JP2007075330A - Arm toy - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an arm toy which prevents a body and a core from getting separated by an attack, and is safe and hard to break. <P>SOLUTION: The arm toy is modeled after a stick arm such as a sword, a spear and a martial art stick, and has the body 1 having a shape modeled after an arm and the core 2 embedded in the body. The body 1 is molded of a soft expanded plastic and the core is provided with fixing portions 21 made up of at least one of irregularities such as holes, grooves, ridges, ribs and nodes and molded of a flexible resin. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a weapon toy, and more particularly to a rod-like armor toy such as a sword, spear, or martial arts stick.

  Conventionally, as armor toys, etc., rod-like armor such as swords, spears, martial arts sticks, etc. have a shape imitating the real thing by making the appearance resemble or deformed, etc., material, structure, etc. It is known that it can be used as a sporting event or toy by making it flexible and safe.

  For example, a soft sword (see Patent Document 1) formed from a soft foamed resin such as a sponge is known as an object for practicing or practice such as self-defense practice or sports martial arts, and as a toy, A toy sword (see Patent Document 2) formed from a foamed resin is known.

Registered Utility Model No. 3001004 Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-9699

  In the technique of Patent Document 1, a pipe-shaped core material is inserted and fixed to a grip portion to be a handle, the outside of the core material is covered with a sponge material, and the sponge material is further covered with a packaging material. A soft sword for competition and practice that eases the impact of time.

  However, this technique has a problem that the sponge material is easily separated from the core material due to repeated impacts and deflections during repeated hitting. For this reason, not only is the shape of the sword easy to collapse, but the sponge material may be biased or collapsed due to separation of the sponge material and the core material, and the sponge material has become thinner or lost. There is a problem that it is extremely dangerous to hit a part.

  The technique of Patent Document 2 is that since the blade body of the sword is made of polyethylene foam, it is flexible but tends to be in a so-called “no waist” state. Depending on the shape, there is a problem that becomes dangerous. Further, since stress due to impact at the time of striking concentrates on the joint portion with the handle which is a handle, there is a problem that the blade body in this portion is easily damaged.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an armor toy that is prevented from being separated from a main body and a core material by hitting and is safe and hardly damaged.

  The present invention for solving the above problems has the following configuration.

1. In a weapon toy imitating a rod-like armor such as a sword, spear, or martial arts stick,
The armor toy is configured to have a main body having a shape imitating armor, and a core material embedded in the main body,
The main body is formed of a soft foam resin;
The armor toy characterized in that the core material is provided with a fixing portion comprising at least one of irregularities such as holes, grooves, ridges, ribs, and joints and is formed of a flexible resin. .

2. 2. The armor toy according to claim 1, wherein the fixing portion is formed at a location including a position embedded in a handle portion and a striking portion of the main body.

3. The armor toy according to 1 or 2, wherein the fixing portion is a through hole.

4). The armor toy according to any one of the above items 1 to 3, wherein the core member is a long body having an enormous portion rounded at a distal end portion located on the distal end side of the main body.

5. The core of the elongated body is a plate-like body, and the arrangement direction of the width of the length, width, and thickness of the plate-like body and the striking direction when using a toy armor are substantially matched 5. The armor toy according to 4 above, wherein the toy is embedded in the main body.

6). 6. The armored toy according to 5 above, wherein the toy has a thick part along a peripheral edge or a peripheral vicinity of the core of the plate-like body.

7). Any one of the above 1 to 6, characterized in that the core material is embedded from the rear end portion of the handle portion of the main body or the vicinity of the rear end portion to a position spaced from the front end portion of the main body. Armor toy described in Crab.

8). The armor toy according to any one of 1 to 7 above, which is obtained by injecting a soft foamed resin material into a mold in which a core material is inserted and temporarily fixed, and then performing foam molding.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, the main body is formed of a soft foam resin, and the core material embedded in the main body is composed of at least one of irregularities such as holes, grooves, ridges, ribs, and nodes. Since the main body and the core material can be fixed by the configuration formed of the flexible resin and the armor toy is provided, the main body and the core material are prevented from being separated by hitting, and the armor toy is safe and hardly damaged. be able to.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the fixing portion is formed at a location including a position embedded in the handle portion and the hitting portion of the main body, and the main body at the handle portion and the hitting portion that are particularly easily separated. And the core material can be more firmly fixed.

  According to the invention described in claim 3, since the fixing portion is a through-hole, the soft foamed resin enters the through-hole and leads to the front and back of the main body, so that the fixing between the main body and the core material is further strengthened. Can do.

