Patent ID: 8398096

Claim:
A pushing vehicle for transporting at least one child, including: a wheeled chassis including a chassis frame and a plurality of wheels that are rotatably mounted relative to the chassis frame to support the chassis frame above a ground surface and which enable the chassis frame to be moved along the ground surface; a passenger support for supporting a child; and a braking system including at least one braking actuator carried by the passenger support, and wherein at least one braking member is carried by the chassis frame, with the at least one braking member being selectively engageable to brake at least one of the plurality of wheels, wherein the passenger support is attachable to the chassis frame in a mounting position by a single tool-less attachment mechanism for attaching an underside of the passenger support to the chassis frame, to support the passenger support generally above the wheeled chassis, wherein when the passenger support is attached to the chassis frame, the at least one braking actuator carried by the passenger support is coupled with the at least one braking member carried by the chassis frame, so that operation of the braking actuator will cause the at least one braking member to at least partially brake at least one of the plurality of wheels, and wherein when the passenger support is detached from the chassis frame, the braking actuator carried by the passenger support and the at least one braking member carried by the chassis frame automatically decouple, and when the passenger support is attached to the chassis frame, the braking actuator carried by the passenger support and the at least one braking member carried by the chassis frame automatically couple, so that the braking system needs no interaction from a user to separate the braking actuator and the at least one braking member of the braking system.