Patent ID: 8544941

Claim:
A rolling car seat, comprises: a car seat having a back portion having upper and lower ends and a seat portion extending forwardly from said back portion lower end, said back portion and seat portion configured to receive an infant in a sitting position; wherein said back portion includes a rear surface; a handle assembly operatively coupled to said back portion and selectively movable between a retracted configuration not extending above said back portion upper end and an extended configuration extending above said back portion upper end; a wheel assembly having a pair of spaced apart wheels operatively coupled to said back portion and selectively movable between a withdrawn configuration adjacent said back portion rear surface and a deployed configuration displaced from said back portion rear surface; wherein: said back portion defines a recessed area, said wheel assembly being substantially inside said recessed area at said withdrawn configuration and being substantially outside said recessed area at said deployed configuration; said back portion defines opposed handle channels extending substantially between said back portion upper end and said back portion lower end, each handle channels being configured to slidably receive said handle assembly; said handle assembly includes: a plurality of handle members having a telescopic configuration so as to move between said retracted and said extended configurations; and a handle bar extending between upper ends of respective handle member by which said plurality of handle members are selectively urged by a user between said retracted and said extended configurations; said wheel assembly includes a mounting member pivotally coupled to said back portion of said car seat and operatively coupled to a respective wheel of said pair of wheels so as to operatively connect said pair of wheels to said car seat; and a pivotal movement of said mounting member selectively causes said pair of wheels to move between said withdrawn and said deployed configurations; said back portion of said car seat defines an interlink channel that communicates said recessed area with a respective handle channel, said interlink channel having upper and lower ends; said mounting member includes a retraction pin extending away from an outer surface thereof, said retraction pin configured to extend through said interlink channel into said handle channel; said retraction member being urged toward said interlink channel upper end when said mounting member is pivoted to move said pair of wheels to said deployed configuration; and said retraction member being urged toward said interlink channel lower end when said mounting member is pivoted to move said pair of wheels to said withdrawn configuration.