Patent Application
20210061143
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The disclosure and prior art relates to seat assemblies and more particularly pertains to a new seat assembly for being positioned on a vehicle seat or being rolled along a support surface.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a seat base that is positionable on a vehicle seat. The seat base has a plurality of wheel wells therein. A car seat is provided that has a child seated therein. The car seat is positionable in a seated position or a rolling position. A plurality of rollers is each rotatably coupled to the car seat. Each of the rollers is positioned in a respective one of the wheel wells in the seat base when the car seat is positioned in the seated position. Each of the rollers rolls along a support surface when the car seat is positioned in the rolling position to transport the child without requiring the child to be carried. and A handle is slidably coupled to the car seat for gripping to roll the car seat.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The plurality of wheel wells 20 includes a set of front wheel wells 15 and a set of rear wheel wells 17. The rear wheel wells 17 has a lower bounding surface 19 and the lower bounding surface 19 of each of the rear wheel wells 17 is concavely arcuate with respect to the top side 16 of the seat base 12. Each of the rear wheel wells 17 may be aligned with a respective one of a first lateral side 21 and a second lateral side 23 of the seat base 12. Each of the front wheel wells 15 has a lower bounding surface 25 and the lower bounding surface 25 of each of the front wheel wells 15 is curved such that each of the front wheel wells 15 has a half moon shape.
A car seat 22 is provided and a child can be seated in the car seat 22. The car seat 22 is positionable in a seated position having the car seat 22 being removably positioned on the seat base 12. In this way the car seat 22 is secured to the vehicle seat 14. The car seat 22 is positionable in a rolling position having the car seat 22 being removed from the seat base 12. The car seat 22 has seat portion 24 and a backrest portion 26. The seat portion 24 has a bottom surface 28 and the backrest portion 26 has an upper edge 30. Additionally, the car seat 22 may be a car seat 22 of any conventional design that is designed to be used with a removable seat base 12.
A plurality of rollers 32 is provided and each of the rollers 32 is rotatably coupled to the car seat 22. Each of the rollers 32 is positioned in a respective one of the wheel wells 20 in the seat base 12 when the car seat 22 is positioned in the seated position. Additionally, each of the rollers 32 rolls along a support surface when the car seat 22 is positioned in the rolling position. In this way the car seat 22 can transport the child without requiring the child to be carried. Each of the rollers 32 is positioned on the bottom surface 28 of the seat portion 24 of the car seat 22 and each of the rollers 32 is aligned with a respective one of four corners of the seat portion 24. Each of the rollers 32 may comprise, but not be limited to, a caster, a wheel or any other type of roller commonly associated with strollers. Additionally, each of the rollers 32 may have a maximum diameter of 3.0 inches to facilitate the wheel wells 20 in the seat base 12 to accommodate the rollers 32.
A handle 36 is slidably coupled to the car seat 22. The handle 36 is positionable in a deployed position when the car seat 22 is positioned in the rolling position. In this way the handle 36 can be gripped for rolling the car seat 22. The handle 36 is positionable in a stored position when the car seat 22 is positioned in the seated position. The handle 36 comprises a central member 38 that extends between a pair of outward members 40. Each of the outward members 40 is slidably positioned in the backrest portion 26 of the car seat 22 having the central member 38 being spaced from the upper edge 30 of the backrest portion 26. Each of the outward members 40 comprises a plurality of slidable sections 42 such that each of the outward members 40 has a telescopically adjustable length.
In use, the car seat 22 is positioned in the seat base 12 and the handle 36 is positioned in the stored position. In this way the child can be seated in the car seat 22 for travelling in the vehicle. The car seat 22 is removed from the seat base 12, the car seat 22 is placed on the ground and the handle 36 is positioned in the deployed position. In this way the car seat 22 can transport the child in the convention of a stroller. Moreover, the child can be transported without requiring a caregiver to carry the child or the car seat 22.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
