Combination child seat and travel safety vest for wheeled luggage

Abstract

An improved lightweight, portable and compact combination seat and serape' for travel ease and safety while traveling with a small child. The device is releasably attached to the telescoping handle upon wheeled luggage, is disposable in an unfolded position for use wherein it functions as a seat and when used as a serape' for travel safety is draped over the head and shoulders of the juvenile to be secured with the parent into the airline seatbelt, and when in its storage condition is separated from and compactly contained within the luggage for carry-on in an airliner or other public transportation.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to an article of luggage with telescoping handles and to a juvenile travel seat, which is transformable from an travel seat to a juvenile travel safety serape'. The invention is suitable for adaptation to wheeled luggage with retractable handles of the type permitting the luggage to be rolled and guided. The juvenile seat may be completely separated from the article of luggage. When in its storage condition, the juvenile seat is compactly contained within the luggage. Alternatively, the invention may further be utilized as a juvenile travel safety vestment or serape', to secure smaller children onto the parents seat belt during flight travel.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]There are many types of luggage, carry-on cases, and other bags currently sold with wheels attached to the luggage, enabling it to be rolled on a surface, thereby saving the owner the exertion of carrying the luggage. To allow the owner to hold onto the lu...

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Benefits of technology

[0029]The invention provides a flexible, independently detachable and compact juvenile seat device, preferably attached to a telescoping handle of wheeled luggage. The device may be advantageously separated from the luggage and stored within the luggage. The present invention can be used with virtually any conventional suitcase of the wheeled type with telescoping handle. Today's infant strollers and baby carriers are bulky, awkward and heavy should one wish to carry it onboard an airliner. The present invention provides a juvenile conveyance, one that can find greater application and use in modem travel. Parents traveling with small children or infants often bring along a conventional car seat for child transport safety, greatly increasing the weight and bulk being carried. Energy conservation has resulted in the various modes of transportation, such as airlines, trains and buses, to become more efficient in operation by reducing the weight carried by each traveler in the way of clothing and goods, and by reducing the space that each passenger and their luggage occupy. To an airline, a reduced passenger and freight payload that occupies a smaller area results in increased efficiency, thereby reducing the passenger mile and fuel cost.

Problems solved by technology

Today's infant strollers and baby carriers are bulky, awkward and heavy should one wish to carry it onboard an airliner.

Parents traveling with small children or infants often bring along a conventional car seat for child transport safety, greatly increasing the weight and bulk being carried.

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