Portable foldable playpen
AssigneeSassy, Inc.
InventorsLouis M. Kohus, Eugene L. Timperman
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Abstract
A portable foldable playpen assembly comprising a foldable frame assembly and an enclosure. The foldable frame assembly includes a central hub, at least four support legs spaced outwardly of the hub, and a linkage assembly hingedly connected to the central hub and to the legs. The linkage assembly is adapted to maintain the legs in a first expanded spaced array in which they are upright and generally parallel and widely spaced from the central hub and to permit movement of the legs into a second contracted compact array in which the legs are much closer to the central hub and to each other for transport. The enclosure is secured to the support legs and may include a depending skirt at the base of the enclosure.
Claims17
A portable foldable playpen assembly comprising a foldable frame assembly and an enclosure,
- said foldable frame assembly comprising a central hub, at least four support legs spaced outwardly of said hub, and a plurality of linkage means each being hingedly connected at one end to said central hub and at the other end to said legs, said linkage means being adapted to maintain said legs in a first expanded spaced array in which they are upright and generally parallel and widely spaced from the central hub and to permit movement of said legs into a second contracted compact array in which said legs are much closer to the central hub and to each other for transport,
- and means on said enclosure for securing said enclosure to said support legs, and wherein said linkage means are positioned beneath said enclosure, and each said linkage means includes an arm hingedly connected to a leg and to said central hub and for permitting movement of said legs into said compact array with said legs being generally in an upright parallel compact array, and wherein each said linkage means further includes a link connecting a said arm to a said leg at a location spaced from the location at which said arm is connected to said leg, and which link is moveable along said leg.
A portable collapsible playpen assembly comprising a frame assembly and a fabric enclosure,
- said frame assembly comprising at lesat four generally vertically disposed support legs, means for retaining said support legs in a predetermined spaced array, said support legs having upper ends and foot portions for supporting the legs on a support surface,
- said enclosure comprising a sidewall and a floor and pocket means for suspendind said enclosure on the upper ends of said legs with said floor spaced well above said foot portions,
- and skirt means depending from said floor between said floor and said foot portions for preventing entry below said enclosure when said foot portions are supported on a support surface, to positively prevent access below said frame assembly by a small child when the playpen assembly is floor supported, and wherein said skirt means comprise skirt panels secured to said sidewall, and fastening means, and said skirt means being removably secured to said legs with said fastening means adjacent said foot portions.
A portable foldable playpen assembly comprising a foldable frame assembly and an enclosure,
- said foldable frame assembly comprising a central hub, at least four support legs spaced outwardly of said hub, and a plurality of linkage means, each hingedly connected at one end to said central hub and at the other end to said legs, said linkage means being adapted to maintain said legs in a first expanded spaced array in whioh they are upright and generally parallel and widely spaced from the central hub and to permit movement of said legs into a second contracted compact array in which said legs are much closer to the central hub and to each other for transport,
- means on said enclosure for securing said enclosure to said support legs,
- said linkage means including releasable lock means for locking said support legs in said widely spaced array and for permitting said support legs to be unlocked for movement of said legs into said contracted compact array, and wherein said linkage means are positioned beneath said enclosure, and
- said linkage means further including an arm hingedly connected to each leg and to said central hub and for permitting movement of said legs into said compact array with said legs being generally in an upright parallel compact array, said linkage means further including links hingedly connecting a said arm to a said leg and which slide along said leg.
A portable foldable playpen assembly comprising a foldable frame assembly and an enclosure,
- said foldable frame assembly comprising a central hub, at least four support legs spaced outwardly of said hub, and a plurality of linkage means each hingedly connected at one end to said central hub and at the other end to said legs, said linkage means being adapted to maintain said legs in a first expanded spaced array in which they are upright and generally parallel and widely spaced from the central hub and to permit movement of said legs into a second contracted compact array in which said legs are much closer to the central hub and to each other for transport,
- and means on said enclosure for securing said enclosure to said support legs, and wherein said central hub defines a central hub section defining a plurality of sockets, a removeable hub wedge in each socket, and wherein each said linkage means is hingedly connected at one end to a said removeable hub wedge, and pivot means hingedly connecting a said removeable hub wedge and a said linkage means to said hub section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.