Infant basket having hidden latch means
AssigneeWonderland Nursery Goods Co., Ltd.
InventorXiao-Song Duan
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Abstract
An infant basket comprises: a basket body; two pivot plates formed with notches; two hollow connectors pivoted to the pivot plates; two latch members mounted in the hollow connectors and operable to engage and disengage the notches; and a handle having two hollow end portions. The hollow connectors are mounted detachably in the hollow end portions such that the latch members are disposed within the hollow end portions. The latch members are co-rotatable with the handle and the hollow connectors relative to the pivot plates about a rotation axis from an upright position to a lie-back position relative to the basket body when the latch members are disengaged from the notches, respectively.
Claims9
An infant basket having hidden latch means, said infant basket comprising:
- a basket body adapted to receive an infant therein and having a top open end with two opposite lateral sides;
- two opposite pivot plates connected to said opposite lateral sides of said top end of said basket body, respectively, each of said pivot plates being formed with a first notch;
- two hollow connectors pivoted to said pivot plates, respectively;
- two latch members respectively mounted movably to and hidden in said hollow connectors and operable to engage and disengage said first notches in said pivot plates, respectively;
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- a handle having two opposite hollow end portions, each of which defines an accommodating space therein;
- wherein said hollow connectors are mounted respectively and detachably to said hollow end portions of said handle and respectively extend into said accommodating spaces in said hollow end portions of said handle, such that said latch members are disposed within said accommodating spaces, respectively;
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- wherein said latch members are co-rotatable with said handle and said hollow connectors relative to said pivot plates about a rotation axis from an upright position to a lie-back position relative to said basket body when said latch members are disengaged from said first notches, respectively;
- said infant basket further comprising two urging members and two operating knobs, each of said latch members extending in a length direction and being formed with a cam-receiving recess defined by a recess-defining wall, said recess-defining wall having a slanted face that is inclined to the length direction, each of said urging members urging a respective one of said latch members in the length direction, each of said operating knobs extending movably into said cam-receiving recess in a respective one of said latch members, having a slanted face that is in sliding contact with said slanted face of said recess-defining wall of the respective one of said latch members, and being pressible to slide on said slanted face of said recess-defining wall for driving movement of the respective one of said latch members against the urging action of the respective one of said urging members in the length direction away from the respective one of said pivot plates, thereby permitting disengagement of the respective one of said latch members from said first notch in the respective one of said pivot plates.
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