Play enclosure for artwork, paperwork, sand and water play use

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1988-04-12

1989-04-04

Murtagh, John E.

Undertaking

272 1R, A63G 3100

Patent

active

048179353

ABSTRACT:
A play enclosure for interchangeable use as an artwork center, paper cutting and coloring area, a sand and water play enclosure includes an open top, rectilinear, box-like structure having short side walls as compared with a length and a width of the rectilinear structure. A peripheral shelf slopes inwardly from peripheral top edges of all sides of the open top of the rectilinear structure. The top surface of the peripheral shelf is spaced from a bottom of the enclosure and has an inward extension wide enough to function as a child's seat and a child's table surface. The peripheral shelf, in a preferred embodiment, has two corner cut-outs, at diametrically opposite corner regions of the peripheral shelf, adjacent an intersection of two side walls of the rectilinear structure. Each cut-out has a mouth open to a center region of the rectilinear structure. The shelf defines about the periphery of each cut-out, a peripheral groove open to the top surface of the shelf. Two discrete, removable corner elements have depending lips that matingly seat within the peripheral groove such that the elemental top surface of each corner element is coplanar with the top surface of the peripheral shelf. One of the corner elements has a cup for holding instruments such as crayons, scissors and the like, and a receptacle for a supply of paper. Another corner element is a strainer for sand or water.

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1988 Holbrook Catalog-pp. 13 and 15.

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