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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 29, 1996
Scott Ziegler, El Cajon, CA (US);
Kevin Maloney, North Kingstown, RI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A collapsible playyard for an infant includes a pair of frame subassemblies and a plurality of collapsible connecting members which normally maintain the frame subassemblies in spaced substantially parallel relation. The frame subassemblies include knuckle joints which cooperate to maintain the frame assembly in an erected position, but at least a portion of which are reoriented as the connecting members are collapsed to allow the frame subassemblies to also be collapsed. The width of one of the frame subassemblies is smaller than the width of the other frame subassembly to allow the two frame subassemblies to be at least partially nested together and then folded in half to form a compact collapsed structure.