Reclining mechanism of baby carriage
AssigneeCombi Corporation
InventorsShinroku Nakao, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Hitoshi Kato
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A reclining mechanism for controlling the inclination angle of a back rest in a baby carriage includes a horizontal cross bar connected to two vertical frame bars to form a U-shape. On the back of the backrest, a rack having several horizontal grooves can selectively engage the cross bar. A vertically movable releasing plate has inclined surfaces so that the cross bar can be raised out of the grooves against the biasing force of a pressure plate. The cross bar is connected to a head protection plate which rotates and closes off the top of the back rest when the back rest is reclined by sliding the cross bar down the rack.
Claims9
A baby carriage, comprising:
- a baby carriage body comprising a seat for supporting a baby and a plurality of wheels supporting said seat;
- a reclinable backrest connected to said seat for supporting a back of said baby;
- an engagement/stopper mechanism attached to a rear surface of said backrest and having a cover with a notch at a lateral side thereof;
- and
- an inclination angle adjusting bar of substantially a U-shape in front view comprising;
- frame bars pivotally attached at opposite ends thereof to said body of said baby carriage, and
- a cross bar crossing a rear surface of said backrest and slidable through said notch of said cover and selectively and releasably engaged and stopped at predetermined positions with said engagement/stopper mechanism, wherein said engagement/stopper mechanism comprises a fixed plate having a plurality of horizontal engagement/stopper grooves and an engagement releasing plate slidably attached to fixed plate and wherein said cross bar is engageable with a selected one of said grooves and releasable by a sliding of said engagement releasing plate;
- and
- wherein said engagement releasing plate has inclined surfaces formed on a side remote from said backrest for releasing engagement of said cross bar from said grooves.
A baby carriage as recited in claim 6, further comprising a pressure plate facing said cross bar, said fixed plate and said engagement releasing plate from an inside of said cover and at least one spring normally pressing said pressure plate away from said cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.