Children's play garage with articulating door

• US 5,797,219 A
• Filed: 07/02/1996
• Issued: 08/25/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vonda B. Croswell
• Original Assignee: Vonda B. Croswell
• Inventors: Croswell, Vonda B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Application Number:
  US08/678,399
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 446/110, 446/476, 446/478, 446/487, 446/481, 446/482, 52/69, 52/592.1, 52/270, 52/284, 52/272, 16/319, 16/375, 16/377
• US Class Current: 52/69
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/44 Toy garages for receiving toy vehicles; Filling stations
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/044 Buildings

Abstract

A children'"'"'s play garage having a plurality of detachably connected walls, a roof, a toy compartment, and an articulating vehicle door is disclosed. The play garage further includes an opening for accessing the toy compartment from the exterior of the play garage. Alternatively, the play garage includes an articulating user door, and window openings in one or more walls, the vehicle door or the user door. The vehicle door is hinged by hinges having polygonal bores and polygonal pins to allow the door to be self-supporting in an open position.

Claims

1. A play garage comprising:

a plurality of walls, each having a top and two sides, the sides of said walls being interconnected to define an enclosed area, including a first wall which defines an opening to said area;

a roof connected to said tops of said walls which, together with said walls, defines an interior and an exterior of said play garage; and

an articulating vehicle door having a door connection to said first wall and capable of transition between an open and a closed position, for covering at least a portion of said opening when in the closed position and for allowing access to said interior when in the open position, said door connection comprising a vehicle door pinion having a polygonal cylinder and said first wall defining a polygonal bore of slightly larger dimension than said pinion for receiving said pinion such that said pinion is not freely rotatable within said bore, but can be rotated by applying an external force to said vehicle door.

2. The play garage of claim 1 wherein said pinion comprises an octagonal cylinder and said bore comprises an octagonal bore.

3. The play garage of claim 1 comprising large dimensions that allows access by a plurality of children and for storage purposes.

4. The play garage of claim 1 further comprising a partition defining a toy compartment between said partition and at least one said walls within said interior of said play garage.

5. The play garage of claim 4 wherein at least one said walls defines an access opening for accessing said toy compartment from the exterior of said play garage.

6. The play garage of claim 1 wherein said walls are detachably interconnected for providing easy user assembly and disassembly.

7. The play garage of claim 6 wherein a first group of said walls define slots and a second group of said walls comprise hooks for engaging said slots of said first group of said walls, for detachably connecting said walls of said first group to said walls of said second group.

8. The play garage of claim 1, wherein at least one of said walls defines a user opening for providing user ingress and egress to and from said toy garage.

9. The play garage of claim 1, further comprising a user door pivotably connected to one of said walls and capable of transition between an open and a closed position, for covering at least a portion of said user opening when in the closed position and allowing access to said interior through said user opening when in the open position.

10. The play garage of claim 9, wherein said user door comprises at least one cylindrical hinge pin, and said wall to which said user door is pivotably connected comprises at least one hinge pin receiver for receiving said hinge pin, providing support for said user door, and facilitating the rotation of said user door about said hinge pin between said open and said closed positions.

11. The play garage of claim 9 wherein said user door defines at least one window opening.

12. The play garage of claim 1 wherein said vehicle door defines at least one window opening.

13. The play garage of claim 1 wherein at least one of said walls defines at least one window opening.