Table Supported On Both Arms Patents (Class 297/148)
  • Patent number: 7032966
    Abstract: A high chair for feeding a child is disclosed. The high chair includes a base and a chair sized to support a child. The chair is supported on the base at a height suitable for feeding a child. The chair is rotatable relative to the base about a substantially vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Kolcraft Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Jonathan Myers
  • Patent number: 7011363
    Abstract: Detachable bottle and food holding subtrays, clips and support attachments for juvenile chairs such as highchairs, strollers, booster chairs, car seats and activity chairs. The clips can be a snapable C-shape, use a screwable post or a spring biased post for attachment to an existing tray. Removable lids and removable bottle sizing rings can be used. Pre-attached clips can be pre-molded directly to the existing tray. Alternatively, clips can be attached by hook and loop fasteners or peel and stick tape. A drawer type subtray can slide in and out from the existing tray. Alternatively, a pivoting arm can be folded out from the existing tray. The clips, supports, drawers and arms can be used to support and/or hold items such as food out of reach of sitting children, and/or can keep items such as mirrors and toys at selected locations within reach of the sitting child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Responsible Me, Inc.
    Inventor: Mente P. Connery
  • Patent number: 6994031
    Abstract: A folding table for a wheelchair includes a mounting base fixed to one of two arms of a wheelchair, a shaft, a connecting member, and a folding plate assembly. The shaft pivotally and slidably extends through a tubular member of the mounting base. The folding plate assembly includes three plates that can be folded when not in use or unfolded when in use. One of the plates is connected to the shaft by the connecting member. An overall length of the plates in the unfolded state is greater than a distance between the arms of the wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Inventor: Scott Huang
  • Patent number: 6920830
    Abstract: A tray insert is adapted to be coupled to a support. A tray set includes a tray insert and a base tray or support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald M. Asbach, John F. Rhein
  • Patent number: 6854800
    Abstract: A children's high chair comprises a supporting frame (11,111) for a high chair (12,112) for receiving the child. The frame (11,111) comprises in turn a pair of legs (14,15) openable compasswise and with lower ends (19,119) for resting on the ground and stiffening crosspieces (20,120) arranged on both sides of the frame and movable between a non-operational position allowing closing of the frame and an operational position in which the crosspieces engage the legs to hold them steadily in open position. The crosspieces (20,120) can be moved to another more lowered operational position to rest on the ground to constitute high chair rocking members. Advantageously an automatic battery-powered mechanical rocking device can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: PEG Perego S.p.A.
    Inventor: Gianluca Perego
  • Patent number: 6851375
    Abstract: A tray assembly for an infant highchair, the tray assembly including a frame having front, rear, and side peripheral edge portions defining a space therebetween having a predetermined shape and size; a tray insert having front, rear, and side peripheral lip portions supporting and connected to a bottom portion located in an area defined thereby, the tray insert having a predetermined shape and extent such that the peripheral lip portions can rest on the peripheral edge portions of the frame for supporting the bottom of the tray insert in at least substantially covering relation to the space defined by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Inventors: Tony Michael Guard, Joseph Robert Stephens, James Louis Tobergta
  • Publication number: 20040262955
    Abstract: A removable game tray for baby walkers which includes a main tray including an upper cover and a lower cover which is fixedly mounted on the upper cover, the lower cover having two tongues at one side thereof and two rails at a bottom thereof, a handle slidably engaged with the rails and having a top protruded out of the lower cover when pushed into the lower cover, and a receptacle having a recess configured to receive the main tray, the recess having an opening adapted to engage with the top of the handle, the recess being cut by two grooves to form two lugs each having a hole, the hole being adapted to receive a respective one of the tongues, whereby the main tray can be easily removed from the receptacle by pressing the lugs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventor: Jung-Jyh Wu
  • Patent number: 6773060
    Abstract: A chair arm-mounted tray apparatus for mounting on arms of a chair for supporting an item includes an item support deck for supporting an item; and a deck support frame fastened to the support deck, the deck support frame including a chair arm engaging structure for removably securing the apparatus to chair arms, and including laterally spaced apart frame arms removably secured to chair arms by the chair arm engaging structure; the chair arm engaging structure including first and second arm straddles, each of the first and second arm straddles including a substantially U-shaped member including two spaced-apart arm straddle tines defining a set of tines for fitting around one of the chair arms, including a clutch pivot joint at which the given arm straddle connects to the corresponding frame arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventors: Michael L. Sher, Rafael Jakubow, Jim Sher
  • Patent number: 6739653
