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UNITED STATES PATENT of FICE.
EMMA READ, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.
PORTABLE BABY CAGE.
Application filed July 19, 1922, serial No. 576,138.
To all whom it may concern. through the cage, which is mostly of open, 55
Be it known that I, EMMA READ, a citizen work or wire fabric, which will prevent the
of the United States, residing at Spokane, baby from falling from the cage. . . . . .
in the county of Spokane and State of Wash Still another purpose is the provision of a
5 ington, have invented certain new and use baby cage of the present character, which is, ...
ful Improvements in Portable Baby Cages, made up of a plurality of foldable sections 60
of which the following is a specification, properly interlocked, in order to provide a
reference being had to the accompanying rigid construction.
drawings. . A still further purpose is the provision of
0 It is well known that a great many diffi improved means for supporting the cage in
culties rise in raising and properly housing position adjacent the window, and properly 65
babies and small children in crowded cities, braced. . . . . . . . .. . . .
that is to say from the health viewpoint. It is to be understood that the particulars
This is especially true with reference to ba herein given are in no way limitative and
bies and young children, who at present are that while still keeping within the scope of
being raised in large apartments, as a result the invention, any desired modifications of 70
of not obtaining the proper fresh air, as well detail and desired proportions may be made
as being outdoors, for such air and exercise. in the apparatus according to circumstances.
In crowded cities, where the houses are
20 closely arranged, and in large apartments, andThecombination
invention comprises further features
of parts, as will be herein
there is no way for proper ventilation. Back after set forth, shown in the drawings and 75
and front yards are small, while those living claimed.
in apartments have no facilities whatever, In the drawings:- . .. .
to permit the children and babies to receive Figure 1 is a view of a baby cage con
25 proper fresh air from the outside. ."
With these facts in view it is the purpose structed in accordance with the invention
of the present invention to provide an arti Figure 2 isthea same
and showing applied to a window; 80
cle of manufacture for babies and young line 2-2 of Figure 1: . . sectional
vertical
. . . . .
view on
.. .
children, to be suspended upon the exterior Figure 3 is a horizontal transverse
30 of a building adjacent an open Window, tional view on line 3-3 of Figure 1: sec.
wherein the baby or young child may be Figure 4 is an enlarged detail view of
placed. This article of manufacture com the construction of means for supporting a
prises a housing or cage, wherein the baby bracket and for assisting in supporting the
or young child together with proper toys cage or housing:
35 may be placed. The baby is enabled to re
Figure 5 is an enlarged detail view of the
ceive fresh air through the screen or wire connection
fabric, and it will be noted that the baby slotted beams between one of the horizontal 90
has sufficient room or space for playing with outer section isofconnected
the cage, showing how the
to the bottom see .
toys. Furthermore suitable bed clothing tion;
40 may be arranged in the cage or housing, Figure 6 is an enlarged . sectional
. . . .
view
. .
when suspended adjacent the window of the through the construction shown in Figure 5: 95
house or apartment, so that when it is time Figure 7 is a detail perspective view,
for the baby to take a nap, the bed clothing showing how the braces are connected to
45 baby bemaymade
may sleep.up in one corner wherein the tothe slotted beams of the bottom, sufficiently .
reinforce the structure; . . . . ..
Another purpose is to provide a device of Figure 8 is an enlarged detail view of the 100
this kind made up of sections, and provided connection between one of the roof sections
with suitable curtains, which, when the baby and the side section:
is sleeping may be lowered, and arranged so Figure 9 is a sectional view through the. .
. . . .
