Abstract:
A stair safety mat for walk-learning baby is provided for 1˜4 year-old children to prevent any injured caused by falling over the stairsteps. Because the material of the mat of this invention is softness, skidproof, anti-shock, and protruding to cover the edge of sairsteps, it may reduce any possible injured resulted from that children, the aged, and persons who act inconveniently fall over stairs. The stair safety mat of the present invention is provided with a double-sided adhesive to bond on stairsteps and floor adjacent to stair for securing the safe of children from falling over the stairs.

Description:
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS  
       [0001]    This Application is a Continuation-in-Part of patent application Ser. No. 09/840,885, filed Apr. 25, 2001, now Pending at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 
     
    
     
       BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION  
         [0002]    1. Field of the invention  
           [0003]    The present invention relates to a stair safety mat, especially relates to a safety mat for walk-learning baby who is 1˜4 year-old children, that is bonded to a stairstep to reduce injured caused by falling over the stairsteps.  
           [0004]    2. Description of the Prior Art  
           [0005]    Stairs are the product of modern culture because stairs are indispensable construction in both great mansions and lower buildings of two or several stories. Stairs are main passages for reaching every floor, thus they undoubtedly provide great convenience. Stairs are practical and, however, are also places that are most possible to cause injured for people, especially for children. There are may stair safety mat in the market, however, most of them are provided for normal adult instead of 1˜4 year-old children.  
           [0006]    Traditionally, the stair safety mat is provided for skidproof, stop falling over the stairs, noise muffled, or secure from the edge of stairsteps. Take the examples of stop falling over the stairs and noise muffled, which are not suitable for children who are learning walk, because the children are under 10 kg or so, they almost can&#39;t make noise by crawling over the stairs comparing with the weight of a normal adult which may be 60 or 70 kg even more than 100 kg. And children, for example, usually don&#39;t having enough grabbing power at the handrails when falling down over the stairs, which may result in injured with the good-for-nothing typical mat. For a normal adult, it is very easy to grab something, such as the handrail, and to lower the center of the gravity for stopping falling down; therefore, the stairs having the function of stop falling is not suitable for everyone.  
           [0007]    Besides, there is another kind of stair safety mat having upward protrudent portion at the edge of each stairstep for stopping falling down over the stairs and preventing dashing. This may be useful for adult, however, which is not suitable for walk-learning baby, since there is different height between the upward protrudent portion and the inner-side stairstep. It is not convenient for children, especially for the walk-learning baby, because the children is walking unsteady even on the flat floor when learning walk not to say the different height stairs.  
           [0008]    Furthermore, there is a limpness crashproof with 90 degree covering the edge of stairsteps for protection. However, no matter what kind of material the traditional crashproof may use, it may reduce the injured and cause painful when falling down on the edge of stairsteps because of the reflection power. The mat in the market is only provided for stairsteps and ignored the last stop, floor, and thus it may cause injured when falling. It should not only provide mat for stairsteps, but for the floor adjacent to the stair.  
           [0009]    For the sake of that the mat fixes on the stairs, mostly it uses drilling fix, which may cost a lot of money and time to fix. Besides, some use strong viscose to fix, which has the disadvantage of dissemble.  
           [0010]    Further for the sake of assembling, due to the size of stairs in every house are not exactly the same, it is necessary to have professionals to assemble with properly cut size. Of course it may cost large of labor fee.  
           [0011]    In opinion of this, the habitually used objects have some disadvantages, and are not excellent design and need improvements.  
           [0012]    The inventor of the present invention ruminated over the disadvantages resulted from the habitually used stairs, and earnestly deliberated the way of improvement and innovation. After studying hard for a long period, the inventor eventually succeeded in inventing the stair safety mat.  
         SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION  
         [0013]    The first purpose of the present invention is to provide a stair safety mat for 1˜4 year-old walk-learning baby. It adapts to house stair temporally for children to ensure safety and reduce the degree of harm resulted from falling over stairs.  
           [0014]    The second purpose of the present invention is to provide a stair safety mat for preventing children from injured by dashing, thus, it have enough thickness and sufficient softness with the function of anti-shock to reduce the harm caused by falling down over the stairs.  
           [0015]    The third purpose of the present invention is to provide a stair safety mat, which has the advantages of simple structure, easy to set up and low cost. Beside, it has high practicability.  
           [0016]    Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a stair safety mat for protection from the stairsteps including the floor adjacent to the stairsteps and the edge of the stairsteps. When children fall down over the stairs, the present invention can provide sufficient protection.  
           [0017]    The other purpose of the present invention is to provide a stair safety mat for easy DIY, which cost very short time and doesn&#39;t need to ask professional for assembling. Besides, the mat provided according to this invention is suitable for variety size of stairs. If the length of the stairstep is too long, the mat provided by this invention may extend unlimitedly by DIY connecting.  
           [0018]    In order to achieve the purposes described as above, the present invention provides a mat which may extend by connecting. Its material is easy to cut by a usual knife. The top plane of the mat has a certain thickness softness and a circle protrusion thereon for preventing skidding. The bottom plane of said mat has the function of anti-shock for absorbing dash power. And the double-sided adhesive tape is adhered on the bottom plane of said mat, which has strong adhesive. Said tape may be made by non-woven, cotton, or any other unbreakable material, such that the tape will be easy to remove from stairsteps or from the mat. When assembling, the tape provides sufficient adhesive for bonding the mat to each stairstep, and protruding around 1˜1.5 cm out of the edge of the stairstep. It may prevent dashing and reduce the pain when falling. Also, the floor adjacent to the stair or the edge of the lowest stair is set with the present invention, thus, when a children falls over the stairs, the mat provided by this invention may protect the children with absorbing the dash power by the softness of the top plane of the mat and the anti-shock means of the bottom plane of the mat to reduce the possible injured. The last stop, when falling over the stairs, is the floor adjacent to the stair; therefore, the protection set on the floor may avoid the possible second injured. 
       
