US 12,144,436 B2
Child carrier, child supporting apparatus and related system
Jennifer E. Sheldrick, Malvern, PA (US)
Assigned to Wonderland Switzerland AG, Steinhausen (CH)
Filed by Wonderland Switzerland AG, Steinhausen (CH)
Filed on Jun. 5, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/894,454.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/858,382, filed on Jun. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0383495 A1, Dec. 10, 2020
Int. Cl. A47D 13/02 (2006.01); A47D 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47D 13/025 (2013.01) [A47D 15/006 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A child carrier comprising:
a carrying harness including a shoulder extension, the carrying harness being installable over a caregiver's torso and shoulder; and
a child supporting part operable to attach to and detach from the carrying harness, wherein the child supporting part includes:
a body support panel,
a crotch pad connected with the body support panel and including a stem portion and a transversal portion, and
a waist belt connected with the body support panel and configured to encircle a caregiver's waist, the waist belt extending below the crotch pad,
the crotch pad being configured to encircle a majority of a child's waist and extend under a child's crotch while installed to a caregiver,
the body support panel of the child supporting part being configured to completely detach from the carrying harness while the crotch pad and the waist belt remain connected with the body support panel,
the body support panel being configured to hold to a child while being completely detached from the carrying harness by positioning the stem portion of the crotch pad from an underside of the child's crotch between the child's two legs to the child's waist and by attaching the transversal portion of the crotch pad across the child's waist to the body support panel so that the body support panel and the stem portion of the crotch pad respectively extend at two opposite sides of the child, and
the child supporting part being configured to install to a caregiver independently of the carrying harness by encircling the waist belt around the caregiver's waist.