Cradle Or Crib Patents (Class 280/31)
  • Patent number: 11273739
    Abstract: The seat base may include a frame with a polygonal geometry, a first leg assembly hingedly coupled to the frame, and a second leg assembly hingedly coupled to the frame. The seat base may also include a first leg hingedly coupled to the frame, a second leg hingedly coupled to the frame, and a cross member coupled to the first leg and the second leg. A guide may protrude from the frame. The guide may define a recess. A retention pin may engage the recess and retain the first leg assembly in a deployed position. The frame may also have quadrilateral perimeter. The seat base may further include an interior cross member fixedly coupled to the frame, and a pin protruding from the cross member. The pin may engage a seat. A loop may extend from the frame and engage the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Inventors: Roger Kirby, James Spencer
  • Patent number: 11206931
    Abstract: A convertible bassinet including a mobile support enabling selective movement about a supporting surface and a braking apparatus providing the ability to secure the mobile support in a laterally fixed position on the surface. The mobile support also includes a vertical adjustment mechanism enabling the height of the bassinet to be altered by a user. The bassinet further includes a top perimeter frame with a position actuator for varying the height of the top perimeter frame above a child supporting surface. When in an uppermost position the perimeter frame defines a bassinet. A changing table surface is defined when the perimeter frame is repositioned to a lowermost position. Resilient connectors between the position actuator and the perimeter frame members allow the top perimeter frame to move from the uppermost position to the lowermost position independent of movement of the position actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Michael L. Longenecker, Matthew J. Ransil, Michael S. Degrace
  • Patent number: 11192569
    Abstract: A seating/lying support (7) includes at least two seating/lying support elements (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) which are movably interconnected, and at least one bearing element (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4). The at least one bearing element (8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4) is connected to the seating/lying support elements (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) such that a movement of the seating/lying support elements (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) relative to one another can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Mariam Vollmar
  • Patent number: 10737375
    Abstract: The invention provides a workbench having an operating panel and supporting leg for supporting the operating panel from below, which is characterized by that: the operating panel is provided with grooves therein, in which a handle is fitted detachably; the handle includes a first handle section and a second handle section which are provided in parallel, and a third handle section which connects the top end of the first handle section and the top end of the second handle section; and the bottom ends of the first handle section and the second handle section are rotatably mounted in the grooves. The workbench disclosed in the invention has different feeling during customers' use and better humanization design with less operation difficulty compared with conventional table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: JINHUA WIS TOOLS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hansong Zhu
  • Patent number: 10252739
    Abstract: A child stroller includes: a frame; a plurality of wheels; a child-seat assembly configured to rock back-and-forth with respect to the frame; a rocker assembly secured to the child-seat assembly. The rocker assembly includes: (a) a plurality of legs, each leg defining an undersurface, each undersurface being arced; (b) a rocker base, the rocker base comprises an inner surface. The stroller is configured such that when the child-seat assembly rocks back-and-forth with respect to the frame, the legs rock back-and-forth upon the inner surface of the rocker base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Inventors: Kori Faith Duboff, Kimberly Mae Alicea
  • Patent number: 9844483
    Abstract: A method for providing vestibular stimulation includes: providing an infant in a vestibular stimulation device; associating sensors to the infant; moving the vestibular stimulation device to provide vestibular stimulation treatment; and obtaining sensor data during the treatment. The vestibular stimulation device includes a holder member; a platform; a mechanical system coupling the holder member to the platform; sensors configured to detect one or more parameters of the infant; and a computing system having a user input and/or output interface operably coupled to the mechanical system and the sensors to provide mechanical data to the mechanical system in order to control movement of the holder member relative to the platform and to collect the one or more parameters of the living subject from the sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: The University of Kansas
    Inventors: Steven M. Barlow, Douglas S. Kieweg, Emily Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 9750351
    Abstract: A seat assembly for infant chair includes a seat support frame, a rear and a front seat portion respectively connected with the seat support frame, and a weight-sensitive lock mechanism placed adjacent to the rear and front seat portions. The front seat portion is slidable relative to the rear seat portion along a lengthwise axis between an expanded state and a contracted state, the lengthwise axis extending from a front to a rear of the seat assembly, and the front and rear seat portion when in the expanded state defining a sitting surface adapted to receive a child. The weight-sensitive lock mechanism is activated by the placement of a load on the seat assembly to prevent displacement of the front seat portion relative to the rear seat portion from the expanded state to the contracted state. In one embodiment, the seat assembly including the weight-sensitive lock mechanism is implemented in an infant high chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Wonderland Nurserygoods Company Limited
    Inventors: Daniel A. Sack, Andrew J. Horst
  • Patent number: 9637153
    Abstract: An adapter removably mounts to a stroller or other child-supporting device, and a range of different child carriers can be removably mounted to the adapter and thus the stroller. The adapter includes stroller-mounting assemblies that are compatible with the carrier-mounting assemblies of the stroller. A peripheral frame is supported by the stroller-mounting assemblies and in turn supports the selected carrier in a snugly nested arrangement. To enable use with various different carriers, the peripheral frame includes an adjustable frame member that slides backward and forward between retracted and extended positions for use with smaller and larger carriers, respectively. Lock assemblies selectively retain the adjustable frame member in position, and an actuator assembly operates the lock assemblies. A position-indicating system can provide a visual indication of the position of the adjustable frame member. Straps or other carrier-securing assemblies can restrain the carrier on the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: KIDS II, INC.
