Patent ID: 7303230

Claim:
A juvenile vehicle seat comprising a seat base including a seat bottom, a first backrest support arranged to extend upwardly away from the seat bottom and formed to include a first-retainer pass-through slot, and a second backrest support arranged to lie in spaced-apart relation to the first backrest support to extend upwardly from the seat bottom and formed to include a second-retainer pass-through slot, and a backrest including a seat back positionable between the slots, a first keeper coupled to the seat back and configured to extend through the first-retainer pass-through slot formed in the first backrest support, and a second keeper coupled to the seat back and configured to extend through the second-retainer pass-through slot, the first keeper including a first back retainer associated with the first-retainer pass-through slot, the second keeper including a second back retainer associated with the second-retainer pass-through slot, the first and second back retainers being positioned for linear and pivotal movement relative to the seat base between a mated position mating with a portion of the seat base to block removal of the first keeper from the first-retainer pass-through slot and to block removal of the second keeper from the second-retainer pass-through slot so as to block separation of the backrest from the seat base and an unmated position unmating from the portion of the seat base to allow removal of the first keeper from the first-retainer pass-through slot and removal of the second keeper from the second-retainer pass-through slot so as to permit separation of the backrest from the seat base.