Christopher M Arens

US Patent:

56448066, Jul 8, 1997

Filed:

Nov 9, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/556190

Inventors:

John V. Mariol - Cincinnati OH
Christopher Arens - Troy OH

International Classification:

A47D 700

US Classification:

5 991

Abstract:

A playyard system with a handle and wheels comprising a floor separable from a playyard and formed of a plurality of similarly shaped rigid rectangular segments. The floor is adapted to be placed around a collapsed playyard to form a generally rectilinear configuration with an upper end and a lower end. A handle is secured to one of the segments of the floor adjacent to the upper end. The handle includes a gripping portion at the upper extent and a generally rigid intermediate wire formed with parallel vertical extents and an enlarged lower extent. The handle also has associated therewith apertured brackets secured to the floor for allowing for the sliding of the wire within the brackets to lower the handle toward the floor when in the stowed orientation and to raise the handle from the floor when in the elevated orientation for transportation.

US Patent:

57522839, May 19, 1998

Filed:

Oct 15, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/736748

Inventors:

Christopher Arens - Troy OH

Assignee:

Lisco, Inc. - Tampa FL

International Classification:

A47D 700

US Classification:

5 991

Abstract:

In a playyard of the type having a frame with an upper rail assembly positionable in a horizontal orientation, the frame also including a lower rail assembly positionable in a horizontal orientation beneath the upper rail assembly, the frame also including four vertically extending corner rails with fixed upper and lower corner brackets pivotally coupled to the upper rail assembly and to the lower rail assembly, the playyard also having vertical fabric panels between the upper and lower frame assembly and a horizontal floor panel coupled to the lower extent of the vertical fabric panels and a support for the lower floor panel including a plurality of straps stitched to the lower surface of the floor panel and secured with respect to the lower frame assembly.