Patent ID: 8317265

Claim:
A car seat for transporting a child on a vehicle seat of an automotive vehicle, said vehicle seat including a vehicle seat belt engagable with said car seat to secure said car seat to the vehicle seat, comprising: a base member having a belt path passing through said base member and being formed with at least one pair of laterally opposing elongated recline slots; and a seat member selectively separable from said base member and being selectively engagable with said base member to provide a seating surface for said child to be transported thereon, said seat member being reversibly mountable on said base member in a selected one of two operable positions, including a forward-facing orientation and a rear-facing orientation, said seat member including at least one pair of latch pins that are engagable into and slidable within corresponding said recline slots so that said seat member is detachably mounted to said base member and movable longitudinally within said corresponding recline slots relative to said base member such that said latch pins secure said seat member to said base member while allowing said seat member to be moved relative to said base member into a selected recline position, said latch pins being operably connected to a central actuator on said seat member to retract opposing latch pins simultaneously from the corresponding said recline slots in the base member into said seat member so that said seat member can be moved relative to said base member between said forward-facing orientation and said rear-facing orientation.