Infant mat
OwnerCarl J. Confortiinventor
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Abstract
An automatically-opening infant mat that is movable between an open position and a closed position includes a water-resistant flexible material sized to have an infant, at least from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks, placed on the material while the mat is in the open position, a cushion coupled to the material to be disposed under a portion of the infant's body while the mat is in the open position and the infant is placed on the material, and a resilient bias member coupled to the material and configured to bias the material to an open position and to be reversibly moved to a closed position.
Claims29
An infant change mat comprising:
- a body sized to receive an infant, the body having a length at least about a length of an infant from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks and a width that is wider than about a width of a torso of the infant to accommodate the infant lying on the infant's back on the body;
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- a cache of protective covering material connected to the body and configured to be disposed under at least a portion of the infant when the infant is disposed on the mat and to have a first portion of the cache be disposed above a portion of the body and under the at least a portion of the infant during a first usage of the mat for changing the diaper of the infant, be soiled, and be discarded, and to have a second portion of the cache be disposed above the portion of the body and under the at least a portion of the infant during a second usage of the mat for changing another diaper of the infant, be soiled, and be discarded;
- wherein at least one of the body and the cache of protective covering material is configured to inhibit the infant from contacting a surface on which the mat is disposed;
- wherein the second portion is disposed to inhibit soiling of the second portion during the first usage of the mat;
- and
- wherein the body and the cache are configured to be portable.
An infant change mat comprising:
- a body sized to receive an infant, the body having a length at least about a length of an infant from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks and a width that is wider than about a width of a torso of the infant to accommodate the infant lying on the infant's back on the body;
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- cover means, connected to the body, for covering at least a portion of the body between the infant's buttocks and the body with separable portions of water-resistant protective covering material, each portion of the material configured to inhibit material from a diaper of the infant from reaching the body, at least some of the separable portions overlying each other;
- wherein the body and the cover means are configured to be portable.
An infant change mat comprising:
- a body sized to receive an infant, the body having a length at least about a length of an infant from the infant's head to the infant's buttocks and a width that is wider than about a width of a torso of the infant to accommodate the infant lying on the infant's back on the body;
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- a plurality of selectively-removable water-resistant sheets removably connected to the body and configured to be disposed over at least a portion of the body and to have a first of the sheets be disposed under the at least a portion of the infant during a first usage of the mat for changing the diaper of the infant, be soiled, and be discarded, and to have a second of the sheets be disposed under the at least a portion of the infant during the first usage and during a second usage of the mat for changing another diaper of the infant, be soiled, and be discarded;
- wherein the sheets are configured to inhibit human waste from passing through the sheets into contact with the body;
- wherein the body and the sheets are configured to be portable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.