Patent ID: 7090294

Claim:
A booster seat kit including components capable of being assembled in the field in a first way to produce a rearwardly facing reclined infant booster seat, a second way to produce a forwardly facing high back juvenile booster seat, and a third way to produce a forwardly facing backless juvenile booster seat, the booster seat kit comprising a tiltable base, adjustable to assume one of a tilted configuration and a leveled configuration, a high back juvenile seat, a juvenile saddle, and a retainer rod, wherein the high back juvenile seat is mounted on the tiltable base in a first position to assume a rearwardly facing orientation upon adjustment of the tiltable base to assume the tilted configuration and retained in that rearwardly facing orientation by coupling the retainer rod to the tiltable base and to the high back juvenile seat while the high back juvenile seat is mounted in the first position on the tiltable base to produce a rearwardly facing reclined infant booster seat, wherein the high back juvenile seat is mounted on the tiltable base in a second position to assume an opposite forwardly facing orientation upon adjustment of the tiltable base to assume the leveled configuration and retained in that forwardly facing orientation by coupling the retainer rod to the tiltable base and to the high back juvenile seat while the high back juvenile seat is mounted in the second position on the tiltable base to produce a forwardly facing high back juvenile booster seat, and wherein the juvenile saddle is mounted on the tiltable base upon adjustment of the tiltable base to assume one of a leveled and tilted configuration and retained thereon by coupling the retainer rod to the tiltable base and to the juvenile saddle while the juvenile saddle is mounted on the tiltable base to produce a forwardly facing backless juvenile booster seat.