Child's safety restraint for use in a vehicle

Claim 1

A child's safety restraint for use in a motor vehicle comprising: a retaining member adapted to be held in front of a child on one of the vehicle seats and so shaped that in the event of a sudden deceleration of the vehicle, the chest and head of the child will come to rest against a rearmost face of said member, wherein said member includes a lower part within which there is defined an opening through which the legs of the child can pass, and an upper part which includes a rigid part on the front face thereof and a squab on the rearmost face thereof, the upper part of said member having a predetermined thickness profile throughout its height while the rigid part of the retaining member is of progressively reduced thickness from the lowermost portion thereof to the uppermost end thereof, said rigid part having a thickness approximately equal to two-thirds the thickness of said retaining member within the lower, torso-engaging region thereof and approximately equal to one-third of the thickness of said retaining member within the upper head engaging region thereof, and the squab is of increased thickness from the lowermost portion thereof to the uppermost end thereof disposed above and forwardly of said rigid part uppermost end, said squab having a thickness approximately equal to one-third of the thickness of said member within the lower region thereof and approximately equal to two-thirds the thickness of said member within the upper region thereof, said rigid and squab portions of said member therefore having reversely complementary thickened portions so as to define said upper part of said member of said predetermined thickness profile.