Strap restraining system for child care devices
OwnerKelli M. Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
Apparatus and systems for securing safety restraints of child care devices for the insertion or removal of a child from the child care devices. A strap restraint device for securing one or more straps of a child care device includes a body portion. The body portion is configured to secure one or more straps of the child care device when the straps are draped over the body portion. The strap restraint device also includes an attachment device, which comprises means for removably securing the body portion to the child care device.
Claims14
A strap restraint system, the strap restraint system being configured to secure a plurality of straps of a child care device, the strap restraint system including:
- the child care device, the child care device having a first and a second strap, each of the first and second straps being connected to the child care device at upper seat locations and lower seat locations;
- a first strap restraint device that is configured to temporarily restrain the first strap of the child care device to a first side of the child care device, the first strap restraint device including:
- a first body that comprises one or more features for providing sensory stimulus to a child and that is configured to temporarily restrain the first strap to the first side of the child care device when the first strap is draped around the first body and at a same time that the body portion of the first strap restraint device is attached to the child care device, and
- a first fastening mechanism that includes a first corresponding portion that is affixed to the first body and a second corresponding portion that is affixed to the first side of the child care device closer to the lower seat locations than to the upper seat locations, the first corresponding portion and the second corresponding portion of the first fastening mechanism being configured to removably affix to one another;
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- a second strap restraint device that is configured to temporarily restrain the second strap of the child care device to a second side of the child care device, the second strap restraint device including:
- a second body that comprises one or more features for providing sensory stimulus to the child and that is configured to temporarily restrain the second strap to the second side of the child care device when the second strap is draped around the second body and at a same time that the body portion of the second strap restraint device is attached to the child care device, and
- a second fastening mechanism that includes a first corresponding portion that is affixed to the second body and a second corresponding portion that is affixed to the second side of the child care device closer to the lower seat locations than to the upper seat locations, the first corresponding portion and the second corresponding portion of the second fastening mechanism being configured to removably affix to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.