    Abstract: An attachable and detachable wheelchair tray with an adjustable work surface is disclosed. The adjustable work surface has two parts connected with a hinge. Part one is a horizontal stationary supporting base and part two is a movable top portion which can be tilted in an angular range of from 90 degrees to 180 degrees in relationship to the horizontal base. There is also an extendible auxiliary supporting rack attached to the movable top portion that allows the user to enlarge or reduce the work surface, thus permitting access to more items, references publications at a time. All adjustments of the work surface are easily controlled with levers, buttons or foot pedals, called “Ergo Aids” which are located on or in close proximity to the wheelchair tray, in a place that is most convenient for the seated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: University of Central Florida
    Inventors: Robert L. Hoekstra, Michael Mullens, Jose Gonzalez, Rashendra A. Shah, Prasanth Kumar Thupili, Jon Moen
  • Patent number: 6715827
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backrest adjusting mechanism used in a high chair for infants, toddlers and small children and installed in the hollow section of the backrest body of the high chair, which includes a fixed handle, a movable handle, a set of springs, a movable rod, and a horizontal lever for adjusting the inclination angle of the backrest portion of the high chair, in which the springs are connected between the movable rod and the movable handle. The backrest adjusting mechanism is characterized in that a first groove is formed in each of the two bottom sides of the movable rod of the backrest adjusting mechanism, and a second groove is formed in each of the two bottom sides of the backrest body, and said horizontal lever penetrates through the bottom of the backrest body and communicates to said first and second grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Shun-Min Chen
  • Publication number: 20040046427
    Abstract: A children's high chair comprises a supporting frame (11,111) for a high chair (12,112) for receiving the child. The frame (11,111) comprises in turn a pair of legs (14,15) openable compasswise and with lower ends (19,119) for resting on the ground and stiffening crosspieces (20,120) arranged on both sides of the frame and movable between a non-operational position allowing closing of the frame and an operational position in which the crosspieces engage the legs to hold them steadily in open position. The crosspieces (20,120) can be moved to another more lowered operational position to rest on the ground to constitute high chair rocking members. Advantageously an automatic battery-powered mechanical rocking device can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventor: Gianluca Perego
  • Patent number: 6666505
    Abstract: A chair is provided that includes a seat member, a back rest pivotally connected to the seat member, and first and second recline mechanisms. The seat member includes a first back rest support portion and a second back rest support portion. The back rest support portions each have a tooth-receiving member at an upper exterior surface. The recline mechanisms each include a lever mounted to the back rest. The lever of each recline mechanism has a tooth for receipt in a respective tooth-receiving member, and the lever is movable between an engaged state and a disengaged state. When the lever is in the engaged state, the tooth engages the tooth-receiving member to prevent rearward pivotal motion of the back rest relative to the seat member. When the lever is in the disengaged state, the tooth is disengaged from the tooth-receiving member. When the levers of the recline mechanisms are both in the disengaged state, the back rest is allowed to pivot relative to the seat member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Graco Children's Products Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff G. Greger, Baku Kakuda
  • Publication number: 20030209925
    Abstract: A furniture construction includes a frame structure made up of a pair of spaced frame sections connected together, and a furniture component mounted to the frame structure. Each frame section includes a lower base section, an upright, and a furniture component support member extending from the upright and to which the furniture component is mounted. The frame sections are preferably C-shaped when viewed from the side. In one form, the furniture component is a seat mounted to the furniture component support, and the frame structure includes a back support area extending upwardly from the seat. A back is mounted to the back support area. In another form, the furniture component is a desk or table top mounted to the furniture component support. Combination desk/chair units may also be constructed utilizing the same basic frame structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Applicant: Krueger International, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott A. Bosman, Frederick P. Bohl
  • Publication number: 20030197403
    Abstract: A tray system for a seat apparatus comprising a first body configured as a tray and coupled to the seat apparatus. A second body having a top side is movably coupled to the bottom side of the first body. The second body moves to a position under at least a portion of the first body. Another embodiment provides that the second body includes a plurality of guide tracks configured to engage a corresponding plurality of guide members coupled to the bottom side of the first body. The second body can translate along the tracks to a position under at least a portion of the first body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventor: Jeff G. Greger
  • Patent number: 6578496
    Abstract: A tray assembly for an infant highchair, the tray assembly including a frame having front, rear, and side peripheral edge portions defining a space therebetween having a predetermined shape and size; a tray insert having front, rear, and side peripheral lip portions supporting and connected to a bottom portion located in an area defined thereby, the tray insert having a predetermined shape and extent such that the peripheral lip portions can rest on the peripheral edge portions of the frame for supporting the bottom of the tray insert in at least substantially covering relation to the space defined by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Gravity, Incorporated
