HUE025254T2

HUE025254T2 - Toy figure

Info

Publication number: HUE025254T2
Application number: HUE12152204A
Authority: HU
Inventors: Goran Kvesic
Original assignee: Bruder Spielwaren Gmbh + Co Kg
Priority date: 2011-02-02
Filing date: 2012-01-24
Publication date: 2016-02-29
Also published as: EP2484417A3; PL2484417T3; DK2484417T3; ES2544927T3; DE202011002298U1; EP2484417A2; EP2484417B1

Description

The invention relates to a toy figure:. Á toy figure according 10 the preamble of claim I is known from WO 02/11844 Al. Further toy figures are. for example, known írom US 4 995 846 and from US 20()2/0 12? 949 At,

An object of the present invention is to provide toy figures, which, on the one hand, allow movement possibilities true to nature of the limbs, and which, on the other hand, are also as safe as possible for comparatively small children to play with.

This object is achieved according to the invention by a toy figure having the features disclosed in claim I,

It was recognised according to the invention that a joint element connection by means of leg holding portions leads, on the one hand, to the possibility of manufacturing tie leg portions separately and then assembling them, but, on the other hand, also ensures a stability of the toy figure with good mobility, A positive connection of the leg holding portions according to claim 2 ensures a secure connection of the two leg holding portions to one another, The positive connection can be implemented by configuring one of the two leg holding portions as a dovetail holding portion and the other of the two leg holding portions as a counter-holding portion complementary thereto. A dovetail connection of this type ensures a stable connection of the two leg holding portions to one another. Another positive connection of the leg holding portions to one another Is also possible, tor example a connection in the manner of a push button. Á latching device according to claim 3 ensures a secure fixing of the mutually connected leg portions to the hip portion with simple assembly.

Formed-oo latching projections according to claim 4 can be economically produced.

Latching projections arranged opposing one another according to claim 5 allow a force-secured configuration of the latching device, which fixes the leg portions to the hip portion, A design is possible, in which as soon as, owing to a leg joint movement, one of the latching projections lifts from the counter-latching body, the counter-latch ing body is pressed against the other, opposing latching projection. The latching device, which fixes the leg portions on the hip portion, can have a plurality of mutually opposing pairs of latching projections. This plurality of latching projection pairs may be formed in one piece on the leg holding portions. the toy figure may have a head part, which is connected hv a neck joint to a trunk portion of a body. A neck-side neck joint body of the head part can be clamped here between at least two joint counter-walls of the trunk portion, on which the neck joint body rests bv means of surface portions. A head part of this type with a neck-side joint body clamped between joint counter-walls of the trank portion provides a simple possibility of fixing a respective predetermined relati ve position of the head part with respect to the trunk portion by means of a frictional engagement. The frictional engagement is produced by a prestressing of the joint counter-walls in relation to one another.

The neck joint body may have at least one convex surface portion. At least one convex surface portion of tills type ensures a defined .abutment of the neck j oint body on the joint counter-walls. 'file same applies to an abutment pin region, which the neck joint body may have.

The trank portion may be multi-part and have a chest-side trunk lower portion and a back trunk lower portion, each of the trank lower portions being able to have at least one of the joint counter-walls, on which the neck joint body rests. With such a multi-part design of the trunk portion, an additional prestressing of the neck joint can be produced by a pretensioning between the two trank portions, A nodding stop for the neck joint, and pivoting stops for the neck joint, which can be provided, ensure realistic limitations of the head movements of die toy figure .

The two trunk lower portions may be latched to one another on the neck side. A latching connection of this type of the two trank lower portions allows a secure connection of these two trunk portions. In addition, a defined predetermination of a prestressing of the joint counter-walls of the neck joint is possible.

The two trunk lower portions may be inserted in the hip portion on the hip side. A plug connection of this type of the trunk l ower portions to the hip portion is simple. A conf iguration of figure parts as multi-component injection moulded parts according to claim 6 produces new degrees of freedom in the design of the toy figure. Figure parts cm he provided with joints, which can be produced directly during the injection moulding process, in other words do not have to he assembled retrospectively. Examples of toy figure joints of this type are elbow joints and knee joints. Colour differentiations are also possible by means of the multi-component injection moulding. In addition it is possible to manufacture highly stressed components, for example joint components, from correspondingly wear-resistant plastics materials, whereas other components of the same figure part can be manufactured from less wear-resistant material

Embodiments of the invention will be described in more detail below with the aid of the drawings, in which :

Fig, 1 shows a perspective view of a toy figure:

Fig. 2 shows the toy figure according to Fig, I in an exploded view, in which a trunk portion of a body is separated from a hip portion of the body ;

