Gerber Products Company

The Procter Gamble Company

Conserv, Inc.

Thomas Rattray

John D Osher

Milton D Spahni

Theodore E Farrington, Jr

A collapsible baby crib having two pairs of opposed end legs, two centrally-located side legs, the legs being pivotally interconnected by upper and lower horizontal tubes, and covered by a fabric to form a generally rectangular crib which can be zig-zag folded to a collapsed condition. Two floor halves in the lower portion of the crib form a bottom wall. Each floor half is formed of a generally triangular section, the two triangular sections being hinged together along a diagonal line. One triangular section is hinged to an end tube and one triangular section is hinged to a side tube. The floor is folded within the confines of the crib walls when in collapsed condition.

Collapsible baby crib

An adjustable enclosure is provided for young children including a plurality of inner panels and a pair of end panels formed of tubes connected in a rectangular shape with a section of mesh material extending therebetween. The panels are connected in pivotal relation by hinge means designed to articulate approximately 300.degree. allowing the panels to be folded together compactly for easy transport, an also to resist pivotal motion to a degree whereby young children cannot readily pivot one panel relative to another.

Adjustable enclosure

A disposable absorbent structure for the removal and retention of moisture and/or particulate from a soiled object coming in contact therewith. The structure preferably comprises a macroscopically patterned, three-dimensionally expanded, shear resistant uppermost layer having an object contacting surface and a non-object contacting surface, said uppermost layer exhibiting a pattern of protuberances extending upwardly from a first plane and terminating in a second plane substantially parallel to and remote from the first plane. The uppermost layer further exhibits a multiplicity of discrete apertures in its second plane and is pervious to moisture in its first plane. A moisture absorbent substrate having its uppermost surface coextensive with the uppermost object contacting layer is secured substantially continuously to substantially all of the non-object contacting surface of the uppermost layer. The discrete apertures located in the second plane of the uppermost layer expose the subjacent portions of the moisture absorbent substrate directly to the soiled object when the disposable absorbent structure contacts the object. Under normal use conditions, the portions of the uppermost layer initially located in the first plane and the portions of the uppermost layer initially located in the second plane undergo resilient deformation to move closer toward one another, but do not become coplanar with one another when subjected to compressive loads. When the compressive loads are removed, they move in the direction of their initial positions. Absorbent structures of the present invention function to transfer moisture and/or particulate from a soiled object into the moisture absorbent substrate via the discrete apertures in and/or the moisture-pervious portions of the uppermost layer of the structure. Once moisture and particulate enter the moisture absorbent substrate, they are effectively isolated from objects coming in contact with the structure by the uppermost object contacting layer.

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