Portable playpen
AssigneePortable Technology, Inc.
InventorRebecca C. Gunter
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Abstract
A portable playpen embodies a disassemblable base frame having elongated upright members connected thereto and defining upstanding corner posts for a rectangular enclosure in the form of a one piece fabric unit having rectangular panels defining a box-like compartment having a bottom panel joined along its edges to upstanding side panels with adjoining edge portions of adjacent side panels secured to each other. Sleeve-like members are connected to the adjoining edge portions of adjacent side panels and extend outwardly thereof in position to telescope downwardly over an adjacent corner post with such corner post being in spaced relation to the adjoining edge portions of adjacent side panels. Stop members limit downward movement of the sleeve-like members relative to the corner posts.
Claims10
A portable playpen comprising:
- (a) a disassemblable base frame disposed to rest on a supporting surface,
- (b) elongated upright members connected to said base frame in position to define upstanding corner posts,
- (c) a one piece fabric unit having rectangular panels defining a box-like compartment having a bottom panel joined along its edges to upstanding side panels with adjoining edge portions of adjacent side panels secured to each other,
- (d) sleeve-like members connected to said adjoining edge portions of adjacent side panels and extending outwardly thereof in position to telescope downwardly over an adjacent corner post with each said adjacent corner post in spaced relation to said adjoining edge portions adjacent thereto with said sleeve-like members defining vertically extending web-like members between said corner posts and said box-like compartment so that said box-like compartment is supported inwardly of and in spaced relation to said corner posts, and
- (e) means limiting downward movement of said sleeve-like members relative to said corner posts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.