Abstract: A child's safety restraint for use in a motor vehicle includes a retaining member adapted to be held in front of a child on one of the vehicle seats and which is shaped such that in the event of a sudden deceleration of the vehicle, the chest and head of the child will come to rest against a rearmost face of the retaining member. The member has an opening defined within a lower portion thereof through which the child's legs can pass, and has a rigid part on a front face thereof and a resilient squab on the rear face thereof. The rigid part has a progressively reduced thickness as one proceeds in the vertically upward direction, while the resilient part has an increased thickness as one proceeds in the same direction. In this manner, the uppermost portion of the retaining member has an increased squab thickness portion for paticularly protecting the head portion of the child under deceleration conditions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 1975
Date of Patent:
July 5, 1977
Assignee:
Etablissements Bertrand Faure
Inventors:
Christian Thary, Armand R. Bernard, Jean Francois Labadie, Olivier P. De La Taille
Abstract: A cushion includes a squab which is formed from first and second cooperating body parts mated together by a peripheral rim and recess respectively formed in the body parts. A cavity is formed internally of the body parts and a frame member is disposed therein. A channel is also formed within the peripheral rim of the first body part and a resilient wire is disposed therein for holding therein the periphery of a cover of the second part whereby the two parts are held together.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 1975
Date of Patent:
December 7, 1976
Assignee:
Etablissements Bertrand Faure
Inventors:
Olivier P. De La Taille, Jean Francois Labadie, Armand R. Bernard
Abstract: A child's safety chair for vehicles includes a seat member, and a retaining member disposed in front of the seat member, the retaining member having defined within the lower portion thereof a passageway through which the child's legs may pass. The retaining member has a height and width substantially the same as that of the seat member so as to restrain substantially the entire torso of the child under deceleration conditions of the vehicle, and is also separable from the seat member and variably adjustable in its disposition relative thereto whereby different sized children may be accommodated within the safety chair.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 11, 1975
Date of Patent:
June 22, 1976
Assignee:
Etablissements Bertrand Faure
Inventors:
Jean Francois Labadie, Armand R. Bernard, Olivier P. DE LA Taille, Christian Thary