    Inventors: Tony Michael Guard, Joseph Robert Stephens, James Louis Tobergta
  • Patent number: 6511124
    Abstract: A tray table for a child's car seat having at least two seat belt receiving slots, comprises a table top having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a periphery, and two connecting members extending from the lower surface of the table top for inserting in the seat belt receiving slots to thereby connect the table top to the child's car seat. The connecting members extend from the lower surface at an angle sufficient so that the upper surface of the table top is positioned approximately parallel to a seating surface of the car seat when the connecting members are properly inserted in the seat belt receiving slots. The table top includes an opening serving as a cup holder, or having a container for holding toys, crayons, and other small articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Inventor: Mark Ellis Combs
  • Patent number: 6497452
    Abstract: A high-chair (1) comprises a seat (3), a frame (2) and a tray (4) associated with the seat (3) or the frame (2), said tray (4) presenting a perimetral edge (6) and a surface (7) bounded by said edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Artsana, S.p.A.
    Inventor: Pietro Catelli
  • Patent number: 6419312
    Abstract: A tray apparatus for a high chair wherein the tray apparatus includes a tray that is incrementally slideable to a multiple number of positions. The sliding is controlled by a hand operated knob disposed on an outer edge of the tray, a location of convenience for the caregiver. The inner sliding mechanism includes a hand operated screw having threads that engage a thread receptor in a base on which the tray slides. The tray and base are further engaged via guide portions that frictionally engage each other to minimize a free sliding of the tray and base relative to each other and maximize a controlled sliding, via the hand operated screw, of the base and tray relative to each other. The guide portions guide the sliding of the base and tray relative to each other and further lock the tray and base relative to each other. The tray and base are unlocked relative to each other by resiliently drawing one of the guide portions away from the other of the guide portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Regalo International, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Flannery, Timothy L. Edwards, Danial E. Julian
  • Publication number: 20020036416
    Abstract: An accessory tray includes a first tray portion and a second tray portion adapted to be coupled to and decoupled from the first tray portion. A third tray portion can also be provided for coupling to and decoupling from the first tray portion. The accessory tray is adapted to couple to a high chair tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Inventors: Andrew Mendenhall, Michael C. Dorsey, Dennis M. Turner
  • Patent number: 6354658
    Abstract: A chair arm-mounted tray apparatus for mounting on chair arms of a chair having a chair seat, for supporting an item includes an item support deck for supporting an item; and a deck support frame fastened to the support deck, the deck support frame having a chair arm engaging mechanism for removably securing the apparatus to the arms of a chair; so that the deck support frame positions the deck forwardly of the chair at an adjustable height and at an adjustable orientation relative to horizontal. The deck support frame preferably includes two parallel and laterally spaced apart telescoping frame arms removably secured to the chair arms by the chair arm engaging mechanism, the frame arms each having a frame arm forward end adjacent to the deck and a frame arm rearward end adjacent to the chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventors: Michael L. Sher, Jim Sher
  • Patent number: 6334647
    Abstract: An infant regurgitation measuring chair for collecting and measuring the quantity of regurgitation from an infant. The infant regurgitation measuring chair includes a chair, a tray assembly removably coupled to the chair, and a collection container adapted for receiving the regurgitation of an infant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Inventor: Carolyn L. Khorasi
  • Patent number: 6179377
    Abstract: A high chair has a tray that has a steel (ferromagnetic) core or insert layer sandwiched between durable plastic layers, to be used with children's dishware that has permanent magnets in their bases or bottoms. The insert can be a sheet of seven-gauge steel, with perforations to relieve some of the weight of the metal. The bottoms may incorporate two or more coin-shaped permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Inventor: Joseph A. Harper
  • Patent number: 6126236
    Abstract: An adjustable baby chair is disclosed. The baby chair has a first locking device; a height adjusting device; a seat adjusting device; a second locking device; and a foot rest. With such an arrangement, the feet of the chair are foldable, the angle, height of the seat are adjustable, the seat is fixed after the baby is seated in the seat and the height of the foot rest is adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Inventor: Sung-Tsun Wu
  • Patent number: 5975628
    Abstract: A tray for a child's high chair. A section of interlocking elements that engage a complementary surface on eating utensils or toys permits removably securing the eating utensil or toy to the tray surface. Tray dimensions may be customized to fit tables of commercially available children's high chairs. The tray may also include a smooth surface that accommodates eating utensils and toys that do not have interlocking elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Reed International, Ltd.
