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US 6,186,860 B1Granted
Knockdown block toy
OwnerChu-Yuan Liaoinventor
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Abstract
A knockdown block toy including a soft extensible outer envelope body and a predetermined number of component blocks contained in the outer envelope body. The outer envelope body softly encloses the component blocks therein, whereby when the knockdown block assembly is squeezed and compressed or pushed by external force, the component blocks are displaced within the outer envelope body relative to each other and re-assembled and stacked to form various patterns of assemblies as desired.
Claims6
A knockdown block toy comprising:
- a) a plurality of interfitting blocks arrangeable in a plurality of different patterns;
- and,
- b) an envelope body of soft, extensible material completely surrounding the plurality of interfitting blocks so as to hold the blocks in one of the plurality of patterns, whereby deformation of the envelope body enables the plurality of blocks to be rearranged in a different desired pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.