Patents Assigned to Joanna A. Nichols
  • Patent number: 5308143
    Abstract: A safety rocker or an infant seat includes a foot piece, a support bracket, two clips, two sets of pads, an upper frame, a lower frame, an inner fastener, a torsion coil spring, an outer fastener, a bolt, a swivel head, and a seat cover. The two clips are mounted on the foot piece near the bend point in order to attach the support bracket to the foot piece. The support bracket can be detached from these two clips to fold up the rocker when it is not in use. A swinging mechanism is constructed by using the bolt to penetrate the lower frame, the inner fastener, the torsion coil spring, the outer fastener, and the support bracket. Then, the swivel head is engaged with the bolt such that the lower and upper frames can limitedly rotate about the bolt with respect to the support bracket. The swivel head can be locked by engaging the inner and outer fasteners together if the rotation of the lower and upper frames with respect to the support bracket is not intended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Joanna A. Nichols
    Inventors: Kenny Cheng, Scott Lin
  • Patent number: 5018754
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a front seat reversing structure for a dual-seat baby stroller comprising a reversing lever, a locating bar, switching elements, links, arms, and a handlebar wherein the reversing lever is secured to the locating bar, the ends of the locating bar being passed through the guide slots on the ends of the seat-back frame, the seat-back frame being pivoted to the switching elements which are secured to the links, the handlebar being able to slide over the upper side-bar and an engaging element being rotatably pinned to one side of the upper-bar so as to retain the handlebar. Direction changing can be effected by pulling the reversing lever and the seat-back frame such that the position of the locating bar is changed to the opposite side of the switching elements, in connection with the arms being caused to swing by the links. When an engaging element is pressed and the handle is pulled to extend forward, the usable space of the baby stroller can be expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Joanna A. Nichols
    Inventor: Kenny Cheng