50 as to prevent draft, and yet permit the baby construction shown in Figure 8;
to receive sufficient fresh air. When the
baby has finished taking a nap, the curtains oneFigure
of the
10 is an enlarged detail view of 105
lower oliter corners of the cage or
may be rolled up out of place, so as to per housing, showing how the outer section and
mit a thorough supply of fresh air to pass the end sections are operatively connected,
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to reinforce one another, and to permit the 28.and an upper screen or wire fabric section
The screen or wire fabric portion proper
end sections to retain the outer section in is fastened
position; in any suitable manner to the
Figure 11 is a detail view showing how sheet metal base portion 27 and the end rails
the corner angle irons are fastened to the 29, which rise from the ends of the sheet 70
corners of the housing or cage. metal base portion 27. The upper ends of
Referring to the drawings, 1 designates 30. rails
the 29 are connected by an angle piece
the window of a building, and 2 denotes the which areouter
The wall section is in two parts,
hingedly united as at 31, so that
usual sill. Arranged on the inner sill, and the two parts are capable of folding, when
10 in engagement with the bead 3 of the sill the outer wall section is removed. The lower
is an angle iron 4. Also engaging the sill, portion or edge of the sheet metal base por
outwardly beyond that portion which is
engaged by the angle iron, is a wooden sub tion
to it
27 of the outer wall section has secured
an angle bar 32. Riveted or otherwise 80
sil 5. Engaged with the exterior sill 6 of secured
5 the window is an angle iron 7, and riveted having to"-shaped the angle bar 32 are plates 33
lugs 34 projecting down
or otherwise fastened thereto as at 8 are Wardly. Obviously when arranging the
depending bracket arms 9. The upper ends Outer wall section in position, it is disposed
of the bracket arms are extended beyond the so that the T-shaped lugs 34
angle iron 7, and are provided with openings through the rectangular openingswill 21,
pass 85
cen
2. 10, through which the shanks 11 of the bolts
12 pass. The heads of the bolts 12 engage trally of the beams 19. The outer wall sec
the exterior surfaces of the bracket arms 9. tion then moves outwardly to the outer ends
The angle iron 4 is disposed to receive of the beams 19, causing the restricted necks
the tubular shanks 13 of the bolts 14. These of the lugs 34 to engage the outwardly ex 90
tending portions of the slots 20. Therefore,
2 5 tubular shanks also pass through the Sub it is obvious that when the outer wall sec
sill 5, and are interiorly threaded, to db tion is moved to the outer ends of the
ceive the shanks 11 of the bolts 12. beams 19, the lugs 34 will act to lock and
viously by tightening up the bolts 12 and hold the outer wall section substantially 95
14, the frame may be supported rigidly in perpendicularly.
30 position. The lower ends of the bracket
arms 9 have riveted or otherwise secured ... The outer upper ends of the braces 17 also
terminate in T-shaped lugs 35, which are
thereto a wooden strip 15, which lies flat designed to pass through the rectangular
against the wall of the building, to hold the enlargements
bracket arms out of contact with the Wall. 23 of the slots 22 in the under 00
35 In fact the angle iron 7 which engages the by allowing the of
or botton walls the beams 19, and then
exterior sill of the window also prevents the Zontal positions, the lugs1935to will
beams move to hori
move out
depending bracket arms from contacting Wardly in the slots 22, and therefore lock
with the wall of the building.
Hingedly connected to the depending theThe braces detachably to the beams 19.
inner wall section 25 comprises a sheet
bracket arms 9 as at 16 adjacent, their lower metal base
extremities are brace bars 17. Hingedly metal portionportion 36, and an upper sheet
connected at 18 to the depending bracket also is in two parts 38,inner
37. The wall section 25
arms 9, adjacent their upper ends are hollow united as at 39, so thatwhich the
are hingedly
two parts are 3.0
beams 19. These beams are square or rec capable of folding, when collapsing the
45 tangular in cross section and are tubular.
various sections of the cage. The
The upper walls of the beams 19 are slotted metal base portion 36 of the inner wall sec sheet
as shown at 20 substantially for their full
length. The central portions of the slots tion dow
extends from the outer sill of the win
downwardly to a position approximat Ili
20 have enlarged openings 21, for facili ing the supporting beams 19, and has at its
50 tating the attachment of the inner and outer lower edge an angle bar 40, the lower hori
sections of the baby cage, as will be ex Zontal flange of which has riveted or other
plained later. wise secured thereto plates 41 provided with
The bottom walls of the beams 19 adja T-shaped lugs 42. These lugs 42 are in 20
cent their outer ends are provided with serted through the rectangular openings 21
55 slots 22, the inner ends of which terminate of the beams 19, and then the inner wall
in rectangular enlarged portions 23. The
I beams 19 including the braces 17, together Section is moved toward and in a position
with the hangers or bracket arms 9, act to tioning ofthetheinner
adjacent ends of the beams. Posi
inner wall section 25 in this 25
support the entire structure exteriorly of manner will cause
60 the window of the building. The housing or the lugs. 42 to engagethetherestricted
inwardly
necks of
extend
cage for the baby comprises the outer wall ing portions of the slots 20 of the beams 19.