    Inventor: Jacob Sclare
  • Patent number: 9505321
    Abstract: A baby safety car seat convertible into a rollable baby seat includes right and left pairs of front and rear legs, a locking arrangement, and wheels. The seat has an intermediate mode in which a first leg of each pair is in its operational position while a second leg of that pair is in a different intermediate position. The locking arrangement locks the first leg in its operational position to the seat's support portion while allowing movement of the second leg between intermediate and operational positions. Alternatively/additionally, when a first leg is in its operational position, a second leg is movable between its intermediate and operational position, and the locking arrangement locks the front and rear legs of each pair to each other during movement between storage and intermediate states, and unlocks the legs from each other to allow movement of the second leg between intermediate and operational positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: DOONA HOLDINGS LTD.
    Inventor: Yoav Mazar
  • Patent number: 9227648
    Abstract: A collapsible stroller includes a mobile base and a juvenile seat coupled to the mobile base. The mobile base includes a foldable frame and wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C Sundberg, Joseph D Langley, Ward A Fritz
  • Patent number: 8262103
    Abstract: Vehicle for carriage of children, comprising a frame and at least two wheels which are attached to the frame. The vehicle can be transformed between at least a first configuration as pushable buggy and a second configuration for use as a towed trailer, and in both first and second configurations provides room for at least one child. The vehicle can be transformed between the first and second configuration by adjusting the width of the frame and location of the center of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Thule Child Transport Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Anton Rudolf Enserink, Jaap Jozua Van Boxtel
  • Patent number: 8096569
    Abstract: A convertible cycling-stroller apparatus is provided. The convertible cycling-stroller apparatus includes a two-part frame; at least one wheel each rotably mounted on the at least one axle on the first frame; at least one wheel each rotably mounted on the at least one axle on the second frame; a riding seat; a drive mechanism; at least one handlebar post attached to the first frame; and a carrier attachable to the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Inventor: Emil Horovitz
  • Patent number: 7658399
    Abstract: A stroller includes at least one adapter, by which a first child seat is configured to be detachably connected to the stroller. The stroller further includes at least one connecting piece, by which a second child seat is configured to be detachably connected to the stroller. The at least one adapter is movable from at least a first position, in which the first child seat is configured to be detachably connected to the adapter, to at least a second position connected to the stroller, in which the second child seat is configured to be detachably connected to the connecting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Cosco Management, Inc.