    Inventor: Larry L. Russell
  • Patent number: 5927805
    Abstract: A children's stackable high-chair which is easily stackable and washable. One high-chair is integrally formed of a single piece of material and has a forward restraint secured thereto. A preferred high-chair includes a seat supported by two integral side vertical members, two lower, horizontal members, a rear horizontal member, and having a lower, frontal opening between the two vertical side members. The high-chair allows stacking requiring little vertical inclination and height of the high-chair to be stacked. The high-chair also allows stacking while creating only a small stacking angle from vertical. The high-chair allows stacking with only a relatively small increase in stack height for each high-chair relative to the height of each high-chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Koala Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff H. Hilger, Mark A. Betker
  • Patent number: 5893606
    Abstract: A multifunctional children's gear generally comprises a chair, a supporting bracket, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, and a pair of handle grips that has a J-shape, a footrest, and four wheels. When projected posts of the supporting bracket are released from the receiving posts of the front legs, the front and rear legs can be folded together and the receiving posts of the front leg can be clamped between the side portion of the rear legs and the J-shape handle grip. Meanwhile, the projected posts of the supporting bracket can be inserted into the receiving holes of the fixing plate respectively to form a table seat. Alternatively, the cushion pad of the chair can be released from the dowel pins of the supporting bracket and the chair can be used as a car seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Inventor: Mao-Chin Chiang
  • Patent number: 5820207
    Abstract: A nursery chair includes a front and a rear support frame, a seat and a table. A collapsing device is provided between the front and the rear support frame for them to spread and collapse. A inclining device is provided to change the angle of the seat. Further, an securing device for the table is provided to keep the table secured, not to swing up or down at random.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Tsen Gei Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsiu-Yen Wang
  • Patent number: 5662378
    Abstract: A child's car seat with a shield. A tray, preferably removable, is embedded in the shield. An elongated cover is wrapped around the shield for hiding the tray. The cover has releasable securing mechanisms for mated engagement with securing mechanisms on the shield for retaining the cover in wrapped around condition and for removing it entirely. In a preferred form, the tray is divided into sections with at least one of the sections having a circular cross-section and the cover has an aperture in registry with the section having a circular cross-section when the cover is wrapped around the shield and secured with the mating securing mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Inventor: Adrain E. Carruth
  • Patent number: 5586800
    Abstract: A high chair tray provides for the positive capture of food containers, e. g., bowls, dishes, etc., therein, to preclude tipping or spillage of the containers and/or their contents by an infant or small child in the high chair. The tray is separated into a forward and a rearward component by a lateral division, with the components connected by a left and a right track which allow the tray components to slide together and apart from one another. One or more depressions or receptacles are provided along the division, with the receptacle(s) each having an undercut channel. Specially formed containers are provided which nest in the receptacle(s) of the tray, with the containers each having a peripheral base flange extending therefrom. When the tray portions are separated, the container(s) may be placed within the appropriately fitting receptacle(s), with the container flange being captured by the undercut channel of the tray receptacle when the tray components are closed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1996
    Inventor: Kelvin N. Triplett
  • Patent number: 5458354
    Abstract: An apparatus for selectively providing one of a plurality of working surfaces to a person in a wheelchair comprising a planar rigid member with a flat upper surface, a flat lower surface, and an arcuate concave recess formed at its interior edge; a second working surface having an upper surface and a lower surface parallel with the first working surface, and positioned at the outboard end of the first working surface; a plurality of vertically extending walls including an outboard wall coupling the outboard edges of the first and second working surfaces and vertically extending parallel side walls coupling the side edges of the upper and lower working surfaces; a pair of book props secured to the vertical wall at the outboard face of the device with pivot means to allow rotation of the book props independent of each other; and mechanism to couple the lower working surface to a wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventor: Toni L. Bone
  • Patent number: 5433093
    Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed involving a locking bar, which arrangement is to be used for locking doors, containers and the like. The arrangement includes a locking bar which is layered at one end or to the base with its other free end involving a locking shackle holder with a shackle which is insertable in a cooperating locking device, which includes of a casted or smithed strong housing member in one piece without other openings except for a key hole and an opening for receiving the locking shackle and an exchangeable lock for fastening of the locking shackle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Inventor: Ole Sooth
