Expandable room barrier for children and pets, and system of use
First Claim
1. A device for creating an adjustable barrier to a child or a pet, comprising:
- a foam panel made of soft, firm foam in a trapezoidal prism shape, with a thinner section at the top of the foam panel and a wider bottom portion of the foam panel, and, a cover for the foam panel, where the cover is easily removable, through the use of zippers, snaps, and similar means of attachment, and made out of a fabric that is easily washable such that a user can sanitize the cover at his or her convenience, and, where the bottom of the device is wide enough compared to its height such that a 40 pound child cannot push it over from the unit'"'"'s standing position, and, where the device can be put up, end to end, against other units of the device such that the series of units can create a barrier.
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Abstract
A soft, foam panel in a trapezoidal prism shape, multiple units of which can form an adaptable and expandable security barrier for children or pets. The foam panels come in a variety of lengths, heights, and end configurations, and are designed to be stable as independent units laid out next to each other with adequate stability to prevent a child from pushing them over, but, optionally, capable of being made additionally stable by being attached to one another at their ends by hook and loop or similar means of attachment and, optionally, weighted at the bottom for additional stability. By adding or taking away panels, and changing their angle of attachment, an adult can effectively adapt the invention to barricade off sections of rooms with a variety of shapes and sizes. For sanitary purposes, the foam panels are covered with a cover which can be easily removed for washing.
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20 Claims
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1. A device for creating an adjustable barrier to a child or a pet, comprising:
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a foam panel made of soft, firm foam in a trapezoidal prism shape, with a thinner section at the top of the foam panel and a wider bottom portion of the foam panel, and, a cover for the foam panel, where the cover is easily removable, through the use of zippers, snaps, and similar means of attachment, and made out of a fabric that is easily washable such that a user can sanitize the cover at his or her convenience, and, where the bottom of the device is wide enough compared to its height such that a 40 pound child cannot push it over from the unit'"'"'s standing position, and, where the device can be put up, end to end, against other units of the device such that the series of units can create a barrier. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of creating an adjustable barrier to confine or exclude a child or pet, comprising the steps of:
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first, taking two or more units of the invention, where the unit comprises a piece of soft, firm foam in a trapezoidal prism shape, with a thinner section at the top of the foam panel and a wider portion at the bottom of the foam panel, a cover for the foam panel, where the cover is made out of a fabric that is easily washable such that a user can sanitize the cover at his or her convenience, a means of attachment located at the ends of the foam panel, where, the means of attachment allows a user to connect two or more foam panels together to form a barrier, and, optionally, a weight device attached to the bottom portion of the foam panel, where, the weight device is sufficient to allow the adjustable barrier to remain upright without additional structural support members or other means of support, such that the adjustable barrier can be laid out in a linear or non-linear pattern by the user and will remain upright, and where the weight device is sufficient to allow the adjustable barrier to remain upright without additional structural support members or other means of support when a child, up to a 20 pound child puts his or her full weight against the foam, the adjustable barrier does not fall over, second, attaching the two or more units to each other by the means of attachment, and, third, arranging the series of attached units into a shape which effectively creates a barrier in the desired shape.
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20. An adjustable barrier to confine or exclude a child or pet, comprising:
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two or more units consisting of foam panels, where the foam panels comprise;
a piece of soft, firm foam in a trapezoidal prism shape, with a thinner section at the top of the foam panel and a wider portion at the bottom of the foam panel,a cover for the foam panel, where the cover is made out of a fabric that is easily washable such that a user can sanitize the cover at his or her convenience, a means of attachment located at the ends of the foam panel, where, the means of attachment allows a user to connect two or more foam panels together to form a barrier, and, optionally, a weight device attached to the bottom portion of the foam panel, where, the weight device is sufficient to allow the adjustable barrier to remain upright without additional structural support members or other means of support, such that the adjustable barrier can be laid out in a linear or non-linear pattern by the user and will remain upright, and where the weight device is sufficient to allow the adjustable barrier to remain upright without additional structural support members or other means of support when a child, up to a 20 pound child puts his or her full weight against the foam, the adjustable barrier does not fall over, where, two or more foam panels are attached to each other by the means of attachment, and, where, the desired shape of the barrier is achieved by arranging the series of attached foam panels into a shape which effectively creates a barrier in the desired shape.
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