Having Curved Rail Patents (Class 297/271.6)
  • Patent number: 10575657
    Abstract: An auto-rocking rocker that converts from an infant sleeper to a toddler seat. The convertible rocker comprises a support section that has a concave portion for receiving a child, a frame assembly coupled to the support section, and an auto-rocking mechanism coupled to the frame assembly. The auto-rocking mechanism is configured to be operable while the convertible rocker is in the infant sleeper configuration and inoperable while the convertible rocker is in the toddler seat configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Santiago Acevedo, Ross Rumfola, III, Jon Podeszek
  • Patent number: 10195481
    Abstract: Provided is a stretch exercise tool whereby muscles around the vertebrae can be uniformly extended. A stretch exercise tool provided with a stretching part the upper face of which projects into a crest type along the longitudinal direction and on which a user's body is placed with facing upward and extended, wherein the stretching part is configured of multiple body-supporting ribs in the width direction, said ribs being disposed along the longitudinal direction. According to this configuration, when the user's body is placed on the stretching part, a force in the longitudinal direction, said force acting to topically extend the body, is applied to the body at each interval among the ribs. Thus, the body can be uniformly extended compared with the conventional configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NCC Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshiki Ban
  • Patent number: 9986834
    Abstract: A reception chair includes a frame assembly, a seat, and a back coupled together. The frame assembly includes front legs, rear legs, and a support coupled to the front and rear legs. The seat is provided, on a front portion of a bottom surface thereof, with collars, which are arranged to respectively correspond to the front legs of the frame assembly so that upper ends of the front legs are insertable and fit into the collars. The seat is provided, on a rear portion of the bottom surface thereof, with fixing sections, such that the fixing sections and the rear legs of the frame assembly correspond to each other, respectively. The fixing sections each include a first mounting member and a second mounting member, such that the fixing sections of the seat and the rear legs collectively form enclosing coupling connection structures therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventor: Hsin-Hua Chen
  • Patent number: 9578966
    Abstract: Portable structures convert into furniture articles, such as chairs, backrests, and tables, when substantially filled with sand and revert to collapsed portable structures for easy transport after a substantial amount of sand has been removed. The portable structures include a cover, made from a flexible and deformable material, and a frame that includes one or more flexible frame members disposed on or incorporated within the cover. The flexible frame members have spring-like characteristics such that a portable structure, without substantial sand therein, can be collapsed for storage and/or transport, and when ready for use, automatically converted to an “uncollapsed pop-up” state adapted to receive sand filling to form the furniture article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventor: Jodie A. Paoletti
  • Patent number: 9204725
    Abstract: A hunting blind comprising a metal framework that is bent at the midpoint of the long axis at an angle in the range of one hundred to one hundred sixty degrees to form a leg rest portion, a seatback portion, a first curved rocker, and a second curved rocker. The leg rest portion comprises a seat. The seatback portion comprises a first stop leg, second stop leg and back support. Diagonal side supports connect the leg rest portion to the seatback portion. A hunting blind comprising a molded polymer unit with a leg rest portion, seatback portion, molded swivel rocker, molded seat indentation, and first and second rotatable stop legs. A hunting blind comprising a molded polymer leg rest component, molded polymer seatback component, first and second connecting rods, and first and second rotatable stop legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Inventors: Bruce G. Kania, Frank M. Stewart, David William Ewald
  • Patent number: 8960787
    Abstract: A chair with a coupling companion stool base includes a frame that has: a claw extending downward from a second portion of a lower portion of the frame; a latch extending downward from and movably connected with a first portion of the lower portion; two legs adapted to support the frame upon a supporting surface extending downward from the lower portion; and a receptacle defined between the claw and the latch. The base supports the frame above a supporting surface and has a saddle with opposite back and front edges and a top surface that faces away from the supporting surface. The top surface may also define at least one of a work surface, a writing surface, and a sitting surface. The base releasably couples with the frame, having the saddle seated in the receptacle, the front edge seated in the claw, and the back edge captured by the latch. When decoupled, the chair portion may be used as casual floor rocker seating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sauder Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Anthony J Warncke, Jeffrey A Jameson, Thomas A Hagerty
  • Patent number: 8960792
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a monobloc rocking chair. The rocking chair includes a seat, backrest, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, and rockers extending between front and rear legs. The chair is molded of a single material include a downwardly opening cavity and formed to taper outwardly from top to bottom. The cavity is formed by the seat being supported directly from below by front legs and being supported directly from above by a backrest. Rear legs are spaced from the seat. This allows two identical chairs to nest when vertically stacked for compact shipping, storage, or display. The monobloc rocking chair can include one or more arms or be armless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Inventor: Cooper C Woodring
  • Publication number: 20150015036
    Abstract: A rocker includes a frame and a seat coupled to the frame for receiving an infant therein. The frame includes a front and a rear frame portion generally oppositely extending along a longitudinal axis. The first and second frame portions are pivotally coupled together to move between an upright configuration and a collapsed configuration. The front and rear frame portions include rocking surfaces that are configured to rock on a support surface in a side-to-side motion transverse to the longitudinal axis, with the infant positioned in the seat in a head-to-foot longitudinal orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: KIDS II, INC.
