Colorable composition toy

Abstract

 A composition toy including flat main shapes reproducing certain figures, such as the silhouette of a human body, and flat secondary shapes reproducing garments or complements which can be placed on top of the main shape, achieving the holding of the secondary shapes on the primary shapes by means of magnetic attraction.
The silhouette of the main shapes (2) and secondary shapes (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) is drawn or marked on a sheet (1) made up of at least two layers, one of the layers (6) being formed by a solid emulsion of ferromagnetic particles having a size and being distributed with a density suitable for them to be cut by children's scissors, and the second one of the layers (5) being formed by cardboard, paper, plastic or any similar material which is susceptible to being colored with coloring means such as pencils, wax crayons, markers, silicone-based paints or any other means acceptable for children to use.

Description

Field of the Invention

[0001] The invention is included within the field of composition toys, particularly within the field of toys having pieces with areas that a child can color.

State of the Art/Background of the Invention

[0002] Composition toys based on flat shapes with figures placed on top of one another or shapes that a child can play with by placing them on a base have been known for a long time.

[0003] This toy, simple but susceptible to multiple combinations, aids in developing the imagination of the child, materializing his or her fantasies into characters on which different clothing or pieces can be placed, and which can in turn be distributed on a stage to represent children's tales or stories.

[0004] These toys traditionally consisted of simple cardboard shapes, at times having flaps which bend backwards, which are intended for being placed on top of other main shapes, for example, functioning as clothes.

[0005] More recently, shapes composed of several layers were developed, one of which layers being of a ferromagnetic material, such that the secondary shapes, for example those used as clothes, adhere to the main shapes, representing characters, by means of magnetic attraction. In turn, these shapes representing the characters are also placed on another, secondary shape which is larger than the others, which is used as a support for the main shapes, holding them in place by means of magnetic force, and which secondary larger shape represents a setting where scenes with one or several shapes representing characters can be represented.

[0006] As can be deduced from the foregoing, the ferromagnetic elements placed in the shapes can be, in all cases, a magnetized material, or a magnetized material in some shapes and a ferric material in other shapes, such that the magnetic attraction of the magnet of those containing it is enough to also be joined to the shapes having only ferric elements incorporated.

[0007] It can also be considered that these materials, magnetic or simply ferric, could be distributed more or less homogenously in the entire shape or placed at specific points of the shapes.

[0008] However, even though the shapes in this case are composed of several layers, one of them, the one having the ferromagnetic material used to join several shapes with the other shapes, and the other layers, specifically the outermost layer, could be made of cardboard or paper, it did not provide for them to be colorable.

[0009] Nor was any magnetically adhesive toy provided which started from an initial piece from which the child could cut out the shapes.

Description of the Invention

[0010] One objective of the present invention is to provide a composition toy based on flat shapes with figures placed on top of one another, held by means of magnetic attraction, or which a child can play with by placing them on a base, and those shapes can be colored by the child.

[0011] A further object of the present invention is that the child can cut out the silhouette of these shapes and then use them as such in the known composition toys.

[0012] To that end, the invention consists of a composition toy comprising flat main shapes reproducing certain figures, such as the silhouette of a human body, and flat secondary shapes reproducing garments or complements which can be placed on top of the main body, the holding of the secondary shapes on the primary shapes being achieved by means of magnetic attraction, and of the fact that the silhouette of the main and secondary shapes is drawn or marked on a sheet composed of at least two layers, one of the layers being formed by a solid emulsion of ferromagnetic particles of a size and distributed with a density suitable for being cut by children's scissors, and the second one of the layers being formed by cardboard, paper, plastic or any similar material susceptible to being colored with coloring means such as pencils, wax crayons, markers, silicone-based paints or any other means acceptable for children to use.

[0013] When ferromagnetic material is referred to herein, the reference is to a magnetized material as well as a ferric material, in any case, a material susceptible to adhering to another material by magnetic attraction.

Description of the Drawings

[0014] To complete the description and for the purpose of aiding to better understand the features of the invention, several drawings are attached to the present specification as an integral part thereof which, with an illustrative and non-limiting character, show the following:

Figure 1 shows a complete piece with different shapes to be cut out.

Figure 2 shows a profile sectional view of the shapes.

