Child chair
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1. A highchair for seating a child, the highchair comprising:
- a seat having a bottom support and a back support, the bottom support including a fixed center post extending there from;
a frame attached to and supporting the seat at a height, the bottom support of the seat being adjustable between a plurality of fixed positions channels on the frame; and
a tray detachably coupled only to the center post of the seat.
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Abstract
A child'"'"'s chair is disclosed having, in its most basic form, a frame having four legs, a seat having a bottom support and a back support, and a tray. To these basic components, numerous modifications can be made to customize features of the chair for enhancing safety and convenience, and/or adapting to additional possible uses. Each of the disclosed embodiments includes at least one of either an adjustable seat, an adjustable footrest, a center post mounted tray, a multiple position, single-hand adjustable tray, a concealed release button, and any combination of such features.
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1. A highchair for seating a child, the highchair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support, the bottom support including a fixed center post extending there from; a frame attached to and supporting the seat at a height, the bottom support of the seat being adjustable between a plurality of fixed positions channels on the frame; and a tray detachably coupled only to the center post of the seat. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A highchair for seating a child, the highchair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support, the bottom support including a fixed center post extending there from; a frame attached to and supporting the seat at a height; and a tray having a locking mechanism on a bottom surface for adjustably coupling at a position to the center post of the seat, wherein the position, including removal of the tray, on the center post is adjustable via manipulation of a single release mechanism fixed to the tray and coupled to the locking mechanism. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A highchair for seating a child, the highchair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support, the bottom support including a fixed center post extending there from; a frame comprising a plurality of fixed seat position channels and a plurality of fixed footrest position channels, wherein the frame supports the bottom support in a first seat position channel and a footrest is a first footrest position channel and the bottom support of the seat and the footrest are independently adjustable between the seat position channels and the footrest position channels, respectively; and a tray detachably coupled to the center post of the seat. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A highchair for seating a child, the highchair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support, the bottom support including a fixed center post extending there from; a frame attached to and supporting the seat at a height; a harness for securing a child positioned in the seat, the harness being secured to the seat and adjustable for various sizes at a position adjacent a rear surface of the back support; a tray detachably coupled to the center post of the seat. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A highchair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support, the bottom support including a fixed center post extending there from; a tray detachably coupled to the center post of the seat; a tray latching mechanism for connecting the tray to the center post and capable of movement between a first connecting position, a second connecting position and a release position; a frame supporting the seat at a first position and having a footrest supported at a second position on the frame, wherein the bottom support of the seat and the footrest are independently adjustable between a plurality of fixed seat position channels on the frame and a plurality of fixed footrest position channels on the frame, respectively; and a harness for securing a child positioned in the seat, the harness being secured to the seat and adjustable for various sizes at a position adjacent a rear surface of the back support. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35)
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36. A highchair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support; a frame supporting the seat at a first position and having a footrest supported at a second position on the frame, wherein the bottom support of the seat and the footrest are independently adjustable between a plurality of fixed seat position channels on the frame and a plurality of footrest position channels on the frame, respectively; a tray detachably coupled to the seat; a tray latching mechanism for connecting the tray to the seat and capable of movement between a first connecting position, a second connecting position and a release position; and a harness for securing a child positioned in the seat, the harness being secured to the seat and adjustable for various sizes at a position adjacent a rear surface of the back support. - View Dependent Claims (37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A child seat comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support; a frame having a plurality of fixed seat position channels each configured to retain the bottom support therein, wherein the bottom support of the seat is vertically adjustable relative to the back support via the seat position channels; and a seat latching mechanism for retaining the seat at any of the fixed seat position channels, the seat latching mechanism comprising; a slide bar positioned to intersect each of the fixed seat position channels and capable of movement along an axis between a lock position and a release position, wherein the seat is locked in a channel when the slide bar is at the lock position and the seat is removable from a channel when the slide bar is at the release position; and a button attached to an end of the slide bar and which moves along an axis, transverse to the axis of the slide bar, between a first and second position, wherein the slide bar is prevented from movement when the button is in the first position and is slidable between the slide bar lock and release positions when the button is in the second position. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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54. A chair comprising:
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a seat having a bottom support and a back support; a frame supporting the seat; a tray detachably coupled to the seat; a tray latching mechanism for connecting the tray at a latching point to one of either the seat and the frame and the latching mechanism being adjustable between three settings. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58)
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59. A tray latching mechanism for attaching a tray to a chair at a latching point, comprising:
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a locked setting wherein the tray is secured at the latching point and prevented from movement; an adjust setting wherein the tray is secured and capable of slidable movement between a plurality of latching points; and a release setting wherein the tray is released from the latching point. - View Dependent Claims (60, 61)
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