Mounting mechanism for toy bar of child-support device

摘要

A male inserter and a female receiver fixed to a toy bar and a child-support device for relative movement between upright locked and inclined unlocked positions. The male inserter includes a lock element and the female receiver includes a catch surface. In the upright unlocked position, the male inserter can pass through the female receiver. But in the inclined locked position, the lock element engages and locks against the catch surface. If a child in the child-support device pulls down and/or forward on the toy bar in the locked position, it does not move to the unlocked position. But an upward lifting force applied to the toy bar causes it to pivot from the locked position to the unlocked position and to then detach from the child-support device.

主权项

1. A mechanism for mounting a toy bar to a child-support device, the mounting mechanism comprising:
a male inserter fixed to one of the toy bar and the child-support device, the male inserter including a lock element; and a female receiver fixed to the other one of the toy bar and the child-support device, the female receiver including a lock opening that receives the male inserter and a catch surface that is selectively engaged by the lock element, wherein the catch surface is defined inside the female receiver,wherein the toy bar moves between an unlocked position and a locked position, in response thereto the male inserter moves relative to the female receiver between the unlocked position and the locked position, in the locked position the lock element of the male inserter engages the catch surface of the female receiver to retain the male inserter in the lock opening, and in the unlocked position the lock element is disengaged from the catch surface thereby permitting the male inserter to be withdrawn from the lock opening, wherein the movement of the toy bar is pivotal, the movement of the male inserter relative to the female receiver in response thereto is pivotal, in the unlocked position the toy bar and the fixed thereto male inserter or female receiver is generally upright, and in the locked position the toy bar and the fixed thereto male inserter or female receiver is inclined relative to the locked position.