Fig. 3 shows a front view of the toy figure according to Fig. I;

Fig. 4 shows a. section along the line IV~I V in Fig. 3:

Fig, 5 shows a detailed enlargement of the detail V in Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 shows a side view of the toy figure with the arms removed:

Fig. 7 shows a section along the line YII-VII in Fig, 6;

Fig. 8 shows the detail VIII in Fig, 7, enlarged;

Fig. 9 shows an exploded view of the trunk portion and the head and the arms of the toy figure according to Fig, 1;

Fig, 10 shows the detail X hi Fig, 4, enlarged;

Fig, i 1 shows a section along the line X)~.Xt in Fig. 3;

Fig. 12 shows the detail XII in Fig. IF enlarged;

Fig. 13 shows a nodding position of the head relative to the trunk portion in a view similar to Fig, 10;

Fig. 14 shows a pivoting position of the head relative to the trunk portion “looking over the left-hand shoulder” in a view similar to Fig. 12;

Fig. 15 shows the two leg portions of the toy figure according to Fig, 1 in an assembled position;

Fig. Id shows a plan view of the leg portions in the position accord ing to Fig. 15;

Fig. 17 shows a section along the line XVH-XVll in Fig, 15;

Fig, 18 shows a front view of the kg portions, inserted in the hip portion of the body;

Fig, 1.9 shows a section along the line XI.X-X1X in Fig. 18;

Fig, 20 shows a section along the line XX-XX in Fig. 18;

Fig. 21 shows a plan view' of the toy figure structural component according to Fig. 18;

Fig, 22 shows a section along the line ΧΧΪΙ-ΧΧΠ in Fig. 21.;

Fig. 23 shows a section along the line XXill-XXill in Fig. 21;

Fig, 24 to 27 show exploded views, which show an assembly sequence of the structura l component according to Fig. 18 including a toy figure belt;

Fig, 28 perspectiveiy show's a Rather configuration of a toy figure;

Fig, 29 shows a front view· of a trunk portion of the toy figure ac cording to Fig. 28;

Fig, 30 shows a section along the line XX.X~X.XX in Fig. 29;

Fig 31 shows tlte detail XXXI in Fig. 30,. enlarged;

Fig, 32 shows a nodding position of the head relative to the trunk portion in a view similar to Fig. 2 8 ;

Fig. 33 shows a detailed eniargenie.nl: of a section along the line XXXIlt-XXXIll in the region of a head/trunk transition;

Fig. 34 perspective!} shows the head part of the toy figure accord ing to Fig. 28;

Fig, 35 shows the trunk of the toy figure according to Fig. 28 in a front view with the head in the position 'looking over the !eft-hand shoulder'"; and

Fig. 36 shows a detail along the line XXXVÍ-XXXVÍ m Fig, 35, enlarged.

Figs. 1 to 27 show a configuration of a toy figure ! produced in total from plasties material. The toy figure 1 has a head part 2, which is connected by a neck joint 3 to a trunk portion 4 of a body 5 of the toy figure 1. The trunk portion 4 is connected by a latching/plug connection with latching elements 6 and ping elements 7 to a hip portion 8 of the body 5. The latching elements 6 are formed In one piece on the hip portion 8, The plug elements 7 arc formed in one piece on the trunk portion 4,

In the shoulder region, arm joint balls 9, which, with correspondingly complementarity formed joint sockets, form shoulder joints of the toy figure 1, are formed on the trunk portion 4, The joint sockets are part of arms 18 of the toy figure. Each of the arms 10 has an upper arm portion and a lower arm portion, which are connected to one another in an articulated manner by an elbow joint 11, The arms 10 are multi-component injection moulded parts, the upper arm portions being injection moulded from a different plastics material than the lower arm portions. The elbow joints 11 are formed during the injection moulding. It is therefore not necessary ίο assemble the arms. A joint carrier 12 is formed on each of the ami joint halls 9 (of. Fig 9),

Fig. 9 illustrates the component structure of the trunk portion 4. Apart from the head part 2 and the two joint carriers 12 with the arm joint balls 9, said trank portion has a chest part 13 and a back part 14. The chest part 13 is a chest-side trunk lower portion of the toy figure l, The hack part 14 is a hack trunk lower portion of the toy figure I. A neck-side neck joint body 15, which has the plurality of convex surface portions 16, 17 and 18, which are visible in the sectional view according to Fig. 10, belongs to the neck joint 3, The surface portions 16 to 18 of the neck joint body 1$ are clamped between a total of three joint counter-walls 19, 20 and 21 of the trunk portion 4, The joint counter-wall 19 is an integral component of the chest part 13. The joint counter-walls 20, 21, are integral components of the hack part 14. The presiressing of the neck joint body 15 between the joint counter-walls 19 to 21 is such that between the neck joint body 15 and the joint counter-walls 19 to 21 there is a frictional engagement, which, on the one hand, ensures a mobility of the head part 2 relative to the trunk portion 4 and, on die other hand, ensures that the head part 2 remains in a predetermined relative position with respect to the trunk portion 4.