    Inventor: Alex SORIANO
  • Publication number: 20140210238
    Abstract: A hunting blind comprising a metal framework that is bent at the midpoint of the long axis at an angle in the range of one hundred to one hundred sixty degrees to form a leg rest portion, a seatback portion, a first curved rocker, and a second curved rocker. The leg rest portion comprises a seat. The seatback portion comprises a first stop leg, second stop leg and back support. Diagonal side supports connect the leg rest portion to the seatback portion. A hunting blind comprising a molded polymer unit with a leg rest portion, seatback portion, molded swivel rocker, molded seat indentation, and first and second rotatable stop legs. A hunting blind comprising a molded polymer leg rest component, molded polymer seatback component, first and second connecting rods, and first and second rotatable stop legs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Bruce G. Kania, Frank M. Stewart, David William Ewald
  • Patent number: 8783778
    Abstract: A modular furniture assembly includes: a base member having a frame assembly, a transverse member having a frame assembly, a foot configured to contact a support surface, and a mounting platform having a plurality of apertures therethrough. The mounting platform is configured to be mounted on the base member frame assembly and the transverse member frame assembly, thereby connecting the frame assemblies. The foot is selectively mounted on the mounting platform, such that the foot is configured to contact the support surface when the modular furniture assembly is in an upright configuration. The mounting platform connects the base and transverse member frame assemblies together and also acts as a platform for receiving a variety of different types of feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: SAC Acquistion LLC
    Inventors: Shawn D. Nelson, David Underwood, Spencer Pearson
  • Patent number: 8777305
    Abstract: A multifunction chair with a floor rocker detachable from a base that is usable as a stool. The floor rocker and base are readily attached and detached by means of a quick-release mechanism having first and second couplers on the floor rocker and the seat plate of the base, respectively. The first coupler includes a rearward projection from a cross-member on the rocker and has left and right side latch mechanisms below the rear portion of the seat of the rocker, the latch mechanisms each having a laterally movable latch bolt. The second coupler is an integral part of the seat plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: J Squared, Inc.
    Inventors: James N. Jannetides, Adam Anderson
  • Patent number: 8746794
    Abstract: An infant seat comprising an upper torso support, a lower torso support pivotally articulated to the upper torso support and a seat supporting structure; at least one of the upper torso support or the lower torso support is pivotally articulated to the seat supporting structure, the seat further comprising a converting mechanism for converting the seat between at least an angular position in which the upper torso support is inclined with respect to the lower torso support, and a planar position in which the upper torso support and the lower torso support are substantially co-planar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Tiny Love Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoshana Oren, Hagai Harduff, Amit Avigdor, Giora Shachal
  • Patent number: 8313141
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a monobloc rocking chair. The rocking chair includes a seat, backrest, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, and rockers extending between front and rear legs. The chair is molded of a single material include a downwardly opening cavity and formed to taper outwardly from top to bottom. The cavity is formed by the seat being supported directly from below by front legs and being supported directly from above by a backrest. Rear legs are spaced from the seat. This allows two identical chairs to nest when vertically stacked for compact shipping, storage, or display. The monobloc rocking chair can include one or more arms or be armless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Cooper C. Woodring
  • Publication number: 20120274105
    Abstract: A convertible rocking chair can be converted to use as a rocking-bed, a chair and a rocking-horse. The convertible rocking chair has an arched base rack and a seat frame. The arched base rack has a curved downside for rocking and rolling back and forth against ground. The seat frame includes a left-side rack and a right-side rack for stretching a fabric cover therebetween to form an accommodating space. The left-side rack and right-side rack can be locked in a first position when converted to the rocking-bed or chair, and rotatable to close together in a second position for engaging with a seat board so as to convert to the rocking-horse. The seat frame may pivot to the arched base rack and adjust inclination by a lifting rack when being converted to a chair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: LERADO (ZHONG SHAN) INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ho-Sheng Chen, Chi-Chien Chen, Chia-Ming Shen
  • Publication number: 20120212023
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a monobloc rocking chair. The rocking chair includes a seat, backrest, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, and rockers extending between front and rear legs. The chair is molded of a single material include a downwardly opening cavity and formed to taper outwardly from top to bottom. The cavity is formed by the seat being supported directly from below by front legs and being supported directly from above by a backrest. Rear legs are spaced from the seat. This allows two identical chairs to nest when vertically stacked for compact shipping, storage, or display. The monobloc rocking chair can include one or more arms or be armless.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventor: Cooper C. WOODRING
