Patent ID: 8777322

Claim:
A child restraint comprising a juvenile seat including a seat bottom, a seat back extending upwardly from the seat bottom, a movable headrest mounted for up-and-down movement on the seat back relative to the seat bottom, and a headrest lock including a headrest-retainer rod arranged to move relative to the seat back between a locked position in which the movable headrest is retained in a selected position on the seat back above the seat bottom and an unlocked position in which the movable headrest is freed to move up-and-down relative to the seat back to assume a different selected fixed position on the seat back, a child-restraint harness including a shoulder belt arranged to extend upwardly along a back surface of the seat back over the headrest-retainer rod, through a belt-travel channel formed in the seat back, and through a belt-receiving aperture formed in a front surface of the movable headrest, and a shoulder-belt cover coupled to the headrest-retainer rod to move therewith and to the shoulder belt to allow the shoulder belt to move relative to the shoulder-belt cover, wherein the shoulder-belt cover includes a belt receiver including a belt-support foundation and a belt-travel guide, the belt-support foundation includes a mount end positioned to lie between the front surface of the movable headrest and the back surface of the seat back and an opposite free end positioned to lie in spaced-apart relation to the front surface of the movable headrest, the belt-travel guide is coupled to the belt-support foundation between the front surface of the movable headrest and the opposite free end of the belt-support foundation, a receiver anchor coupled to the headrest-retainer rod to extend away from the headrest-retainer rod toward the front surface of the movable headrest to couple to the belt-support foundation, and a friction pad configured to provide means for engaging an upper torso of an occupant seated and restrained in the juvenile seat by the child-restraint harness to cause movement of the upper torso of the occupant to be minimized relative to the seat back during application of an external force to the juvenile seat so that force transferred to a head of the occupant is minimized.