Toy vehicle overlaid with a removable material suitable for removing the layer of removable material with a toy material remover

Abstract: A toy vehicle kit, suitable for removing a layer of removable material overlaid over the toy vehicle with a toy material remover, is presented. The toy vehicle kit comprises a toy vehicle covered with a layer of removable material and a toy material remover for removing the removable material layer by rubbing the toy material remover against the toy vehicle until an alternate surface of the toy vehicle is revealed. The removable material includes dehydrated water-based paint, grime, and removable paint. The toy material remover includes a chemical polisher agent, a cloth, water, alcohol, wax, a manual buffer device, and a motorized buffer device. The alternate surface revealed includes the material used to make the body of the vehicle, a permanent layer of paint, and a layer of polishable paint. Furthermore, the toy vehicle kit comprises detachably attachable parts used to customize the toy vehicle after removing the removable material. (end of abstract)

Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates - Malibu, CA, US
Inventor: Dominic Laurienzo
USPTO Applicaton #: #20070015437 - Class: 446431000 (USPTO)
Related Patent Categories: Amusement Devices: Toys, Rolling Or Tumbling (e.g., Wheeled)

Toy vehicle overlaid with a removable material suitable for removing the layer of removable material with a toy material remover description/claims

The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070015437, Toy vehicle overlaid with a removable material suitable for removing the layer of removable material with a toy material remover.

Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims

BACKGROUND

[0001] 1. Technical Field

[0002] The present invention relates to the fields of interactive toys, toys for assembly, and toy vehicles. More specifically, the present invention pertains to a toy vehicle overlaid with a removable material, suitable for removing the layer of removable material from the toy vehicle by using a toy material remover.

[0003] 2. Discussion

[0004] Toy vehicles have long been known in the art. For centuries children have been playing with toy vehicles of all shapes and sizes. Some of these toy vehicles include a car, a motorcycle, a pick up truck, a 18-wheeler, a fire truck, a train, an ambulance, a bus, a locomotive, and a boat, among others.

[0005] It is a well documented fact that children at play often imitate adults at work, especially their parents. A child plays with a doll pretending to feed it, dress it, undress it, laying it to sleep, reprehending it for bad behavior, and such, just like an adult parent does to their children. In a similar manner, a child plays with a toy vehicle pretending to drive it around, park it, load it with cargo, unload it, and drive it around again, just like an adult parent does with their own car.

[0006] With advances in the toy industry, one of the recent trends are interactive toys that allow a child to customize the toy by attaching accessories to the toy. In recent years, some toy manufactures have built miniature toy automobiles with a high degree of versatility to allow for attachment of a variety of accessories to the toy automobiles, hence allowing a child to modify the appearance and configuration of the toy automobile, such as those discussed by Marc F. de Blanitza in "Toy Automobile with Attachments," U.S. Pat. No. 4,895,542 and by Gary M. Saffer in "Toy Vehicle Having Changeable Appearance," U.S. Pat. No. 5,167,563.

[0007] However, the prior art does not allow a user to modify the toy vehicle appearance by removing a layer of removal material from the body of the toy in order to reveal an alternate surface of the body of the toy.

[0008] For the foregoing reasons, there is a great need for a toy vehicle overlaid with a removable material, suitable for removing the layer of removable material from the toy vehicle by using a toy material remover.

[0009] The following references are presented for further background information: [0010] [1] Gary M. Saffer, "Toy Vehicle Having Changeable Appearance," U.S. Pat. No. 5,167,563. [0011] [2] Marc F. de Blanitza, "Toy Automobile with Attachments," U.S. Pat. No. 4,895,542.

SUMMARY

[0012] The present invention provides a toy vehicle kit, suitable for removing a layer of removable material overlaid over the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle with a toy material remover, the toy vehicle kit comprising: a toy vehicle covered with a layer of removable material and a toy material remover for removing the removable material layer from the body of the toy vehicle by rubbing the toy material remover against the toy vehicle until an alternate surface of the body of the toy vehicle is revealed. The alternate surface revealed by the toy material remover includes the material used to make the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle, a permanent layer of paint overlaid on the vehicle-shape body, and a layer of polishable paint overlaid on the vehicle-shape body. The removable material overlaid over the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle includes dehydrated water-based paint, grime, and removable paint, while the toy material remover includes a chemical polisher agent, a cloth, water, alcohol, wax, a manual buffer device, and a motorized buffer device. The toy vehicle kit further comprises several detachably attachable parts, so that a user may customize the toy vehicle to his/her preference by attaching some of the detachably attachable parts to the body of the toy vehicle after the user has finished removing the removable material and revealing the alternate surface.

