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US 7,621,431 B2Granted
Folding stroller tray
AssigneeChicco USA, Inc.
InventorBruce L. Williams
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Abstract
A folding stroller tray that finds particular use with folding strollers commonly used with small children. The present invention provides a folding stroller tray with a plurality of members which have complementary nested portions that are connected by fasteners that pass the nesting portions to define axis about which the members rotate and join the members to define a desired plane of contact among the assembled members. The present invention includes a method for providing a folding stroller tray.
Claims15
A folding stroller tray comprising:
- a first member having first and second end portions with a first nesting member formed at a selected end;
- a second member having first and second end portions with a second nesting member formed at a selected end;
- a third member having first and second end portions with complementary nesting members formed at the first and second end portions, each of the complementary nesting members complementing a selected one of the first and second nesting members;
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- at least two fasteners rotatably connecting the nesting members of the first, second and third members together, each fastener defining an axis of rotation for the connected nesting members and maintaining a plane between a contact surface of each connected nesting member;
- at least one projection included with at least one of the first nesting member, the second nesting member, and the complementary nesting members;
- at least another one of the first nesting member, the second nesting member, and the complementary nesting member defining at least one arcuate recess, the at least one arcuate recess being generally concentrically aligned with a rotational axis of at least one of the nesting members, the at least one projection being contained by the arcuate recess;
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- at least one stop positioned in the arcuate recess for preventing motion of the at least one projection;
- whereby rotation of the third member around at least one of the first and second members is limited by contact between the projection and the stop.
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A folding stroller tray comprising:
- a first member having first and second end portions with a first nesting member formed at a selected end;
- a second member having first and second end portions with a second nesting member formed at a selected end;
- a third member having first and second end portions with complementary nesting members formed at the first and second end portions, each of the complementary nesting members complementing a selected one of the first and second nesting members;
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- at least two fasteners that rotatably connect the nesting members of the first, second and third members together and define an axis of rotation and maintain a plane between a contact surface of each connected nesting member;
- wherein each of the first nesting member, the second nesting member, and the complementary nesting members include at least one of a bearing protrusion and complementary chamber, and at least one of projections and complementary recesses spaced from the at least one of the bearing protrusion and the complementary chamber, wherein the bearing protrusion is contained in the complementary chamber and the projections are contained in the complementary recesses to pivotably connect the first, second, and third members together.
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A method of providing a folding stroller tray comprising:
- providing a first member having first and second end portions with a first nesting member formed at a selected end;
- providing a second member having first and second end portions with a second nesting member formed at a selected end;
- providing a third member having first and second end portions with complementary nesting members formed at the first and second end portions, each of the complementary nesting members complementing a selected one of the first and second nesting members;
- providing the first and second nesting members with a bearing protrusion and providing each of the complementary nesting members with a complementary chamber having a blind cylindrical aperture;
- providing a through hole on a blind surface of each blind aperture concentric with the blind aperture;
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- pivotably connecting the first member to the third member by inserting the bearing protrusion of the first nesting member into the complementary chamber of one of the complementary nesting members and inserting a screw through the through hole into the bearing protrusion;
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- pivotably connecting the second member to the third member by inserting the bearing protrusion of the second nesting member into the complementary chamber of the other complementary nesting member and inserting a screw through the through hole into the bearing protrusion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.