Portable infant carrier

Abstract

An infant carrier includes a set and a carry handle coupled to the seat. The carry handle is mounted for movement relative to the seat.

1 . An infant carrier comprising
 a seat bucket formed to include an infant-receiving space, the seat bucket including a first side portion, a second side portion arranged to lie in laterally spaced-apart relation to the first side portion to locate the infant-receiving space therebetween, a first end portion arranged to extend between aligned first ends of the first and second side portions and form a boundary of the infant-receiving space, and a second end portion arranged to lie in longitudinally spaced-apart relation to the first end portion to locate the infant-receiving space therebetween and arranged to extend between aligned opposite second ends of the first and second side portions,   a carry handle coupled to the laterally spaced-apart first and second side portions of the seat bucket and arranged to extend laterally over the infant-receiving space formed in the seat bucket, and   a shoulder grip including a semi-rigid U-shaped handle adapted to engage the shoulder of a caregiver during shoulder transport of the infant carrier by the caregiver, a first extensible handle anchor coupled to a first end of the semi-rigid U-shaped handle and mated to the first end portion of the seat bucket, and a second extensible handle anchor coupled to an opposite second end of the semi-rigid U-shaped handle and mated to the second end portion of the seat bucket and to cause the shoulder grip to extend longitudinally between the first and second end portions of the seat bucket to locate the carry handle between the seat bucket and the semi-rigid U-shaped handle of the shoulder grip during shoulder transport of the infant carrier by the caregiver using the shoulder grip.   
     
     
         2 . The infant carrier of  claim 1 , wherein the seat bucket includes a shell formed to include the infant-receiving space, the first end portion of the seat bucket includes a front end of the shell and a first anchor bracket coupled to the front end of the shell and to the first extensible handle anchor, the second end portion of the seat bucket includes an opposite rear end of the shell and a second anchor bracket coupled to the opposite rear end of the shell and to the second extensible handle anchor. 
     
     
         3 . The infant carrier of  claim 2 , wherein the first extensible handle anchor includes a first bracket mount mated with the first anchor bracket associated with the front end of the shell and a first adjustable-length flexible webbing arranged to interconnect a first end of the semi-rigid U-shaped handle and the first bracket mount. 
     
     
         4 . The infant carrier of  claim 3 , wherein the first bracket mount includes a first plate slidably coupled to the first adjustable-length flexible webbing and first mating means coupled to the first plate for releasably mating with the first anchor bracket to tether the first extensible handle anchor to the first anchor bracket. 
     
     
         5 . The infant carrier of  claim 4 , wherein the first anchor bracket is formed to include a button receiver and the mating means is a button configured to engage and disengage the button receiver formed in the first anchor bracket. 
     
     
         6 . The infant carrier of  claim 3 , wherein the second extensible handle anchor includes a second bracket mount mated with the second anchor bracket associated with the opposite rear end of the shell and second adjustable-length flexible webbing arranged to interconnect an opposite second end of the semi-rigid U-shaped handle and the second bracket mount, and the second bracket mount includes a second plate slidably coupled to the second adjustable-length flexible webbing and second mating means coupled to the second plate for releasably mating with the second anchor bracket to tether the second extensible handle anchor to the second anchor bracket. 
     
     
         7 . The infant carrier of  claim 1 , wherein the laterally spaced-apart first and second side portions are separated by a first distance, the longitudinally spaced-apart first and second end portions are separated by a relatively longer second distance, the carry handle has a first length that is greater than the first distance and lesser than the second distance, and the shoulder grip has a second length that is longer than the second distance. 
     
     
         8 . The infant carrier of  claim 7 , wherein the carry handle includes a middle portion that lies at a first height above a floor of the seat bucket and the shoulder grip includes a middle portion that lies at a relatively greater second height above the floor when used by the caregiver to transport the seat bucket to locate the middle portion of the carry handle between the floor and the middle portion of the shoulder grip. 
     
     
         9 . An infant carrier comprising
 a seat bucket formed to include an infant-receiving space,   a rigid stationary carry handle having a first length and arranged to extend upwardly away from a floor of the seat bucket and laterally between first and second side walls of the seat bucket, and   a shoulder grip coupled at one end to a foot end of the seat bucket and an opposite end to a head end of the seat bucket that is located in longitudinally spaced-apart relation to the foot end to locate the rigid stationary carry handle therebetween, the shoulder grip including a U-shaped handle that is arranged to lie above the rigid stationary carry handle when a caregiver is using only the shoulder grip to transport the seat bucket.