Juvenile stroller with removable seat cover

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9956980-B2
Application number	US-201615343409-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2016
Priority date	Nov 4, 2015
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A stroller in accordance with the present disclosure includes a rolling frame and a juvenile seat coupled to the rolling frame. A seat cover is coupled to a seat bottom and back of the juvenile seat.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A juvenile stroller comprising
a mobile cart having a push handle, a juvenile seat mounted on the mobile cart, the juvenile seat including a seat bottom, a seat back arranged to extend upwardly from the seat bottom, an inclined leg support associated with a forward edge of the seat bottom and arranged to extend downwardly toward ground underlying the mobile cart, and a child-restraint harness comprising a crotch belt coupled to the seat bottom and first and second side belts coupled to a backrest of the seat back, and
a removable seat cover comprising a seat-back pad, a leg-support pad, and a seat-bottom pad arranged to interconnect the seat-back and leg-support pads, the seat-back pad includes a backrest adapted to mate with the backrest included in the seat back and several rearwardly facing fasteners configured to mate with companion forwardly facing fasteners coupled to the backrest of the seat back to retain the seat-back pad in a fixed position on the seat back, the leg-support pad includes a leg-rest panel and a rear sheet coupled to the leg-rest panel and arranged to cooperate with an underside of the leg-rest panel to form a pocket for receiving a free end of the inclined leg support to retain the seat-bottom pad on the seat bottom and the leg-support pad on the inclined leg support, wherein the first and second side belts pass through belt-receiving apertures formed in the backrest of the seat back and the backrest of the seat pad and engage the crotch belt to restrain a child seat in the juvenile seat, a lower end of each of the first and second side belts is coupled directly to a forwardly facing surface of the backrest of the seat back, in an anchored position, only an upper end of each of the first and second side belts extends within a companion belt-receiving aperture formed in the backrest of the seat pad and the backrest of the seat back so that a backrest-anchor plate included in a free end of each of the first and second side belts engages a rearwardly facing surface of the backrest of the seat back to anchor those free ends to the seat back.

2. The juvenile stroller of claim 1 , wherein a process for removing the removable seat cover from the juvenile seat so that the removable seat cover can be separated from the juvenile seat by a caregiver for cleaning comprises of steps of disengaging the first and second side belts from the crotch belt, separating the crotch belt from the seat-bottom pad, separating each of the first and second side belts first from the backrest of the seat back and then from the backrest of the seat pad, forwardly moving the backrest of the seat pad away from the backrest of the seat back to unmate the rearwardly facing fasteners on the backrest of the seat pad from the forwardly facing fasteners on the backrest of the seat back, and upwardly moving the leg-support pad relative to the inclined leg support to remove the inclined leg support from the upwardly opening pocket formed in the leg-support pad.

3. The juvenile stroller of claim 2 , wherein the crotch belt is separated from the seat-bottom pad by passing an upper free end of the crotch belt downwardly through a belt-receiving aperture formed in the seat-bottom pad while a lower end of the crotch belt remains coupled to the seat bottom.

4. The juvenile stroller of claim 3 , wherein each of the first and second side belts is separated from the backrest of the seat back by passing a companion backrest-anchor plate first in a forward direction through a companion belt-receiving aperture formed in the backrest of the seat back and then in a forward direction through a companion belt-receiving aperture formed in the backrest of the seat pad.

5. The juvenile stroller of claim 2 , wherein each of the first and second side belts is separated from the backrest of the seat back by passing a companion backrest-anchor plate first in a forward direction through a companion belt-receiving aperture formed in the backrest of the seat back and then in a forward direction through a companion belt-receiving aperture formed in the backrest of the seat pad.

Assignees

• Dorel Juvenile Group Inc

Inventors

• Nygren Kurt
• Langley Joseph D
• Bezaniuk Walter S

Classifications

• B62B9/24

  Safety guards for children, e.g. harness (cat nets B62B9/14; devices for use in guiding or supporting children, e.g. safety harness A47D13/08) · CPC title

• B62B9/12 Primary

  involving parts that are adjustable, attachable or detachable {(B62B9/102, B62B9/14 take precedence)} · CPC title

• B62B9/108 Primary

  Linings or cushions · CPC title

• B62B7/062

  Coupling unit between front wheels, rear wheels and handle · CPC title

• B62B7/08

  in the direction of, or at right angles to, the wheel axis · CPC title