Children's foldable luggage seat

Abstract

A child's seat, more specifically a child's seat that is capable of engaging the handle of a wheeled luggage container. The child's seat includes a platform for the child to sit on and a back rest, the platform and back rest being attached by a hinge and foldable from a use position where the two platforms are perpendicular to one another to a folded position where the platforms fold so that their planes parallel to one another. The seat back platform contains a loop that will engage the handle of the luggage container such that the handle will maintain the seat back against a flat surface of the luggage container when the seat back is in a used position.

1 . A foldable child's seat for engagement with a wheeled luggage container, the luggage container tiltable between an upright and a tilted position, the luggage container having a handle, the foldable child's seat comprising: 
 a seat assembly including a seat bottom platform and a seat back platform and a hinge for connecting the seat bottom platform to the seat back platform;    a support means adapted to engage the luggage carrier such that the seat back platform will lay adjacent a side of the luggage container; and    means for engaging the support means to the seat back platform.    
     
     
         2 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the seat bottom platform is a rigid member.  
     
     
         3 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the seat bottom platform is a flexible fabric member engaged with a frame.  
     
     
         4 . The device of  claim 3  wherein the seat back platform includes a flexible member.  
     
     
         5 . The device of  claim 4  further including a front wall engaged with the seat bottom platform, with leg cutouts therein and side walls for engaging the seat bottom platform, the front wall and the seat back platform.  
     
     
         6 . The device of  claim 5  wherein the support means includes a strap and the means for engaging the support means to the seat back platform is stitching.  
     
     
         7 . The device of  claim 3  further including a strap adapted to secure the seat back platform to the luggage container.  
     
     
         8 . The device of  claim 3  further including a pair of support straps adapted to maintain the seat bottom platform substantially perpendicular to the seat back platform.  
     
     
         9 . The device of  claim 1  further including an armrest, the armrest pivotally engaged to the seat back platform.  
     
     
         10 . The device of  claim 1  further including means cooperating with the seat assembly for engaging a support surface upon which a luggage container rests, when the luggage container is in an upright position.  
     
     
         11 . The device of  claim 10  wherein means for engaging a luggage container support surface includes legs engaging the seat back platform.  
     
     
         12 . The device of  claim 11  wherein the seat back platform includes rigid frame and the legs of the means for engaging a luggage container support surface are pivotally mounted to the frame.  
     
     
         13 . The device of  claim 12  wherein the legs are rotatably mounted to the frame.  
     
     
         14 . The device of  claim 10  wherein means for engaging a luggage container support surface include a member, the member having a near end and a removed end, for engaging at the near end thereof, the seat assembly and at the removed end, the support surface.  
     
     
         15 . The device of  claim 14  wherein the member includes means to adjust the distance between the near end and the removed end.  
     
     
         16 . The device of  claim 15  wherein the near end includes a threaded rod and the means to adjust includes a threaded nut.  
     
     
         17 . The device of  claim 1  further including a support surface assembly, depending from the seat assembly, adapted to engage a support surface when the child's seat is engaged with the luggage container and the luggage container is in an upright position, and to disengage the support surface when the luggage container is in the tilted position.  
     
     
         18 . The device of  claim 17  wherein the support surface assembly includes a leg with a near end and a removed end, the leg pivotally engaged to the seat bottom platform at the near end thereof, and adapted to depend downward therefrom.  
     
     
         19 . The device of  claim 18  wherein the leg has a crossbar at the removed end thereof.  
     
     
         20 . The device of  claim 18  wherein the leg includes means to lengthen and shorten the distance between the removed end and the near end thereof.  
     
     
         21 . The device of  claim 20  wherein the leg includes a threaded section and a sleeve section and the means to lengthen and shorten include a fixed hex nut for threadably engaging the threaded section.  
     
     
         22 . The device of  claim 20  wherein the leg includes a sleeve section and a rod section, the rod section for telescoping within the sleeve section.  
     
     
         23 . The device of  claim 1  further including a foot support bar for engaging the seat assembly and depending downward therefrom and adapted to receive the feet of a child occupant of the seat assembly.  
     
     
         24 . The device of  claim 23  wherein the foot support bar includes a horizontal member pivotally engaged with the seat bottom platform.  
     
     
         25 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the seat assembly is comprised of a multiplicity of metal frame members and includes fabric suspended from the frame members.  
     
     
         26 . The device of  claim 25  wherein the metal of the metal frame members is either round or square section tubing.  
     
     
         27 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the hinge includes diagonal members extending diagonal between the seat back platform and the seat bottom platform when the two platforms are perpendicular, to maintain the two platforms in the perpendicular position when a child is seated therein.  
     
     
         28 . The device of  claim 27  wherein the diagonal members are fabric.  
     
     
         29 . The device of  claim 27  wherein the diagonal members are hinged metal members.  
     
     
         30 . The device of  claim 1  wherein the hinge of the seat assembly is adapted to allow the seat assembly to move between a folded position with the seat back platform flush against the seat bottom platform and a use position where the seat back platform is substantially perpendicular to the seat bottom platform.  
     
     
         31 . The device of  claim 30  further including a protective flap covering the hinge.  
     
     
         32 . The device of  claim 25  wherein the frame members are either powder coated or painted.