Convertible baby safety car seat assembly
A convertible baby safety car seat assembly comprising an upper seat manipulable between an upright state and an extended state, and legs having distal ends with wheels and manipulable between a storage state which is combinable only with the upright state of the upper seat in a first mode of the seat assembly, and an operational state allowing the seat assembly to be rolled by means of said wheels; the extended state of the upper seat being combinable only with the operational state of the legs in a second mode of the seat assembly, whilst the operational state of the legs and the upright state of the upper seat being also combinable at least with each other. Alternatively, or in addition, the convertible baby safety car seat assembly can further comprise at least one of the following features: seat and legs manipulation mechanism actuatable at locations spaced from each other along the length of the seat; side protection module detachably attachable to a handle of the seat assembly; a zipper arrangement for detachably connecting a cover of the seat and a canopy and comprising a canopy zipper and a cover zipper. The wheels can be detachably attachable to corresponding distal ends of the legs.
1 . A convertible baby safety car seat assembly, comprising:
an upper seat having a backrest portion and a feet portion, the upper seat being manipulable between an upright state and an extended state, the backrest and feet portions forming a first angle therebetween in the upright state of the upper seat, the backrest and feet portions forming a second angle therebetween in said extended state of the upper seat, the second angle being greater than the first angle; and
legs having distal ends with wheels and being manipulable between a storage state and an operational state, the car seat with the legs in the storage state being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein; the car assembly with the legs in the operational state being rollable on said wheels; the storage state of the legs being combinable only with the upright state of the upper seat in a first mode of the seat assembly, the extended state of the upper seat being combinable only with the operational state of the legs in a second mode of the seat assembly, while the operational state of the legs and the upright state of the upper seat being also combinable at least with each other.
2 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the operational state of the legs is combinable with the upright state of the upper seat in a third mode of the seat assembly, and the seat assembly can be brought into its first and second modes only from its third mode.
3 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 1 , operative to have at least one of the following features:
manipulation of the legs in the second mode of the seat assembly is prevented at least indirectly by the upper seat being in the extended state; or
manipulation of the upper seat in the first mode of the seat assembly is prevented at least indirectly by the legs being in the storage state.
4 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one of the following manipulation prevention arrangements:
a seat manipulation prevention arrangement operative to prevent manipulation of the upper seat from the upright state to the extended state at least when the legs are in the storage state; or
a leg manipulation prevention arrangement operative to prevent manipulation of the legs from the operational state to the storage state at least when the upper seat is in the extended state.
5 . A convertible baby safety car seat assembly, comprising:
an upper seat having a backrest portion and a feet portion;
a seat manipulation mechanism operable to manipulate the upper seat between an upright state and an extended state, the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a first angle therebetween in said upright state of the upper seat, the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a second angle therebetween in said extended state of the upper seat, the second angle being greater than the first angle;
legs having distal ends associated with wheels and operative to be manipulated between a storage state and an operational state, the car seat assembly with the legs in said storage state being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein, the car seat assembly with the legs in the operational state being rollable on said wheels; and
a seat manipulation prevention arrangement operative to prevent manipulation of the upper seat from the upright state to the extended state at least when the legs are in the storage state, said seat manipulation prevention arrangement comprising a seat trigger member and a seat arresting member, wherein the seat trigger member is operative to operate the seat arresting member upon being triggered by the legs, when the legs are in the operational state thereof.
6 . A convertible baby safety car seat assembly comprising:
a lower support having front and rear portions and a reference plane horizontally passing through a lowermost area of the lower support;
an upper seat articulably connected to said lower support and having a backrest portion articulated to the rear articulation portion of the lower support and a feet portion articulated to the front articulation portion of the lower support;
legs having wheels, the legs being manipulable between a storage state and an operational state, in said storage state at least the wheels being located above the reference plane and the assembly being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein, and in said operational state at least the wheels being located below the reference plane so as to enable the seat assembly to be rolled on of said wheels;
a leg manipulation mechanism operable to manipulate the legs between the storage state and the operational state;
a seat manipulation mechanism operable to manipulate the upper seat including articulation of the backrest and the feet portion with respect tot eh respective rear and front articulation portions of the lower support, between an upright state and an extended state, in said upright state of the upper seat the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a first angle therebetween, and in said extended state of the upper seat the backrest portion and the feet portion forming a second angle therebetween, the second angle being larger than the first angle;
a seat manipulation actuator configured to enable a user to manipulate the seat manipulation mechanism and at least one leg manipulation actuator configured to enable a user to manipulate the leg manipulation mechanism, wherein the seat manipulation actuator and the at least one leg manipulation actuator being positioned one at a location associated with the front articulation portion of the lower support and the other one at a location rearwardly spaced from the front articulation portion of the lower support.