section, the inner wall section, and the two Obviously the lugs 42 will lock and hold
end. wall sections, designated respectively the inner wall Section supported upon the
24, 25 and 26. The outer wall section com beams in a perpendicular position. The 30
65 prises a lower sheet metal base portion 27,
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inner wall section is provided with hingedly tains 68 are lowered. These angle strips or
mounted doors 43, which may be opened bars
and closed, for the purpose of permitting lugs 6163 have with
their upper ends provided with
which the hooks 64 engage.
access to the interior of the cage or hous The hooks 64 are carried by the upper edges
ing. When the cage is occupied, the doors of the angle strips or bars 54 of the tri 70
43 may be locked from the interior of the angular sheet metal bars 52 of the end sec
room. The ends of the inner wall section tions. There are also hooks 64 carried by
25 are in the form of vertical members '44, the upper portions of the inner and outer
whereas the upper portion of the inner
0 section 25 terminates in a laterally extend
wall wall sections, which also engage similar pins
ing flange 45. This flange 45 extends out or lugs 63 carried by the angle strips or
wardly. bars 61. The lower portions of the angle
The ends of the lateral flanges of the strips with
or bars 61 have additional lugs 65,
which hooks 66 similar to the hooks
angle bars 32 and 40 are provided
15 slots 46 and 47, the ends of which remote
with short 64 engage, thereby locking the angle bars
from the ends of the angle bars have rec or strips 61 in position, so as to cover the 80
tangular enlargements 48 and 49. . . and thereby further precludecage
joints at the corners of the or housing,
Each end section 26 comprises a sheet Suitable rollers 67 are carried byweather. the
the outer
metal base portion 50, an upper section or
20 wire fabric panel 51, and the sheet metal and end wall sections, in positions immedi
panels 52 having inclined upper edges. The screen ately adjacent the upper portions of the 85
end sections 26 are in two hingedly united sections.or The wire fabric of these respective
parts, which have their hinges shown at 53, ings, and have rollers curtains
are mounted in bear
68. The rollers may
allowing the two parts of the hinge sections
25 to fold inwardly, when removed. The in be of the usual spring type, whereby they
clined edges of the triangular panels 52 have due may reroll the curtains when unreeled, and 90
lateral flanges 54, which correspond with to the conventional form of detent
the flange 45 and the flange at the top of the rollers, (not shown) at certain ends of the
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inner wall section of the cage. the curtains may be held in different
30 The lower edges of the sheet metal base tains are in the formInofother
adjusted positions. Words the cur
shades, and may be 95
portions 50 of the end sections of the cage drawn, for the purpose of keeping
have riveted thereto. angle strips, or bars light and rain, when the baby is out the
asleep.
55, to the end portions of which plates 56 The edges of the curtains or shades, and the
are rivted or otherwise secured. These
35 plates 56 have T-shaped lugs 57, which enter ends of the sticks or bars (not shown) but
the rectangular enlargements of the slots 46 curtainsusually carried by the lower edges of the 100
and 47 of the angle bars 32 and 40. Obvi flanges ofortheshades, angle
engage between the
bars or strips 61 and
ously by moving the end wall sections later the wall sections, thereby guiding the cur
ally in opposite directions, the restricted
40 necks of the T-shaped lugs 57 will engage tains or shades in their movements when
adjusted. . . . . ..
the slots, and thereby lock and hold the end The flanges 54 have T-shaped slots 69 in 05
wall sections in perpendicular positions, with
their inner and outer edges adjacent the end their horizontal flanges, for the reception
45
edges of the inner and outer wall sections. . . In factT-shaped
of the
the roofing
lugs 70 of the roofing 71.
71 comprises three sec
Obviously the end wall sections 26 act to tions 72, which are corrugated as shown, and 0
hold the inner and outer wall sections in po Secured to the end edges of each
sition, while the flooring 58 rests upon the angle strips or bars 73, which havesection the down
are
lateral or horizontal flanges of the angle wardly extending T-shaped lugs 70. The
strips or bars 32, 40 and 55, thereby hold
50 ing the end wall sections in position. These lugs 70 engage through the enlarged por
Wall sections cannot detach, until the floor the tions of the T-shaped slots 69, so as to lock 15
ing is raised or elevated or otherwise re eachroof sections in position. In other words
moved from the cage or housing. The floor dividually.sectionroof
In
is applied in position in
other words the first roof '
ing 58 comprises three sections 59, which
55 have their adjacent edges provided with section is placed, so that its lugs 70 may
dowel pin and socket connections 60. The section engage isthemoved
T-shaped slots 69,and
downwardly
thenoutwardly
the roof 120
pins of these connections are very short,
just long enough to engage shallow sockets, toward the outer wall section, until the roof
to prevent, the three sections of the flooring next roof sectiontheisouter
60 from movement relatively to each other.