Preferred Embodiment

[0015] An embodiment, which does not exhaust the features of the object of the invention, is described below as an example to better explain the invention, with the aid of the figures.

[0016] Figure 1 shows an example of what could be a set of silhouetted shapes on a sheet (1) where a main shape (2) with a human figure can be seen, which silhouette is marked so that a child can easily know were he or she should cut it out to obtain the main shape. The silhouettes of other secondary shapes (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) are marked on the same sheet, which in this case would be garments that the child could cut out and then place on the main shape (2) with the human figure, dressing it. There may be second main shapes (4) representing animals or accessories which need not be placed on top of the shapes representing human figures; these second main shapes could, in turn, have secondary shapes, such as a collar in the case of an animal or fruits in the case of a tree, or any other accessory element which can be represented by a shape.

[0017] To achieve this capability, for the secondary shapes to adhere to the main shapes by magnetic attraction on one hand, and for a child to be able to cut them out on the other hand, the structure of the sheets and of the shapes cannot be simply that contemplated in the State of the Art.

[0018] In the present case, the structure of the cut-out shapes, and therefore that of the initial sheet, must consist of at least one two-layer stratification, such as that which can be seen in Figure 2. The outer layer (5) must be of cardboard, plastic or the like, where the silhouette of the shapes is drawn that the child can follow in order to cut them out, and the features of which will be described below. The ferromagnetic layer (6) consists of a solid emulsion of ferromagnetic particles in a plastic or cellulose base with sufficient consistency to give body to the shapes, but without it being too hard to cut with children's scissors.

[0019] The ferromagnetic particles must consist of iron or magnetite filings with dimensions small enough so that when the base piece is cut out, no sharp edges are produced; the density of the distribution of these particles in the plastic or cellulose base must be such that, on one hand, it allows the magnetic attraction, and on the other, does not provide so much hardness to the emulsion that it prevents it from being easily cut out.

[0020] After the previous explanation, it is also clear that the main and secondary shapes can have a ferromagnetic layer (6) based on iron filings, and the magnetic attraction can be achieved when placed on top of a large-surfaced secondary shape used as a support for the other smaller shapes, and this large-surfaced support shape being magnetized, or else because the same cut-out shapes have magnetic ferromagnetic filings (6) in the emulsion forming the layer.

[0021] On the other hand, the outer layer (5) is formed by a material such as cardboard, plastic or the like. However, in this invention, both cardboard or paper and plastic must have features making them susceptible to being colored by means of coloring with graphite-based pencils, with wax crayons, with erasable or permanent markers, with silicone-based paints or with any other means that a child can use to color.

[0022] In other words, the outer layer (6) is manufactured of cardboard so that it can be colored in combination with colored pencils, or with a plastic layer if the means for the child to color with are erasable markers or silicone-based paint. In any case the means will be enclosed with the toy, or the use of the means for providing color which is most suitable for each material of the outer layer (5) will be recommended.

[0023] It can also be provided in the toy of the invention for some shapes to be completely or partially colored (for example, those representing human figures), and for the child to be able to color the other shapes, for example those representing the clothing, or for the sectors which can be colored with one color and those which can be colored with another color to be marked by means of lines, used as a guide for the child.

[0024] A composition toy is thus achieved, constituted of main and secondary shapes which are placed on top of one another by means of magnetic attraction, but which shapes can be obtained by the child cutting them out from an initial sheet, and which the child can color, increasing the entertainment and teaching capabilities of the game.

Claims

1. A composition toy comprising flat main shapes reproducing certain figures, such as the silhouette of a human body, and flat secondary shapes reproducing garments or complements which can placed on top of the main shape, achieving the holding of the secondary shapes on the primary shapes by means of magnetic attraction, characterized in that the silhouette of the main shapes (2) and secondary shapes (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) is drawn or marked on a sheet (1) made up of at least two layers, one of the layers (6) being formed by a solid emulsion of ferromagnetic particles having a size and being distributed with a density suitable for them to be cut by children's scissors, and the second one of the layers (5) being formed by cardboard, paper, plastic or any similar material which is susceptible to being colored with coloring means such as pencils, wax crayons, markers, silicone-based paints or any other means acceptable for children to use.

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