to said longitudinal axis, each attachment end of said first and second arm members having a detent socket provided with a plurality of angularly spaced detent channels, each of said detent channels being defined by a pair of spaced wall portions provided in said socket, said detent member being releasably engageable with said plurality of angularly spaced detent channels so that said shield member can be rotatably positioned to any one of a plurality of rotational positions and fixed therein.
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