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US 10,499,750 B2Granted
Juvenile walker
AssigneeDorel Juvenile Group, Inc.
InventorsGrant M. Mason, Jorge Tomas
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Abstract
A juvenile holder such as a juvenile walker includes a seat and a rolling base. The seat supports a young child for movement with the rolling base.
Claims27
A juvenile walker comprising
- a rolling platform-elevation base adapted to roll on an underlying surface,
- a child carrier including an elevated seat-support platform mounted on the rolling platform-elevation base and a rotatable seat mounted for rotation on the elevated seat-support platform about a vertical seat-rotation axis, and
- a seat-rotation blocker including a movable bolt, a bolt-mover actuator, and a bolt mover coupled to the bolt-mover actuator and the movable bolt and supported for movement relative to the elevated seat-support platform,
- wherein the movable bolt is arranged to be moved relative to the elevated seat-support platform in a first direction to extend into a bolt-receiver slot formed in the rotatable seat to assume a seat-locking position engaged to the rotatable seat to block rotation of the rotatable seat relative to the elevated seat-support platform about the vertical seat-rotation axis to establish a seat-blocking mode of the seat-rotation blocker and in an opposite second direction to exit the bolt-receiver slot formed in the rotatable seat to assume a seat-rotating position disengaged from the rotatable seat to allow the rotatable seat to rotate relative to the elevated seat-support platform about the vertical seat-rotation axis to establish a seat-rotating mode of the seat-rotation blocker, and
- wherein the bolt mover is arranged to push the movable bolt automatically into the bolt-receiver slot formed in the rotatable seat when the rotatable seat is aligned in a predetermined position relative to the elevated seat-support platform and configured to withdraw the movable bolt from the bolt-receiver slot formed in the rotatable seat in response to movement of the bolt-mover actuator relative to the elevated seat-support platform about the vertical seat-rotation axis from a first actuator position associated with the seat-locking mode of the seat-rotation blocker to a second actuator position associated with the seat-rotating mode of the seat-rotation blocker.
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A juvenile walker comprising
- a rolling platform-elevation base adapted to roll on an underlying surface,
- a child carrier including an elevated seat-support platform mounted on the rolling platform-elevation base and a rotatable seat mounted for rotation on the elevated seat-support platform about a vertical seat-rotation axis, and
- a seat-rotation blocker including a movable bolt, a bolt-mover actuator, and a bolt mover coupled to the bolt-mover actuator and the movable bolt and supported for movement relative to the elevated seat-support platform,
- wherein the movable bolt is arranged to be moved relative to the elevated seat-support platform in a first direction to extend into a bolt-receiver slot formed in the rotatable seat to assume a seat-locking position engaged to the rotatable seat to block rotation of the rotatable seat relative to the elevated seat-support platform about the vertical seat-rotation axis to establish a seat-blocking mode of the seat-rotation blocker in response to movement of a motion-generator lever included in the bolt-mover actuator relative to the seat-support platform in a different direction other than the first direction and in an opposite second direction to exit the bolt-receiver slot formed in the rotatable seat to assume a seat-rotating position disengaged from the rotatable seat to allow the rotatable seat to rotate relative to the elevated seat-support platform about the vertical seat-rotation axis to establish a seat-rotating mode of the seat-rotation blocker in response to movement of the motion-generator lever relative to the seat-support platform in yet another direction.
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