1. A car seat configured to rest on a seat of a vehicle and to support a child, the car seat comprising:
a shell having a front side, a rear side, a seat back end, and a seat bottom end;
a seating surface on the front side;
a first contact surface on a part of the car seat facing generally opposite the seating surface, the first contact surface oriented to support the car seat with the seating surface at a first seat incline; and
feet carried on the car seat and movable between a stowed position and a deployed position, the feet each defining a second contact surface,
wherein, with the feet in the stowed position, the first contact surface is exposed to support the car seat and wherein, with the feet in the deployed position, the second contact surfaces are exposed and oriented to support the car seat with the seating surface at a second seat incline different than the first seat incline.
2. A car seat according to claim 1, wherein the second contact surfaces are oriented at an oblique angle relative to the first contact surfaces with the feet in the deployed position.
3. A car seat according to claim 1, further comprising:
an underside of the car seat opposite the seating surface and adjacent the seat bottom end; and
an open space recessed upward in the underside, wherein the feet are positioned substantially in the open spaced in the stowed position.
4. A car seat according to claim 1, wherein the feet pivot side to side between the stowed position and the deployed position about a pivot axis oriented front to back relative to the seating surface.
5. A car seat according to claim 1, wherein the feet cover the first contact surfaces in the deployed position.
6. A car seat according to claim 1, wherein the feet each have a generally triangular shape with a lag face adjoining the respective second contact surface at a front end and oriented at an acute angle of between about 20\xb0 to about 30\xb0 relative to one another at the front end.
7. A car seat according to claim 1, wherein each of the feet is movably connected to respective a stand-off projecting from an underside of the car seat adjacent the seat bottom end.
8. A car seat according to claim 7, wherein the feet pivot toward one another from the deployed position to the stowed position into an open space between the stand-offs.
9. A car seat according to claim 7, wherein each of the first contact surfaces is located on the bottom of a respective one of the stand-offs.
10. A car seat according to claim 9, wherein a bottom of a front section on each of the stand-offs is oriented at an angle relative to the respective first contact surface aligned in a common plane with the second contact surface of a respective one of the feet in the deployed position.
11. A car seat according to claim 7, wherein each of the feet is connected via a hinge to the respective stand-off.
12. A car seat according to claim 11, further comprising:
a hinge plate mounted to a bottom of each of the stand-offs;
one or more hinge gudgeons carried on each of the hinge plates; and
a corresponding number of hinge pintles carried on each of the feet, the pintles being pivotally retained in the gudgeons.
13. A car seat configured to rest on a seat of a vehicle and to support a child, the car seat comprising:
a shell having a front side, a rear side, a seat back end, and a seat bottom end;
a seating surface on the front side;
a first contact surface on a part of the car seat facing generally opposite the seating surface, the first contact surface oriented to support the car seat with the seating surface at a first seat incline; and
an adapter body carried on the car seat and movable between a deployed position covering the first contact surface and a stowed position exposing the first contact surface to support the car seat, the adapter body defining a second support surface,
wherein, with the adapter body in the deployed position, the second contact surface is exposed and oriented to support the seating surface of the car seat at a second seat incline different than the first seat incline.
14. A car seat according to claim 13, wherein the adapter body is substantially within an open space in an underside of the car seat on the rear side adjacent the seat bottom end when in the stowed position.
15. A car seat according to claim 14, further comprising:
a pair of front-to-back elongate stand-offs projecting from the underside and defining the open space therebetween;
a pair of the first contact surfaces, one on a bottom of each of the stand-offs; and
a pair of the adapter bodies, one being pivotally connected to each of the stand-offs.
16. A car seat according to claim 13, further comprising:
two of the adapter bodies and two of the first contact surfaces, one of the two adapter bodies covering a respective one of the two first contact surfaces in the deployed position.
17. A car seat configured to rest on a seat of a vehicle and to support a child, the car seat comprising:
a shell having a front side and a rear side opposite the front side;
a seating surface on the front side;
a pair of first contact surfaces each facing generally opposite the seating surface on the rear side of the shell, the first contact surfaces oriented to support the car seat with the seating surface at a first seat incline;
an open space under the seating surface and between the pair of first contact surfaces on the shell; and
a pair of adapter bodies each carried on the car seat and shaped to define a second contact surface and pivotable between a deployed position at least partly external of the open space and a stowed position substantially within the open space and exposing the first contact surfaces to support the car seat,
wherein, with the pair of adapter bodies in the deployed position, the second contact surfaces are positioned and oriented to support the car seat with the seating surface at a second seat incline different than the first seat incline.
