US 9,713,776 B1Granted

Collapsible and portable shape-sorting learning and development toy

OwnerDwight N Leunginventor

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Abstract

A multi-component collapsible and portable shape-sorting learning and development toy including a soft housing, an aperture plate element with a plurality of openings together with a matching number of blocks adapted to be inserted in the openings of the aperture plate element, a photographic display element, and a baby-safe mirror element. The toy and the individual component parts are adapted to a variety of uses for play.

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A Collapsible and Portable Shape-sorting Learning and Development Toy comprising:

a. a housing portion formed of a soft and flexible material, the housing portion comprising a first flat segment, a second flat segment, and a third flat segment, said first and second segments attached to one another and foldable relative to one another;
and the first and second segments connectable to and removable from the third segment,
and said first and second segments being foldable relative to the third segment, when connected,
and the segments being foldable to be opened into a self-supporting structure with a cross-sectional triangular shape formed from complete surfaces of each of said first segment, said second segment and said third segment, where the triangular shape is formed by the first segment, said second segment and said third segment being connected together at their edges,
and where the triangular shaped housing portion includes inner surfaces defining an inner triangular shape when the third segment is connected to the first and second segments, and where each of the first segment, second segment and third segment define a surface with a different entertainment function thereon;
b. one of the segments being an aperture plate element with multiple differently-shaped apertures forming one of the sides of the triangular shape, each of the apertures having a different shape defined by a perimeter of the aperture, said one of the segments defining shape sorting as a first of the entertainment functions;
c. further comprising plural blocks which are shaped to match and fit through the differently shaped apertures, where each of the blocks are shaped with an outer shape matching to one of the perimeters of the apertures, to fit through the one of the apertures and where each block only fits through the one perimeter, and does not fit through the other apertures,
and where, when the first, second and third segments are connected to one another to collectively form the triangular shaped housing portion which is free standing in the triangular shape, blocks which fit through said perimeters fall to the inner surfaces of the triangular shape;
d. another of the segments being a photographic display element, having a pocket in the soft housing, forming of the sides of the triangular shape and having a surface of clear plastic that holds a viewable item on under the surface of clear plastic, between the surface of the clear plastic and a surface of the another of the segments, such that the viewable item is viewed from an outside of the triangular shape, said another of the segments having photographic viewing as a second of the entertainment functions;
e. and yet another of the segments forming a baby-safe mirror element secured within a pocket of the soft housing and forming of the sides of the triangular shape, said yet of the segments having mirror viewing as a third of the entertainment functions.

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Abstract

A Collapsible and Portable Shape-sorting Learning and Development Toy comprising:

a. a housing portion formed of a soft and flexible material, the housing portion comprising a first flat segment, a second flat segment, and a third flat segment, said first and second segments attached to one another and foldable relative to one another;
and the first and second segments connectable to and removable from the third segment,
and said first and second segments being foldable relative to the third segment, when connected,
and the segments being foldable to be opened into a self-supporting structure with a cross-sectional triangular shape formed from complete surfaces of each of said first segment, said second segment and said third segment, where the triangular shape is formed by the first segment, said second segment and said third segment being connected together at their edges,
and where the triangular shaped housing portion includes inner surfaces defining an inner triangular shape when the third segment is connected to the first and second segments, and where each of the first segment, second segment and third segment define a surface with a different entertainment function thereon;
b. one of the segments being an aperture plate element with multiple differently-shaped apertures forming one of the sides of the triangular shape, each of the apertures having a different shape defined by a perimeter of the aperture, said one of the segments defining shape sorting as a first of the entertainment functions;
c. further comprising plural blocks which are shaped to match and fit through the differently shaped apertures, where each of the blocks are shaped with an outer shape matching to one of the perimeters of the apertures, to fit through the one of the apertures and where each block only fits through the one perimeter, and does not fit through the other apertures,
and where, when the first, second and third segments are connected to one another to collectively form the triangular shaped housing portion which is free standing in the triangular shape, blocks which fit through said perimeters fall to the inner surfaces of the triangular shape;
d. another of the segments being a photographic display element, having a pocket in the soft housing, forming of the sides of the triangular shape and having a surface of clear plastic that holds a viewable item on under the surface of clear plastic, between the surface of the clear plastic and a surface of the another of the segments, such that the viewable item is viewed from an outside of the triangular shape, said another of the segments having photographic viewing as a second of the entertainment functions;
e. and yet another of the segments forming a baby-safe mirror element secured within a pocket of the soft housing and forming of the sides of the triangular shape, said yet of the segments having mirror viewing as a third of the entertainment functions.

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