Patent ID: 8272690
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: B60N

Abstract:
1. A child restraint comprising: a seat shell including a base providing a seat bottom and a backrest extending upwardly from the base; a headrest mounted for up-and-down movement on the backrest; a headrest-height controller arranged to adjust the height of the headrest above the seat bottom, the headrest-height controller includes a headrest lock and a headrest-lock release, wherein the headrest lock includes an anchor receiver coupled to the backrest and formed to include a series of anchor holders, each anchor holder being located at a different elevation above the seat bottom, and a headrest anchor arranged to move relative to the anchor receiver between a locked position engaging a selected first of the anchor holders of the anchor receiver to retain the headrest in a selected fixed position on the backrest to establish the elevation of the headrest above the seat bottom and an unlocked position disengaging anchor holders included in the anchor receiver to free the headrest for up-and-down movement relative to the backrest to assume a different selected fixed position on the backrest associated with a selected second of the anchor holders to establish a new elevation of the headrest above the seat bottom, and wherein the headrest-lock release includes a first release lever mounted for pivotable movement on the headrest about a pivot axis to move the headrest anchor relative to the anchor receiver from the locked position to the unlocked position; wherein the headrest anchor includes a movable headrest-retainer rod, the backrest includes a forward-facing surface arranged to face in a first direction toward a juvenile seated on the seat bottom and a rearward-facing surface arranged to face in an opposite second direction away from a juvenile seated on the seat bottom, the anchor receiver is coupled to the rearward-facing surface of the backrest and formed to include a series of rod-receiving notches providing the anchor holders and sized to receive the movable headrest-retainer rod therein to establish the elevation of the headrest on the backrest relative to the seat bottom, and the first release lever includes a handgrip positioned to lie in spaced-apart relation to the forward-facing surface of the backrest to locate the backrest between the handgrip and the movable headrest-retainer rod and configured to be gripped by a user pivoting the first release lever about the pivot axis; wherein the first release lever includes a pivot mount intersecting the pivot axis, a rod mover extending downwardly from the pivot mount in a direction toward the seat base to engage the movable headrest-retainer rod, and a mover actuator extending upwardly from the pivot mount in a direction away from the seat base and including the handgrip; and wherein the backrest is formed to include a mover-receiving slot having openings in the forward-facing and rearward-facing surfaces of the backrest, and the rod mover of the first release lever extends through the mover-receiving slot to engage the movable headrest-retainer rod and lies in the mover-receiving slot during up-and-down movement of the headrest relative to the backrest.