Baby walker

In order to train babies to walk, there has been provided a self-propelled vehicle commonly known as a baby walker. Infant or baby walkers have been with us as long as the combination of babies, seats, and wheels have been available, and perhaps even before wheels. Baby walkers are widely used for accelerating the development of walking skills in babies and young children. In general, a baby walker includes a wheeled or castered frame or chassis fitted with a seat suspended or affixed thereto. The concept of facilitating leg development while simultaneously somewhat restraining the child by means of such apparatus is uniformly recognized. Baby walkers are well known devices for providing support to a child while allowing the child to ambulate either indoors or outdoors. The baby sits in a seat that has holes for the legs of the baby. The seat is mounted onto a frame with wheels. The baby can move the walker by moving its legs along the floor. The baby, supported by the seat and wheels of the frame, is able to move about without having to balance.

Countless forms and modifications of baby walkers are presently available on the market and numerous versions have been developed. A baby walker is a kind of children’s apparatus having an upper frame (bracket table) and a lower frame (chassis) with wheels. A baby seat is hung under the bracket table. A baby walker comprises a wheeled frame on which a child may support itself in an upright position during the early walking phase. Baby walkers are constituted by an annular frame supported on wheels and having connected thereabove a seat section, which is usually adjustable in height, whereby to accommodate a child with its legs protruding in the inner area of the annular frame whereby his feet touch the floor surface whereby to displace the baby walker by the movement of the infant’s feet. Baby walkers include a tray portion having a central opening surrounding the child as the child stands in the walker, and a seat suspended from the central opening. The child can either stand within the central opening with his feet on a supporting surface, or sit with substantially all his weight supported by the seat. The seat is typically oriented in a centered position relative to the wheels or casters to maximize the stability of the occupied walker, and includes openings through which the baby’s legs are extended to enable foot contact with the floor and propulsion of the walker. Such baby walkers often include a partial body structure having tray-like surfaces extending to the front and around the sides and back of the seat to provide sufficient space and range to accommodate the baby’s feeding utensils, toys, and the like. Wheels are commonly provided on baby walkers, so that the child can, while standing within the opening, easily move the walker with him as he begins to walk, and sit at will when tired or when he has reached his destination.

Baby walkers provide a convenient means for an infant to make the transition from crawling to walking. Walkers provide support for a child in a seated position, but are readily movable by the child in a standing position. A regular baby walker is generally comprised of a fixed seat holder supported on a wheeled base to hold a seat. The seat holder has a plurality of plug holes for the positioning of the seat. The seat has a plurality of mounting pins respectively fastened to the plug holes at the seat holder. When installed, the seat can not be rotated on the seat holder. There are kinds of baby walkers having an adjusting device which is designed to adjust a height of the baby walker for babies of different heights so that they may practice how to walk, the adjusting device is operated by an action of pushing a rod or a button downwardly such that a secured status of the baby-walker is released and then a new height of the baby-walker can be set.

The baby walker is dangerous to use in a state of neglect. When the floor or ground is somewhat inclined, the baby walker may move thereon by virtue of gravity of the walker and the baby, or due to movement of the baby in the walker, thereby resulting in injuries to the baby. Conventional baby walkers are equipped with wheels so that they can be moved when the baby walks. However, when a baby walks with a baby walker, the parents must carefully watch the baby to prevent the baby from falling down or touching dangerous matter. Thus, a device is required to inhibit movement of the casters of the baby walker when desired. There are known baby walkers equipped with folding collapsible stands. When the stands are extended out, they firmly support the baby walkers on the ground. The ratchet wheels are made each to be capable of rotating only to one direction. So that when in use, the baby walker can only be moved straight forwards rather than moved straight backwards or transversely. In this way, safety in using of the baby walker is increased.

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May 24, 2008 | Filed Under Baby training