This is a reissue of U.S. Pat. No. 9,345,339, issued on May 24, 2016, from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/106,843, which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from Chinese Patent Application No. 201210548767.9, filed Dec. 17, 2012, and from Chinese Patent Application No. 201310445589.1, filed Sep. 26, 2013. The entire contents of the above-identified applications are incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to and a supporting mechanism and a crib therewith, and more specifically, to a supporting mechanism for supporting a hammock of a crib and the crib therewith.
2. Description of the Prior Art
An internal space of a crib is too deep to care a baby conveniently, Thus, the conventional crib includes a hammock connected with a bedstead of the crib for hanging the baby on the hammock. The hammock is installed on an upper side of the bedstead for providing the baby a playing space and for a carer to conveniently hold the baby out of the crib or put the baby in the crib. Meanwhile, a supporting mechanism is disposed on a bottom of the conventional crib so as to fold the crib for storage.
However, a supporting bracket is often disposed under a mattress on the hammock preventing the mattress from bending so as to support the baby stably. Therefore, the conventional supporting mechanism is often designed as a fixed structure. As folding the crib, the hammock has to be detached from the bedstead of the crib first, and then the folding mechanism can be operated to fold the crib. But, this folding operation is inconvenient for the carer. Therefore, it is necessary to providing a supporting mechanism capable of folding or unfolding the hammock together with the bedstead with an easy operation.
The present invention is to provide a supporting mechanism capable of folding or unfolding a hammock together with a bedstead with an easy operation, and a crib therewith.
The present invention is to provide the supporting mechanism disposed on the hammock for supporting a mattress, the supporting mechanism includes a folding component and a plurality of supporting components. The folding component is disposed on a central position of the hammock, and the folding component includes an upper surface, a lower surface and an avoiding section passing through the upper surface and the lower surface. The plurality of supporting components is disposed around the folding component and for supporting a mattress. An end of each of the plurality of supporting components is pivotally connected to the folding component, and the other end of each of the plurality of supporting components is fixed on an edge position of the hammock.
Preferably, an avoiding section is a first through hole disposed on a central position of the folding component.
Preferably, a folding component includes an annular structure and a resilient structure, the avoiding section is enclosed by the annular structure, the annular structure includes an opening communicated to the avoiding section, and the resilient structure is disposed in the opening for enlarging or shrinking the avoiding section. An operator can pull two sides of the annular structure in opposite directions so that the resilient structure is stretched for enlarging the first through hole, and then the operator can insert a hand into the first through hole to operate the folding mechanism.
Preferably, the resilient structure is a spring.
Preferably, the avoiding section is a concave disposed on a lateral position of the folding component.
Preferably, the folding component is sewed on the hammock. As the folding component is sewed on the hammock, the folding component can be fixed on the hammock and drives a bed bottom to move so as to fold or unfold the supporting mechanism and the hammock easily.
Preferably, the folding component includes a base and a pivoting portion connected to the base and pivoted to the plurality of supporting components.
Preferably, the plurality of supporting components is arranged radially around the folding component. As the plurality of supporting components is arranged radially around the folding component, the supporting mechanism can support the mattress in balance and stably.
Preferably, the supporting component includes a retracting structure, the supporting mechanism is expanded as the retracting structure is stretched, and the supporting mechanism is folded as the retracting structure is retracted so as to reduce a size of the supporting mechanism for easy storage.
Accordingly, the present invention provides a crib including a bedstead, a folding mechanism, a hammock, a mattress and a supporting mechanism. The folding mechanism is disposed on a bottom of the bedstead, the hammock is installed on the bedstead, the mattress is disposed on the hammock, and the supporting mechanism is disposed on the hammock for supporting the mattress. The hammock includes a bed bottom 10 and a bed bumper. The supporting mechanism includes a folding component and a plurality of supporting components. The folding component is disposed on a central position of the hammock, and the plurality of supporting components is disposed around the folding component and for supporting the mattress. The folding component includes an upper surface, a lower surface and an avoiding section passing through the upper surface and the lower surface. An end of each of the plurality of supporting components is pivotally connected to the folding component, and the other end of each of the plurality of supporting components is fixed on an edge position of the hammock.
