Foam dart having a safety cap
AssigneeEasebon Services Limited
InventorsFrancis See Chong Chia, Xubin Xia
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Abstract
A toy dart includes a deformable cap that safely impacts a target. The cap includes two layers of openings that provide spaces that allow the cap to deform. The lower layer, having two openings, is supported by exterior posts and an interior wall between the two openings. The upper layer, having two openings, is supported by exterior posts and an interior wall that is laterally offset from the interior wall of the lower layer. The upper and lower layers are separated vertically by a substantially flat divider. The upper layer is more rigid than the lower layer such that the lower layer of the cap deforms more than the upper layer of the cap upon initial impact with the target.
Claims19
A toy dart, comprising;
- an elongate dart body extending from a head end to a tail end in a first, longitudinal direction;
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- a deformable dart cap affixed to the head end of the elongate dart body, the deformable dart cap having a top, a bottom that is affixed into the elongate dart body, and an outer surface extending from the top to the bottom of the deformable dart cap in the first, longitudinal direction;
- wherein the outer surface of the deformable dart cap comprises two layers of openings that are respectively separated by interior walls that extend in a second direction, wherein the second direction is substantially orthogonal to the first, longitudinal direction of the elongate dart body, the two layers of openings comprising:
- (1) a lower layer, which abuts the bottom of the deformable dart cap, comprising at least one lower layer interior wall extending through the deformable dart cap separating a first lower layer opening and a second lower layer opening;
- (2) an upper layer, above the lower layer in relation to the top of the deformable dart cap, comprising at least one upper layer interior wall extending through the deformable dart cap separating a first upper layer opening from a second upper layer opening;
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- (3) at least two exterior posts that extend in the first, longitudinal direction along opposite sides of the outer surface in alignment between the lower layer and the upper layer, the at least two exterior posts being spaced away from the at least one lower layer interior wall and the at least one upper layer interior wall,
- wherein the at least one upper layer interior wall is offset in position laterally from the at least one lower layer interior wall.
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