Baby fences are used to ensure a safe and comfortable space for your child to entertain.
But with so many different types and brands of fences on the market, you may find it hard to make up your mind.
On how to choose the right baby indoor fence from China, we have reviewed, analyzed, and summarized the features of all the playpens on the market and put together this guide to help make your selection process easier.
The factors discussed start with the following basic elements.
- Fence material
- Fence height
- Fence connection method
- Anti-slip effect
1、The fence material
There are four common mainstream materials for children’s fences on the market, respectively: PU leather, fabric, wood and plastic. Each material will have their own advantages and disadvantages, let us understand respectively.
◆ PU leather style playpen.
Advantages: PU leather style material is soft, suitable for children to touch, not easy to cause danger, but also suitable for mothers to do cleaning
Disadvantages: the structure is unstable, risky, closed space, poor permeability, the child’s sensory experience inside is not good!
◆ Fabric style fence.
Advantages: cloth material is soft, lightweight, mesh breathable, comfortable, lightweight and easy to store and carry.
Disadvantages: pure fabric is easy to bend, the structure is not stable, supported by V-shaped X-shaped structure, there is a risk of pinching, pinching hands, small parts of the connection is easy to fall, easy to cause the possibility of swallowing small objects.
◆ Wooden style fence
Advantages: high permeability and wear resistance, log material is healthy and environmentally friendly, the texture of the log is easy to give children a natural touch, which helps growth and development, structural stability, strong protection
Disadvantages: solid wood texture is hard, easy to bump, causing injury, high environmental requirements, is not conducive to storage, moving, humid environment is easy to lead to moldy logs, mold is not conducive to the healthy growth of children, and the species of solid wood complex, price fluctuations vary a lot, the cost deviation
◆ Plastic style fence
Advantages: moderate flexibility, process stability, shape and color variety, to meet the child’s requirements for color, structural stability, suitable for cleaning
Disadvantages: many people’s misconception is that plastic is not environmentally friendly, large, unfavorable storage, but now the plastic material has been used imported HDPE, belongs to the new environmentally friendly material, and with the refinement of the design, most of the plastic fence on the market can be folded storage, very simple.
2、The height of the fence.
The height of the fence is not enough to let the impatient baby staged in minutes “escape plan”, should have protected the child to free the mother’s hands fence suddenly become useless, according to the national mandatory standard GB 29281-2012 “《safety requirements for play fences and similar uses cribs》, the baby The height of the fence should be greater than 60cm.
ABST’s fence has been using a scientific height of 63cm, this height does not block the baby’s view of the world, to understand the mother’s dynamic, to establish a sense of security, but also to prevent the baby across the fence.
3、The connection method.
The fence is a combination of multiple fence pieces, if the structure is not stable, the fence connection between the substantial rotation, it is easy to cause the risk of pinching the baby’s fingers. Children products must be the safest, fence tightness, whether the assembly will produce shaking,
Disengagement and other situations occur, the connection between the fence pieces occupies a very important factor.
Connection structure way is mainly divided into: cylindrical pins, polygonal pins, gear type pins.
◆ Cylindrical Pins:
Structure is not stable, pushing is easy to deformation, resulting in pinch hand injury
◆Polygonal pins:
Mostly divided into 4-sided pins, 6-sided pins, 8-sided pins, the more the number of pins deformed, the better the stability of the splicing.
◆Gear type Pins:
Tightly spliced, high strength of the bite force at the connection, strong stability, not easy to deformation.
4、Look at the anti-slip effect.
The anti-slip performance of the fence is one of the more important safety performance, can help the baby hold the station, more securely learn to walk.
Commonly fixed by two ways: suction cup fixed, non-slip gasket fixed
◆ Suction cup type fixed
Higher requirements for ground level, the need for smooth ground to adsorb firmly, used to provide suction adsorption of the ground. Relatively firm, note that: the adsorption force will become worse over time need to market attention to add water maintenance
◆ Anti-slip gasket
This kind of fixed way is only to increase the friction with the ground, solid performance in general.
I hope this guide can help you to make a better choice.
Choosing a manufacturer that meets these elements, has the design capability and processing ability to perfectly solve the user’s pain points is, I think, a necessary skill for every startup and developing company.