US1302321A - Baby walking-chair. - Google Patents

Description

S. DANIEL.

BABY WALKING CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 24. 1916.

Patented Apr. 29, 1919.

STEV DANIEL, 0F HAZEL GREEN, WISCONSIN.

BABY WALKING-CHAIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 24, 1916. Serial No. 127,319.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, STEV DANIEL, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and a resident of Hazel Green, in the county of Grant and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baby W alking-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for the instruction and amusement of infants, and has as its principal object the provision of means whereby infants may be taught to walk, the infant being engaged therein, various devices being provided for the attraction of its attention, amusement and protection.

This and similar objects are attained by the novel design and construction of parts hereafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the preferred embodiment of the invention, and

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1.

The entire apparatus is intended for the protection, amusement and instruction of infants at that period when they are learning to walk and comprises a substantially rectangular frame 10 having well-rounded corners 11, and smooth edges 12, so that no sharp or rough edges are presented to injure the clothing or the body of the infant. This frame is supported upon tubular legs 14, the same containing slidable bars 15, the height of which may be adjustably deter mined by means of the clamp nuts 16, the bars 15 having at their extreme lower ends rollers 17, so that the apparatus may be easily propelled over a level surface.

Passing transversely from side to side of the frame 10, and rigidly engaged therein, is a plate 20 upon which may be arranged toys of various kinds, as indicated by the numeral 21, and passing through the plate at a point near its center is a rod 22 mounted vertically in a tubular support 53, the rod carrying an umbrella 23, the same being of sufiicient size to shelter the infant from the effects of the sun or rain.

At one side of the plate 20 is another plate 25,slidable in the frame, the frontof the plate having a recess 26 registering with a. similar recess 27 formed in the fixed plate 28 of the upper surface of the apparatus.

On the side just described, it is readily possible by slacking the clamp screws 29 to move the plate 25 toward the center, thus permltting the infant to be placed in positron, at the point just below the arms, so that a portion of the infants Weight can be taken on the supporting plates when the height is adjusted so that its feet rest upon the surface on which the apparatus rests.

At the opposite side, a similar sliding plate 30 is arranged, having a recess 31, registering with a similar recess 32 formed in the fixed plate 33, the arrangement being such that the body of the infant may be held upright; a seat 35 is provided below the recesses 31 and 32, the back 36 of the seat bemg arranged to support the infant comfortably. Thus it is possible for one apparatus to contain two infants at the same time.

At the bottom of one'of the supports 15 is arranged a friction wheel 38 upon the extending stem of which is attached a bevel gear 39 meshing with a mate 40 secured upon the lower end of a vertical shaft 41, earned in a bracket 42 and connected with an upper shaft 43 by means of a sliding ]O11'1t 44.

Fixed to the top of the shaft 43 is another gear 45 meshing with its mate 46 mounted on one end of thejhorizontal shaft 47, carried in the bearings 48 extending downwardly from the plate 20, the inner end of the shaft 47 having upon it a bevel gear 50 engaging with the mate gear 51, which is secured to a transverse shaft 52 arranged to rotate the toys 21.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that a device has been indicated in which one or two infants may be engaged in such manner as to hold them safely and in which the limbs are left free to move as they may desire. It will be evident that the apparatus 1s capable of expansion and extension within a considerable limit and that by its use, the child can be taught to walk and to sit in a proper manner. At the same time, a table or level surface 1s provided upon which may be displayed toys, food, or other like requisites and further the umbrella protects the infant against the effects of the weather.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A walking chair for twin babies of the character described comprising a substanlPatentedl Apr. 29, 12319.

tially rectangular frame having rounded corners and smoothed edges, slotted tubular legs supporting said frame, sliding bars within said legs, clamp nuts locking said bars in their adjusted positions, rollers at the lower ends of said legs, a central plate in said frame, adapted to carry toys, recessed plates at opposite sides of said central plate and sliding in said frame, fixed plates in said frame in front of said sliding plates having a recess supplementing the recess in said slidin plates to form openings for the childrens odies, a seat and back therefor below one of said recesses, a friction Wheel at the lower end of one of said legs, a bevel l5 gear upon the extending stem of said wheel, a vertical shaft, a gear at the lower end of said shaft in mesh with said bevel gear, a horizontal shaft, a gear at the upper end of said vertical shaft, gears at the ends of said 20 horizontal shaft, one in mesh with said last named gear of the vertical shaft, and the other adapted to operate means for rotating said toys.

Signed at Hazel Green, in the county of 25 Grant, and State of Wisconsin, this ninth day of October, 1916.

STEV DANIEL.

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