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US 8,783,708 B2Granted
Collapsible stroller
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorsGerjan Storm, Petrus Henricus Maria Stokman, John Gert Til van Dijk
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Abstract
A collapsible stroller includes a collapsible seat-support frame and a frame lock coupled to the seat-support frame. The frame lock is operable by a caregiver to retain the seat-support frame in an erect configuration or release the seat-support frame so that it is free to move to a collapsed storage configuration.
Claims13
A collapsible stroller comprising
- a seat-support frame provided with at least two frame rods being pivotably connected to each other, which seat-support frame is foldable from an erect configuration to a collapsed configuration and vice versa, and
- a frame lock configured to lock the seat-support frame in its erect configuration, the frame lock including at least two lock members, wherein a first lock member of the at least two lock members is swivelably connected at a first swivel to a first frame rod of the at least two frame rods and a second lock member of the at least two lock members is swivelably connected at a second swivel to a second frame rod of the at least two frame rods, and the first and second lock members are pivotably connected to each other at a distance from the first and second swivels at a lock pivot, wherein the second swivel is movable from a locked first position wherein the second swivel is located on a first side of a virtual line, the virtual line being arranged to extend through the lock pivot and the first swivel, in which locked first position the seat-support frame is locked in its erect configuration and the second swivel is located between the lock pivot and the first swivel on the virtual line to a second position wherein the second swivel is located on a second opposite side of the virtual line, in which second position the seat-support frame is unlocked.
A stroller comprising
- a collapsible seat-support frame configured to move from an erect configuration to a collapsed configuration at the option of a caregiver, the collapsible seat-support frame including an elongate spine, a handle assembly coupled to an upper end of the elongate spine, a coupler coupled to a lower end of the elongate spine, and a wheel unit coupled to the coupler and configured to support the elongate spine for rolling movement relative to ground under the collapsible seat-support frame, wherein the elongate spine includes a first frame rod, a second frame rod, and a movable spine joint coupled to the first and second frame rods and configured to support the second frame rod for pivotable movement about a rod pivot axis during movement of the collapsible seat-support frame from the erect configuration to the collapsed configuration, and
- a frame lock coupled to the first and second frame rods and configured to provide means for temporarily blocking pivotable movement of the second frame rod relative to the first frame rod about the rod pivot axis when the collapsible seat-support frame is moved to assume the erect configuration so that the collapsible seat-support frame is retained in the erect configuration, wherein the frame lock is positioned to lie between the movable spine joint and the wheel unit when the collapsible seat-support frame is moved to assume the erect configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.