Patent ID: 8151383

Claim:
A juvenile bathing unit comprising a baby bath seat and a seat mounting bracket coupled to the baby bath seat and configured to include anchor means for gripping a rim of a bath tub to retain the baby bath seat in an interior bathing region formed in the bath tub, the anchor means including a rim clamp including a bridge adapted to overlie a top wall of a rim of the bath tub, an inner clamp plate associated with the bridge and adapted to engage an inner wall of a bath tub, an outer clamp plate mounted for movement on the bridge for movement toward and away from the inner clamp plate to engage an outer wall of a bath tub, and a plate mover configured to move the inner and outer clamp plates relative to one another to apply a clamping force to a rim of a bath tub located between the inner and outer clamp plates, and wherein the anchor means further includes a suction cup coupled to an underside of the bridge and configured to provide vacuum means for releasably mating with the top wall of the rim of the bath tub when the inner and outer clamp plates are moved to engage inner and outer walls of the bath tub to resist upward movement of the seat mounting bracket away from the rim of the bath tub so that the baby bath seat is retained in a stationary position on a floor of the bath tub while the seat mounting bracket is retained on the rim of the bath tub, wherein the suction cup includes a vacuum-grip dome made of a pliable material and a dome mount coupled to the vacuum-grip dome and to the bridge of the rim clamp and the vacuum-grip dome is deformable to mate with the top wall of the rim of the bath tub and establish a vacuum in a hollow space formed between the vacuum-grip dome and the top wall of the rim of the bath tub, and wherein the bridge is formed to include a post receiver and a tab receiver and the dome mount includes an upstanding post coupled to the vacuum-grip dome and arranged to extend into the post receiver and an anti-rotation tab coupled to the upstanding post and arranged to extend into the tab receiver to block rotation of the vacuum-grip dome about an axis intersecting the bridge.