US 8,806,673 B2Granted

Infant sleeping apparatus and child containment system

AssigneeGraco Children's Products Inc.

InventorsBrandon Burkholder, Matt Rivera, Annette Stella

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Abstract

A child containment system has a child containment structure with a bottom and a perimeter wall surrounding the bottom. A connector part is on each of two opposed outward facing surfaces of the perimeter wall. The system has a bassinet with a bottom panel and surrounding wall around the bottom panel. The bassinet is removably mounted to the perimeter wall with the bottom panel elevated above the bottom. The system has an infant sleeping apparatus with a fabric panel, a top surface, a pair of opposed sides, and a pair of opposed ends. The infant sleeping apparatus has a connector part positioned near each of the pair of the opposed ends. The infant sleeping apparatus is removably mounted to the containment structure with the fabric panel overlying the bassinet bottom panel with each connector part of the sleeping apparatus coupled to one of the connector parts of the containment structure.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A child containment system comprising:

a child containment structure having a bottom and a perimeter wall surrounding the bottom,
a connector part carried on each of two opposed outward facing surfaces of the perimeter wall;
a removable bassinet having a bottom panel and a surrounding wall around the bottom panel, the bassinet mounted to the perimeter side wall of the child containment structure with the bottom panel elevated above the bottom;
and
an infant sleeping apparatus having a fabric panel with a top surface, a pair of opposed sides, and a pair of opposed ends, and having a mating connector part positioned near each of the pair of the opposed ends of the fabric panel,
wherein the infant sleeping apparatus is removably mounted to the child containment structure with the fabric panel overlying the bottom panel of the bassinet with each mating connector part of the infant sleeping apparatus coupled to a corresponding one of the connector parts of the child containment structure, the coupling of each mating connector part to the corresponding one of the connector parts occurring on an exterior of the child containment structure, and
wherein the infant sleeping apparatus is completely separable from the child containment structure independent of the bassinet, leaving the bassinet attached to the child containment structure.

4 more elements

A child containment system comprising:

a child containment structure having a bottom and a perimeter wall surrounding the bottom,
a snap component carried on each of two opposed outward facing surfaces of the perimeter wall;
and
a removable bassinet having a bottom panel and a surrounding wall around the bottom panel, the bassinet mounted to the perimeter wall of the child containment structure with the bottom panel elevated above the bottom;
and
an infant sleeping apparatus having a fabric panel with a top surface, a pair of opposed sides, and a pair of opposed ends, and a mating snap component positioned near each of the pair of the opposed ends of the fabric panel,
wherein the infant sleeping apparatus is removably mounted to the child containment structure with the fabric panel overlying the bottom panel of the bassinet with each snap component of the child containment structure snapped to a corresponding one of the mating snap components of the infant sleeping apparatus,
wherein each snap component of the child containment structure is snapped to the corresponding one of the mating snap components of the infant sleeping apparatus on an exterior of the child containment structure, and
wherein the infant sleeping apparatus is completely detachable from the child containment structure independent of the bassinet, and, when the infant sleeping apparatus is completely detached from the child containment structure, the bassinet remains attached to the child containment structure.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/624,621Filed 21 Sep 2012 · continuation
Priority: 3 May 2007
Published: US 2013/0047336 A128 Feb 2013
Granted: 19 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A47D 9/016
Cradles ; Bassinets: capable of being suspended from, or attached to, other articles or structures, e.g. adult's bed
A47D 7/00
Children's beds
A47D 13/06
Other nursery furniture: children's play- pens
A47D
Furniture specially adapted for children

Family

Application60/927,349Us provisional application · filed 3 May 2007
Application61/014,053Us provisional application · filed 16 Dec 2007
Application12/113,552Parent of this continuation · filed 1 May 2008
Application13/178,340Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jul 2011
US 8,001,630 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Aug 2011
US 2013/0047336 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Feb 2013
US 8,291,530 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2008/0271243 A1Published application
US 2011/0258775 A1Published application
US 8,806,673 B2This patent

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