U.S. patent application number 09/774747 was filed with the patent office on 2002-08-01 for reusable ball units able to be repeatedly modeled.
Invention is credited to Tseng, Shao-Chien.
Application Number | 20020102905 09/774747 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 25102159 |
Filed Date | 2002-08-01 |
United States Patent
Application |
20020102905 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Tseng, Shao-Chien |
August 1, 2002 |
Reusable ball units able to be repeatedly modeled
Abstract
A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three
dimensions, which include magnetic beads fully filled in a ball bag
with excellent expansion and contracting ability. Wherein, the
magnetic beads have suitable magnetic attraction, thereby, when
they are pressed, hit or squeezed by hands to move, the magnetic
beads in the ball bags can attract on another to endue the ball
units with a contour. The ball units can be modeled repeatedly and
stacked in taking advantage of magnetic attraction thereof; so that
they can be used for modeling inventive three dimensional
articles.
Inventors: |
Tseng, Shao-Chien; (Taoyuan,
TW) |
Correspondence
Address: |
Keith Kline
PRO-TECHTOR INTERNATIONAL SERVICES
20775 Norada Court
Saratoga
CA
95070-3018
US
|
Family ID: |
25102159 |
Appl. No.: |
09/774747 |
Filed: |
January 30, 2001 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
446/131 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A63H 33/26 20130101;
B44C 3/04 20130101; B44C 3/046 20130101; B44C 3/06 20130101; A63H
33/046 20130101; B44C 1/24 20130101; A63H 33/001 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
446/131 |
International
Class: |
A63H 033/26 |
Claims
1. A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three
dimensions, comprising at least a ball bag and a lot of magnetic
beads, said magnetic beads all have magnetic attraction and are
fully filled in said ball bag to make gathering of said magnetic
beads.
2. A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three
dimensions as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ball bag is made of
thin plastic rubber film with excellent expansion and contracting
ability.
3. A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three
dimensions as claimed in claim 1, wherein said magnetic beads are
moved when they are exerted with an external force to render the
contour of said ball units capable of being modeled.
4. A reusable ball unit able to be repeatedly modeled in three
dimensions as claimed in claim 1, wherein said ball units attract
one another by magnetism to crowd and stack mutually.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the invention
[0002] The present invention is related to reusable ball units able
to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions, they are especially
suitable to be used as units for manual training, pottery modeling
or toy brick stacking, each unit can be modeled repeatedly and
stacked in taking advantage of magnetic attraction thereof, so that
they can be beneficial to intelligence.
[0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art
[0004] The most popular intelligence toy available in the markets
is a set of toy bricks; conventional toy bricks are comprised of a
lot of three dimensional unit bricks of certain shape, they can be
stacked or connected with one another to form a desired three
dimensional form, and can be detached or repeatedly stacked to get
an effect of fun beneficial to intelligence. And the conventional
unit toy bricks have fixed shapes, they can not be modeled any more
for other shapes, the three dimensional forms built from them have
very rough contours and are unable to express inventive ideas in
stacking and connecting. This is the disadvantage of conventional
toy bricks.
[0005] And more, conventional articles for manual training, pottery
modeling or toy brick stacking, except those made of plastic clay
or plastic ceramic material, are not made of material reusable or
able to be repeatedly modeled. Articles made of plastic clay or
plastic ceramic material are subjected to adhering to hands or
other articles; even more, articles made of plastic clay or plastic
ceramic material are limited in usage, they are not totally
suitable to use in a family having children therein.
[0006] Material that renders a person fond of modeling to
effectively develop his inventive ideas to fabricate more perfect
three dimensional articles full of intelligent effect, and fulfills
the requirement that articles for manual training, pottery modeling
or toy brick stacking must have the ability of being modeled and
must be easily tidied and are not subjected to adhering to hands
nor limited in usage has not been found. This has been a pity in
the art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0007] In view of the above stated disadvantages and trouble
resided in the conventional non plastic and plastic intelligence
material, the inventor of the present invention develops, after
elaborate study, reusable ball units able to be modeled in three
dimensions and can be substituted for the presently used toy bricks
suitable also for manual training and pottery modeling.
[0008] The object of the present invention is to provide reusable
ball units able to be repeatedly modeled in three dimensions, they
can be pressed, hit or squeezed by hands to give contour to the
unit bricks according to ones inventive idea, and have the effect
of stacking and connecting and preventing from loosening, as well
as can be easily tidied and are not subjected to adhering to hands
nor limited in usage, can be substituted for the presently used toy
bricks and suitable also for manual training and pottery modeling
to render a person fond of modeling to effectively develop his
inventive ideas to fabricate articles with more perfect modeling
full of intelligent effect.
