Padded infant seat liner

Claim 1

A padded liner, for use in an infant safety automobile seat of the type having a shell-like chair with a high-back portion, attached to a support frame and adapted to be fastened in use position by the automobile lap belt retainably strapped to the frame, comprising: a plurality of cushions sewn together to form a substantially self-supporting unit, including a vertically-elongated first backing cushion, a comparatively small and generally rectilinear second cushion having a rearward edge sewn to the lower edge of the first cushion, a pair of vertically-extending spaced-apart side cushions each having a rearward edge joined to a vertically-oriented edge of the first backing cushion; each of the side cushions having a cross-sectional thickness substantially greater than the thickness of the first and second cushions, and the upper edge of the side cushions being on a level above the horizontal midline of the first backing cushion; the thickness of the padding in each side cushion adjacent its jointure to the second cushion being substantially greater than the padding thickness at its upper end and of such thickness that placing a child, of sufficient size to fully cover the second cushion, in seated position on the second cushion will cause the padding in the lower ends of the side cushions to compressibly upwardly displace; and the liner being in the form of a fanciful figure wherein the first cushion constitutes a torso and head, and each side cushion constitutes an arm and leg portion of the figure.

Claim 8

A method of constructing an infant's seat liner comprising the steps of: (1) forming an elongated back cushion with a generally uniform interior cushion fill; (2) forming a generally rectilinear bottom cushion with cushioning fill of substantially the same thickness as the back cushion; (3) forming a pair of side cushions each with substantially greater cushioning fill than the back and bottom cushions, distributing the fill thickly at one end of each side cushion and reducing it to a lesser thickness at its other end; (4) joining the cushions by selected edges to form the liner so that the thickest part of each side cushion is adjacent the bottom cushion.

Claim 9

A method of constructing an infant's seat liner comprising the steps of: (1) forming an elongated back cushion with a generally uniform interior cushion fill; (2) forming a generally rectilinear bottom cushion with cushioning fill of substantially the same thickness as the back cushion; (3) forming a pair of side cushions each with substantially greater cushioning fill than the back and bottom cushions, distributing the fill thickly at one end of each side cushion and reducing it to a lesser thickness at its other end; (4) joining the cushions by selected edges to form the liner so that the thickest part of each side cushion is adjacent the bottom cushion.