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US 5,975,631 AGranted
Swing with recline mechanism
AssigneeEvenflo Company, Inc.
InventorsPaul F. Fair, Mark D. Jankowski
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Abstract
A swing with a pivotally attached tray for pivotable movement about a generally vertical axis, a vibrating mechanism attachable to a seat bottom of the swing, wheels mounted on a frame for selective engagement with the floor when the frame is tilted back when grasping a pair of handles on the frame, a lost motion coupling mechanism for a motorized drive mechanism, and a reclinable seat with an adjustment wire for selecting different reclined positions.
Claims17
A swing for a child, comprising:
- a support structure;
- and
- a child support attachable to the support structure, the child support including:
- a seat bottom;
- a seat back attachable to the seat bottom;
- and
- an adjustable mechanism for adjusting the angular relationship between the seat bottom and the seat back, the adjustment mechanism including a support member, the support member being elongated, resilient, and received at opposite ends thereof by the seat bottom, the elongated support member supporting the seat back between the ends of the elongated support member;
- wherein the elongated support member includes a central section attached to the seat back for support thereof at least a portion of the central section being attached in a manner to substantially prevent pivotal movement of the elongated support member about a longitudinal axis passing generally along the central section, the resilient nature of the elongated support member allowing the ends of the member to be moved relative to the longitudinal axis without movement of the portion of the central section.
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A swing for a child, comprising:
- a support structure;
- and
- a child support attachable to the support structure, the child support including:
- a first support member;
- a second support member attachable to the first support member;
- and
- an adjustable mechanism for adjusting the angular relationship between the first support member and the second support member, the adjustment mechanism including a third support member, the third support member being elongated and received at opposite ends thereof by the first support member, the third support member supporting the second support member between the ends of the third support member, wherein the ends of the third support member are received by the first support member through openings defined on either side thereof, the openings having a plurality of protruding features defined along the perimeter thereof to selectively retain the third support member thereon, wherein each opening is a serrated slot.
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A swing for a child, comprising:
- a seat support;
- a seat supported by the seat support, the seat including a seat bottom and a seat back attached to the seat bottom via an attachment, the attachment allowing the seat back to be moved to a plurality of angular positions relative to the seat bottom;
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- a latch for selectively retaining the seat back in one of the plurality of angular positions relative to the seat bottom;
- wherein the seat bottom has a left side and a right side, and wherein the latch includes an elongated, resilient member having two ends, one of the two ends being engageable with the right side of the seat bottom and the other of the two ends being engageable with the left side of the seat bottom;
- wherein the elongated member includes a central section attached to the seat back for support thereof, at least a portion of the central section being attached in a manner to substantially prevent pivotal movement of the elongated member about a longitudinal axis passing generally along the central section, the resilient nature of the elongated member allowing the ends of the member to be moved relative to the longitudinal axis without movement of the portion of the central section.
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A swing for a child, comprising:
- a seat support;
- a seat supported by the seat support, the seat including a seat bottom and a seat back attached to the seat bottom via an attachment, the attachment allowing the seat back to be moved to a plurality of angular positions relative to the seat bottom;
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- a latch for selectively retaining the seat back in one of the plurality of angular positions relative to the seat bottom;
- wherein the seat bottom has a left side and a right side, and wherein the latch includes an elongated member having two ends, one of the two ends being engageable with the right side of the seat bottom and the other of the two ends being engageable with the left side of the seat bottom;
- wherein the left and right sides of the seat bottom each include a serrated slot defined therein to receive the corresponding end of the elongated member, the slot including a plurality of spaced-apart protrusions defined along an edge thereof to engage the corresponding end of the elongated member;
- wherein the serrations are irregular, with each serration having two sides and one side being significantly longer than the other side.
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A swing for a child, comprising:
- a seat support;
- a seat supported by the seat support, the seat including a seat bottom and a seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom to allow the seat back to be moved to a plurality of angular positions relative to the seat bottom, the seat bottom having a left side and a right side with each side including a slot defined therein, each slot including a plurality of spaced-apart protrusions defined along an edge thereof;
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- an elongated, resilient wire having two ends, with one end being engageable with the protrusions in the slot on the left side of the seat bottom and the other end being engageable with the protrusions in the slot on the right side of the seat bottom, the wire also having a central section attached to and supporting the seat back, to allow the wire to selectively retain the seat back in one of the plurality of angular positions relative to the seat bottom, at least a portion of the central section being attached in a manner to substantially prevent pivotal movement of the elongated resilient wire about a longitudinal axis passing generally along the central section, the resilient nature of the elongated wire allowing the ends of the wire to be moved relative to the longitudinal axis without movement of the portion of the central section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.