Patent ID: 8573693

Claim:
A child restraint comprising a juvenile seat including a hollow seat shell having a seat bottom and a seat back extending upwardly from the seat bottom and cooperating with the seat bottom to define an enclosed interior region of the hollow seat shell and a rigidifying truss located in the enclosed interior region of the hollow seat shell and coupled to the hollow seat shell to lie in a stationary position in the interior region, a headrest mounted for up-and-down movement on the rigidifying truss relative to the seat back, a headrest-height controller arranged to adjust the height of the headrest on the rigidifying truss relative to the seat bottom, wherein the headrest-height controller includes a headrest lock and a headrest-lock release, the headrest lock includes a rod receiver coupled to the rigidifying truss and located in the interior region of the hollow seat shell and a headrest-retainer rod arranged to lie and move in the interior region relative to the rod receiver between a locked position engaging the rod receiver to retain the headrest in a selected position on the rigidifying truss to establish the elevation of the headrest above the seat bottom and an unlocked position disengaging the rod receiver to free the headrest for up-and-down movement relative to the rigidifying truss and the seat back to establish a new elevation of the headrest above the seat bottom, the headrest-lock release is coupled to the headrest to move therewith relative to the rigidifying truss and seat back and mounted for movement on the headrest by a caregiver, the headrest-retainer rod is coupled to the headrest-lock release to move therewith between the locked and unlocked positions in response to movement of the headrest-lock release relative to the headrest by a caregiver, and wherein the rigidifying truss includes a first load-receiver rail, the headrest includes a first load-transfer flange maintained in mating engagement with the first load-receiver rail of the rigidifying truss during up-and-down movement of the headrest on the rigidifying truss.