Portable changer-surface for infants
OwnerJoan E. Pughinventor
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Abstract
Folding planar structure for use as a changing surface for infants, particularly while away from home. A plural-part rigid board assembly includes a unitary cushioning pad cemented to the parts and hinging them together, and has sliding rod structure for board-to-board connection holding the three parts rigidly in plane when in use; parts of the sliding rod structure are always in view and evidence by position whether the assembly is safely secured together. When folded for storage the sliding rod assembly provides handle structure for carrying and also stand structure preventing the assembly from getting wet or soiled when rested on a floor or leaned against a wall.
Claims8
In a portable structure having plural members unfoldable in end-to-end configuration to form a surface upon which to support infants for changing, bathing and the like, the improvement comprising:
- means hinging said members together;
- and end accessible means for maintaining, at a first position, said plural members aligned when unfolded in end-to-end configuration, and for permitting, at a second position, folding of said plural members about the hinging means, the end-accessible means comprising a rod structure at each end of said configuration longitudinally slidable relative to said plural members in respective apertures therealong from said first position in which said rod structures together engage all said plural members to said second position in which each rod structure retracts to a respective end of said end-to-end configuration for permitting said folding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.