Patent ID: 8752895

Claim:
A child restraint comprising a juvenile seat including a seat bottom and a seat back extending upwardly from the seat bottom, the seat bottom including a seat pan having a rearward edge located near to the seat back and an opposite forward edge located away from the seat back and a seat skirt appended to the seat pan and arranged to cooperate with the seat pan to define a controller space located under the seat pan, the seat pan being formed to include a crotch-belt slot arranged to open into the controller space and to extend in a direction away from the rearward edge of the seat pan and the seat back and toward the opposite forward edge of the seat pan, a child-restraint harness including a shoulder belt arranged to extend upwardly along a rear surface of the seat back, through a belt-travel channel formed in the seat back, a crotch belt arranged to extend upwardly through the crotch-belt slot, and a shoulder-belt retainer coupled to the crotch belt to move therewith, the shoulder-belt retainer being separated from the shoulder belt when the child-restraint harness is configured in an inactive state and coupled to the shoulder belt to interconnect the shoulder belt and the crotch belt when the child-restraint harness is configured in an active state, and a crotch-belt controller located in the controller space under the seat pan and configured to provide position-variation means for allowing movement of the crotch belt in the crotch-belt slot toward and away from the seat back while the child-restraint harness is configured to assume the inactive state between a first position adapted for use with a small child and located a first distance from the seat back and located a first depth below the seat pan and a second position adapted for use by a larger child and located a larger second distance from the seat back and located a smaller second depth below the seat pan, which second depth is different from the first depth, and for anchoring the crotch belt in one of the first and the second positions at the option of a caregiver before the shoulder-belt retainer coupled to the crotch belt is coupled to the shoulder belt to establish the active state of the child-restraint harness so that spacing between the crotch belt and the seat back in the active state of the child-restraint harness is matched to the size of a child seated on the seat pan.