  • Patent number: 5348368
    Abstract: A shield is disclosed which attaches to a high chair tray for the purpose of preventing the high chair occupant from displacing food over the front and sides of the high chair tray. The shield has a wall which partially encompasses the eating surface of the high chair tray, around the edges of the tray. The wall serves to block disposal of food over the front and sides of the tray. The shield also has fasteners which allow the wall to be removably coupled to the high chair tray and which prevents the shield from being easily dislodged from the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Inventors: Brent E. Garcia, Mary L. Garcia, John A. Garcia
  • Patent number: 5310244
    Abstract: A lapboard is adapted to be fitted to a chair with two arms, where the lapboard is a generally flat surface with a cleat positioned to generally parallel to and close one arm of the chair and a second cleat positioned generally parallel to and close to the other arm of the chair, plus securing means for securing the lapboard to the chair. The lapboard is secured by one or two straps connected to the rear right and left of the lap board and looped around behind the occupant of the chair, preferably fastened by a quick release clip. A second strap connected to the front right and left of the lapboard can be looped around the arms to secure the front of the lapboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Inventor: Alvin G. Borgardt
  • Patent number: 5294172
    Abstract: A conventional high chair food tray is provided with an activity chamber below a transparent top which is sealed against access by a child but includes an exterior control mechanisms for operating moveable pieces in the activity chamber. An example is a pinball game with exterior shooters for moving balls around inside the activity chamber for actuating items such as a paddle wheel. The food tray may be utilized with a car seat as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Inventor: Susan E. Dubus
  • Patent number: 5131715
    Abstract: An upper and lower "U" shaped framework are secured together utilizing rear leg members and forward leg members extending downwardly from the framework to secure in a telescoping manner leg extensions thereto. The leg extensions utilize roller members at lower terminal ends thereof or alternatively, friction pads to provide stability of the organization when not in use as a walker structure. A tray member is selectively and securably mounted relative to the upper framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1992
    Inventor: Rosemary K. Balles
  • Patent number: 5106156
    Abstract: A detachable foldable tray adapted for use with a child's vehicle safety seat. Two tray parts are pivotally connected together and upon being extended are spread over the arm rests of the vehicle safety seat and Velcro means for securing the extended tray parts thereover. A releasable double latch bar is pivoted to one of the tray parts and when turned across the underfaces of the parts, will hold them against collapsing. The bar is bendable to release its Velcro connection with the tray parts and permit them to be folded. Bendable spring straps with Velcro means are bent down from underneath the tray parts for securement to frontal faces of the safety seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Inventor: James R. Marquis
  • Patent number: 5088135
    Abstract: The present inventon is a convertible sofa, bed and dinette facility that is designed for use in various compact areas having limited space such as commonly found in mobile recreational vehicles, and the facility being defined by two furniture units that together are adapted to be selectively arranged for use as a sofa, a bed or a table assembly. Each furniture unit comprises a frame structure having a main frame section and a secondary extendible frame section. Each furniture unit is releasably secured to a wall structure for any one of the selective arragements. One furniture unit is adapted to be rotatably slidable from one wall position to an adjacent wall. The other furniture unit is adapted to be rotated from one wall to another in such a manner as to be correspondingly arranged to the oppositely disposed furniture unit so as to define a selective mode of use while located in a given compact space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Inventor: Dennis G. Violette
  • Patent number: 4634185
    Abstract: A children's automobile-mounted safety seat (1) has a seat portion (2), a safety guard (6), left-hand and right-hand support rods (b 9, 10), and left-hand and right-hand connecting rods (15, 16) built onto the safety guard (6) and removably attached to the left-hand and right-hand rear portions (18, 19) of the seat portion (2). The left-hand and right-hand support rods (9, 10) are journalled at their upper ends to the left-hand and right-hand lateral surfaces of the safety guard (6) and at their lower ends to the left-hand and right-hand lateral surfaces (11, 12) of the bottom of the seat portion (2). The left-hand and right-hand connecting members (15, 16) are built into the safety guard (6) so that they are longitudinally slidable within a predetermined range. The children's automobile-mounted safety seat (1) further has left-hand and right-hand springs to urge the left-hand and right-hand connecting members (15, 16) of the safety guard (6) to move toward each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Aprica Kassai Kabushikikaisha
