Century Products Company

Michael P Green

Daniel P Sumser

MaryAnn Celestina-Krevh

William T Ward, Jr

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.

Child's car seat with improved rotatable overhead shield

A modular wheel assembly for use with apparatus having a weight-bearing frame, such as a baby stroller, includes a mounting unit consisting of a cylindrical tubular member having an open upper end and a closed lower end wall. The tubular member is dimensioned to receive the lower end of a tubular frame member of the apparatus. A wheel supporting unit includes a cylindrical sleeve portion dimensioned to receive the tubular member of the mounting unit in close tolerance, freely rotating fashion. The sleeve portion and mounting unit are dimensioned so that the weight supported by the frame member is transferred through the bearing flange of the mounting unit to the cylindrical sleeve portion of the wheel supporting unit. An axle tube extends perpendicularly through lower end portions of the web members to be supported thereby. The axle tube is adapted to receive an axle therethrough, with a pair of wheels secured to opposed ends of the axle. A fastener comprised of a disc and a barb-like fastener extending coaxially therefrom is dimensioned to extend compressively through a hole in the lower end wall of the mounting unit, and to expand therein and be retained in a snap-engagement.

Snap-on swivel wheel assembly

An adjustable height mechanism for use in devices employing a collapsible scissors frame supporting an object is disclosed having a pair of pawls secured to the sliding leg of the scissors frame and slidably mounted onto a pair of guide rails. A central channel is positioned between the guide rails and receives a guide member extending from the leg to provide additional tracking and lateral stability during movement of the leg. A pair of spring biased, pivoting ratchet arms are mounted to the supported object and include a series of ratchet stops and a finger grip. The ratchet arms engage the pawls to restrict movement of the leg of the scissors frame in one direction while allowing ratcheting free movement in the opposite direction. The finger grips can be used by the user to squeeze the free ends of the arms together and release the ratcheting engagement with the pawls to provide height adjustment of the object supported by the scissors frame.

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Youngstown, OH, United States of America

Michael P Green