Fig. 10 shows the neck joint 3 in a position “head placed upright'* of the head part 2 relative to the trunk portion 4. Fig, 13 shows the neck joint 3 In a nodding position of the head part 2 with respect to the trunk portion 4. In this nodding position, a nodding stop 22, which is provided adjacent to the convex surface portion 16 on the neck joint body 15, cooperates with a counter-stop 23 on the end face of the joint eounler-wal! 21. A further, rear nodding stop 24 is provided in the nodding position to cooperate with a counter-recess 25 itt the joint counter-wall 20. The rear nodding stop 24 simultaneously has the function of a pivoting counter-stop to limit a maximum head pivoting angle of the toy figure l relative to the trunk portion 4.

The two trunk lower portions 13, 14 are latched together on the neck side, as also emerges by way of example from Fig. 10. A latching lug 26 of the chest part 13 engages behind a latching rib 17 of the back part 14 here. The latching rib 27 is resiliently formed such that in order to introduce the latching lug 26 during the latching of foe chest part 1.3 to the back part 14, it can initially resiliently move away downwardly.

On the hip side, foe two trunk lower portions 13, 14 are inserted in foe hip portion 8, as shown in Fig, 5, One of the plug elements 1 on the chest side, which is formed in one piece on the chest part 13, is inserted in the hip portion. A belt part 28 of the toy figure I is arranged at the level of the chest part plug element 7 on the visible side between the chest part 13 and the hip portion 8. The further plug element 7 on the back is formed on the back part 14 and inserted in the belt part 28.

The latching elements 6, which are latched to counter-latching elements 29, which are formed in one piece on the back part 14, are used to fix the trunk portion 4 inserted in the hip portion 8.

Fig, 12, in a section, shows foe neck joint body IS in a head pivoting position “looking forward” Fig, 14 shows the neck joint body 15 ia a head pivoting position “looking over the left-hand shoulder ·. In this head pivot- ing position, the pivoting counter-slop 24 rests on a pivoting stop 30, which is an integral component of the chest part 1. 3, Λ further pivoting stop 31 for limiting the head pivoting angle when looking over the right-hand shoulder is arranged mirror-symmetrically to the pivoting stop 30 for looking over the left-hand shoulder. The pivoting stop 31 is also an integral component of the chest part 13,

The toy figure 1 has two leg portions 32. 33, which are connected by leg ball joints 34. 35 to the hip portion 8 of the body 5. The leg portions 32, 33 In each ease ha ve a knee joint. The leg portions 32,33 are multi-component injection moulded parts, which do not have to he assembled after production by injection moulding, hut are the direct result of the Injection moulding process in the multi-part configuration shown.

Each of the leg hall joints 34, 35 has a leg joint ball 36, 37. The leg joint hall 36 Is mounted in a joint socket 38 of the leg portion 32. The kg joint bail 37 is .mounted in a joint socket 39 of the leg portion 33. The leg joint balls 36, 37 are joint elements of the leg ball joints 34,35. The joint sockets 38, 39 are counter-joint elements of the leg portions 32, 33 , Á leg holding portion 40 for the right-hand leg portion 32 of the toy figure I is formed in one piece on the joint hall 36, Á leg holding portion 41 for the leg portion for the left-hand leg of the toy figure I is formed in one piece on the leg joint hall 37. The two joint balls 36, 37 are releaseahly connected to one another by the two leg holding portions 40,41. In the toy figure 1, a ‘thigh joint** is formed the other way round to in real people with regard to the arrangement of the joint ball and joint socket. Instead of a thigh neck, the toy figure 1 has the joint sockets 38, 39. Instead of a pelvic girdle, the toy f igure 1 has the two leg joint balls 36, 37 connected to one another bv the leg holding portions 40,41,

It becomes clear from Figs. 16 and 17 that the leg holding portion 41 is configured as a dovetail holding portion and that the leg holding portion 40 is configured as a counter-holding portion that is complementary thereto. A dovetail profile 42 of the leg holding portion 41 runs vertically when the toy figure 1 is standing. I’he leg holding portions 40, 41, and therefore the leg portions 32, 33, are fixed by a latching device 43 on the hip portion 8 and secured against sliding out.

