Transportable baby crib with leg bumpers

Abstract

Baby crib bumpers on the legs protect doorways, walls and furniture when transporting the crib on swivel casters. The bumpers are preferably high impact plastic foam disks, arranged to rotate on the crib legs when striking objects and prevent damage.

1 . Improvement to a baby crib of the type having opposed sides, opposed ends connected to said opposed sides at corners, a columnar leg depending from each of said corners, and a swivel caster disposed on the end of each columnar leg, each said swivel caster having a known type of rotatably mounted caster wheel of a pre-selected diameter arranged to swivel below a caster swivel plate, said improvement comprising: 
 a bumper disposed on each of said columnar legs above its respective swivel caster, said bumper being in the shape of a disk defining a central hole therethrough arranged to receive said columnar leg therethrough, the central hole being dimensioned so as to enable said bumper to rotate about the columnar leg when striking an object while transporting the crib on the swivel casters.    
     
     
         2 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein said bumper is comprised of dense impact absorbing, closed cell plastic foam.  
     
     
         3 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein the disk diameter of each of said bumpers is greater than that of said caster wheel pre-selected diameter.  
     
     
         4 . The improvement according to  claim 1 , wherein said bumper is a disk comprised of closed cell, polyurethane plastic foam.  
     
     
         5 . The improvement according to  claim 4 , wherein the disk diameter of a said bumper is on the order of 3⅝ inches.  
     
     
         6 . The improvement according to  claim 4 , wherein the disk thickness of a said bumper is on the order of ⅞ inches.  
     
     
         7 . The improvement according to  claim 4 , wherein the diameter of a said central hole in a said bumper is on the order of 1 inch.  
     
     
         8 . Improvement to a baby crib of the type having opposed sides, opposed ends connected to said opposed sides at corners, a columnar leg depending from each of said corners, and a swivel caster disposed on the end of each columnar leg, each said swivel caster having a known type of rotatably mounted caster wheel of a pre-selected diameter arranged to swivel below a caster swivel plate, said improvement comprising: 
 a bumper disposed on each of said columnar legs above its respective swivel caster, said bumper being comprised of dense impact absorbing, closed cell plastic foam, said bumper being in the shape of a disk defining a central hole therethrough arranged to receive said columnar leg therethrough, wherein the disk diameter of each of said bumpers is greater than that of said caster wheel pre-selected diameter, the central hole being dimensioned so as to enable said bumper to rotate about the columnar leg when striking an object while transporting the crib on the swivel casters.    
     
     
         9 . The improvement according to  claim 8 , wherein said bumper is a disk comprised of closed cell, polyurethane plastic foam, said disk having a diameter on the order of 3⅝ inches and a thickness on the order of ⅞ inches.  
     
     
         10 . The improvement according to  claim 8 , wherein said bumper is arranged to rest on a said caster swivel plate and rotate thereon about a said columnar leg when the bumper strikes an object.