Patent ID: 6908100

Claim:
A child-care instrument that can selectively be configured into a form of a bed state and a form of a chair state, said child-care instrument comprising: a body frame including a seating surface support member and a pair of longitudinal side frame members upwardly extending from both sides at the rear end region of said seating surface support member; a seat hammock including a seating surface sheet portion extending on said seating surface support member, a backrest sheet portion connected to a rear edge of said seating surface sheet portion and extending between said pair of longitudinal side frame members, a head part core material positioned at an upper end region of said backrest sheet portion, and a back surface core material flexibly connected to a lower end of said head part core material so as to be bendable relative thereto; a backside support connected to said body frame so as to reclinably support said backrest sheet portion from a back side thereof; and an upper end connecting member connecting an upper end of said backrest sheet portion to said pair of longitudinal side frame members; wherein: said upper end connecting member extends entirely along a whole width of said backrest sheet portion at said upper end thereof and has two opposite ends respectively connected to said longitudinal side frame members, in said form of said chair state, said backrest sheet portion is at a relatively steeper first reclining angle and said upper end connecting member is in an unloaded loose state, and in said form of said bed state, said backrest sheet portion is in a relatively less steep second reclining angle that is less steep than said first reclining angle, and said upper end connecting member is in a tense state that causes said upper end region of said backrest sheet portion and said head part core material to bend at an angle and protrude upwardly from a remaining portion of said backrest sheet portion and said back surface core material.