Patent ID: 7735921

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 upper recline slots, said base member also being formed with a recline control rack having a plurality of transversely oriented notches therein, said base member further being formed with at least one latch hole adjacent one of said 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 retractable 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 relative to said base member, said seat member including a recline latch mechanism having a recline latch bar that is engagable with said recline control rack to restrain said seat member in a selected one of recline positions corresponding to said transverse notches, a corresponding one of said latch pins on said seat member being engagable with said at least one latch hole to prevent recline movement of said seat member relative said base member when said seat member is placed into said rear-facing orientation.