  According to the invention shown in claim 4, the core material is a long body having an enormous portion rounded at the distal end portion located on the distal end side of the main body. is there.

  According to the invention shown in claim 5, the core material of the elongated body is a plate-like body, the arrangement direction of the width of the length, width and thickness of the plate-like body, The structure in which the core material is embedded in the main body in a state in which the striking direction is substantially matched can suppress deformation such as bending and bending of the main body at the time of hitting. It is possible to prevent an increase in impact force at the time of impact caused by the effect. Moreover, since the core material (and the main body) bends in the thickness direction of the plate-like body when hit, the impact force can be released in the lateral direction, which is safer.

  According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the structure having the thick portion along the periphery or the vicinity of the periphery of the core material of the plate-like body can further strengthen the fixing between the main body and the core material, and can be swung around. It is possible to suppress twisting when hitting or hitting. In particular, in combination with the structure provided with the through hole according to claim 3, fixing of the core material to the main body becomes extremely strong.

  According to the invention shown in claim 7, when the core member is swung by the configuration in which the core member is embedded from the rear end portion of the handle portion of the main body or the vicinity of the rear end portion to a position having a space from the front end portion of the main body. The handle can be held firmly in a stable state even when hitting, and it is safe to poke at the tip during use.

  According to the invention shown in claim 8, it is possible to obtain the armor toy shown in claims 1 to 7 by injecting a soft foamed resin material into a mold in which a core material is inserted and temporarily fixed, and then performing foam molding. it can.

The present invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The armor toy according to the present invention imitates a rod-like armor such as a sword, spear, or martial arts stick. In this embodiment, an armor toy imitating a sword will be described.

  1 is a front view showing an embodiment of an armor toy according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view of FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a left side view of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 is an example of a core material preferably used in the present invention. FIG.

  The armor toy according to the present invention includes a main body 1 having a shape imitating a sword and a core member 2 embedded in the main body 1.

  The main body 1 is made of a soft foamed resin and has a shape, pattern, and color imitating a real sword, a deformed sword, or a sword that appears in anime, picture books, movies, and the like.

  As the soft foamed resin constituting the main body 1, known and publicly used ones used for this type of toy can be used without particular limitation, and for example, a soft foamed urethane resin is preferably mentioned.

  The core material 2 is formed of a long plate-like body formed of a flexible resin, and as shown in FIG. 4, a fixing portion including a through hole for increasing the fixing force with the soft foam resin of the main body 1. A plurality of 21 are provided. The fixing portion 21 is preferably formed at a position embedded in the handle portion 11 and the hitting portion 12 of the main body 1. In particular, it is preferable that the fixing portion 21 positioned at the leading end portion 23 of the core member 2 that is located at the striking portion 12 and receives the most stress and impact is formed larger than the other fixing portions 21.

  Further, the core material 2 is provided with a thick portion 22 at the periphery in order to further enhance the fixing force with the soft foamed resin of the main body 1.

  Furthermore, it is preferable that the core material 2 has a rounded enormous portion in the tip portion 23 located on the tip side of the main body 1 so that it is safe even when the tip is protruded during use.

  As the flexible resin constituting the core material 2, known and publicly used resins used as the core material of this type of toy can be used without any particular limitation. For example, polyethylene resin is preferably used.

  By molding the main body 1 in a state where the core material 2 is disposed at a predetermined position of the mold, the core material 2 is embedded in the main body 1 and the soft foam resin of the main body 1 fixes the fixing portion 21. Since they are integrated in a penetrating state, the main body 1 and the core material 2 are firmly fixed.

  When the core 2 made of a long plate-like body is embedded in the main body 1, the embedding direction of the core 2 with respect to the main body 1 is the arrangement direction of the width of the length, width, and thickness of the plate-like body. It is preferable that the striking direction (the direction indicated by the arrow Y in FIG. 3) when using the toy to be substantially matched.

  By embedding the core material 2 in the main body 1 with the arrangement direction of the width of the core material 2 and the striking direction substantially matched, deformation such as bending and bending of the main body at the time of impact is suppressed. Further, it is possible to prevent an increase in impact force at the time of hitting caused by the whiplash effect due to bending. Moreover, the core material 2 (and the main body 1) may bend in the thickness direction of the plate-like body, which is a lateral direction (direction indicated by an arrow X in FIG. 2) perpendicular to the striking direction by being embedded in such a direction. Since it is possible, the impact force at the time of hitting can be released in the lateral direction, which is safer.

  When the core material 2 is embedded in the main body 1, the core 2 is embedded in the main body 1 at a distance from the rear end portion of the handle portion 11 of the main body 1 or the vicinity of the rear end portion from the front end portion of the main body 1. It is preferable that it is the structure embed | buried to the position which has (shown by the arrow Z of FIG. 1).

