Fusible toy bead scraper set

• US 10,279,278 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2017
• Issued: 05/07/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Epoch SL III Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Epoch SL III Incorporated
• Inventors: Sakai, Ryo
• Primary Examiner(s): Hunter, Alvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Baldori, Joseph B
• Application Number:
  US15/483,232
• Publication Number:
  US 20170291115A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 446 86, 446118, 434 96
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2011/0048 Scoops, shovels or spatulas
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/06 Patience; Other games for self-amusement
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/00 Other toys

Abstract

A fusible toy bead scraper set includes: a main body; a spatula portion formed on a front side of the main body; and guide portions. The guide portions extend from left and right end surface of the main body to define a space between left and right end portions of the main body, have lower surfaces, and are disposed on left and right sides of the main body, for guiding forward and rearward movement of the spatula portion. The set also includes fusible toy beads and a rectangular holding tray.

Claims

1. A bead toy set comprising:

a plurality of water-soluble fusible toy beads;

a rectangular holding tray comprising;

a plurality of recesses formed on a surface of the holding tray, each recess configured to accommodate one of the plurality of water-soluble fusible toy beads; and

an edge wall formed along a perimeter of the surface at each of four sides of the surface, the edge wall projecting from the surface; and

a fusible toy bead scrape comprising;

a main body having a spatula portion formed on a front side of the main body that scrapes the fusible toy beads; and

guide portions which extend from left and right outer surfaces of the main body, which have lower surfaces, and which are disposed on left and right sides of the main body, that guide forward and rearward movement of the spatula portion along the holding tray by sliding along respective left and right portions of the edge wall.

2. The bead toy set according to claim 1,

wherein the main body is formed in a laterally long rectangular shape in a plan view and has a flat upper surface, and

wherein an upper surface of the spatula portion is formed as a flat surface continuous from the flat upper surface of the main body.

3. The bead toy set according to claim 1,

wherein the guide portions comprise plate-shaped guide portions which protrude from the left and right outer surfaces of the main body in parallel with the left and right outer surfaces, respectively,

wherein the lower surfaces are positioned higher than a lower surface of the main body.

4. The bead toy set according to claim 3,

wherein the guide portions further comprise;

lateral plate portions protruding from upper portions of the left and right plate-shaped guide portions; and

block-shaped guide portions protruding downward from lower surfaces of the lateral plate portions.

5. The head toy set according to claim 1,

wherein the guide portions comprise block-shaped guide portions which protrude downward from lower surfaces of lateral plate portions protruding from the left and right sides of the main body, the block-shaped guide portions having lower surfaces positioned lower than a lower surface of the spatula portion.

6. The bead toy set according to claim 1,

wherein the spatula portion is formed to have a horizontal lower surface.