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US 2014/0227936 A1Published application
Toy Figure Assembly
AssigneeHasbro, Inc.
InventorsHarry Alexander Botterill, Brian E. Fontaine, Salvatore F. Lama
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Abstract
A toy figure assembly can be interconnected to construct a toy figure. The mating parts of the toy figure assembly are structured for friction fit attachment and include an upper body part including a neck portion and a trunk portion; a lower body part including a rod portion, a stud portion, a legs portion, and a feet portion; and arm parts having a hand portion, a forearm portion, an elbow portion, an upper arm portion, and a shoulder portion.
Claims26
A toy figure assembly comprising:
- an upper body part defining a side bore and at least two interior bearing surfaces;
- an arm part comprising:
- a non-shoulder portion, and
- a shoulder portion adjacent the non-shoulder portion and having an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the non-shoulder portion, the shoulder portion having at least two shoulder bearing surfaces and an axial relief slot that extends toward the non-shoulder portion;
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- a lower body part attached to the upper body part;
- wherein:
- at least one of the upper body part and the lower body part includes a recess for frictionally engaging a stud of a toy building element;
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- when the arm part is snap fit through the bore of the upper body part, the at least two shoulder bearing surfaces of the shoulder portion abut the at least two interior bearing surfaces of the upper body part, respectively.
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A toy figure assembly comprising:
- an upper body part including a neck portion and a trunk portion, the neck portion projecting from a top surface of the trunk portion and having an inner surface defining a through hole that opens into the trunk portion, the trunk portion including:
- a front wall, a rear wall, a side wall defining a side bore and having a flat inside surface, wherein an inner surface of the front wall and an inner surface of the rear wall each include:
- an upper longitudinal flat, interior sidewalls which abut the upper longitudinal flat, and a lower longitudinal flat;
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- a lower body part structured for friction fit attachment to the upper body part, the lower body part including a rod portion, a stud portion, a legs portion, and a feet portion, wherein each upper longitudinal flat is structured to cooperate with the interior sidewalls that abut the upper longitudinal flat to define a track for engaging the rod portion when received into the trunk portion, and wherein each lower longitudinal flat is structured to cooperate with the flat inside surface of the side wall for engaging the stud portion when received into the trunk portion.
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A toy construction set comprising:
- a toy figure assembly comprising:
- a head part,
- an upper body part removably attachable to the head part via a non-snap frictional engagement, and
- a lower body part removably attachable to the upper body part via a non-snap frictional engagement, the lower body part includes a single recess structured for non-snap frictional attachment to a building element via only a single stud on the building element.
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A toy construction set comprising:
- one or more building elements having coupling elements of a first coupling size;
- one or more accessory building elements having coupling elements of a second coupling size that is distinct from the first coupling size;
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- one or more toy figure assemblies, each toy figure assembly comprising:
- a plurality of interconnectable body parts including an upper torso body part and a lower legs and feet body part,
- at least two of the interconnectable body parts including a coupling system to which coupling elements of the first coupling size and coupling elements of the second coupling size of the building elements of the set can be frictionally attached.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.