[0009] To get the above object, the present invention in practice
is to provide ball bags made of plastic rubber with excellent
expansion and contracting ability and to fully fill therein a lot
of magnetic beads to form the ball units.
[0010] Wherein, the magnetic beads have suitable magnetic
attraction, thereby, when they are pressed, hit or squeezed by
hands to move, the magnetic beads in the ball bags can attract one
another to endue the ball units with a contour.
[0011] The gathering positions of the magnetic beads will be
changed in pursuance of squeezing force of fingers, i.e., the ball
units have the ability to be repeatedly remolded.
[0012] The magnetic beads have thereamong magnetic attraction and
can be stacked, so that they can be connected to form an article
with a three dimensional modeling.
[0013] The ball bags as the external film of the ball units can be
endued with various colors to enhance fun and visual effect of the
articles formed.
[0014] The present invention will be apparent after reading the
detailed description of the preferred embodiment thereof in
reference to the accompanying drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the ball units are
received in a box;
[0016] FIG. 1a is a partially enlarged sectional view showing a
unit ball of the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing magnetic attraction among
the magnetic beads of the present invention;
[0018] FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing the magnetic beads of the
present invention are pushed to roll under the action of an
external force;
[0019] FIG. 4 is a schematic view showing a die is used to pile
therein ball units;
[0020] FIG. 5 is a perspective schematic view showing a pyramid is
formed by using the die of FIG. 4;
[0021] FIG. 6 is a perspective schematic view showing a three
dimensional article is formed by hand squeezing in the present
invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0022] Referring to the FIG. 1 firstly, the present invention
provides reusable ball units able to be repeatedly modeled in three
dimensions. In practicing, a box 1 is provided to load therein a
lot of ball units 2, the box 1 can be provided thereon with a
plurality of dies 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 with various geometric
contours for modeling the ball units 2 to endue them with certain
contours.
[0023] The ball units 2 are formed by providing ball bags 21 made
of plastic rubber to be fully filled therein a lot of magnetic
beads 3 (as shown in FIG. 1a). The ball units 2 are each of the
volume suitable for holding of a hand of a person. The ball bags 21
each has a thickness of circa 0.3-0.5 mm and made of plastic rubber
with excellent expansion and contracting ability, diameter of each
magnetic bead 3 is about 1 mm, the magnetic beads 3 are all
magnetized to have suitable magnetic attraction, so that the
magnetic beads 3, 3A, 3B and 3C in the ball bags 21 can have
suitable magnetic gathering attraction.
[0024] When a user presses, hits or squeezes a ball unit 2 by
hands, the magnetic beads 3 in a ball bag 21 are exerted with an
external force which is much larger than the gathering attraction,
and are extruded externally to make rolling of the magnetic beads
3, 3A, 3B and 3C at the positions when the force exerts (as shown
in FIG. 3). Thereafter, when the external force is removed, the
magnetic beads 3, 3A, 3B and 3C will be stay at their positions
after extruding, they can also hold the ball bag 21, so that the
ball unit 2 is fixed in shape to have the contour endued with by
pressing and squeezing. In the embodiment of the present invention
shown, a plurality of ball units 2 are placed into a triangular die
12 for being modeled (as shown in FIG. 4), the ball units 2 attract
one another by magnetism to crowd and stack to form a pyramidic
article 4 (as shown in FIG. 5), or the ball units 2 are pressed,
hit or squeezed with hands to be modeled to form a three
dimensional article 41 in the shape of a bowel (as shown in FIG.
6). Hence, by the ability of being modeled and stacked by magnetic
attraction of the ball units 2, the three dimensional articles 4 or
41 made with the triangular die 12 or by hand squeezing have
strength of coherence and are not subjected to loosening and
collapsing. They are beneficial to manual training or pottery
modeling or can be substituted for toy brick stacking, and they can
be beneficial to intelligence.
[0025] The ball bags 21 covering the ball units 2 can be endued
with various colors to enhance fun and visual effect of the
articles formed. And the ball units 2 can be modeled repeatedly to
form blocks with the same volume and shape; thereby they can be
repeatedly used and are practical and useful.
[0026] In conclusion, the reusable ball units able to be repeatedly
modeled in three dimensions of the present invention really have
the effect beneficial to intelligence in that they can be
repeatedly modeled by a user by pressing, hitting or squeezing with
hands, the ball units can be modeled stacked in taking advantage of
magnetic attraction thereof, and are not subjected to loosening and
collapsing nor are subjected to adhering to hands or limited in
usage. Having thus described my invention which is novel and
advanced, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Letters
Patent of the United States are:
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