Reversible Child Car Seat with Separable Base Member
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Abstract
A car seat includes a seat member on which the child is transported and a separable base member that is mounted to the vehicle seat via the vehicle seat belt which is passed through side openings in the base member and trapped in a belt latch apparatus to secure the base member to the vehicle seat. The seat member is mounted on the base member in either a forward-facing orientation or a rear-facing orientation. The base member includes a pair of upper and lower recline slots that receive latch pins securing the seat member to the base member. A recline apparatus carried by the seat member engages a central control rack on the base member to lock the seat member in a selected recline position. In the rear-facing position, the seat member is positionable in different orientations to compensate for the angle at which the vehicle seat is formed.
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44 Claims
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25. A car seat for transporting a child on a vehicle seat of an automotive vehicle, said vehicle seat including a vehicle seat belt engagable with said car seat to secure said car seat to the vehicle seat, comprising:
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a base member having a belt path passing through said base member and being formed with at least one pair of laterally opposing recline slots; and a seat member selectively separable from said base member and being selectively engagable with said base member to provide a seating surface for said child to be transported thereon, said seat member being reversibly mountable on said base member in a selected one of two operable positions, including a forward-facing orientation and a rear-facing orientation, said seat member including at least one pair of latch pins that are engagable into and slidable within corresponding said recline slots so that said seat member is detachably mounted to said base member and movable relative to said base member said latch pins being retractable from the base member into said seat member in order to move said seat member between said forward-facing orientation and a rear-facing orientation. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A car seat for transporting a child on a vehicle seat of an automotive vehicle, said vehicle seat including a vehicle seat belt engagable with said car seat to secure said car seat to the vehicle seat, comprising:
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a base member having a belt path passing through said base member and being formed with at least one pair of laterally opposing slots; and a seat member selectively separable from said base member and being selectively engagable with said base member to provide a seating surface for said child to be transported thereon, said seat member being reversibly mountable on said base member in a selected one of two operable positions, including a forward-facing orientation and a rear-facing orientation, said seat member including at least one pair of latch members that are engagable with corresponding said slots so that said seat member is detachably mounted to said base member, said seat member being provided with a guide allowing the vehicle belt to secure the seat member to the vehicle seat when the seat member is removed from the base member, said seat member being usable without said base member as a booster seat. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A seat member forming part of a car seat for transporting a child on a vehicle seat of an automotive vehicle, said vehicle seat including a vehicle seat belt engagable with said car seat to secure said car seat to the vehicle seat, said seat member being selectively cooperable with a base member secured to said vehicle seat by said vehicle seat belt, comprising:
said seat member being selectively separable from said base member and being selectively engagable with said base member to provide a seating surface for said child to be transported thereon, said seat member being positionable on said base member in a selected one of two operable positions, including a forward-facing orientation and a rear-facing orientation, said seat member being provided with a guide allowing the vehicle seat belt to secure the seat member directly to the vehicle seat such that said seat member can be utilized as a booster seat without said base member. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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