Patent ID: 8672341
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: B62B

Abstract:
1. Apparatus comprising a vehicle pushchair frame assembly including a hinge device having a hinge axis, said hinge device having first and second hub devices moveable co-axially with respect to said hinge axis and a third hub device interposed between the first and second hub devices and moveable about said hinge axis, the first and second hub devices releasably engage with the third hub device for locking said vehicle frame assembly in an erected condition, wherein the first and second hub devices have inwardly-projecting lugs about their periphery and said third hub device includes at its periphery recesses, said recesses and said inwardly-projecting lugs arranged to loosely interdigitate in the erected condition, and wherein said inwardly-projecting lugs comprise inwardly-projecting ramped portions and said third hub device comprises, bounding said recesses, corresponding outwardly-projecting ramped surface portions, the arrangement being such that the first and second hub devices are moveable as aforesaid by movement of the third hub device about said hinge axis.