A - Human Necessities – 47 – D
Patent
A - Human Necessities
47
D
A47D 13/06 (2006.01) A63H 3/52 (2006.01) A63H 33/04 (2006.01) F16B 7/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2083855
A children's play structure includes a hinged frame structure having mounted thereon a plurality of panels depicting murals or scenes. The hinged frame structure, which is comprised of a plurality of hinging sections and which is of lightweight, simple and economical construction, is provided with substantial rigidity by corner structures which include hinging apparatus at the upper and lower ends of vertical tubes to permit pivoting rotation of the corner structure relative to one but not the other of a pair of frame sections coupled thereby. Each of the upper and lower hinging apparatus includes a clevis and a lever releasably coupled to the horizontal tubes of the adjacent frame sections by plugs with resilient release tabs. The clevis and lever have interleaved legs which receive a shaft and an opposite cap within apertures therein to permit pivoting rotation between the lever and the clevis while at the same time providing substantial resistance to unwanted vertical flexure. At the same time, the shaft which is secured to the vertical tube of the corner assembly, and the cap which is non-rotatably coupled thereto, are prevented from rotating relative to the clevis, such that only one of the adjacent hinging frame sections is free to rotate relative to the single common vertical tube of the corner structure. The front sections at opposite ends of the hinged frame structure have upper and lower tubes which terminate at vertical tubes to which such upper and lower tubes are coupled by elbows.
Cette invention concerne une structure de jeux d'enfants à ossature articulée et panneaux peints représentant des locaux ou des scènes thématiques. L'ossature articulée, qui se compose d'une série de sections mobiles et qui est de construction légère, simple et économique, comprend des structures de coin verticales qui lui confèrent une rigidité appréciable, structures de coin munies à leurs extrémités supérieure et inférieure d'une articulation conçue pour permettre leur rotation par rapport à une des deux sections d'ossature adjacentes mais non par rapport à l'autre. Chacune des deux articulations supérieure et inférieure se compose d'une chape et d'un embout à oeillet qui se raccordent de façon amovible aux tubes horizontaux des sections d'ossature adjacentes au moyen d'une cheville à pattes de verrouillage flexibles. La chape et l'embout à oeillet sont assemblés au moyen d'un axe sur le bout libre duquel se place un capuchon de retenue, ledit axe passé dans les branches de la chape et dans l'oeillet de l'embout permettant la rotation relative des deux tout en opposant une résistance substantielle aux efforts de flexion verticale indus. Par ailleurs, cet axe, qui est fixé au tube vertical de la structure de coin, et son capuchon de retenue fixe ne peuvent pivoter par rapport à la chape, de sorte que seulement une des sections d'ossature adjacentes peut pivoter autour de l'unique tube vertical formant la structure de coin. Les sections avant formant les extrémités opposées de l'ossature articulée comportent des tubes supérieur et inférieur raccordés aux tubes verticaux correspondants au moyen de coudes.
Melashenko Connie R.
Melashenko Robert A.
Calapitter Creations,inc
Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
LandOfFree
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