US 5,203,611 AGranted

Infant bounce and rocking chair

AssigneeChildren On The Go, Inc.

InventorMark H. Greenwood

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Abstract

A chair structure provided which can be used by young children either as a bouncer or as a rocker. The structure is defined by a frame member having a pair of transversely spaced, generally U-configured side portions and at least one seat member raised above a support surface. The frame member is oscillatable or rockable depending upon which one of the opposite end portions thereof is engaged with the support surface. Preferably, the structure incorporates a unitary frame member and single seat cover member that is adapted to slip over either opposite end region of the frame member, whichever one of the end regions is positioned uppermost relative to a floor surface. In one orientation, straightened portions of the frame member are floor engaged causing the upper frame portions to be vertically oscillatable. In a reverse orientation, curved portions of the frame member are floor engaged causing the upper frame portions to be horizontally and reversibly tiltable.

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Dependent claims

A chair structure for use either as a bouncer or as a rocker upon a support surface, said chair structure comprising:

(a) a continuously extending frame member that generally defines the perimeter of said chair structure, said frame member having a pair of transversely spaced, longitudinally extending, generally U-configured side portions, each one of said U-configured side portions including a pair of interconnected arms, the corresponding arms of each one of said arm pairs being in opposed, transversely spaced relationship relative to the other so as to provide first and second pairs of corresponding arms;
said frame member further having a pair of generally transversely extending end portions, each one of said end portions being in opposed, spaced relationship relative to the other, each one of said end portions being interconnected to a terminal region of a different one of said corresponding arms of said first and second arm pairs;
and
(b) a seat member comprised of flexible sheet material which is engageable with either one of said first and second arm pairs;
the corresponding arms of said first arm pair having a vertically outwardly curved profile so that, when said first arm pair is engaged with said support surface, said chair structure is rockable;
and
the corresponding arms of said second arm pair having a profile such that each one of said corresponding arms includes at least two longitudinally spaced locations that are simultaneously engageable with said support surface when said second arm pair is engaged with said support surface so that, when so engaged, said chair structure is vertically oscillatable.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.