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US 8,894,078 B2Granted
Juvenile walker
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorsJoseph F Brewin, Gerald C Palmer
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Abstract
A juvenile walker includes a rolling base and a child restraint coupled to the rolling base to move therewith. The child restraint is adapted to support a child using the juvenile walker. The rolling base includes a lift carrier and a child-restraint lift coupled to both the child restraint and the lift carrier to vary a height of the child restraint above ground.
Claims48
A juvenile walker comprising
- a rolling base adapted to roll over ground underlying and supporting the rolling base,
- a child restraint coupled to the rolling base and adapted to support a child at various heights above ground, and
- a restraint height adjuster configured to provide means for adjusting a position of the child restraint relative to ground to cause the juvenile walker to be arranged to accommodate children of varying sizes in response to application of at least a first compression force which frees portions of the restraint height adjuster to move in response to application of an upward force away from the rolling base that frees the child restraint to move up and down relative to ground so that inadvertent movement of the child restraint is blocked in absence of both the first compression force and the upward force.
A juvenile walker comprising
- a rolling base adapted to roll over ground underlying and supporting the rolling base,
- a child restraint coupled to the rolling base and adapted to support a child at various heights above ground, and
- a restraint height adjuster including an adjuster mount coupled to the child restraint in a fixed position relative to the child restraint, a height lock coupled to the adjuster mount to move relative to the adjuster mount between a locked position in which movement of the child restraint relative to the rolling base is blocked and an unlocked position in which movement of the child restraint relative to the rolling base is permitted, and a height-lock actuator coupled to the height lock to move relative to the height lock between an engaged position in which the height lock is freed to move between the locked and unlocked positions and a disengaged position in which the height lock is blocked from moving between the locked and unlocked position, and the restraint height adjuster is configured to adjust a position of the child restraint relative to ground to cause the juvenile walker to be arranged to accommodate children of varying sizes in response to application of first and second compression forces applied to the height-lock actuator that free the height-lock actuator to move in response to application of a upward force to the height lock causing the height lock to move to the unlocked position so that inadvertent movement of the child restraint is blocked in absence of both the first and second compression forces and the upward force.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.