[0013] In a further embodiment, the present invention utilizes dehydrated water-based paint available in a plurality of colors as the removable material layer overlaid on the vehicle-shaped body. For this embodiment, the toy material remover comprises either water and a manual buffer device or water and a motorized buffer device, wherein the manual and the motorized buffer devices comprise a permeable buffer wheel that the user submerges in water, until the permeable buffer wheel is soaked with the water. Then the user removes the dehydrated water-based paint from the toy vehicle by rubbing the wet permeable buffer wheel of the buffer against the vehicle-shaped body of the toy until the layer of dehydrated water-based paint is dissolved, and the alternate surface becomes visible. In this embodiment, the user either manually rubs the wet permeable buffer wheel of the manual buffer against the vehicle-shaped body of the toy, or the user removes the dehydrated water-based paint by utilizing a motorized buffer device, which gyrates the wet permeable buffer wheel using electric power while the user glides the gyrating wet permeable buffer wheel against the vehicle-shaped body of the toy.

[0014] In another embodiment, the present invention further comprises a cloth to be moisten with water by a user and to be used by the user to remove dehydrated water-based paint from any hard to reach areas on the vehicle-shaped body that can not be reached by the manual buffer device or by the motorized buffer device.

[0015] Another embodiment of the present invention uses a container filled with water as the toy material remover, whereby a user submerges the toy vehicle in a container filled with water and soaks the vehicle-shaped body overlaid with dehydrated water-based paint until the layer of dehydrated water-based paint is dissolved, and the alternate surface becomes visible.

[0016] In a further embodiment, when the removable material comprises dehydrated water-based paint, the present invention further comprises containers of water-based paint in a plurality of colors, whereby a user can repaint the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle with the water-based paint and wait until the water-based paint dehydrates, in order to allow the user to once again be able to use the toy material remover to make the alternate surface of the toy vehicle visible. Generally in this embodiment, the alternate surface of the toy vehicle is either a permanent layer of paint or the material used to make the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle, wherein the material used to make the vehicle-shape body is a non-porous, fadeless, permanent material.

[0017] In yet another embodiment, the removable material layer overlaid on the toy vehicle comprises grime and the alternate surface revealed by the toy material remover comprises polishable paint. In this embodiment, the toy material remover includes a chemical polisher agent, a cloth, and wax, thereby allowing a user to make the polishable paint smooth and shiny by removing the grime from the polishable paint by applying either a cloth with a chemical polisher agent or a cloth with wax to the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle.

[0018] In a still further embodiment, the vehicle-shape body of the toy vehicle includes several shapes such as: a car; a motorcycle; a bicycle; a wheel; a sports utility vehicle (SUV); a pick up truck; a mini van; a truck; a 18-wheeler; fire truck; an ambulance; a bus; an all terrain vehicle; a locomotive; a boat; a ship; a yacht; a sail boat; a water scooter; a jet ski; a helicopter; an airplane; a space shuttle; a spacecraft; a snow mobile; and a toy robot.

[0019] Furthermore, the detachably attachable parts for attaching with the vehicle-shaped body of the toy vehicle include a custom wheel, a hood scoop, a convertible roof, a surfboard, skis, a snowboard, a spare tire, a spoiler, a license plate, exhaust tips, a custom sail, and customizable decals.

[0020] In another embodiment of the present invention, the toy vehicle comprises a toy car made out of a non-porous, fadeless, permanent material and overlaid with a layer of dehydrated water-based paint. In addition, this embodiment of the invention comprises a motorized buffer device that includes a movable axis and a detachably attachable permeable buffer wheel submergible in water, wherein the detachably attachable permeable buffer wheel is attached to the movable axis, and the movable axis gyrates when the motorized buffer device is turned on. In turn, the permeable buffer wheel gyrates together with the movable axis when the axis is gyrating. This embodiment allows a user to submerge the motorized buffer device in water and soak the permeable buffer wheel with the water, and then the embodiment allows the user to remove the dehydrated water-based paint from the toy car by gliding the gyrating wet permeable buffer wheel against the car-shape body until the layer of dehydrated water-based paint is dissolved, and the non-porous, fadeless, permanent material of the car-shape body becomes visible.

[0021] Another embodiment of the present invention comprises a toy kit, wherein a toy is overlaid with a layer of removable material and the toy kit comprises a toy material remover for removing the removable material layer from the body of the toy by rubbing the toy material remover against the toy until an alternate surface of the body of the toy is revealed. In this embodiment of the invention, the toy includes an action figure, a doll, a car, a motorcycle, a bicycle, a wheel, a sports utility vehicle (SUV), a pick up truck, a mini van, a truck, a 18-wheeler, a fire truck, an ambulance, a bus, an all terrain vehicle, a locomotive, a boat, a ship, a yacht, a sail boat, a water scooter, a jet ski, a helicopter, an airplane, a space shuttle, a spacecraft, a snow mobile, and a toy robot.

[0022] Finally, as can be appreciated by one skilled in the art, the present invention also comprises a method for forming the toy vehicle kit described herein, wherein the method comprises an act of forming a toy vehicle overlaid with a removable material, and the method further comprises an act of forming a toy material remover, suitable for removing the layer of removable material from the toy vehicle by using the toy material remover. In addition, the method for forming the toy vehicle kit further comprises an act of rubbing the toy material remover against the vehicle-shaped body until a surface of the toy vehicle reveals an alternate surface.

[0023] The features of the above embodiments may be combined in many ways to produce a great variety of specific embodiments, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art.

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