18. A car seat according to claim 17, wherein the adapter bodies each pivot about an axis oriented in a lengthwise direction relative to the seating surface.
19. A car seat according to claim 17, wherein the adapter bodies pivot toward one another to the stowed position within the open space under a seat bottom part of the seating surface.
20. A car seat according to claim 17, wherein the adapter bodies cover the first contact surfaces in the deployed position and expose the first contact surfaces in the stowed position.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
What is claimed is:
1. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door within a cabinet, where the pocket door can be moved reversibly between a retracted position to an extended position, and where in the extended position the pocket door may be further transitioned by rotation of the pocket door to a closed position in relation to the cabinet front, compression;
at least two channel members attachable in spaced parallel relation to a sidewall of a cabinet;
a mounting place associated with each of said channel members, where said mounting plate includes a mounting channel that slidably engages said channel member;
at least one hinge associated with each of said mounting plate, where said hinge is oriented for compatible attachments to a pocket door;
at least one rack where each of said racks is integrally mounted to the sidewall of a cabinet with the attachment of each channel member to the sidewall;
at least one pinion gear engageable with each of said racks, where said pinion gear is rotatably connected to said mounting plates by a shaft;
a shaft interconnecting each of said mounting plates;
a ball bearing retainer interconnected between each of said channel member and said mounting channel, where said ball bearing retainer further includes a plurality of ball bearings that are disposed between said channel member and said mounting channel to provide sliding movement between said channel member and said mounting channel; and,
a shaft housing for mounting said shaft to the mounting plate.
2. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 1, where at least two racks are integrateably mounted with each channel member.
3. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 1, where said rack is trimmable to selective lengths.
4. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 1, where said channel member further includes an alignment reference that compatibly aligns with a corresponding alignment reference located on said rack.
5. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 2, where said two racks are formed as one part.
6. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 1, where the pocket door is reversibly detachable from said mounting plate.
7. A slide assembly for supporting a door attached to a sidewall, where the door is moveable between a retracted position and an extended position, comprising;
at least two channel members attachable in spaced parallel relation to the sidewall;
a mounting plate associated with each of said channel members, where said mounting plate includes a mounting channel that slideably engages said channel member, and where the door is attached to said mounting plate;
at least one rack, where each of said rack is integrally mounted to the sidewall with the attachment of each channel member to the sidewall;
a shaft interconnected with each of said mounting plates;
at least one pinion gear engageable with each of said racks, and where each pinion gear is rotatably connected to said mounting plate by the shaft;
a ball bearing retainer interconnected between each of said channel member and said mounting channel, where said ball bearing retainer further includes a plurality of ball bearings that are disposed between said channel member and said mounting channel to provide sliding movement between said channel member and said mounting channel; and,
a shaft housing for mounting said shaft to the mounting plate.
8. A slide assembly for supporting a door as in claim 6, where at least two racks are integrally mountable with each channel member.
9. A slide assembly for supporting a door as in claim 6, where said rack is trimmable to selective lengths.
10. A slide assembly for supporting a door as in claim 6, where said channel member further includes an alignment reference that compatibly aligns with a corresponding alignment reference located on said rack.
11. A slide assembly for supporting a door as in claim 7, where said two racks are formed as one part.
12. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door within a cabinet, where the pocket door can be moved, in reversible fashion, between a retracted position to an extended position, and where in the extended position the pocket door may be further transitioned by rotation of the pocket door to a closed position in relation to the cabinet front, comprising;
at least two channel members attachable in spaced parallel relation to a sidewall of a cabinet;
a mounting plate associated with each of said channel members, where said mounting plate includes a mounting channel that slideably engages said channel member;
at least one hinge associated with each of said mounting plate, where said hinge is oriented for compatible attachment to a pocket door;
at least one rack associated with each of said channel members, where each such rack is in fixed spatial relation to each of said channel members;
a shaft interconnected with each of said mounting plates;
at least one pinion gear engageable with each of said racks and where each such pinion gear is rotatably connected to said mounting plates by the shaft;
a ball bearing retainer interconnected between each of said channel member and said mounting channel, where said ball bearing retainer further includes a plurality of ball bearings that are disposed between said channel member and said mounting channel to provide sliding movement between said channel member and said mounting channel;
a shaft housing for mounting said shaft to the mounting plate, where said shaft housing is alignable with each of other such shaft housings associated with each of other such mounting plates and where said shaft is simultaneously extendable through each of said shaft housings and where said shaft is in transverse alignment with each of said channel members.
13. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 11, where said rack is integrally mountable to the sidewall of a cabinet with the attachment of each channel member to the sidewall.
14. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 11, where at least two racks are integrally mountable with each channel member.
15. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 12, where said rack is trimmable to selective lengths.
16. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 13, where said two racks are formed as one part.
17. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 15, where said two racks formed as one part, are trimmable to selective lengths.
18. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 11, where the pocket door is reversibly detachable from the mounting plate.
19. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door within a cabinet, where the pocket door can be moved, in reversible fashion, between a retracted position to an extended position, and where in the extended position the pocket door may be further transitioned by rotation of the pocket door to a closed position in relation to the cabinet front, comprising;
at least two channel members attachable to a sidewall of a cabinet;
a mounting plate associated with each of said channel members, where said mounting plate includes a mounting channel that slideably engages said channel member;
at least one rack associated with each of said channel members;
a shaft interconnected with each of said mounting plate;
at least one pinion gear engageable with each of said racks and where each of such pinion gear is rotatably connected to said mounting plates by the shaft;
a ball bearing retainer interconnected between each of said channel member and said mounting channel, where said ball bearing retainer further includes a plurality of ball bearings that are disposed between said channel member and said mounting channel to provide sliding movement between said channel member and said channel;
a shaft housing for mounting said shaft to the mounting plate;
a reference point on each of said channel members, and a corresponding reference point on each of said racks, where each of said channel member reference point and said rack reference point are alignable and in the aligned condition orient each of said rack and said channel member combination in a selected spatial relation, and where said channel members are in spaced parallel relation to each other when installed on a sidewall of a cabinet and each of said channel member is simultaneously alignable at the forward edge of the sidewall of a cabinet, and where the combination of the alignment of said racks with said channel member and the alignment of said channel members results in an overall aligned state.
20. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 17, where said shaft housing is alignable with each of other such shaft housings associated with each of other such mounting plates and where said shaft is simultaneously extendable through each of said shaft housings and where said shaft is in transverse alignment with each of said channel members.
21. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 17, where said rack includes a web portion which said web portion contains said rack reference point.
22. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 17 where at least two racks are associated with each of said channel members.
23. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 20, where said two racks are formed as one part.
24. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 21, where said two racks are joined by a web portion.
25. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 22, where said web portion contains said rack reference point.
26. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door within a cabinet, where the pocket door can be moved, in reversible fashion, between a retracted position to an extended position, and where in the extended position the pocket door may be further transitioned by rotation of the pocket door to a closed position in relation to the cabinet front, comprising;
at least two channel members attachable to a sidewall of a cabinet;
a mounting plate associated with each of said channel members, where said mounting plate includes a mounting channel that slideably engages said channel member;
at least one rack associated with each of said channel members, where each of said racks is integrally mountable to the sidewall of a cabinet with the attachment of each channel member to the sidewall;
a shaft interconnected with each of said mounting plate;
at least one pinion gear engageable with each of said racks and where each of such pinion gear is rotatably connected to said mounting plates by the shaft;
a ball bearing retainer interconnected between each of said channel member and said mounting channel, where said ball bearing retainer further includes a plurality of ball bearings that are disposed between said channel member and said mounting channel to provide sliding movement between said channel member and said mounting channel;
a shaft housing for mounting said shaft to the mounting plate;
a reference point on each of said channel members, and a corresponding reference point on each of said racks, where each of said channel member reference point and said rack reference point are alignable and in the aligned condition orient each of said rack and said channel member combination in a selected spatial relation, and where said channel members are in spaced parallel relation to each other when installed on a sidewall of a cabinet and each of said channel members is simultaneously alignable at the forward edge of the sidewall of a cabinet, and where the combination of the alignment of said racks with said channel members, and the alignment of said channel members to each other such channel member, and the alignment of each of said channel members results in an overall aligned state.
27. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 24, where said shaft housing is alignable with each of other such shaft housings associated with each of other such mounting plates and where said shaft is simultaneously extendable through each of said shaft housings and where said shaft is in transverse alignment with each of said channel members.
28. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 24, where said rack includes a web portion that contains a rack reference point.
29. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door as in claim 26 where said rack web portion further includes spaced holes compatible with the simultaneous mounting of the rack with the channel member to a sidewall of a cabinet.
30. A slide assembly for supporting a pocket door within a cabinet, where the pocket door can be moved, in reversible fashion, from a retracted position to an extended position, and where in the extended position the pocket door may be further transitioned by rotation of the pocket door to a closed position in relation to the cabinet front, and where the slide assembly included at least two channel members in spaced parallel relation, a mounting plate associated with each of the channel members and witch mounting plate is slideably engaged to each such channel member, and where a rack guide is associated with each of the channel members, and the mounting plates are interconnected by a shaft which also has disposed about its length pinion gears for engagement of the rack guides, the improvement thereof comprising the installation of at least two racks with each channel member both of said racks being in spaced parallel relation above and below each channel member, and with each corresponding pinion gear engaging each such corresponding rack.
31. The slide assembly of claim 28, the improvement further comprising a rack guide including two racks that are integrally formed and each rack is interconnected by a web portion.
32. The slide assembly of claim 29, the improvement further comprising a rack guide with a rack reference point and a channel member with a channel reference point where the rack guide and the channel member are in a specific aligned relation when said rack reference point and channel reference point are each brought into alignment.
33. The slide assembly of claim 29, the improvement further comprising a rack guide that is trimmable to selected lengths.
34. A method for installation of a pocket door slide assembly within a cabinet and for the installation of a pocket door thereon, the method comprising:
selecting a length and height desired for a pocket drawer slide assembly, where the pocket door slide assembly comprises a pocket door slide including a channel member and a mounting plate slideably engaged with the channel member and a shaft housing located on said mounting plate, and at least one hinge mountable onto said mounting plate, and at least one shaft compatible with the height selected for the pocket door assembly, and a rack guide, where both the channel member and the rack guide are compatible with the length selected for the pocket door assembly;
acquiring at least two said pocket drawer slides;
acquiring at least one of said shaft;
acquiring at least a number of pinion gears corresponding to the number of racks contained on each of said rack guides, and where said pinion gears are reversibly fastenable onto said shaft;
combining and intermitting, at some point prior to the fastening of a pocket door slide to the sidewall of a cabinet, a first channel member and a first rack guide, where said first channel member and said first rack guide can be compatibly aligned with respect to each other in preparation for simultaneous mounting of both to the sidewall;
aligning said first channel member in the desired mounting position relative to the forward edge of a cabinet sidewall;
aligning said first channel member in the desired mounting position relative to the selected vertical location of the first channel member on the sidewall of a cabinet;
aligning said first channel member in the desired mounting position relative to horizontal, inclusive of any pre-selected angular compensation for correction of load deflection;
fastening the combined and interfitted first channel member and first rack guide to the sidewall in the aligned mounting positions;
transitioning said mounting plate by slideable movement to a selected reference point on said first channel member;
repeating the above steps of combining and interfitting, and aligning, for a second channel member and a second rack guide, and further repeating same for each such additional channel member and each such additional rack guide as required;
mounting onto said shaft, one pinion gear for each rack associated with each of said rack guides, and placing each of said pinion gear in approximate alignment in correspondence to the location of each of said racks in anticipation of the installation of said shaft onto the mounting plates and in anticipation of the engagement of said pinion gears with said racks;
mounting the shaft and the pinion gears disposed thereon, onto the mounting plates;
fixing the final aligned and engaged position of said pinion gears relative to said corresponding racks;
transitioning the mounting plates and correspondingly the shaft and pinion gears, to a forward point of travel of the mounting plates on the channel members;
attaching at the same point prior to the installation of the pocket door onto the pocket door slide assembly, at least one hinge onto each of said mounting plates and aligning the hinge with the desired installation position on the pocket door; attaching the pocket door to the hinge.
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PARTS LIST
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entertainment cabinet
12
pocket door(s) (a) (b)
14
T.V.
16
cabinet wall
18
20
pocket door slide
22
channel member
24
ball bearing retainer
26
mounting plate
28
hinge base
30
door hinge
32
34
36
38
40
rack and pinion guide
42
pinion gear
44
access hole
46
rack
48
synchronization shaft
50
shaft end
52
shaft housings
54
mounting plate channel
56
rear stop
58
channel member mounting holes
60
rack front
62
mounting holes
64
break-off
66
rack rear
68
alignment post
70
72
74
76
78
80
82
84
86
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90
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