Patent ID: 8448381

Claim:
A residential passageway barrier for a residential passageway in a home, the residential passageway having opposing sides, the residential passageway barrier comprising: a) a barrier frame having a width sufficient to extend across the passageway to each of the opposing sides, the barrier frame adaptable to releaseably engage to each of the opposing sides such that the residential passageway barrier is removable from the residential passageway; b) a first gate having a width less than the width of the frame, the first gate having a height; c) a second gate within the first gate, the second gate having a height less than the height of the first gate and the second gate having a width less than the width of the first gate; d) the barrier frame being generally in a plane, the first gate being generally in said plane when the first gate is closed; e) the second gate being openable relative to said first gate; f) wherein the first gate comprises a first gate frame comprising: i) first and second upright support members, said width of the first gate being defined by a distance between said first and second upright support members; ii) third and fourth upright support members, said third and fourth upright support members being disposed between said first and second upright support members, said third upright support member having a section confronting a first side of said second gate when said second gate is closed, said fourth upright support member having a section confronting a second side of said second gate; iii) a fifth upright support member, wherein the fifth upright support member is between the third and fourth upright support members; and iv) a horizontally extending support member, the horizontally extending support member extending between the third and fourth upright support members, the horizontally extending support member terminating at each of the third and fourth upright support members, and the horizontally extending support member confronting a top of the second gate when said second gate is closed; and g) wherein the second gate comprises an upright support member, wherein the fifth upright support member of the first gate frame is coaxial with the upright support member of the second gate when the second gate is closed, wherein said first gate frame and said first, second, third, fourth and fifth upright support members of said first gate frame comprise a one-piece, unitary and integral element that is nonrotatably fixed to said first gate, and wherein said fifth upright support member of the first gate frame is spaced apart from said upright support member of the second gate.