US 12,239,244 B1
Collapsible bassinet apparatus
Shannon R. Bickel, Lakeville, MN (US); William D. Butterfield, River Falls, WI (US); and Heidi C. Leighton, Shorewood, MN (US)
Assigned to Regalo International, LLC, Burnsville, MN (US)
Filed by Regalo International, LLC, Burnsville, MN (US)
Filed on May 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/327,712.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/173,986, filed on Apr. 12, 2021.
Int. Cl. A47D 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47D 9/005 (2013.01) 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bassinet apparatus comprising:
a) a set of upper hubs;
b) a set of lower hubs;
c) a scissoring leg arrangement between the upper and lower hubs, the scissoring leg arrangement having an open and expanded form, the scissoring leg arrangement having a closed and collapsed form, the scissoring leg arrangement being foldable in from the open and expanded form to the closed and collapsed form, the scissoring leg arrangement being foldable out from the closed and collapsed form to the open and expanded form;
d) a set of corner posts, each of the corner posts engaging one upper hub and one lower hub;
e) a set of intermediate posts, each of the intermediate posts being between two of the corner posts, each of the intermediate posts engaging one upper hub and one lower hub;
f) a flexible receptacle engaged with each of the corner posts and each of the intermediate posts, the flexible receptacle riding on the upper hubs;
g) the flexible receptacle having a flexible floor and an endless flexible sidewall;
h) the floor slidingly engaging each of the corner and intermediate posts and the endless flexible sidewall slidingly engaging each of the corner and intermediate posts such that the flexible receptacle is compressed into a compact form when the scissoring leg arrangement is folded in from the open and expanded form to the closed and collapsed form and such that the flexible receptacle is expanded into an operating form when the scissoring leg arrangement is folded out from the closed and collapsed form to the open and expanded form;
i) wherein the flexible receptacle includes a perimeter, wherein the perimeter of the flexible receptacle includes sides, and wherein the endless flexible sidewall extends along all of said sides of the perimeter of the flexible receptacle;
j) each of the corner posts and intermediate posts having an upper end, said upper end corresponding to one corresponding upper hub disposed directly below said upper end;
k) a distance between said upper end and said one corresponding upper hub upon which the flexible receptacle rides being a first distance when the flexible receptacle is in said operating form;
l) A distance between said upper end and said one corresponding upper hub upon which the flexible receptacle rides being a second distance when the flexible receptacle is in said compact form;
m) wherein said first distance is greater than the second distance; and
n) wherein, when the scissoring leg arrangement is folded in from the open and expanded form to the closed and collapsed form, the upper hubs slidingly push the flexible floor toward upper portions of the corner and intermediate posts.