  • Patent number: 8246341
    Abstract: A mold rotator with a first section and a second section that are engaged approximately perpendicularly to each other to produce a base and an L-shaped platform for receiving the article. The base of the article rotator may have a curved section at the intersection of the first section and the second section and the article rotator may rotate on its curved section between a first position wherein the article rotator is supported on its first section and a second position wherein the article rotator is supported on its second section. Further, the article rotator allows an article to be safely rotated simply by lowering the article onto the article rotator so that the article rotator automatically rotates approximately 90° from a first position and a second, rotated position. The article rotator may include a stabilizing system wherein the article rotator can be stabilized at both a first position and second position which is approximately 90 degrees from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Lyle R. Hanson
  • Patent number: 8205943
    Abstract: A foldable rocking chair includes a base having a curved rocking portion, a first adjustment rod pivotally connected to the base, a seat having a front end pivotally connected to a front end of the base, a second adjustment rod pivotally connected to the seat, and a folding joint for interconnecting the first and second adjustment rods. The seat is adjustable relative to the base between a fully unfolded position and a folded position. The folding joint is constructed so as to allow pivoting movement of the seat from the folded position to the fully unfolded position, while preventing pivoting movement of the seat from the fully unfolded position to the folded position when no external force is applied the folding joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Wonderland Nursery Goods Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Zhi-Ren Zhong
  • Patent number: 8070229
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a monobloc rocking chair. The rocking chair includes a seat, backrest, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, and rockers extending between front and rear legs. The chair is molded of a single material include a downwardly opening cavity and formed to taper outwardly from top to bottom. The cavity is formed by the seat being supported directly from below by front legs and being supported directly from above by a backrest. Rear legs are spaced from the seat. This allows two identical chairs to nest when vertically stacked for compact shipping, storage, or display. The monobloc rocking chair can include one or more arms or be armless.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Cooper C. Woodring
  • Publication number: 20110148162
    Abstract: A chair includes a chair body having two side supports and two rocking bars each detachably mounted on a bottom of a respective one of the two side supports of the chair body. Thus, when the rocking bars are mounted on the side supports of the chair body respectively, the chair body co-operates with the rocking bars to function as a rocking chair, and when the rocking bars are removed from the side supports of the chair body respectively, the chair body is used individually to function as a common chair, so that the chair has double functions to enhance the versatility of the chair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventor: Su-Nu Huang
  • Publication number: 20110140492
    Abstract: A chair includes a seat and a supporting structure associated for positioning of the seat in an orientation in which the seat has a downward inclination towards its front edge. The supporting structure includes an elongate member on each side of the chair, each member extending substantially continuously between the seat and a rearward region of the chair via a floor-engaging region of the supporting structure. Each elongate member has a generally loop-shaped configuration, with the seat end region of the elongate member overlying the opposite end region of the elongate member, and has an inherent resilience with a bias in which the seat end region is spaced from the opposite end region in the unoccupied state of the chair and the seat has the desired forwardly-downward inclination, wherein the resilience is selected such that the seat end region approaches or comes into engagement with the opposite end region when the chair is occupied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Susan Walsh
  • Publication number: 20100066139
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a monobloc rocking chair. The rocking chair includes a seat, backrest, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, and rockers extending between front and rear legs. The chair is molded of a single material include a downwardly opening cavity and formed to taper outwardly from top to bottom. The cavity is formed by the seat being supported directly from below by front legs and being supported directly from above by a backrest. Rear legs are spaced from the seat. This allows two identical chairs to nest when vertically stacked for compact shipping, storage, or display. The monobloc rocking chair can include one or more arms or be armless.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventor: Cooper C. WOODRING
