Detachable alert device and method of use

• US 7,908,777 B1
• Filed: 02/14/2008
• Issued: 03/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Victoria E. Beardsley
• Original Assignee: Victoria E. Beardsley
• Inventors: Beardsley, Victoria E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Silbermann; Joanne
• Application Number:
  US12/031,457
• Time in Patent Office: 1,132 Days
• Field of Search: 40/6, 403/20, 405/86, 406/58, 406/66, 406/610.4, 63/11.3, 63/31, 297/250.1, 446/227, 243/06, 244/42
• US Class Current: 40/320
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/267 alerting means responsive to presence or absence of children
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/28 Seats readily mountable on, and dismountable from, existing seats or other parts of the vehicle

Abstract

A detachable alert device, and method of use to remember a child left in a child safety seat, has an anchor element adapted to semi-permanently attach to the child safety seat. A reminder bracelet is adapted to removably attach to the anchor element and has a user engaging element adapted to removably attach the reminder bracelet to a user in a visible position.

Claims

1. A method for alerting a user that a child is in a child safety seat, so that the child is not inadvertently left in the child safety seat, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a detachable alert system comprising an anchor element and a reminder bracelet, the reminder bracelet being adapted to removably attach to the anchor element, wherein the reminder bracelet has a user engaging element adapted to removably attach the reminder bracelet to the user in a visible position;

attaching the anchor element to the child safety seat so that the reminder bracelet is maintained proximate to the child safety seat when there is no child in the child safety seat;

placing the child into the child safety seat, and concurrently removing the reminder bracelet from the anchor element and attaching the reminder bracelet to the user in a visible position, so that the reminder bracelet serves as a visible reminder that the child remains in the child safety seat; and

removing the child from the child safety seat, and concurrently re-attaching the reminder bracelet to the anchor element, so that the reminder bracelet is readily available the next time the child is placed in the child safety seat.