Patent ID: 7210743

Claim:
A device for facilitating threading of a seat belt through a passageway of a child safety seat, said seat belt including seat belt webbing and a seat belt tongue having a wide tongue portion mounted on said webbing, said device comprising, in combination: an elongated, double-ended threader member; and first connector structure attached to said threader member for releasable connection to the seat belt tongue of the seat belt and defining at least one opening for receiving the wide tongue portion, said elongated, double-ended threader member, when said first connector structure is connected to the seat belt tongue being positioned alongside a portion of said seat belt webbing and operable to resist substantial flexing of said portion of said seat belt webbing adjacent to said first connector structure, said first connector structure including a pair of loop elements formed of flexible, elastic material whereby said pair of loop elements are frictionally engageable with and extend about said wide tongue portion at different locations thereon to maintain said seat belt tongue releasably connected to the device when the device is employed to push the seat belt tongue through the passageway.