  • Patent number: 7621592
    Abstract: A child seat apparatus that may be engaged on the end of a table top so as to be used as a hook on high chair and that also may be set on the floor to be used as a rocker. The apparatus includes a base that includes longitudinal curved members. A rear portion of the base can be disengaged from the front portion of the base such that, when used as a hook on high chair, the rear portion can swing to an out-of-the-way position underneath front portion, so that the rear portion does not protrude into kitchen or dining room space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Regalo International, LLC
    Inventor: Mark A Flannery
  • Patent number: 7597397
    Abstract: A swivel rocker is provided that includes a surface designed to contact a floor so as to facilitate rocking in two directions along a line while limiting rocking in other directions and to inhibit excessive rocking in at least one direction along the line. The swivel rocker also includes a swivel portion such that a seat may be rotated relative to the two directions of facilitated rocking. The swivel portion allows a user to alter the directions of facilitated rocking relative to their orientation on the seat. The rocking surface inhibits excessive rocking in the at least one direction to help prevent the user from tipping over in the chair. Under some embodiments, the swivel rocker is formed of two rockers having a curved portion designed to contact the floor and an additional portion that inhibits excessive rocking. The additional portion extends from the curved portion in several embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan McCoy, Stacy Abel
  • Patent number: 7537285
    Abstract: A device that automatically rocks a rocking chair and similar articles. The rocking chair has a pair of rocker bars to provide rocking motion on a floor surface and a pair of arm rests. The device comprises a housing, a mechanism for attaching the housing onto a forward end of one of the rocker bars in a removable manner, and a mechanism within the housing, for raising and lowering the forward end of the rocker bar with respect to the floor surface, to automatically rock the rocking chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Inventor: Laverne L. Stewart
  • Patent number: 7506922
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reconfigurable child receiving device that includes a seat portion and arcuate leg members that support the seat portion above a supporting surface. The seat portion is further supported by arcuate cross members that extend between the leg members and are pivotally connected to the leg members. The arcuate cross member can each be individually pivoted upward above the leg members or downward below the leg members. The pivotal connection between the leg members and the cross members enables the reconfigurable child receiving device to be configured into four different modes of use. In a first mode, both arcuate cross members are pivoted upward above the leg members to allow the device to rock on the leg members in a first direction. In a second mode the second cross member is pivoted downward to prevent rocking in the first direction and to secure the seat portion in a relatively upright configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony G. Schulte, Michael D. Armbruster
  • Patent number: 7252333
    Abstract: A rockable and stackable chaise lounge. It includes a pair of frame members each formed by a downwardly convex rocker and an upwardly convex rail joined at front and rear ends. The frames are joined at their front and rear ends by spreaders. Adjustable stops are provided to limit the extent of rocking. A seat with a reclining back is supported between the frame by the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Inventor: John W. Caldwell
  • Patent number: 7182405
    Abstract: A chair is constructed of a chair frame having spaced, parallel side members with rear ends and outwardly curved front ends, a first horizontal seat support extending between the side members adjacent their rear ends, and a second horizontal seat support parallel to and in a plane below the first support extending between the side members adjacent their front ends; and a sling seat in the form of a continuous loop of textile material extending around the first and second supports to form a seating surface, the loop being removable from the chair frame without separating the loop by pulling the loop around the front end of one of the side members for placement while the loop is supported on the first seat support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Freddy & Friends, LLC
    Inventor: Stanton E. Blakeslee
  • Patent number: 7152918
    Abstract: A furniture unit for supporting the weight of a child in various selectable seated positions may be rotated as a unit about a horizontal axis to present any one of three available occupant supporting surfaces. The primary occupant supporting surface is a child's high chair, preferably having a fixed tray. When tipped backward from the high chair position, the unit presents a previously inaccessible chair which is convexed on its lower surface to permit it to sway back and forth as a rocker. Alternatively, the unit may be tipped forward from the high chair position to present a previously inaccessible desk chair, with desktop, that is uniquely spaced from the floor by the fixed tray. The unit will most preferably slide up to a dining table while in the high chair position such that the fixed tray may be positioned just over the surface of the dining table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Inventor: Thomas Berkes
  • Patent number: 7147284