Latching projections 44, which are part of the latching device 43, are formed in one piece on the leg holding portions 40, 41, The latching projections 44 of the two leg holding portions 40, 41 are arranged opposing one another, A conn ter-latch ing body 45 of the latching device 43, which is formed in one piece on the hip portion S, is arranged between the two latching projections 44, The two latching projections 44 engage behind counter-latching steps 46 of the counter-latching body 45.

As emerges from Fig, 17, the leg holding portions 40, 41 in each case have two pairs of mutually opposing latching projections 44, which cooperate in a latching manner on the chest side and back: with respective portions 45 a, 45b therebetween of the counter-latching body 45.

The counter-latching body 45, respectively facing the leg holding portion 40, on the one hand, and the leg holding portion 41, on the other hand, has two dovetail profiles 47 of its own, which, for the secure connection of the hip portion 8 to the holding potions 40, 41, cooperate with complementary counter-guides of the leg holding portions 40, 41 to form two further dovetail connections. The dovetail connections, which are produced with the dovetail profiles 47 between the hip portion 8 and the leg holding portions 40, 41, in the standing toy figure 1, are arranged above the dovetail connection by the dovetail profile 42 directly between the two leg holding portions 40, 41, This becomes clear from the plan view according to Fig, 16, which shows the two leg portions 32, 33 assembled by the dovetail connection with the dovetail proli le 42, the dovetail counter-recesses lor the as yet uninscrted dovetail profiles 47 of the hip portion 8 also being visible. Fig, 21, in a corresponding view, shows a structural component with the two kg portions 32, 33 and the positioned hip portion 8 together with the belt part 28. A forced securing is produced by the pairs of latching projections 44 and the counter-latching body 45 located in between during the movement of the thigh parts of the leg portions 32, 33 relative to the body 5 by means of the leg ball joints 34, 3 5 , As soon as one of the latching projections 44 lilts from the counter-latching body 45 owing to a joint movement of the leg ball joints 34, 35, the counter-latching body 45 is forcibly pressed as a result against the opposing, other latching projection 44. Phis ensures that the two leg portions 32, 33 remain fixed on the hip portion 8.

Figs. 24 to 27 illustrate an assembly sequence during the assembly of the struc tural component, which consists of the leg portions 32, 33, the hip portion 8 and the belt part 28. Firstly, the two leg portions 32, 33 are connected to one another by the dovetail connection with the dovetail profile 42, The hip portion 8 is then Inserted from above into the dovetail connections with the dovetail profiles 47 and latched to the leg portions 32, 33 by the latching device 43. The belt part 28 is then plugged from above onto the hip portion 8, A further configuration of a toy figure 48 will be described below with the aid of Figs. 28 to 36. Components, which correspond to those, which have already been described above with reference to the toy figure ! according to Figs. I to 27, have the same reference numerals and will not be discussed again in detail. A joint body 49 on the neck side in the toy figure 48 has a two-part convex abutment pin region SO, which, as Fig. 34 illustrates, has two opposing pin portions 50a, SOb on the right and left of the neck joint body 49. The neck joint body 49 rests by means of a convex surface portion 51. of the abutment pin region 50 on the joint counter~wa.il 21 of the back part 14. The abutment pin regions 50a, 50h simultaneously have the function of a pivoting counter-stop to limit a head pivoting angle. This function is shown in Fig. 36 in die head position "looking over the left-hand shoulder" of the toy figure 48. The two abutment pin regions 50a, 50b cooperate as pivoting counter-stops with a stop rib 52 of the trunk portion 4 of the toy figure 48.

Claims

A toy figure up to the play of L, which has a trunk (5) and two elaborate portions (32, 33}, and these are thigh spherical joints (34, 35) with a hip portion (8) of iron (8) in iron Connecting with both combres ( 32, 33} only the horseshoes (36.3?) Of the thighs (34,35) of the thighs embedded in the hinges of the hinges (32, 33) are connected to each other by the thigh portions (40, 41), and (36,37).

A toy character according to claim 1, characterized in that both leg holding portions (40,41) are joined to each other by a femoral seal.

A toy figure according to claim 3, Λζ 1 or 2, characterized in that the gripping portions (32, 33) are secured to the thimble (8) along the grip pin (43) and secured against slipping,

A toy figure according to claim 3, characterized in that the gripping projections (44), which are part of the grip pin (43), are shaped in the shape of the two buttonholes (40,41).

A toy figure according to claim 3 or 4, characterized in that the gripping projections (44) are opposed to one another, while the dowel (45) of the grip pin (43) is aligned with the shape of the hip portion (8) and the two are aligned with each other. it lies between the handrail protrusion (4) on its carbon halide.

A toy figure according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that a plurality of parts (10, 32, 33) of the figure are formed as multi-component injection molded parts.