Children's activity and entertainment enclosure
AssigneeHedstrom Corporation
InventorFrederick M. Rieber
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Abstract
A children's activity and entertainment enclosure includes a housing a plurality of legs attached to the housing to support the housing at a selected elevation above a support surface and a flexible sheet material covering the housing and at least upper portions of the legs. A plurality of activity stations are present within the enclosure as are a seat for seating a child and a suspension mechanism for suspending the seat from the housing so that a child sitting in the seat with feet engaging the support surface can maneuver within the enclosure from one activity station to another.
Claims11
A children's activity and entertainment enclosure comprising
- a housing;
- a plurality of legs attached to the housing to support the housing at a selected elevation above a support surface;
- a flexible sheet material covering the housing and at least upper portions of the legs;
- a plurality of different toys attached to the different legs within the enclosure;
- seat means for seating a child, and
- suspension means for suspending the seat means from the housing so that a child sitting in the seat means with feet engaging the support surface can maneuver within the enclosure from one leg to another and touch each toy attached thereto.
A children's activity and entertainment enclosure comprising
- a housing;
- a plurality of legs attached to the housing to support the housing at a selected elevation above a support surface;
- a flexible sheet material covering the housing and at least upper portions of the legs;
- a plurality of activity stations within the enclosure;
- seat means for seating a child, and
- suspension means for suspending the seat means from the housing so that a child sitting in the seat means with feet engaging the support surface can maneuver within the enclosure from one activity station to another, said suspension means including
- a rotor rotatably mounted within the housing for rotation about a generally vertical axis;
- a rotor arm attached to the rotor and having a lower end extending below the housing;
- an elongated hanger having an upper end attached to the lower end of the rotor arm, and connecting means connecting the seat means to the hanger.
A children's activity and entertainment enclosure comprising
- a housing;
- a plurality of legs attached to the housing to support the housing at a selected elevation above a support surface;
- a flexible sheet material covering the housing and at least upper portions of the legs;
- a plurality of different toys attached to the different legs within the enclosure;
- seat means for seating a child, and
- suspension means including an extensible hanger for suspending the seat means from the housing so that a child sitting in the seat means with feet engaging the support surface can maneuver within the enclosure from one leg to another and touch each toy attached thereto, and
- means for adjusting the extension of said hanger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.