    Abstract: A rocking chair particularly suitable for use as a student desk chair as a seating surface, a back rest and a pair of generally parallel rocking rails. Preferably, the rocking chair has a relatively small footprint and has a relatively limited range of rocking motion. In one preferred, but not required embodiment, the pair of generally parallel rocking rails are both reverse cantilevered rocker rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Virco Mgmt. Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Mills, Peter Glass, Scott L. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 7100975
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided in which a collapsible rocking chair has legs that translate towards and away from each other to configure the chair between open and collapsed dispositions, and at least one leg that slidably articulates with a rocker. Preferred embodiments have four legs. The left back leg slidably articulates with a left rocker, and the right back leg slidably articulates with a right rocker. The front legs are pivotally coupled to the respective rockers at fixed points. The back frame is preferably coupled to the left and right legs at pivots, allowing the back to approximate the seat during folding. Both back and seat are preferably formed from a fabric material, and more preferably from a single continuous piece of fabric. Preferred rocking chairs also include left and right armrests, supported at least in part by the back frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Tofasco of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Zheng
  • Patent number: 7017991
    Abstract: A lounge chair is configured with backrest and seat frames operative to pivot relative to one another between erected and folded positions. In the erected position of the lounge chair, inner end surfaces of longitudinal members of the seat frame each extend complementary to, abut and support a respective inner surface of longitudinal members of the backrest seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: H2O Furnishings LLC
    Inventor: Tsai Shaw Zin
  • Patent number: 6955398
    Abstract: A rocking chair includes a frame and pads mounted to the frame for supporting a sitter. The frame includes a chair body having a seat portion and a seatback pivotally coupled to the seat portion and a rocker base having two concave rocker bars located on opposite sides of the chair body and two convex top bars having ends mounted to the rocker bars respectively with a stretch bar extending between each top bar and each rocker bar in an inclined manner. Opposite side edges of the seatback are pivoted to the top bars of the rocker base and opposite side edges of the seat portion are coupled to stretch bars by slide joints that are movably mounted to and selectively secured along the stretch bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Reese
  • Patent number: 6857696
    Abstract: The present invention describes a furniture unit or a toy which employs base, top, and curved members along with a support member which extends along the inner surfaces of the top, base, and curved members. The shape of the invention allows it to be selectively positioned such that it can be adapted for a plurality of uses. For example, one embodiment of the present invention may be adapted for use as a desk, sofa, chair, or rocking toy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Inventor: Ben Usagani
  • 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: 6811217
    Abstract: A support frame for a infant or child support device is disclosed. The frame includes oval shaped side members that provide a wide, safe base and a smooth rocking action to the rocker. The kickstand may be used to convert the support frame from a rocking configuration into a stable, non-rocking configuration. The support frame may also include a seat that can be removed from the support frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Kane, Robert David Piwko, Jr., John F. Rhein
  • Patent number: 6682137
    Abstract: An adjustable frame of rocker includes a rocking frame and a supporting frame foldably coupled with the rocking frame, wherein the rocking frame includes a pair of coupling means for pivotally coupling two supporting arms with a supporting frame, so as to inclinedly support the supporting frame in position. Moreover, by unlocking the coupling means, the supporting frame is capable of pivotally rotating about the coupling means in order to adjust the inclination of the supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Ben Ming Hsia
  • Patent number: 6669290
    Abstract: A horizontal gliding chair has a flat seat and a seat back located at an angle of approximately 75 degrees to the seat back. Connected to the seat are four symmetrically placed brackets that are connected to four shoulders. The shoulders pivot slightly within the seat brackets. Four symmetrically placed arcuate rocking members are connected to the shoulders, respectively, by legs. The front right and left rocker feet are connected to each other. The rear left and right connecting feet are connected to each other. The front and rear rocker feet are also pivotably connected to each other by a brace connector. The base of the seat back is located in front of the rear brace pivot hole. The chair seat moves in a horizontal front and back direction. During this motion, the cooperation between the rocker feet, braces and rocker connector allows the seat to travel forward or backward in a smooth, horizontal motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Inventor: Gary W. Pugh
  • Patent number: 6540292
