Patent ID: 8657326

Claim:
A child transporter comprising a convertible child carrier comprising a basket including a shape-changeable bottom panel, a side barrier including a top rim arranged to lie above the shape-changeable bottom panel, a side wall made of a pliable material and coupled to each of the top rim and the shape-changeable bottom panel to form an interior child-receiving region sized to receive a child to be transported, a web coupled to the top rim and arranged to extend downwardly into the interior child-receiving region, and bottom-panel shape changer means located in the interior child-receiving region and coupled to the web and to a lower portion of the side wall alongside the shape-changeable bottom panel for reconfiguring the shape of the side wall of the side barrier to cause the shape of the shape-changeable bottom panel to change from a substantially flat shape associated with a bassinet mode of the child carrier and an expanded shape of the side wall to a folded shape associated with a seat mode of the child carrier and a collapsed shape of the side wall.