7 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 6 , wherein the seat manipulation actuator is positioned at the front articulation portion of the lower support.
8 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 6 , wherein the storage state of the legs is combinable only with the upright state of the upper seat, defining a first mode of the seat assembly; the extended state of the upper seat is combinable only with the operational state of the legs, defining a second mode of the seat assembly; and the operational state of the legs and the upright state of the upper seat are also combinable at least with each other, defining a third mode of the seat assembly.
9 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 8 , configured to have at least one of the following features:
manipulation of the legs in the second mode of the seat assembly is prevented at least indirectly by the upper seat being in the extended state; or
manipulation of the upper seat in the first mode of the seat assembly is prevented at least indirectly by the legs being in the storage state.
10 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 6 , further comprising at least one of the following:
a leg manipulation prevention arrangement configured to prevent manipulation of the legs from the operational state to the storage state at least when the upper seat is in the extended state; or
a seat manipulation prevention arrangement configured to prevent manipulation of the upper seat from the upright state to the extended state at least when the legs are in the storage state.
11 . A convertible baby safety car seat assembly suitable for securing an infant therein, and having a first, storage mode and a second, operational mode, in the first, storage mode the assembly being suitable for being mountable in a car at a position suitable for securing an infant therein, and in the second, operational mode the assembly being rollable along an external supporting surface, the assembly when in the storage mode and positioned on an external supporting surface being rockable thereon between a neutral position and at least one of front and rear inclined positions, the assembly comprising:
one or more lowermost areas that are operable to contact the external supporting surface in the neutral position;
at least one of front and rear areas that is operable to contact the external supporting surface when in said corresponding at least one of front and rear inclined positions;
a horizontal reference plane including the one or more lowermost areas of the assembly when in the neutral position and imaginarily representing said external supporting surface; a lower support having front and rear portions and a seat lowermost area closest to the horizontal reference plane when the assembly is in the neutral position;
an upper seat connected to said lower support and having a backrest portion associated with the rear portion of the lower support and a feet portion associated with the front portion of the lower support;
legs connected to the lower support at their proximal ends and having distal ends with wheels fixed thereto at least in the operational mode, the legs being manipulable between a storage state associated at least with the storage mode of the assembly and an operational state associated at least with the operational mode of the assembly, in the storage state of the legs at least a part of each leg with the wheel being located above the reference plane, and the operational state of the legs at least said part of each leg with the wheel being located below the reference plane so as to enable the seat assembly to be rolled on said wheels; the legs constituting a pair of rear legs and a pair of front legs,
the legs of at least one of the pairs having a curved shape such that, when in the storage state, the legs of the at least one pair have a first area that is positioned above the reference plane in the neutral position, at least one second area constituting said at least one of front and rear areas, and at least one third area spaced from the first and the second area, at least the second area having a rocking-participating portion made of a material other than that of the at least one third area, said material being such as to improve at least one rocking quality compared with that which said rocking-participating portion would have if it were made of the material from which the third area is made.
12 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 11 , wherein said rocking quality is at least one of the following:
a higher friction ability such that the rocking-participating portion constitutes a friction increasing portion; or
softness such that the rocking participating portion constitutes a soft-contact portion.
13 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 11 , wherein at least one of the lower support and the legs comprises at least one other area spaced from the one or more lowermost areas and the at least one second area, wherein at least one of the one or more lowermost areas comprises a friction-increasing portion made of a material having higher friction ability than that of the at least one other area.
14 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 11 , wherein the wheels of the legs of said at least one pair of legs, when connected to the legs, constitute stoppers for restricting the rocking of the assembly in said at least one of front and rear inclined positions.
15 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 11 , wherein each leg having the rocking-participating portion is made of a first material and said rocking participating portion is made of a second material other than the first material; and wherein said rocking participating portion is in the form of a liner attached to the corresponding leg at a surface thereof facing the reference plane.
