Transformable toy and building toy
AssigneeEpoch Company, Ltd.
InventorKei Kamiyama
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Abstract
A transformable toy includes: a floor portion and a ceiling portion which define a first room therebetween; and a roof unit. The roof unit includes at least one leg portion extendable to downwardly protrude from the roof unit and retractable inside the roof unit. The transformable toy is transformable between a first form and a second form, the first form in which the roof unit is disposed on the ceiling portion in a state in which the at least one leg portion is retracted inside the roof unit, the second form in which the roof unit is disposed on the ceiling portion in a state in which the at least one leg portion extends to protrude downward from the roof unit to define a second room between the ceiling portion and the roof unit, the second room having a height dimension smaller than that of the first room.
Claims9
A transformable toy comprising:
- a floor portion and a ceiling portion which define a first room therebetween;
- and
- a roof unit,
- wherein the roof unit comprises a side wall portion and at least one leg portion extendable to downwardly protrude from the roof unit and retractable inside the roof unit, and
- wherein the transformable toy is transformable between a first form and a second form, the first form in which the roof unit is disposed on the ceiling portion in a state in which the at least one leg portion is retracted inside the roof unit, the second form in which the roof unit is disposed on the ceiling portion in a state in which the at least one leg portion extends to protrude downward from the roof unit and the side wall portion of the roof unit extends upwards and is exposed on a back side of the roof unit, the extended at least one leg portion and the extended side wall portion defining a second room between the ceiling portion and the roof unit, the second room having a height dimension smaller than that of the first room, and
- wherein the side wall portion includes a left wall portion, a right wall portion, and a rear wall portion, both the left wall portion and the right wall portion having plate surfaces oriented in a left-right direction, and face each other, the rear wall portion having plate surfaces oriented in the front-rear direction, the rear wall portion connecting the left right wall portion and the right wall portion, and the at least one leg portion is rotatably fitted into a rear receiving portion of the side wall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.