Patent ID: 6516823
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: A47D,Y10T

Abstract:
A canopy for covering the top of a playyard, the canopy comprisinga canopy cover, a vent tower coupled to a top portion of the canopy cover and having a frame including a leg connector, four side legs, and four top legs, a lower end of each side leg is pivotably coupled to the canopy frame, an outer end of each top leg is pivotably coupled to an upper end of a companion side leg, and an inner end of each top leg is pivotably coupled to the leg connector, the vent tower including a ceiling and a mesh side wall, and a canopy support adapted to be coupled to a playyard, including a collapsible canopy frame supporting the canopy cover and a collapsible tower frame coupled to the collapsible canopy frame and arranged to support the vent tower wherein the leg connector includes a leg mount and a connector ring retained in the leg mount and arranged to pass through apertures formed in the inner ends of each top leg to establish a pivot axis of each top leg about the connector ring and about which each top leg is free to pivot relative to the connector ring.