    Inventor: Kenzou Kassai
  • Patent number: 4606576
    Abstract: A tray for a high chair characterized by a base receptacle which attaches to the arms of the high chair, and a lattice member which is supported by the walls of the base receptacle. The lattice member, which is provided with indicia of educational and entertainment value, permits spilled food and drink to collect within the base receptacle rather than upon the eating surface. The lattice may also be optionally provided with a fixed and a removable feeding bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Inventor: Richard O. Jones
  • Patent number: 4591206
    Abstract: A table attachment is provided for attachment to the arms of a chair such as a lawn chair, director's chair, some types of wheelchairs, etc. A typical chair has a pair of arm rests. The invention provides a pair of supports, one for and adapted to be mounted on and to lie lengthwise of each arm rest. A table member is attached to the front ends of the supports by peg and hole devices arranged so that the table may not only be removed from spanning relation to the supports but may be re-mounted (or initially mounted) on but one support, the peg and hole devices being arranged so as to provide for a plurality of positions of the table as respects the supports. Each support is further pivoted to its arm rest on a vertical axis so as to be capable of selective lateral swinging. The parts may be folded for temporary storage within a folding type of lawn chair, for example, without complete disassembly from the chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Inventor: Elvern G. Pribble
  • Patent number: 4512607
    Abstract: Detachably mounted patient serving trays. A pair of laterally extensible handle members are slidably mounted at opposite ends of a base member that provides a support surface for food or other items disposed thereatop. Clamping members specifically designed to releasably engage tubular structures are fixedly secured and depend to each handle member so that preselected tubular portions of a bed, chair, wheelchair, or other bodily support structure may be releasably engaged by such clamping members. The handle members are positionable in an infinite plurality of functional positions of adjustment so that the tray may be used in conjunction with bodily support structures of differing sizes and shapes. The design also permits storage of the tray on the frame of any bodily support structure of tubular construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1985
    Inventor: Edward D. Rapp
  • Patent number: 4223944
    Abstract: A convenient tray is provided for a wheelchair wherein the tray retracts onto a housed roll mounted beneath one armrest of a conventional wheelchair and extends across the lap of the wheelchair victim to be engaged by a releasable catch mechanism beneath the opposite armrest. The sheet material of which the tray is made has a transverse upwardly convex arch over its length to provide it with rigidity when it is extended in the manner conventionally subscribed to by tape measures, this sheet becoming flexible in the longitudinal direction for rolling when the sheet is retracted onto its roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Inventor: Harold D. DeLong
  • Patent number: 4181358
    Abstract: A patient restraint for use on a chair or the like is described and comprises an elongated support member which is adjustably secured to the rearward pair of legs of the chair. A flexible sheet member is secured at its rearward end to the support member and extends upwardly therefrom over the seat portion of the chair. The forward end of the flexible sheet member is provided with a forward end portion which is adapted to be positioned between the patient's legs and extended upwardly therefrom. An elongated flexible strap is secured to the forward end portion and extends upwardly therefrom, through a bracket on the tray, then downwardly over the forward portion of the seat, then rearwardly for connection with the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Inventor: Ramona K. Pennington
  • Patent number: 4158428
    Abstract: A generally rectangular basket, having a two-level bottom with lower level forward, is supported on a wheelchair, having horizontal foot and arm rests vertically spaced apart. Vertical legs are adjustably fixed to the forward and lower bottomed end of the basket to extend downward therefrom and engage the horizontal foot rest. Horizontal arms are adjustably fixed to opposite sides of the basket and extend rearward and over the wheelchair arm rests, the adjustable arms being recessed to fit over and around the wheelchair arms. The basket is thus displaceable only by a lifting force. The depending lower bottom increases carrying space without interfering with the line of sight of an occupant, and also without decreasing the stability of the wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Inventor: Clarence W. Bates
  • Patent number: 4008918
    Abstract: A baby chair having a seat and a tray both mounted on a collapsible framework, the seat having a bottom and a back hinged together and pivotally connected to the framework, and the framework being so constructed that, when not in use, the chair may be collapsed to form a substantially flat assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: Products for Proud Parents Limited
    Inventors: Howard Lee Cooper, Stewart Banks