Patent Application
20250143482
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The disclosure relates to baby carrier devices and more particularly pertains to a new baby carrier device for facilitating a mother to carry a baby in a hands-free manner. The device includes a belt that is wearable around a mother's waist and a sleeve through which the belt extends and a cushion integrated into the sleeve upon which a baby can sit when the belt is worn around the mother's waist. The device includes a scarf that is wrapped around the cushion and which is subsequently wrapped around the mother and the baby to secure the baby to the mother.
The prior art relates to baby carrier devices including a variety of baby sling devices that can be wrapped around a mother for securing a baby to the mother and a variety of baby carriers that each at least includes a waist belt and a plurality of straps for securing a baby to a mother. In no instance does the prior art disclose a baby carrier device that includes a waist belt, a sleeve through which the waist belt extends, a cushion integrated into the sleeve upon which a baby can be seated and a scarf that can be wrapped around the cushion and subsequently wrapped around the baby and the mother for securing the baby to the mother.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a belt is configured for wearing about a mother's waist. A sleeve is positioned around the belt and the sleeve defines a cushion chamber that is centrally located on the belt. A cushion is positioned within the cushion chamber to facilitate a baby to be seated on the cushion chamber when the belt is worn around the mother's waist. A first scarf is extendable through the cushion chamber in the sleeve such that the first scarf forms a pair of arms that can be wrapped around the baby and the mother's torso thereby securing the baby to the mother's torso. A second scarf is provided which is wrappable around the first scarf to facilitate the baby to be firmly secured against the mother's torso.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A sleeve 26 is positioned around the belt 12 such that the sleeve 26 extends around the mother's waist 14 when the belt 12 is being worn and the sleeve 26 defines a cushion chamber 28 that is centrally located on the belt 12. The sleeve 26 has a slot 30 extending through a back side 32 of an outer wall 34 of the sleeve 26 and into the cushion chamber 28; the slot 30 is centrally positioned between a primary end 36 and a secondary end 38 of the sleeve 26. A front side 40 of the outer wall 34 has a central portion 42 extending between a pair of sidelong portions 44 which are each perpendicularly oriented with a respective one of a pair of flattened portions 46. Additionally, each of the pair of flattened portions 46 is associated with a respective one of the primary end 36 and the secondary end 38 of the sleeve 26. The central portion 42 is perpendicularly oriented with the pair of sidelong portions 44 such that the central portion 42 lies on a plane that is oriented parallel to the pair of flattened portions 46. In this way the cushion chamber 28 is defined between the central portion 42 and the back side 32 of the outer wall 34 having the cushion chamber 28 being bounded by the pair of sidelong portions 44.
The central portion 42 extends upwardly beyond a top side 48 of the outer wall 34 which extends between the back side 32 of the outer wall 34 and the central portion 42. In this way the central portion 42 defines a lip 50 which extends upwardly from the top side 48 and which extends along a full length of the central portion 42. The central portion 42 has a hole 52 extending into the cushion chamber 28 and the hole 52 is centrally located along the lip 50. The belt 12 extends through each of the pair of flattened portions 46 such that the first buckle 22 is spaced from the primary end 36 and the second buckle 24 is spaced from the secondary end 38. A closure 54 is integrated into the back side 32 of the outer wall 34 of the sleeve 26 and the closure 54 is oriented to extend along the slot 30. The closure 54 opens or closes the slot 30 when the closure 54 is manipulated between an open condition or a closed condition. Additionally, the closure 54 may comprise a zipper or other type of releasable, mechanical closure.
A cushion 56 is positioned within the cushion chamber 28 to facilitate a baby 58 to be seated on the cushion chamber 28 when the belt 12 is worn around the mother's waist 14. In this way the belt 12 and the cushion 56 transfer the weight of the baby 58 into the mother's waist 14. The cushion 56 has a prominence 60 which extends upwardly from an intersection between a front surface 62 of the cushion 56 and a top surface 64 of the cushion 56 and the prominence 60 extends into the lip 50 defined on the sleeve 26. The lip 50 on the sleeve 26 inhibits the baby 58 from sliding forwardly off of the cushion 56 when the baby 58 is seated on the cushion 56. The cushion 56 is removable from the cushion chamber 28 through the slot 30 in the back side 32 of the outer wall 34 of the sleeve 26 for laundering. Additionally, the cushion 56 is comprised of a resiliently compressible material, including but not being limited to polyurethane foam or neoprene, such that the cushion 56 can simultaneously support the weight of the baby 58 and enhance comfort for the baby 58.
A first scarf 66 is provided which is extendable through the cushion chamber 28 in the sleeve 26 such that the first scarf 66 forms a pair of arms 68 which each has a length of at least 60.0 cm. In this way each of the pair of arms 68 can be wrapped around the baby 58 and the mother's torso 70 thereby securing the baby 58 to the mother's torso 70. The first scarf 66 has a first end 72 and a second end 74 and the first scarf 66 is knotted adjacent to each of the first end 72 and the second end 74 of the first scarf 66. In this way the first scarf 66 tapers to a point at each of the first end 72 and the second end 74 of the first scarf 66.
The first scarf 66 is folded in half to define each of the pair of arms 68 and each of the arms 68 is looped around the cushion 56 having each of the arms 68 extending into and outwardly from the hole 52 in the lip 50 defined in the sleeve 26. Each of the arms 68 are passed through a loop 78 formed in the first scarf 66 when the first scarf is folded to define the arms 68 such that the first end 72 and the second end 74 of the first scarf 66 are aligned with each other. Each of the arms 68 defined in the first scarf 66 is associated with a respective one of the first end 72 and the second end 74 of the first scarf 66. Additionally, the pair of arms 68 are secured at a point where the pair of arms 68 exits the hole 52 in the lip 50 and passes through the loop 78 in the first scarf 66 thereby inhibiting the first scarf 66 from being removed from the cushion chamber 28.
A second scarf 80 is provided which has a length that is less than a length of the first scarf 66. The second scarf 80 is wrappable around the first scarf 66 when the first scarf 66 is wrapped around the mother's torso 70. In this way the second scarf 80 facilitates the baby 58 to be firmly secured against the mother's torso 70. The second scarf 80 has a first end 82 and a second end 84 and the second scarf 80 is knotted adjacent to each of the first end 82 and second end 84 of the second scarf 80 such that the second scarf 80 tapers to a point at each of the first end 82 and the second end 84 of the second scarf 80.
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With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