Preferably, the hammock includes a bed bottom and a bed bumper connected to edges of the bed bottom, and the bed bottom includes a second through hole corresponding to the folding mechanism, The operator can stretch out a hand into the second hole to reach the folding mechanism instead of operating the folding mechanism across the bed bottom, to make the folding operation much easier.
In the present application, the supporting mechanism is disposed on the hammock so that the hammock and the bedstead can be folded or unfolded together without detaching the hammock from the bedstead, resulting in an easy operation. Besides, the avoiding section is disposed on the folding component of the supporting mechanism and passes through the upper surface and the lower surface. The operator can insert the hand into the avoiding section and pass through the supporting mechanism for operating the folding mechanism disposed on the bottom of the crib easily without detaching the hammock from the crib. As the end of the supporting component is pivoted to the folding component, the operator can just operate the folding mechanism to fold the crib upwardly, and the supporting component pivots downwardly relative to the folding component, so that the supporting mechanism can be folded with the folding operation of the crib so as to fold or unfold the hammock and the bedstead together. Because the other end of the supporting component is fixed on the hammock, the supporting component cannot be missed as installing the crib so as to enhance the safety of the hammock.
These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
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Specifically, the folding component 12 and the plurality of the supporting components 13 are disposed on the bed bottom 10, and the folding component 12 is disposed on a central position of the bed bottom 10. The other end of each of the plurality of supporting components 13 is fixed on an edge position of the bed bottom 10 away from the central position, that is, a corner position.
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In this embodiment, the supporting mechanism 4 includes four supporting components 13, but not limited to this. The four supporting components 13 are arranged radially around the folding component 12 and extending from the folding component 12 to the bed bumper 11. The supporting component 13 includes a retracting structure. The supporting mechanism 4 is expanded as the retracting structure is stretched. The supporting mechanism 4 is folded as the retracting structure is retracted. Specifically, each supporting component 13 includes a first supporting portion 131 and a second supporting portion 132. An end of the second supporting portion 132 is hollow, and an end of the first supporting portion 131 is slidably inserted into the end of the second supporting portion 132 so as to form the retracting structure of the supporting mechanism 4. The other end of the first supporting portion 131 is pivoted to the folding component 12, and a pivoting axis is parallel to the upper surface of the folding component 12. The other end of the second supporting portion 132 is inserted to the corresponding pocket 101 and fixed with the corresponding pocket 101.
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In contrast to the prior art, the avoiding section is formed on the folding component 12 of the supporting mechanism 4, and the second though hole 102 is disposed in the central position of the bed bottom 10 corresponding to the avoiding section. Therefore, the operator can easily insert the hand into the avoiding section and the second though hole 102 to operate the folding mechanism 20 without detaching the hammock 1 from the bedstead 3. The pivoting portion 124 is disposed on the folding component 12, the pivoting portion 124 includes the first pivoting hole 1241, the second pivoting hole 1312 is disposed on the first supporting portion 131, and the pivoting component 14 passes through the first pivoting hole 1241 and the second pivoting hole 1312 so as to pivotally connect the supporting component 13 to the folding component 12. Therefore, as operating the folding mechanism 20 for folding the bedstead 2 upwardly, the four supporting component 13 pivot downward relative to the folding component 12 so as to fold or unfold the hammock 1 together with the bedstead 2. Besides, the first supporting component 131 is slidably inserted into the second supporting component 132. When the hammock 1 and the bedstead 2 are folded together, a part of the first supporting component 131 slides into the second supporting component 132 so as to shorten a total length of the supporting component 13, so that the crib 100 can be folded in a small size for easy storage.
Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
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