Stroller canopy structure

Claim 1

In a collapsible baby vehicle of the type including a front wheeled frame member, a rear wheeled frame member, a seat-supporting frame member and a pusher handle all being pivotally connected to permit the seat-supporting frame member to be moved from an elevated location above the ground to a collapsed position wherein the seat-supporting frame member is located adjacent the ground, the improvement comprising A. a generally U-shaped bail whose bight is shorter than the distance between the arms of the pusher handle, B. first means for pivotally connecting the free ends of the bail arms to the pusher handle arms at the inboard walls thereof at locations spaced above the seat-supporting frame member, C. a second generally U-shaped bail shallower than the first whose bight is longer than the distance between the pusher handle arms, D. second means for pivotally connecting the free ends of the second bail arms to the pusher handle arms at the outboard walls thereof at locations spaced above the first connecting means, E. a flexible fabric body having a leading edge connected to the bight of the first bail and a trailing edge connected to the bight of the second bail, the length of the fabric body being such that when the first bail is in a lower position wherein it lies in a substantially horizontal plane, the second bail bight engages the pusher handle and the fabric body is in a taut condition, said first bail being swingable between said lower position and a raised position wherein it is swung behind and below the pusher handle and reposes on the now depending second bail, thereby to maintain the fabric body in a folded out-of-the-way position behind and below the plane of the pusher handle.