16 . A baby seat comprising at least in use:
a shell made of a plastic material and having an external side facing an exterior and an internal side at which a fabric cover of the seat can be attached to the shell, the shell having a back wall and two sidewalls, each having corresponding inner and outer surfaces merging at respective upper edges, the upper edges of the back wall and sidewalls merging continuously and constituting a shell upper edge, the fabric cover for covering at least the internal side of the shell when the fabric cover is detachably connected thereto;
a canopy; and
a zipper arrangement for detachably connecting the cover and the canopy to the shell adjacent the shell upper edge, the zipper arrangement comprising a canopy zipper and a cover zipper, each of the zippers being of a separating type and comprising a zipper box and a zipper pin and having
a shell zipper half with one of the zipper box and the zipper pin, sewn to the shell adjacent to the shell upper edge, at the outer surfaces of the back wall and the sidewalls at least along portions thereof adjacent to the back wall, and
a matching zipper half with the other of the zipper box and the zipper pin, the matching zipper half of the cover zipper being sewn to said cover and the matching zipper half of the canopy zipper being sewn to said canopy.
17 . The baby seat according to claim 16 , wherein the shell zipper half of each of the zippers has a base portion at which the shell zipper half is sewn to the shell and a flapping portion with zipper teeth, and both shell zipper halves of the two zippers are sewn to the shell at the base portions of the shell zipper halves so that the flapping portions of the shell zipper halves can be manipulated separately and independently from each other when engaging the corresponding matching halves of the zippers.
18 . The baby seat according to claim 16 , wherein when both the cover and the canopy are zipped to the shell, the canopy zipper overlies the cover zipper along the length of the canopy zipper.
19 . The baby seat according to claim 16 , wherein the zipper boxes of the shell halves of the two zippers are located at or adjacent different side walls of the shell, enabling the cover zipper to be fastened in a direction opposite to that of the canopy zipper.
20 . The baby seat according to claim 16 , wherein both of the shell zipper halves are sewn to the shell together by at least one common sewing seam.
21 . The baby seat according to claim 16 , wherein the zipper box is located on the shell zipper half and the zipper pin is located on the matching zipper half.
22 . A convertible baby safety car seat assembly, comprising:
a lower support having front and rear portions and a reference plane horizontally passing through a lowermost area of the lower support;
an upper seat connected to said lower support and having a backrest portion associated with the rear portion of the lower support and a feet portion associated with the front portion of the lower support;
legs having wheels, the legs being manipulable between a storage state and an operational state, in said storage state of the legs at least the wheels being located above the reference plane and the assembly being suitable for being positioned in a car or on a supporting surface at a position suitable for securing an infant therein; in said operational state, at least the wheels are located below the reference plane so as to enable the seat assembly to be rolled on said wheels; the legs constituting a pair of rear legs associated with rear wheels, and a pair of front legs associated with front wheels, the front wheels protruding sidewards from the lower support in the storage state thereof, to a greater extent than the rear wheels at least in the rear view of the assembly; said front legs being pivotable for being manipulated from the operational state to the storage state such that in the storage state said front wheels are positioned closer to the backrest portion than the feet portion;
wherein at least the front wheels are connected to the front legs by a quick-release mechanism and are removable from the front legs in a wheel-removal direction extending sidewards with respect to the lower support;
wherein each of said front wheels comprises a leg-connection element extending along the wheel-removal direction when the wheel is connected to the corresponding front leg, and each of the front legs comprises a wheel-connection element extending along said wheel-removal direction, said leg-connection element and said wheel-connection element being detachably connectable to each other allowing rotation of the wheel together with the leg-connection element with respect to the wheel-connection element about a wheel-rotation axis parallel to the wheel-removal direction, said leg-connection element and said wheel-connection element at least partially constituting the quick release mechanism.
23 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 22 , wherein each of the front wheels comprises a rolling area configured to come into contact with a supporting surface when the assembly is rolled thereon by means of the wheels, and a remaining area configured to be free of contact with the supporting surface when the assembly is rolled thereon, each of said front wheels comprising a wheel holding portion positioned at said remaining area suitable for being held by a user at least for removing the wheel from the corresponding front leg.
24 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 22 , wherein the quick-release mechanism further comprises a release actuator for actuating a release of the leg-connection element from the wheel-connection element.
25 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 24 , wherein the release actuator is positioned at one of the front wheel and the corresponding front leg.
26 . The convertible baby safety car seat assembly according to claim 22 , wherein the rear wheels are connected to the rear legs by a quick-release mechanism.