section overlies wall section. The
fastened to the flanges
Corner angle strips 61 are arranged to section, 54 in a similar manner, and so is the third 25
overlap the joints at the corners of the cage tion of the which is located at the inner por
or housing. In other words the angle strips the several roofing. roof
The adjacent edges of
sections overlap, for the
or bars 61 are arranged in position to pre
65 clude the weather, especially when the cur purpose of shedding the water and the drip
pings from snow and rain. The inner edge 30
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of the last roof section is provided with floor supporting frame including outwardly
extending beams, inner and outer wall sec
hooks 74, to engage eyes 75 on the flange 45 tions interlocked to the inner and outer ends 60
of the inner wall section, to assist materially of Said beams and rising perpendicularly
in holding the last mentioned roof section, therefrom, end wall sections having inter
5 as well as the other roof sections in place. locking connections with the inner and outer
It will be noted that the downwardly ex wall sections, and acting to hold the latter
tending fianges of the angle strips overlie in position, a flooring resting upon said 65
the hooks 63, and thereby retain them in beams
locked positions, hence preventing accidental Sections,and engaging between the end wall
displacement of the angle strips or bars 61. tions in thereby
position,
reinforcing all the wall sec
and a roofing provided
The curtains or shades have connected with interlocked connections with the Sev
thereto cords 76, which pass over pulleys 77 eral wall sections, to hold their upper por 70
carried by the under part of the cage or tions in place, and means suspended
housing, and extend into the room, where the sill of a window for supporting from said
5 by the curtains may be actuated from the
interior of the room. floor supporting frame.
3. In a baby cage, a floor supporting
Obviously a cage or housing of this kind frame comprising outwardly extending 75
arranged exteriorly of the window of a beams, inner and outer and end wall sec
room, will permit babies, or small children tions, supported by and connected to said
() to be housed therein and kept from the rain beams, said Wall sections having wire fabric
and Snow, and yet be permitted to breathe panels, a sectional roofing provided with in
the fresh air, and thereby become more terlocked
healthful. This construction of cage will be sections toconnections
retain
with the several wall 80
them in position, angle
very useful in cities where the houses are
2 5 very close together and in apartments, where members engaging the corners where the
there are no front and back yards or lawns, Several
the
wall sections unite, hooks carried by
upper ends of the angle members and
for the babies and children to play on. being detachably connected to the end wall 85
The sub-sill and the angle clamping bars sections, and means
4 and 7 are capable of adjustment, so that of roofing overlyingcarried the
by the sections
hooks, to retain
the clamping means can accommodate it them in place. .
self to windows of different sizes. 4. In a baby cage, a cage supporting
The ends of the angle bar 32 (which is frame comprising outwardly extending 90
Secured by rivets or spot welding or the beams, means
like to the base portion 27 of the outer wall exteriorly of a for supporting said frame
window of a building, said
section) are extended as shown clearly in cage comprising inner and outer and end
Figures 10 and 11, on which the lower ends wall sections interlocked at their
of the angle strips or bars 61 rest, in order tions, means for interlocking the lower inner
por
and 95
to support them in position. outer wall sections removably to the beams,
The invention having been set forth, what and means for holding the upper portions
is claimed is:
1. A baby cage or hoising comprising a of in
the inner and outer sections connected and
position, and a roofing for the cage, said
floor supporting frame including outwardly supporting
extending beams, inner and outer Wall sec a sub-sill tomeans engage
for the frame comprising 00
the sill of the window,
tions interlocked to the inner and outer ends a clamping bar on the inner silla clamp
of said beams and rising perpendicularly ing bar upon the outer sill.
therefrom, end wall sections having inter e's or arms connected to thedepending outer
hang
clamping
locking connections with the inner and outer
wall sections, and acting to hold the latter barand
and carrying said supporting frame, 105
means passing through the clamping
in position, a flooring resting upon said bars and through the sub-sill for adjustably
50 beams and engaging between the end wall connecting and supporting the frame to the
sections, thereby reinforcing all the wall sil of the window.
sections in position, and a roofing provided In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my
with interlocked connections with the several signature.
wall sections, to hold their upper portions
in 2.place.
A baby cage or housing comprising a EMMA READ.