Disposable sanitary cover for public child seats

Abstract

An elasticized edging stretches around a child seat and a single layer water proof seat cover fabric completely covers a child seat. Spaced slits in the back create seat belt openings and spaced openings in the front create leg openings. The white tear proof fabric is disposable and adapted for a child to write and draw on the seat cover.

1 . A disposable sanitary cover universally adaptable for a variety of public child seats including those on regular shopping carts, larger warehouse store shopping carts, restaurant high chairs, restaurant booster seats, rental strollers, car rental child seats and other public child seats provides complete coverage of all parts of the seat which could be contacted by the child in the seat, the cover comprising: 
 a planar sheet of disposable fabric comprising a seat cover adapted to completely cover any of a variety of types and sizes of public child seats, an encircling elasticized edge around the seat cover adapted to be stretched around any of a variety of types and sizes of public child seats to secure the seat cover to a public child seat, the seat cover having a pair of slits cut into a back portion of the seat cover adapted to receive two sides of a seat belt through the pair of spaced vertical slits for securing a child to a public child seat and a pair of spaced leg openings in a front portion of the seat cover to receive a pair of legs of a child therethrough, the seat cover formed of a write-on material adapted to enable a child sitting on the seat cover to draw and write on the seat cover.    
   
   
       2 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the encircling elasticized edge is formed by an elasticized strip sewn onto the fabric around an outer edge of the fabric.  
   
   
       3 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the fabric is water proof.  
   
   
       4 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the fabric is made of a single layer of tear proof material.  
   
   
       5 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the seat cover is an elongated oval shape to accommodate wide child seats.  
   
   
       6 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the seat cover is an elongated rectangular shape to accommodate wide child seats.  
   
   
       7 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the seat cover is sufficiently long and wide to drape over all sides of a wide child seat on a warehouse market shopping cart to completely cover the child seat.  
   
   
       8 . The cover of  claim 7  wherein the seat cover is 60 inches long and 45 inches wide.  
   
   
       9 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the seat cover is sufficiently flexible and the edging sufficiently elasticized so that the seat cover is adapted to be grasped on one edge by a single hand of a user and adapted for an opposite edge to be hooked under one side of a child seat and adapted for the seat cover to be stretched over a child seat in a circular manner hooking the elasticized edge around a periphery of a child seat so that the elasticized edge secures the seat cover to a child seat completely covering a child seat.  
   
   
       10 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the fabric is a white material adapted to receive markings thereon made by drawing and writing implements.  
   
   
       11 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the fabric is sufficiently inexpensive to enable the seat cover to be discarded after a single use.  
   
   
       12 . The cover of  claim 1  wherein the legs openings are formed by a spaced pair of rectangular leg openings.