    Inventor: John Gert Til Van Dijk
  • Publication number: 20090194957
    Abstract: Conventionally, prams and the classic first child vehicles were independent devices. The disclosed frame permits the production and operation of the series of vehicles used by children of the western world: pram, pushchair, walking learning aid, three-wheeler, go-kart and additional corresponding trailer or hand carts as a modular system. Essential components of said transport frame are of multiple or universal application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventor: Thomas Hugo Schneegans
  • Patent number: 7070188
    Abstract: A support frame having a plurality of wheeled assemblies, mounted at corners of the support frame, each wheeled assembly including a substantially identical mechanism for extending and retracting a respective wheel assembly. Each mechanism has a locking member which includes a locking portion for selectively engaging locking apertures on a rotatable member which rotatably supports the wheel assembly. Each mechanism also includes a grip, spaced from the locking member, to facilitate rotation of the rotatable member and the respective wheel assembly between extended and retracted positions when the locking portion is disengaged from the locking apertures. When each wheel assembly is in an extended position, the support frame is able to roll on a suitable surface. Each wheel assembly is also capable of being retained in a retracted position housed within a recess in its associated housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Simplicity, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Waldman, Jerry Drobinski
  • Patent number: 5938218
    Abstract: A walker and rocking horse includes a base member consisting of two base rods, two pairs of joint sleeves movably fitting around two abutting ends of the two base rods and able to be connected with or disconnected from each other, two parallel supporting rods fixed between a front and a rear side of the base member and having two ends fixed with a position block, and a plurality of position switches combined on the two base rods The position blocks respectively have two position holes located in an angle condition for the position switches to selectably engage either of the two position holes to transform the walker and rocking horse into a walker or a rocking horse for separate use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Chung-Jen Cheng
    Inventor: A-Chueh Chuang
  • Patent number: 5375869
    Abstract: A versatile baby stroller according to the present invention provides the function of a baby crib, a stroller, a high chair for feeding and a bath pan can be placed on it for the convenience of bathing a baby. The height and the width of the assembly can be easily adjusted for different functions. Moreover, the resting portion and the wheel-frame portion can be detached and the resting portion can be clamped onto a table for convenience. The main structure of the versatile baby stroller comprises a resting portion and a wheel-frame portion. The resting portion comprises a frame body, a push handle, a supporting rod and a foot rest. The wheel-frame portion comprises a H-shaped frame and two legs with rollers and the wheel-frame assembly is located underneath the frame body of the resting portion. The push handle and the supporting rods are made to be inserted into the connecting ends of the frame body, they can be detached and extended laterally, forming with the frame body an activity center for the baby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Inventor: Patty Hsiao
  • Patent number: 5125674
    Abstract: A unitary infant care apparatus has a compartment bounded by a floor, a railing supported above the floor, and a wall extending between the floor and the railing. A seat assembly is supported in a first, generally horizontal position within the compartment and over the floor for use as a baby seat and in a second, generally vertical position folded out of the way adjacent a portion of the wall so that substantially the entire area of the compartment is unobstructed by the seat assembly in its second position for use of the apparatus as a play yard. Ground-engaging wheels and a handle are provided for use of the apparatus as a stroller. The entire apparatus is readily collapsed for easy transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Inventor: Timothy P. Manuszak
  • Patent number: 4065177
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an infant carrier assembly having an infant carrier which is mounted to the carrier frame by means of brackets and pins such that the infant seat may rest in a variety of positions or in some embodiments may be removed from the carrier frame to be used to carry the infant about.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1977
    Assignee: California Strolee, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Hyde, Lee T. Carmichael
  • Patent number: 4019751
    Abstract: A multipurpose infant's wheel chair having a rockable base with front and rear wheels which can be swung to engage ground or to be positioned so that the rockable base engages ground. Accordingly, the device is usable for rocking or rolling. The base also has a member positionable selectively to engage ground so that the base is held stationary with respect thereto. A chair seat and back rest hingedly secured to each other are carried on the base and selectively positionable so that an infant may be seated upright or in the reclining position. Thus, the invention is capable of a variety of uses in that it can be used as a rocking chair or rocking horse, or as a stroller, dependent on the selected position of the wheels. The invention is also usable as a bed for an infant with the base held stationary so as to be non-rollable and non-rockable. Alternatively, the base may be retained in rockable position with the back rest reclining so that a child may be rocked to sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Combi Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinroku Nakao
  • Patent number: 3997180
    Abstract: A baby carriage having a body on which a baby is to rest and which is detachably connected with a truck. Connecting means pivotally carries the carriage body, which however, can be fixed in any desired orientation by lock means. The carriage body includes ground bearing means which stabilizes it on a flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Assignee: Marble Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Okubo
  • Patent number: RE47525
    Abstract: The folding playard consists of a frame and a fabric enclosure mounted on the frame. The frame is composed of an array of scissoring tube pairs making up the sides of the structure. The fabric enclosure has the same number of sides as the frame and an integral bottom floor. To lock the playard in the “in use” position, a plastic hook clip, which is connected to the bottom floor fabric and the top of the structure is engaged. This strap ensures the tubes are locked in the “in use” position and the structure cannot collapse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SUMMER INFANT (USA), INC.
    Inventors: Mark James Sousa, William A. Henderson, Spencer P. Brown, Anthony A. Paolo