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS  
       [0019]    The drawings disclose an illustrative embodiment of the present invention which serves to exemplify the various advantages and objects hereof, and are as follows:  
         [0020]    [0020]FIG. 1 illustrates a perspective view of stair safety mat for walk-learning baby in accordance with the present invention;  
         [0021]    [0021]FIG. 2A illustrates a perspective view of a single stair safety mat with top plane in accordance with the present invention;  
         [0022]    [0022]FIG. 2B illustrates a perspective view of a single stair safety mat with bottom plane in accordance with the present invention;  
         [0023]    [0023]FIGS. 3A and 3B show diagrams for assembling with the present invention;  
         [0024]    [0024]FIG. 3C illustrate diagram with extended by connecting with the present invention;  
         [0025]    [0025]FIGS. 4A and 4B show diagrams which has connected the present invention with the stairsteps; and  
         [0026]    [0026]FIGS. 5A and 5B illustrate diagrams that show when the children falls down over the stairs how the present invention can protect the children.  
         [0027]    [0027]FIGS. 6A and 6B are the pictures in accordance with the present inventions. 
     
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT  
       [0028]    Referring to FIG. 1 A˜FIGS. 4A and 4B, the stair safety mat for walk-learning baby is provided by the present invention, wherein said mat is made of material which may be cut by a usual knife. The top plane  11  of the mat  1  is plane with softness, and a plurality of protrusions is set on said top plane for preventing skidding (as shown in FIG. 2A). There is a plurality of trimming lines  15  set around the mat  1 , and said trimming lines are cut through the bottom plane  12  of said mat  1 . An edge of said mat  1  is formed along with a plurality of protruding portions  18  and the other edge of said mat  1  is formed along with a plurality of concaving portions  17  corresponding to said protruding portions  18 . In the preferred embodiment, said trimming lines  15 , said protruding portions  18  and said concaving portions  17  are half break respectively such that said redundant part of said mat  1  can be cut by said trimming lines  15  and trimmed off to match the real size of said stairstep, which is convenient to those DIY people. If the length of the stairstep is too long, the mat  1  provided by this invention extends by DIY connecting with said protruding portions  18  and said concaving portions  17  (as shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B), which may extend unlimitedly for keeping the whole beauty of stairs. Furthermore, a plurality of circular fillisters  14  are set on the bottom plane  12 , and a buffer protruding columns  13  (as shown in FIG. 2B) is formed in each fillisters  14  to serve as the buffer of the colliding force. Or, said columns  13  may be set on the bottom plane  12  directly without the fillisters  14 , which also have the buffer function such that the bottom plane  12  of the mat  1  have anti-shock function with said columns  13  to release the dash power caused by falling down.  
         [0029]    A double-sided adhesive tape  2  is provided to adhere to said bottom plane  12  of said mat  1 , wherein said tape  2  may be a membrane made by non-woven, cotton, or any other unbreakable material, such that the tape will be easy to remove from stairsteps or from the mat  1 . And double sides of the tape  2  are adhesive, one side adheres to said bottom plane  12  of the mat  1 , and the other side has a paper  5  need to be removed for adhering to the stairsteps  31 . When assembling, the tape  2  provides sufficient adhesive for bonding the mat  1  to each stairstep  31  of the stair  3 , and protruding around 1˜1.5 cm out of the edge of the stairstep  31 , and further, the edge  32  (as shown in FIG. 4A and 4B) can be covered by the mat  1  in order to protect children from falling on said edge  32  and causing any injured. Besides, the material of the mat  1  is easy to be cut by a knife, thus the user may cut said mat  1  in accordance with the real size of the stairs. And therefore, after assembling, it still may keep the whole beauty of the stairs with safety feature. The mat  1  has the protruding portions  18  in one edge and the concaving portions in another, thus if the user wants to extend the length, it is very easy to connect the protruding portions  18  and concaving potions  17  for enlarging the area (as shown in FIG. 3C) and preventing from injured when the children falling over the stairs.  
