Abstract: A mounting rail assembly for mounting a seat to a vehicle is provided. The mounting rail assembly includes a substrate positioned between a first U-shaped track and a second U-shaped track in addition to one or more attachment members configured to couple the first and second U-shaped tracks and provide a clamping pressure to the substrate. The first and second U-shaped tracks include a plurality of apertures to receive the one or more attachment members.

Abstract: A crib mattress bouncing device includes a lever having a pivot structure for releasably engaging a mattress support frame at a first end of the lever. A clamping structure intermediate the ends of the lever structure engages a tensioned wire or like structure in a mattress support. Displacing the second end of the lever in a first direction deflects the attached and surrounding portions of the mattress support and mattress in a first direction. Releasing a force on the second end allows the mattress support to return to its original position. Repeated actuation of the second end of the lever structure produces a gentle bouncing motion of the mattress.

Abstract: A method of performing cardiac surgery on a patient's heart, including covering a patient with an inflatable blanket for a forced air convection system, the inflatable blanket having at least one separable seal line within the blanket. The separable seal line may be separated to form a slit. A patient's femoral artery is accessed through the slit, and an elongate medical instrument is passed through the slit, and through the femoral artery toward the patient's heart. Cardiac surgery is performed with the elongate medical instrument, and the elongate medical instrument is withdrawn from the femoral artery through the slit.

Abstract: Electric reciprocating system for baby carriage, which is combined with external power source and carriage locating guide rail to simulate manually back and forth pushing/pulling movement. The system includes a base board, locating guide rail, two wheel guide rail gauge adjustment mechanisms and locking mechanism to form a linear moving path of the baby carriage. The driving unit includes a DC servomotor, a belt driving mechanism and a controlling circuit board for controlling and adjusting and the travel and speed. In cooperation with the driving pin and the linking ring fixed on the baby carriage rear beam, the system provides a reciprocating power for the baby carriage without power.

Abstract: A portable double level cradle rocking bassinet including a standard bassinet onto which is formed lower fixed rockers and also formed elongated foldout rockers. The bassinet has a frame portion to which are attached the lower fixed rockers on either end of the frame portion. When the bassinet is to be rocked, the individual simply unfolds the bassinet to the open condition, places the baby in the frame portion and then rocks the bassinet back and forth on the lower fixed rockers at a ground level. The bassinet also has foldout rockers which can be unfolded to the extended condition, so that the bassinet can be rocked back and forth at a bed or chair level. The foldout rockers can be stored by folding upwardly against the underside of the frame portion and are retained thereto by mating fasteners.

Abstract: A playyard system adapted to be used in a conventional fixed mode or as a rocker including a playyard in a generally rectilinear configuration.

Abstract: A collapsible, lightweight, sturdy bassinet-style combination and convertible baby bed and carrier which is also flexible, comfortable, durable, and modular. A fabric basket with a flexible support structure having rounded edges combine to create a soft sided yet semi-rigid and sturdy carrier. The carrier is provided with a carrying harness and an infant supporting harness, with both harnesses removably attachable to the bottom of the carrier, to convert the carrier to a backpack style carrier. The carrier may have a rocker unit removably attachable thereto.

Abstract: A rockable crib including a crib structure and a rocking support system for supporting the crib structure on a floor in a rockable manner. The crib structure includes a resting platform and a plurality of legs coupled to the resting platform. The rocking support system includes a rocking support for each leg of the crib structure. Each rocking support includes a base resting on the floor, a swing pivotally mounted to the base to pivot relative thereto in a substantially horizontal plane, and a crib-support coupling component which couples one of the legs of the crib structure to the swing.

Abstract: A piece of multi-purpose furniture consisting of a pair of corresponding main frames, with one side of each of the main frames being contoured into an arc shape and another side being formed into a shape with a recessed contour, according to specifications. The inner side of each of the main frames is equipped with a multiple number of positioning slots of different sizes in accordance with specifications. A board for back rest, a board for seating, a board for auxiliary seating, a board for studying, a board for stepping, a board for sleeping, a set of protective boards and handling bars are inserted into the corresponding positioning slots, depending on the applications of the piece of multi-purpose furniture. In addition, a set of arc-shaped rocking bars are mounted onto the arc-shaped side of the two main frames. Accordingly, said multi-purpose furniture can be used as a dining chair, study chair, rocking chair and rocking crib, by changing the configurations of the different components.

Abstract: A mechanism for rocking a chair includes a frame disposed on a base and having a pair of racks, four wheels secured to the chair and engaged with the racks of the frame, a motor disposed on the base, a crank secured to the motor, and a lever having one end coupled to the crank and the other end coupled to the chair, the chair is driven to move in a rocking manner by the motor.