  By burying the core material 2 from the rear end portion of the handle portion 11 of the main body 1 to a position near the rear end portion, the handle portion can be firmly held in a stable state even when swung or hit. . Further, by embedding from the front end portion of the main body 1 to a position having an interval (indicated by an arrow Z in FIG. 1), it is safe to poke at the front end during use.

  Next, an example of a method for forming an armor toy according to the present invention described above will be described. As a representative example, the case where the flexible resin of the core material 2 is polyethylene and the soft foamed resin of the main body 1 is soft foamed polyurethane will be described.

  First, the core material 2 is formed by a known method using polyethylene. The core material 2 is placed in a molding die of the main body 1 and temporarily fixed.

  Next, after mixing polyester and the activator containing the water-containing sulfonated product of adipic acid ester, tolylene diisocyanate is added and mixed, and after foaming is started, it is injected or injected into the molding die. The resin material enters the through-hole (fixing portion 21) of the core material 2 in a foamed state, and the resin is cured to obtain an open-cell molded product. For example, the molding die is kept at about 15 to 25 ° C. during the injection or injection of the resin, and then cured by being raised to about 80 ° C.

  In addition to the above, a known method such as foaming by placing a polyester material and a foaming agent in a molding die on which the core material 2 is temporarily fixed may be employed.

  As mentioned above, although the example of the armor toy according to the present invention and an example of the molding method for obtaining the armor toy have been described, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and for example, the following various configurations may be adopted. it can.

  The core material 2 is not limited to the long plate-like body of the above embodiment, but may be a rod-like body. Further, the core material 2 is not limited to the straight plate-like body of the above-described embodiment, and the core material 2 is also a shape that matches the shape of the main body 1 of the armor toy, for example, when the main body 1 is a warped sword. It is possible to adopt a shape that matches the curved shape of the main body 1.

  The fixing portion 21 of the core material 2 is not limited to the through hole of the above-described embodiment, and may be any unevenness that increases the fixing force between the main body 1 and the core material 2 such as a groove, a ridge, a rib, and a node. In addition, the fixing unit 21 may be configured to be provided with a combination of irregularities such as holes, concave grooves, ridges, ribs, and nodes.

The thick portion 22 of the core material 2 is not limited to the peripheral edge of the above embodiment, but may be in the vicinity of the peripheral edge. Moreover, it is good also as an aspect provided in at least one part like not only the periphery or the whole region of a periphery vicinity but forming intermittently.

  Further, in the above embodiment, the armor toy imitating a sword has been described as an armor toy according to the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the like, such as a spear, a martial arts stick, a nunchaku, a sword, a sword, a bamboo sword, and a scissor stick. It can also be modeled after a rod-like armor. In addition, although it is not an armor, it can apply also to what imitated the baseball bat for young people.

The front view which shows one Example of the toy armor which concerns on this invention Plan view of FIG. Left side view of FIG. The front view which shows an example of the core material preferably used for this invention

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Armor toy body 11 Handle part 12 Strike part 2 Core material 21 Fixing part 22 Thick part 23 Tip part

Claims (8)

In a weapon toy imitating a rod-like armor such as a sword, spear, or martial arts stick,
The armor toy is configured to have a main body having a shape imitating armor, and a core material embedded in the main body,
The main body is formed of a soft foam resin;
The armor toy characterized in that the core material is provided with a fixing portion comprising at least one of irregularities such as holes, grooves, ridges, ribs, and joints and is formed of a flexible resin. . The armor toy according to claim 1, wherein the fixing portion is formed at a location including a position embedded in a handle portion and a striking portion of the main body. The armor toy according to claim 1, wherein the fixing portion is a through hole. The armor toy according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the core material is an elongated body having an enormous portion rounded at a distal end portion located on the distal end side of the main body. The core of the elongated body is a plate-like body, and the arrangement direction of the width, the width, and the thickness of the plate-like body and the striking direction when using a weapon toy are substantially matched The armored toy according to claim 4, wherein the toy is embedded in the main body. The armored toy according to claim 5, wherein the toy has a thick part along a peripheral edge or a peripheral vicinity of the core of the plate-like body. 7. The structure according to claim 1, wherein the core material is embedded from a rear end portion or a vicinity of a rear end portion of the handle portion of the main body to a position having a space from the front end portion of the main body. Armor toys listed in any one. The armored toy according to any one of claims 1 to 7, which is obtained by injecting a soft foamed resin material into a mold in which a core material is inserted and temporarily fixed, and foam-molding.

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