         [0030]    Please referring to FIGS. 5A and 5B, which show when the children falls down over the stairs, how the present invention can protect the children. When a kid  4  falls down over the stair  3 , the dash power may be absorbed by the softness of the top plane  11  of mat  1  and by the anti-shock bottom plane  12  of the mat  1  (as shown in FIG. 5A). The top plane may provide with softness to protect kid  4  from dashing at the stairs  3  and to lower the injured caused by falling. Besides, the edge  32  of the stair  3  is covered by the mat  1 , it can also provide sufficient protection when kid falling over. Furthermore, the mat  1  protrudes 1˜1.5 cm out of the edge of the stairsteps, thus the redundant part of said mat  1  can be trimmed off to release the pain for kid  4  with lower reflection power. When kid  4  falling down on the last stop, the floor (as shown in FIG. 5B), the mat  1  also provide on the floor to prevent injured. Thus, the stair safety mat for walk-learning baby provided according to this invention can reduce the injured caused by falling down.  
         [0031]    The mat  1  according to this invention may be made of EVA foaming material (Vinyl Acetate polyethylene), or combine with two materials such that the thickness of the mat  1  is 1.5˜2 cm. Said top plane  11  may be made by EVA foaming material and said bottom plane  12  is made by a rubber foaming material, a plastic foaming material, or a resin material to have a good anti-shock feature and a better segment.  
         [0032]    Furthermore, the bottom plane  12  of the mat  1  may use the material having anti-shock feature or softness feature to remove the buffer structure, which may be depending the material of the mat  1  to retain or remove the buffer. Or, it also may use more than two materials to make the mat  1 , however it has to have the softness and anti-shock functions.  
         [0033]    Please refer to the FIGS. 6A and 6B, which are the pictures in accordance with the present invention.  
         [0034]    With comparing with other habitually used devices, the stair safety mat provided by the present invention has advantages as listed:  
         [0035]    1. The present invention is provided for 1˜4 year-old walk-learning baby, which uses double-sided tape to adhere to stairs, and is easy to assemble. It is very simple for home DIY, which may save time and labor cost.  
         [0036]    2. The size of the present invention can be adjustable by cutting. It may be firmly bonded to the stair and protruding around 1˜1.5 cm out of the edge. It provides not only for preventing from the dashing at the edge, but also for improving the problem with the mat upward protruding, different height of stairsteps. It also release the reflection power when kid falling by covering 90 degrees over the edge of stairsteps for protection, further release the pain.  
         [0037]    3. The present invention have the features of softness, skidproof, crashproof, and anti-shock to protect children.  
         [0038]    4. The field of this invention includes not only the stairs, but the floor adjacent to the stair and corner of the stair.  
         [0039]    5. The present invention is DIY product, it may be cut by knife to extend in very short time with half break of the trimming lines. It doesn&#39;t need any special tools or professional to assemble.  
         [0040]    Many changes and modifications in the above described embodiment of the invention can, of course, be carried out without departing from the scope thereof. Accordingly, to promote the progress in science and the useful arts, the invention is disclosed and is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.