Guide for a vehicle shoulder belt

Claim 1

A portable guide for a vehicle shoulder belt to effect proper positioning of the belt, when in an operative mode, on a person of short stature sitting on a bottom section of a vehicle seat, the latter having a side thereof adjacent a fixed mounting for the shoulder belt, said guide comprising a first attaching means for removably encompassing in a substantially horizontal plane a first portion of an upright back section of the vehicle seat; a second attaching means angularly disposed relative to said first attaching means and intersecting the same at at least two locations, and said attaching means being affixed to one another at at least one of said locations, said affixed portion being adapted for disposition against an upright surface of the back section, said second attaching means being adapted to removably encompass in a substantially vertical plane a second portion of the vehicle seat back section and being adjustable relative thereto to effect a predetermined elevated position of said first attaching means, when in a back section-encompassing mode, restraining lateral shifting of said second attaching means with respect to the seat back section; and a guide piece carried by said first attaching means for disposition on a side of the seat back section adjacent the vehicle shoulder belt mounting and away from a front upright surface of the seat back section, said guide piece being adapted to be in sliding engagement with the vehicle shoulder belt whereby the latter, when in an operative mode, engages diagonally an upper torso region beneath a neck region of the seated person retaining the upper torso region against the front upright surface of the seat back section.