    Abstract: An adjustable children's rocking chair is shown that can be readily converted without the use of tools between a configuration where it is used to support an infant in a more reclined position, and a configuration where it is suitable for use as a rocking chair by a toddler. The rocking chair includes a seat portion, a support portion connected to the seat portion, and the support portion being pivotably connected to a rocker base and being adjustable in length. The support portion includes a front frame assembly, such as a pair of front legs, and a rear frame assembly, such as a pair of rear legs, with each of the front legs being pivotably connected to a respective rear leg through a detachable joint. The seat portion includes a back support portion that is formed by a U-shaped seat back tube slipped inside a pocket in soft goods. Both ends of the U-shaped seat back tube are connected to the detachable joints pivotably connecting the rear legs to the front legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Darling, Bryan M. Brown, Julia Favorito
  • Patent number: 6513869
    Abstract: A combined baby walker/rocking chair comprises a chassis, a support, an upper frame, and a seat. The chassis and the upper frame are connected via the support. Two parallel transverse beams are mounted to a lower end of the support. Plural casters are mounted to an underside of the chassis. The chassis comprises two symmetric arcuate frames and two control devices that are constructed to allow a baby walker to be converted into a rocking chair, and vice versa, while providing a stable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Inventor: Tsai-Mei Wu
  • Patent number: 6439656
    Abstract: A folding chair convertible to a rocking chair enabling a folding chair converting to a rocking chair comprises pedestals located at four ends each engaged with a plurality of support bars to form a chair frame for supporting a backrest and seat pad thereon. A pair of rockers is provided beneath the folding chair. The rockers have respectively anchor seats mounted thereon to engage with the pedestals for the folding chair convertible to a rocking chair when desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Inventor: Lausan Chung-Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 6398297
    Abstract: A collapsible rocking chair (1), which collapses to a compact bundle, including a chair part (2) having a number of support frame members (F1-10) which are pivotally connected to connecting members (6), and a rocking part (4) including a pair of rocker members (38) and shoe members (26) which are fixed to the rocker members (38). The shoe members (26) are detachably connected to the connecting members (6) to form locking assemblies (50). The shoe member (26) include a housing (72), a receptacle (36) which receives the connecting member (6), and a retaining element (64) including at least one rotary element (66) which is rotatably mounted to the shoe member housing (72). The rotary element (66) rotates to engage a retaining slot (60) of the connecting member (6), thereby locking it in place. A second embodiment includes an alternate locking assembly (86). The shoe members (26) each include a housing (72), and a retaining element (64) including a retaining tab (98) and flanges (94), which surround a slot (96).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Inventor: Robert R. Cantwell
  • Publication number: 20020063457
    Abstract: An adjustable frame of rocker includes a rocking frame and a supporting frame foldably coupled with the rocking frame, wherein the rocking frame includes a pair of coupling means for pivotally coupling two supporting arms with a supporting frame, so as to inclinedly support the supporting frame in position. Moreover, by unlocking the coupling means, the supporting frame is capable of pivotally rotating about the coupling means in order to adjust the inclination of the supporting frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Ben Ming Hsia
  • Patent number: 6257660
    Abstract: A portable furniture assembly has a pair of opposed and spaced apart scissor assemblies. A stop mechanism is provided to retain a pair of scissor structures of the portable furniture assembly in a set-up condition and yet permit easy release of the stop mechanism to permit folding of the furniture assembly for transport. A foldable and portable chair has a flexible sling suspended between two scissor assemblies to define a seat and a back for the chair. The portable chair also has two bottom rails connected to front supports of the scissor assemblies via pivots. Rear supports of the scissor assemblies are removably connected to the bottom rails at the stop mechanism to retain the portable chair in a set-up condition and yet permit the chair to be folded to a completely flat or folded condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventor: Kacey J. Calvey
  • Patent number: 6174028
    Abstract: The present invention is an infant rocking chair, which can be adapted for young children and provide either the rocking or swing motion. The present invention comprises a collapsible device that can cause the state of infant rocking chair to be converted into either a folded state or an unfolded one, by which the user can convert the infant rocking chair into the collapsible state when the infant rocking chair is not used and reduce the space occupied by the same for a convenient storage. Moreover, the infant rocking chair according to the present invention further comprises a support leg for converting the state of the rocking chair into a swing position or a fixed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Link Treasure Limited
    Inventors: Cheng-Fan Yang, Kung-Neng Chang