Infant safety seat

• US 5,988,743 A
• Filed: 12/09/1996
• Issued: 11/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Bebecar - Utilidades Para Crianca Limitada
• Original Assignee: B V Machine-En Metaalwarenfabriek Dremefa
• Inventors: Drexler, Johannes Herman
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuomo, Peter M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VU, STEPHEN A
• Application Number:
  US08/762,253
• Time in Patent Office: 1,079 Days
• Field of Search: 297/250.1, 297/183.3, 297/183.2, 297/216.11, 297/271.6, 297/258.1
• US Class Current: 297/250.1
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2845 having handles
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2854 Children's cots; Hammocks
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/2863 backward facing
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/6009 covering more than only the seat

Abstract

An infant safety seat of the type, comprising a bucket seat body having a supporting bottom and a pivotable carrying handle and provided with attachment points for the hip belt portion and the shoulder belt portion respectively of a threepoints-safety belt. Between the support bottom surface and the seat surface thereabove there is a transverse through belt receiving space adjacent the front side of the bucket seat body, said space being delimited at the front side by a transverse and upstanding belt holding surface, that is accessible for a belt from an end of the bucket seat body.

Claims

1. An infant safety seat adapted to be secured against a backrest of a passenger vehicle seat using a hip belt portion and a shoulder belt portion of a three point safety belt in order that the seat faces the backrest, wherein the seat has a front side proximate the backrest and a rear side spaced further away from the backrest than the front end, comprising a bucket seat body for holding an infant so that the infants head is proximate the rear side of the seat body and the infant'"'"'s feet are proximate the front side of the seat body, the seat further comprising a supporting bottom surface and a pivotable carrying handle and provided with attachment portions for the hip belt portion and the shoulder belt portion respectively of a three points-safety belt, characterized by a belt receiving space adjacent to the front side of a bucket seat body and positioned between the supporting bottom surface and the seat surface thereabove, said space being delimited at the front side by a transverse and upstanding belt holding surface, that is accessible for a safety belt from an opening disposed at the rear side of the bucket seat body, the opening extending forward to merge into the belt receiving space so as to allow a loop formed by the shoulder belt portion and the hip belt portion to be inserted from the rear side of a seat body into the belt receiving space between the supporting bottom surface and the seat surface and then allow the hip belt portion to engage the upstanding belt holding surface.

2. An infant seat according to claim 1, characterized in that the inserting slot merges into said belt receiving space at an upper end of the the belt receiving space.

3. An infant seat according to claim 1, characterized in that the bucket seat body and the bottom support are formed as separate parts.

4. An infant safety seat having a foot end (1a;

1a'"'"') adapted to be placed in engagement with a backrest (7) of a passenger vehicle seat having a three point safety belt (8) including a shoulder belt portion (18) and a hip belt portion (11), wherein the safety seat is adapted to be secured by a three point safety belt (8) to the vehicle seat, comprising a bucket seat body (1;

1'"'"';

1") with a backrest portion (16;

16'"'"'), a foot end portion (1a;

1a'"'"'), side walls, a substantially U-shaped carrying handle (2) pivotally connected to said side walls about a transverse axis, a lower surface and a support bottom (3;

3'"'"';

3"),

means for guiding and holding the shoulder belt portion (10) of said three point safety belt (8) around the back side of the backrest portion (1b;

1b'"'"') of said bucket seat body (1;

1'"'"';

1"),

a transverse through belt receiving space (5;

5'"'"';

5") between said support bottom (3;

3'"'"';

3") and the lower surface of said bucket seat body (1;

1'"'"';

1"), said receiving space (5;

5'"'"';

5") being accessible from the foot end portion of said bucket seat body through a laterally open slit (4;

4'"'"';

4"), the slit merging into the belt receiving space so as to allow insertion of the hip belt portion (11) of said three point safety (8) belt from the foot end portion of the infant seat into said receiving space (5;

5'"'"';

5") for engagement with belt holding means (5a) provided in said belt receiving space,

characterized in that said belt holding means (5a) in said receiving space (5;

5'"'"';

5") is constituted by an upstanding holding surface (5a), that faces away from the foot end portion (1a;

1a'"'"') of said bucket seat body.

5. An infant safety seat according to claim 4, wherein said belt receiving space (5") is accessible from the foot end portion of said bucket seat body (1") through an insertion slit (4") that is located at a position which is rearwardly spaced from the front edge of said bucket seat body (1"), characterized in that said belt inserting slot (4") bends downwardly to merge into said belt receiving space (5") containing said upstanding holding surface.

6. An infant safety seat according to claim 4, characterized in that said bucket seat body (1;

1'"'"') and said support bottom (3;

3'"'"') are formed as separate parts, which are connected at a front end of said bucket seat body (1;

1'"'"') only and are spaced from one another at a rear end.