Infant swing seat
AssigneeWonderland Nurserygoods Company Limited
InventorsCurtis Hartenstine, Gregory Sellers, Adam Bearup
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Abstract
The apparatus is an infant seat that has reduced depth for shipping and recline controls that permit control of the seat during the reclining adjustment. The seat is constructed so that the deepest part of the seat fits into the rest of the seat for packaging, but locks into its proper location for use. The preferred embodiment of the recline control uses a dial on a seat pivot fixture. The dial is pushed in to release the seat for reclining, but the dial is interconnected with the seat so that the dial maintains full control of the seat movement. An alternative recline control captures and releases a support wire at the backside of the seat.
Claims15
An infant seat formed with a fixed angle between a seat bottom and a seat:
- back and with two side walls joined to the seat bottom and the seat back, comprising:
- a base segment shaped as a ring, including parts of the seat bottom, seat back, and the two side walls, and with a larger access opening at an outer edge of the ring and a smaller opening at an inner edge of the ring;
- a junction segment shaped as a concave structure with an exposed edge and forming the confluence of the seat bottom, the seat back, and the two side walls, with the exposed edge of the junction section mated with the inner edge of the base segment at a junction line to form a basket shape.
An infant seat formed with a fixed angle between a seat bottom and a seat back and with two side walls joined to the seat bottom and the seat back, comprising:
- a flexible support member forming the junction of the seat bottom and the seat back and also including parts of the seat bottom and the seat back, and with the support member constructed to permit the support member to be pushed back into the space between the side walls.
An infant seat recline angle control apparatus comprising;
- rotatable pivot fixtures attached to an infant seat, so that the infant seat rotates with the pivot fixtures;
- at least one dial interconnected with the infant seat by a coupling that is concentric with an axis common to the dial and to at least one controlled pivot fixture;
- a locking device that interconnects the controlled pivot fixture and the dial to a fixed support structure, with the locking device preventing the pivot fixture and the dial from rotating when the locking device is engaged with the support structure;
- a biasing apparatus that holds the locking device engaged with the support structure;
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- a release structure interconnected with the dial and operable by grasping the dial, with operation of the release structure counteracting the biasing apparatus and disengaging the locking device from the support structure so that the dial and the seat can be rotated to adjust the recline angle of the seat.
An infant seat recline angle control apparatus comprising;
- an infant seat with two sides, a back with a top and an outside back surface, and pivot fixtures that rotate, so that the infant seat rotates with the pivot fixtures, and with the infant seat supported from a support surface by support structures;
- at least one slot interconnected with the outside back surface of the infant seat;
- a wire support pivoting within holes in the support structures with a portion of the wire support captured by and slidable within the at least one slot, and with the wire support supporting the seat at different recline angles when the wire is at different locations along the at least one slot;
- a locking fixture interconnected with the seat's outside back surface;
- spaced indentations within the locking fixture, with the indentations oriented to capture the support wire at different positions along the at least one slot;
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- a release control on the locking fixture that moves the indentations away from the wire to release the wire for changing positions along the at least one slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.