Baby chair
AssigneeGerber Products Company
InventorSamuel Marion
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Abstract
A portable baby chair 10 suspendable from the edge of an ordinary table 100 and which has spring biased pivoted locking bars 54, 56 on the chair's under table supports 20, 22 to engage the underside 99 of the table top and prevent the chair from slipping.
Claims21
A baby chair of the type which is suspendable from the edge of a table, which has a seat bottom and a seat back, the seat bottom having a front edge, side edges and a back edge, the side edges intersecting the back edge at back corners and intersecting the front edge at front corners, the chair being foldable for storage, comprising:
- a pair of under-table supports, each extending from a respective back corner, parallel to the side edges, and past the front edge of said seat bottom, and being turned upward to a vertical table-abutting end;
- a pair of plates, each fixed to the seat back and extending forward in a plane parallel to the sides of the chair;
- a pair of arm rests, each rest being pivotally attached by a plate pivot to one of said plates and extending forward parallel to the sides and past the front edge of the seat bottom and having a table-tangent end;
- a back pair of vertical links, the upper end of each link pivoted on one of the plate pivots, and the lower end pivoted to one of the supports near a back corner of the seat bottom;
- a front pair of vertical links, the upper end of each link pivioted on one of the arm rests and the lower end pivoted to one of the supports near a front corner of the seat bottom;
- a pair of locking bars, each having a lower end pivoted to a respective one of said supports between the front link and the table-abutting end, the bars extending beyond a plane which is parallel to the seat bottom and which includes the abutting ends;
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- biasing means at the lower end of each said locking bar to bias the bar in rotation towards the respective table abutting end.
In a baby chair having arm rests for engaging the upper surface of a table top, a seat bottom and under table supports for engaging the lower surface of the table top at support ends thereof for suspending the chair from the edge of the table top, the improvement comprising:
- a pair of locking bars, each having a lower end pivoted to a respective one of the supports and extending upward beyond a plane which is parallel to the seat bottom and which includes the ends of the supports.
A baby chair of the type for mounting to the edge of a table top, the table top having upper and lower surfaces, comprising:
- a chair structure including a seat and a seat back attached to the seat;
- an arm attached to and extending from the chair structure and having portions configured to engage the upper table top surface;
- an under-table support attached to and extending from the chair structure and having an outer part configured to engage the lower table top surface;
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- a locking bar pivotally mounted to said under-table support and having a distal end for engaging the lower table top surface at an acute angle to the vertical to secure the baby chair to the table top.
A baby chair of the type for mounting to the edge of a table top having upper and lower surfaces, comprising:
- a chair structure;
- a first arm attached to and extending from said chair structure for engagement of said upper surface;
- a second arm attached to and extending from said chair structure for the engagement of said lower surface;
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- locking means pivotally mounted to said second arm for further engagement of said lower surface to ensure the maintenance of the baby chair to the table top.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.