Century Products Company

Graco Children's Products, Inc.

MaryAnn Celestina-Krevh

Michael P Green

William T Ward, Jr

An adjustable and removable head support for an infant and a toddler has an upper body portion with a pair of flanking pillow sections, a pair of harness belt apertures below the head pillow portions, a central portion with a plurality of fold lines and a lower portion with a pair of flanking leg pillow sections. The upper pillow sections are attached to the body portion by flexible securing straps provided at the top and bottom of each section. The lateral separation between the pillow head sections is adjusted by folding the pillow section about the upper and lower securing straps to either move the material inwardly or outwardly. The harness belt apertures are closed at the outboard edges thereof by means of suitable fasteners which can be disconnected to remove the support from the car seat.

Removable/adjustable head support

A car seat safety belt system used with a car seat for an infant or toddler has an adjustable shield for permitting adjustable placement of the shield relative to a buckle tongue secured to the seat belts. The ends of the upper seat belts attached to the tongue are captured in a buckle tongue housing having an elongated aperture on the outer surface. Mounted within the aperture is an adjustment mechanism having a button portion and a pair of oppositely extending tab portions engageable with individual pairs of a plurality of stop channels arranged along the direction of the elongated aperture. The tongue buckle housing assembly is movably received within a second housing having openings at opposite ends for the buckle tongue and the seat belts, as well as an opening in the outer surface in which the button portion is engaged. A cover member is molded about the second housing, the cover member having openings for accommodating the buckle tongue and the seat belts, as well as an opening for the button portion. The position of the shield relative to the buckle tongue and belts is adjusted by depressing the button portion and sliding the second housing and cover along the long axis of the first housing.

Adjustable shield for infant car seat safety belts

An overhead safety shield for an infant's car seat is rotatably coupled to the arms connecting the shield to the sides of the car seat. A detent mechanism provides positive locking engagement for the shield relative to the arms so that the shield can be fixed at one of several different angular positions about the pivot axis. The attitude of the shield can be set at the most convenient position for the occupant of the seat.

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Euclid, OH, United States of America

MaryAnn Celestina-Krevh