Child safety seat

A child safety seat for use in a vehicle comprising:

• a seat body having a seat back with slots therein,
• a harness for a child occupant of the seat, secured to the seat body and including a pair of shoulder straps extending through said slots in the seat back
• a mechanism for adjusting the length of the shoulder straps projecting through said slots,
• means for varying the height at which the shoulder straps project from the seat back,
• a pair of pads each slidably mounted on a respective shoulder strap and having a cover formed of high friction material on the side thereof facing the child occupant's body,
• a pair of tether straps each operative to limit movement of a corresponding one of the pair of pads along the shoulder strap to a predetermined limit distance away from the seat back;
• each strap having a first end connected to the corresponding pad and having a second end projecting through the same slot in the seat back as the corresponding shoulder strap, said second end being attached to a respective blocker dimensioned to abut against the seat back surrounding the slots so as to restrict the length of tether strap which can be protracted through the slot in the seat back while allowing continued protraction of the shoulder strap, each respective blocker being connected to the corresponding shoulder strap by an elastic link adapted to allow continued retraction of the shoulder strap when the corresponding pad has come into abutment with the seat back.

A child safety seat for use in a vehicle comprising:

• a seat body having a seat back with two sets of slots therein, the slots of each set being vertically spaced from one another,
• a harness for a child occupant of the seat, secured to the seat body and including a pair of shoulder straps, each shoulder strap extending through a first slot of a respective one of said sets of slots,
• a mechanism for adjusting the length of the shoulder straps projecting through said slots,
• means for varying the height at which the shoulder straps project from the seat back,
• a pair of pads each slidably mounted on a respective shoulder strap and having a cover formed of high friction material on the side thereof facing the child occupant's body,
• a pair of tether straps each operative to limit movement of a corresponding one of the pads along the shoulder strap to a predetermined limit distance away from the seat back;
• each strap having a first end connected to the corresponding pad and having a second end projecting through said first slot and then back through a second slot of the same set as the first slot, said second end being attached to a respective blocker dimensioned to abut against the seat back surrounding said second slot so as to restrict the length of tether strap which can be protracted through a slot in the seat back while allowing continued protraction of the shoulder strap.

A child safety seat for use in a vehicle comprising:

• a seat body having a seat back with two sets of slots therein, the slots of each set being vertically spaced from one another,
• a harness for a child occupant of the seat, secured to the seat body and including a pair of shoulder straps, each shoulder strap extending through a first slot of a respective one of said sets of slots,
• a mechanism for adjusting the length of the shoulder straps projecting through said slots,
• means for varying the height at which the shoulder straps project from the seat back,
• a pair of pads each slidably mounted on a respective shoulder strap and having a cover formed of high friction material on the side thereof facing the child occupant's body,
• a pair of tether straps each operative to limit movement of a corresponding one of the pads along the shoulder strap to a predetermined limit distance away from the seat back;
• each strap having a first end connected to the corresponding pad and having a second end projecting through said first slot, said second end being attached to an anchorage fixed to the seat body at a location behind the seat back and above the uppermost slot of said set of slots so as to restrict the length of tether strap which can be protracted through the slot in the seat back while allowing continued protraction of the shoulder strap.