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US 12,746,483 B2Granted
Partially transparent bath toys
OwnerLynzee Ittahinventor
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Abstract
A hollow thermoplastic toy for use in a child's bath, having a vent hole, a transparent region and an opaque region, is manufactured by blow-molding a parison which features a region of transparent thermoplastic and a region of opaque thermoplastic. The transparent region serves to permit visual detection of the growth of mold or mildew within the toy.
Claims4
A hollow toy having a vent hole and having visibility into an interior of the toy sufficient to permit visual detection of mold and mildew growth, manufactured by process comprising:
- (a) extruding a transparent thermoplastic and an opaque thermoplastic to form a parison having a transparent region and an opaque region,
- (b) blow-molding the parison within a mold, by blowing air into the parison through a nozzle, so as to form the hollow toy and provide the toy with transparent and opaque regions,
- (c) withdrawing the nozzle from the mold after the formed toy has solidified, and
- (d) trimming excess thermoplastic so as to form the vent hole;
- wherein the toy is capable of floating in a bath, and wherein the vent hole enables the toy to be useful as a squirting toy.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.