US 12,213,599 B1
Base unit for plastic playyard or barrier
Mark A. Flannery, Longboat Key, FL (US); Gary T. Schultze, Savage, MN (US); and Matthew A. Willms, Woodbury, MN (US)
Assigned to Regalo International, LLC, Longboat Key, FL (US)
Filed by Regalo International, LLC, Burnsville, MN (US)
Filed on Jul. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/225,083.
Application 18/225,083 is a continuation of application No. 17/838,213, filed on Jun. 11, 2022, granted, now 11,707,140.
Application 17/838,213 is a continuation of application No. 17/187,732, filed on Feb. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,359,401, issued on Jun. 14, 2022.
Application 17/187,732 is a continuation of application No. 15/846,073, filed on Dec. 18, 2017, granted, now 10,932,589, issued on Mar. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/436,369, filed on Dec. 19, 2016.
Int. Cl. A47D 13/06 (2006.01); E04H 17/18 (2006.01)
CPC A47D 13/066 (2013.01) [E04H 17/185 (2021.01); Y10T 403/32459 (2015.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base unit comprising:
a) a frame that includes:
i) first, second, third, and fourth frame members;
ii) the first and second frame members being end frame members;
iii) the third and fourth frame members being longitudinal frame members, the third frame member being between the first and second members, the fourth member being between the first and second members;
iv) a first face that includes a first plane;
v) a second face that includes a second plane, the first and second planes being parallel to each other;
b) a body between the first, second, third and fourth frame members;
c) first and second connectors engaged to the first member, the first and second connectors having a pivoting axis in the second plane;
d) third and fourth connectors engaged to the second member, the third and fourth connectors having a pivoting axis in the first plane;
e) the first and fourth connectors being obliquely positioned relative to each other;
f) the second and third connectors being obliquely positioned relative to each other;
g) such that, when a first base unit is engaged to a second base unit, the first connector of the first base unit is engagable to the fourth connector of the second base unit and the second connector of the first base unit is engagable to the third connector of the second base unit; and
h) each of the first, second, third and fourth frame members defining an H-channel;
i) the H-channel being endless; and
j) wherein the H-channel includes an outer wall and an inner wall, and further including a set of corner braces, the corner braces extending from an outer wall of an end frame member to an outer wall of a longitudinal frame member that is adjacent to said end frame member, each of the corner braces being straight from said outer wall of said end frame member to said outer wall of said longitudinal frame member.