Abstract: An infant support having a supporting hammock and securement structure therefor for securing the supporting hammock to plural side frame members of the support. An infant holding device is provided and is movable between a first position overlaying from side-to-side an upwardly facing surface of the support hammock and a second position thereof lying at a side thereof. A releasable connection is provided for facilitating a releasable securement of the infant holding structure in the first position, a release of the releasable connection structure facilitating a movement of the infant holding structure to the second position. A pair of parallel rocker slats are provided and a releasable coupling structure is provided for securing each end region of a rocker slat to the lower end of a pair of laterally spaced legs to enable the infant support to be rocked when said rocker slats are connected to the lower ends of respective ends of a transversely spaced pair of legs.

Abstract: A crib assembly includes a rocking assembly which rocks the crib mattress either up and down in a vertical plane or side to side in a horizontal plane. The rocking assembly can be either manually activated or automatically activated if the child cries out. The rocking assembly will shut off after a preset time interval, but can be reactivated if the child is still crying at the end of that preset interval. However, if the rocking assembly is reactivated, an alarm circuit is activated by the second activation of the rocking assembly, and this alarm circuit will alert an adult that one rocking cycle was unsuccessful in helping the child to return to sleep.

Abstract: A device for converting a piece of furniture into a rocker comprises two end zones bracketing an intermediate zone. The three zones are contiguous, their lower surfaces are convex, while in the upper surface of each end zone there is provided at least one recess. Such a recess is adapted to receive, in a releasable manner, one leg of a piece of furniture which has at least two legs.

Abstract: An improved infant carrier seat rocker is provided for a typical molded plastic type infant carrier seat embodying a rounded bottom to facilitate a fore and aft rocking motion. This type of seat is currently in production. The rocker is comprised of a housing from which a lifting member protrudes. A power unit is mounted within the housing. This power unit provides rotational energy. A drive means consisting of an eccentric mounted to the output of the drive unit and slidably connected to the lifting member to convert rotational energy to vertically reciprocating motion is employed to impart the vertical motion to the lifting member. The lifting member in turn imparts this motion to a suitable feature of the carrier seat, typically the lower edge of the seat, and the seat then rocks as the lifting member oscillates vertically.

Abstract: A therapeutic infant bed primarily intended for hospital use in the treatment and prevention of infant apnea. The bed comprises a hammock-forming sheet of material having one surface thereof covered with a soft tactile material. The hammock-forming sheet of material includes means for attaching a sonic device for generating audible sounds and mechanical vibrational impulses simulating a human heartbeat thereto and for causing the audible sounds and mechanical vibrational impulses to be transmitted through the sheet and the support structure to an infant disposed in the bed. A support structure is provided which has raised, spaced end members defining an open space therebetween. The hammock-forming sheet of material is horizontally suspended between the end members with the one surface facing up between the end members, within the open space, and above a surface upon which the support structure is sitting to form a hammock having spaced head and foot ends and spaced sides between which an infant can be placed.

Abstract: A structure which can be removably placed under the bed portion of a conventional bassinet and between its four legs such that the legs are lifted up off the gound by a sufficient distance to enable the bassinet to be rocked in either the head to toe rocking mode or cradle rocked, depending upon the orientation of the bassinet relative to the rocker sections of the present invention. A structure having at least one pair of parallel and separated rockers adjacent its lowermost portion is sized to fit beneath the bed and spaced to fit between the four legs of a conventional bassinet and oriented such that the pair of parallel and separated rockers are aligned in the same direction as the head and foot of the bassinet carriage, and the height of the structure is sized to cause the four legs of the bassinet to be lifted off the ground by a sufficient amount to permit the rockers to freely rock back and forth.

Abstract: The Rock 'N Walker is a device which automatically turns the wheels of a baby carriage or hospital infant bed, and can be built to fit under the front (or rear) wheels of any size axle or wheel base. It can be made of heavy duty, non-brittle plastic, fiberglass, or wood; however, the rod and bolts on which the rollers turn should be made of metal for durability.

Abstract: A perambulator is rocked by two halves of a portable case which are hollow on one side and have surfaces configured on the other side to impart a rocking motion to the perambulator moving thereover when the halves are disposed in a flat open position. The halves are foldable together to form the portable case.

Abstract: A baby is oscillated to sleep by placing it in a carrier and pivoting the carrier in oscillation about a horizontal axis adjacent the foot end of the carrier by means of a rotating cam which provides a special predetermined motion that is effective to induce the baby to sleep. The carrier is removably mounted on a carrier support which is pivoted to an underlying base for oscillation about the aforementioned axis to impart similar motion to the carrier. The can and its drive means is mounted on the base and enclosed together with the base by the carrier support. In the preferred embodiment, wheels are mounted to the base to allow the apparatus to be moved back and forth over a ground surface.

Abstract: An infant cradle assembly having a cloth sling sewn around the interconnecting tubes of a rectangular plastic frame. The frame is suspended by a plurality of elastic cords from a tubular fixture or sleeve capable of being attached to a strand, frame, and the like. The tubular fixture permits the length of the cords attached to one end of the frame to be adjusted relative to the other, so that the cradle may be tilted as desired in use. The cradle body is supported in a manner that it may undergo a multitude of motions while a baby is being rocked or swung.