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US 2018/0001222 A1Published application
Shape Changing Toy Apparatus
Assignee7726503 Canada Inc.
InventorOhannes Guebenlian
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Abstract
A toy apparatus is operable between a disengaged position and a disengaged position. The toy apparatus has a stuffed body having a torso portion and first, second, third and fourth leg portions. A first bi-stable spring member is received within a channel formed along a length of the first leg portion, a first side of the torso portion and a second leg portion. A second bi-stable spring member is received within a second channel formed along a length of the third leg portion, a second side of the torso portion and a fourth leg portion. The first and second bi-stable spring members are each operable between an elongated rigid state and a coiled state. Actuating between the states of the first and second bi-stable spring members changes a shape of the stuffed body of the toy apparatus.
Claims20
A toy apparatus comprising:
- a stuffed body having a torso portion, a first leg portion extending forwardly from an upper region of a first side of the torso portion, a second leg portion extending rearwardly from a lower region of the first side of the torso portion, a third leg portion extending forwardly from an upper region of a second side of the torso portion and a fourth leg portion extending rearwardly from a lower region of the second side of the torso portion, a first channel being defined within the stuffed body and extending along a length of the first leg portion, a length of the first side of the torso portion and a length of the second leg portion and a second channel being defined within the stuffed body and extending along a length of the third leg portion, a length of the second side of the torso portion and a length of the fourth leg portion;
- a first bi-stable spring member received within the first channel and being operable between an elongated rigid state and a coiled state;
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- a second bi-stable spring member received within the second channel and being operable between an elongated rigid state and a coiled state.
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A toy apparatus comprising:
- a stuffed body having a torso portion, a first leg portion extending forwardly from an upper region of a first side of the torso portion, a second leg portion extending rearwardly from a lower region of the first side of the torso portion, a third leg portion extending forwardly from an upper region of a second side of the torso portion and a fourth leg portion extending rearwardly from a lower region of the second side of the torso portion, a first channel being defined within the stuffed body and extending along a length of the first leg portion, a length of the first side of the torso portion and a length of the second leg portion and a second channel being defined within the stuffed body and extending along a length of the third leg portion, a length of the second side of the torso portion and a length of the fourth leg portion;
- a first bi-stable spring member received within the first channel and being operable between an elongated rigid state and a coiled state, the first bi-stable spring member extending along the length of the first leg portion, the length of the first side of the torso portion and the length of the second leg portion, the first bi-stable spring member having a substantially straight elongated shape while in the elongated rigid state and having a coiled shape while in the coiled state;
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- a second bi-stable spring member received within the second channel and being operable between an elongated rigid state and a coiled state, the second bi-stable spring member extending along the length of the third leg portion, the length of the second side of the torso portion and the length of the fourth leg portion, the second bi-stable spring member having a substantially straight elongated shape while in the elongated rigid state and having a coiled shape while in the coiled state, the second bi-stable spring member being oriented parallel to the first bi-stable spring member within the stuffed body, the second bi-stable spring member having substantially the same elasticity as the first bi-stable spring member;
- wherein the torso portion of the stuffed body is substantially straight upon the first elongated spring member entering the elongated rigid state and the second elongated spring member entering the elongated rigid state and is substantially arched upon the first elongated spring member entering the coiled state and the second elongated spring member entering the coiled state;
- wherein the first leg portion and the second leg portion are substantially straight upon the first elongated spring member entering the elongated rigid state and are substantially arched upon the first spring member entering the coiled state;
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- wherein the third leg portion and the fourth leg portion are substantially straight upon the second elongated spring member entering the elongated rigid state and are substantially arched upon the second elongated spring member entering the coiled state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.