Infant chairs
AssigneeThorley Industries LLC
InventorJared Rosenthal
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Abstract
An infant supporting chair including a frame, a seat movably supported on the frame, a unitary tray and a cooperative guidance and latching system. The cooperative guidance and latching system being configured to magnetically pull the unitary tray toward at least one latching position when the unitary tray is in range of the at least one latching position relative to the seat, releasably secure the unitary tray to the seat when the unitary tray is engaged to the at least one latching position, and slidably position the unitary tray relative to the seat when the unitary tray is partially disengaged from the at least one latching position.
Claims20
An infant supporting chair comprising:
- a frame;
- a seat movably supported on the frame;
- a unitary tray;
- and
- a cooperative guidance and latching system configured to:
- magnetically pull the unitary tray, as a unit that is a one piece assembly, toward at least one latching position with the unitary tray in range of the at least one latching position relative to the seat,
- releasably secure the unit of the one piece assembly unitary tray, the unit releasably secured and magnetically pulled being common, to the seat with the unitary tray engaged to the at least one latching position, and
- slidably position the unit of the one piece assembly unitary tray, the unit slidably positioned being the one piece assembly common to at least one of the unit releasably secured and magnetically pulled, relative to the seat with the unitary tray partially disengaged from the at least one latching position.
An infant supporting chair comprising:
- a frame;
- a seat coupled to the frame;
- a unitary tray;
- and
- a multiple stage tray latching system configured to releasably couple the unitary tray to the frame, the multiple tray latching system comprising:
- magnetic guide members that are configured to move the unitary tray, as a unit, towards the frame and effect locking engagement of the unitary tray and seat with the multiple stage tray latching system,
- latching members that couple the unitary tray, as a unit, to the frame in one of a number of horizontal positions relative to the seat, and
- a multiple stage operating mechanism having distinct operational stages effected with a common movement of the multiple stage operating mechanism, the distinct operational stages effect both a partial disengagement of the latching members and complete disengagement of the latching members,
- wherein:
- the partial disengagement of the latching member effects the horizontal movement of the unitary tray, as a unit, between the number of horizontal positions, and
- the complete disengagement of the latching members effects the removal of the unitary tray, as a unit, from the frame in a direction transverse to the horizontal movement of the unitary tray.
An infant supporting chair comprising:
- a frame;
- a seat coupled to the frame;
- a unitary tray coupled to the seat in one of a number of latching positions;
- and
- a cooperative guidance and multiple stage latching system configured to magnetically guide latching engagement of the unitary tray to the seat in the one of the number of latching positions, wherein the cooperative guidance and multiple stage latching system comprises:
- a first stage having partial disengagement of a latch portion of the cooperative guidance and multiple stage latching system between the unitary tray and the seat, which partial disengagement:
- effects a change from the one of the number of latching positions to another of the number of latching positions with a sliding movement of the unitary tray, as unit, relative to the seat, and
- substantially prevents removal of the unitary tray, as a unit, from the seat;
- a second stage having full disengagement of the latch portion of the cooperative guidance and multiple stage latching system between the unitary tray and the seat, which full disengagement effects removal of the unitary tray, as a unit, from the seat;
- and
- wherein multiple stage operation of the latch portion of the cooperative guidance and multiple stage latching system is effected with but a single actuating lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.