Fred A Booth

US Patent:

20030190857, Oct 9, 2003

Filed:

Apr 5, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/116751

Inventors:

Fred Booth - Somerset MA, US
Lee McLaughlin - Hingham MA, US
John Boyce - Providence RI, US
Kwan Ming - Lam Tin, HK
Chan Shing - Tseug Kwan O, HK
David Kunitz - Barrington RI, US

International Classification:

A63H003/04

US Classification:

446/374000

Abstract:

A bendable portion for a toy figure includes a bendable internal piece, a first rigid element coupled to the bendable internal piece to prevent it from being bent in the region to which the first rigid element is coupled, and a resilient outer layer covering the bendable internal piece and the first rigid element. The bendable internal piece has a shape that permits the bendable internal piece to be bent about a first axis to establish different configurations, that retains those configurations after being bent, and that impedes bending of the bendable internal piece about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis such that a force required to bend the bendable internal piece about the second axis is more than twice a force required to bend the bendable internal piece about the first axis. The resilient outer layer defines an outer surface of the bendable portion.