Interfitting toy figure

#This invention pertains generally to toy figures having humanoid structural features which make such figures especially suitable for use as interfitting building blocks.

#Toy blocks in a wide variety of configurations approximating the shape of the human body are well known as are the many ways children play with such blocks. Block constructions and manners of play pertinent to the present invention are shown and described in these United States patents:

#U.S. Pat. No. 1,648,199 issued to H. J. Sargent on Nov. 08, 1927

#FIG. 1 is an isometric view of a toy figure according to this invention;

#FIG. 2 is a front elevation;

#FIG. 3 is a top plan view;

#The figures indicated generally by letters A through Y in the appended drawings are identically configured; accordingly, throughout the following description the same numeral will be employed to indicate corresponding body parts. The figures have symetrical right and left sides; accordingly a body part of a figure looking out of the drawing will be designated by an identifying numeral followed as appropriate by letter R or L.

#Preferably, the blocks are composed of a plastic material suitable for injection molding. One such material is polypropylene copolymer of a selected grade which produces defining surfaces for the figures which are relatively hard, flat and smooth. The selected plastic material should exhibit a force of friction when surfaces of two blocks of such material tend to slide relative to one another that will suffice to forestall unintended separation of interfitted figures such as those shown in the drawings in FIGS. 9 through 13. A fuller appreciation of the important role which intersurface frictional force plays in realizing the benefits of this invention will be had from a detailed description of several possible combinations and arrangements of the figures.

#As best shown in FIGS. 1-5, figure A comprises a solid, unitary block in the form of a human-like figure of rugged proportions. The front-to-back thickness of the figure, therefore the width of the peripheral surface outlining the figure, is sufficiently wide to permit the figure to stand uprightly on its feet, head, arms and legs in a variety of vertical orientations.