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Jointed toyJointed toy description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090130950, Jointed toy. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
The present invention is a stuffed toy. More particularly, the present invention is a toy with removable limbs so that children can not only move the limbs to various positions while the limbs are attached to the main body of the toy, but children can actually remove and replace the limbs. Toys live in the realm of childhood. One of the most common toys children play with is a stuffed toy. The stuffed toy not only can provide psychological comfort, but moreover, can become a point of interaction and creativity. Some children will dress their stuffed toys, while other children will feed them and even place a diaper on a stuffed toy. Unfortunately, stuffed toys are rather static creatures. They must be rather strong to stand up to the constant dropping, throwing, cuddling, smashing that typical children administer to stuffed toys. Because stuffed toys are so static, children can oftentimes lose interest in a stuffed toy after a short period of overwhelming enjoyment. There is a need for a stuffed toy that can morph or change so that once the aura or the look of the stuffed toy no longer enchants a child, the stuffed toy can change its appearance. If the stuffed toy takes on a new form or appearance, then the child will continue to be drawn to the stuffed toy, and parents will not feel that stuffed toys must simply aggregate in a corner of the room so that the child has a variety of stuffed toys. Currently, there are no real solutions to allowing stuffed toys to change their appearance absent dressing them differently. One way to alter a toys appearance is to provide parts connected via hook-and-loop type fasteners or magnets. For children, pulling a toy apart and then reassembling can involve hours of playtime as the toy is reassembled to form different configurations. In fact, toys do exist wherein limbs can be attached and detached, but stuffed toys are flexible and soft. Thus, if a stuffed toy is to have magnets or some other type of fastening system, a greater problem exists: how to incorporate a reattaching system into a toy that is very flexible, that might rip apart as a child is attempting to detach parts, and that has piles which obscure and prevent the reattaching system from functioning. Thus, there is a need for a stuffed toy that reliably provides a child with the ability to attach, detach, and reattach limbs and various other parts. U.S. Pat. No. 3,375,604 issued to Alonso on Apr. 2, 1968, shows a rubber toy with limbs that remove via magnets so that the toy can be made to appear differently depending on the desires of child. Unlike the present invention, Alonso\'s device does not provide a stuffed toy with magnetic limb connections, but rather, Alonso\'s device is of a non-pile, rather rigid material. Unlike the present invention, there is no teaching suggestion in Alonso for how magnets can be used to attach limbs in a stuffed toy wherein piles obscure connection points. Further unlike the present invention, Alonso\'s device does not recognize nor offer a solution for preventing connection points from serving as points for ripping a stuffed toy open. U.S. Pat. No. 4,480,361 issued to Morita on Nov. 6, 1984, shows a magnetic clasp which protects magnetic records from being adversely affected by the magnetic induction lines of a magnet characterized in that the lines of magnetic induction inherent to the magnet are conveyed by the ferromagnetic end surface rather than diverged to outside in order to maximize the attracting power of the magnet. Morita\'s patent notes that Morita\'s device can be used as a clasp or lock for bags, boxes, bands or chains and has wide application for suitcases, handbags and purses; however, unlike the present invention, Morita\'s patent offers no way to interface Morita\'s device with a stuffed toy. Unlike the present invention, Morita\'s device does not provide a stuffed toy with magnetic limb connections, but rather, Morita\'s device merely offers a magnet. Unlike the present invention, there is no teaching suggestion in Morita for how magnets can be used to attach limbs in a stuffed toy wherein piles obscure connection points. Further, unlike the present invention, Morita\'s device does not recognize nor offer a solution for preventing connection points from serving as points for ripping a stuffed toy open. Thus, there is a need for a device which employs removable connections in a way appropriate for stuffed toys to afford stuffed toys the ability to have interchangeable parts. The present invention is a stuffed toy with magnets positioned at points along the stuffed toy so that a piece of the stuffed toy can attach, detach, and reattach. Preferably, the magnet is located at each joint of a stuffed animal to provide a point to receive an attachment, while a second magnet attracting attachment is located on any piece to be attached to the toy. For example, the magnet is positioned at the arm socket of the stuffed animal, while the magnet attracting attachment is positioned on the top portion of an arm to be attached to the stuffed animal. The attachment not only attracts the magnet, but they interlock with a plug portion emanating from the magnet attracting attachment and a hole portion, to receive the plug portion, in the magnet. The hole portion and plug portion serve two purposes. First, because the attached portion of the stuffed animal is likely a limb, the plug portion can rotate in the hole portion and allow the limb to rotate about the main body of the stuffed animal as would a joint of a real animal. Second, the plug portion fits inside the hole portion to prevent the attachment from sliding off of the magnet if pressure is applied perpendicular to the angle of the connection. As is further described in the detailed description below, the magnets are formed with additional adaptations to allow them to function properly without damaging stuffed toys or becoming dislodged there from. Continue reading about Jointed toy... Full patent description for Jointed toy Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Jointed toy patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. 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