Hedstrom Corporation

Brown Group Recreational Products, Inc.

Stephen W Smith

Joel C Cunard

William H Ziegler, Jr

Robert J Boudreau

Russell J Coddington, Jr

A children's swing includes a rigid, upwardly curved seat which has a planar seating portion and side portions which extend generally perpendicular to the seating portion and define the opposite ends of the seat. A longitudinal channel is present in the underside of the seating portion and passages extend from the opposite ends of the channel to the opposite ends of the seat. A long chain of links extends into the passage at one end of the seat, along the channel and out the passage at the other end of the seat. Interferences are provided in the seat which interfere with the chain links to fix the position of the seat along the chain so that when the opposite ends of the chain are suspended from an overhead support, the seating portion of the seat remains horizontal when the swing is at rest.

Children's swing

Swing seat

Bouncing horse

A rugged but inexpensive bicycle frame comprises a tubular head post welded to the flattened forward end of a relatively large diameter tubular crossbar. The rear end of the crossbar is flattened laterally and provided with a concave rear edge. A tubular rear fork has a rounded bridge portion which is fitted to the crossbar rear edge so that the nominal plane of the rear fork is perpendicular to the headpost. Welds permanently connect the front and rear ends of the crossbar to the headpost and rear fork bridge portion respectively. There are openings in the top and bottom walls of the crossbar just forward of the rear end thereof for receiving a tubular seat post so that the lower end of set seat post extends appreciably below the crossbar. Welds permanently connect the seat post to the crossbar. A short tube is welded to the lower end of the seat post to support the pedal crank.

Bicycle frame

Bicycle

Child's racing bike

Knock-down tricycle

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Bedford, PA, United States of America

Stephen W Smith