Toy figure with articulating joints

• US 6,514,119 B1
• Filed: 04/17/2000
• Issued: 02/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CJ Associates Ltd.
• Original Assignee: CJ Associates Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, James S. W., Kwan, Chiu Keung
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, JAMILA O
• Application Number:
  US09/550,860
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• Field of Search: 446/384, 446/391, 446/276, 446/278, 446/330, 446/331, 446/338, 446/339, 446/340, 446/376, 446/381, 446/379, 446/390, 446/375
• US Class Current: 446/384
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/46 Connections for limbs
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2045/14131 using positioning or centering means forming part of the insert
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/14065 Positioning or centering articles in the mould
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/14467 Joining articles or parts of a single article B29C45/14377, B29C45/14385, B29C45/14581, B29C45/14614 and B29C45/006 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/14754 being in movable or releasable engagement with the coating, e.g. bearing assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 23/10 Homopolymers or copolymers of propene
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 23/16 Elastomeric ethene-propene or ethene-propene-diene copolymers, e.g. EPR and EPDM rubbers
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 2666/22 Macromolecular compounds not provided for in C08L2666/16 - C08L2666/20
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 2666/24 Graft or block copolymers according to groups C08L51/00, C08L53/00 or C08L55/02; Derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 37/00 Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and at least one being terminated by a heterocyclic ring containing oxygen of cyclic esters of polyfunctional acids C08L31/00; of cyclic anhydrides of unsaturated acids C08L35/00; Compositions of derivatives of such polymers
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 45/00 Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of compounds having no unsaturated aliphatic radicals in side chain, and having one or more carbon-to-carbon double bonds in a carbocyclic or in a heterocyclic ring system; Compositions of derivatives of such polymers of cyclic anhydrides or imides C08L35/00; of cyclic esters of polyfunctional acids C08L31/00
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 51/06 grafted on to homopolymers or copolymers of aliphatic hydrocarbons containing only one carbon-to-carbon double bond
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 71/02 Polyalkylene oxides

Abstract

A toy figure having multiple articulating limbs connected to the torso by pivot joints that are molded in a vertical injection molding step that forms and pivotally interconnects, in situ, one member of the pivot joint to a second, pre-formed member of the pivot joint.

Claims

1. A toy figure comprising:

a head having an interior space, the head having a bottom surface with an opening therein;

a head joint having a body member with an upper surface sized and shaped to mate with the bottom surface of the head, said head joint further comprising a joint member which extends through the opening in the bottom surface of the head to connect the head joint to the head; and

a lever arm that is pivotally connected to the head joint, said lever arm extending from a bottom surface of the joint member and having a rotational member at its free end.

2. A toy figure according to claim 1, further comprising a pair of shells defining a torso segment having an opening therein sized and shaped to mate with the bottom surface of the head joint and having an internally formed retention seat adjacent to said opening, wherein the rotational member of the lever arm is a disk that is seated in the retention seat to rotationally mount the head joint to the torso segment.