Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
  • A63H33/00—Other toys
  • A63H33/04—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts
  • A63H33/10—Building blocks, strips, or similar building parts to be assembled by means of additional non-adhesive elements
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
  • A63B37/00—Solid balls; Rigid hollow balls; Marbles
  • A63B37/12—Special coverings, i.e. outer layer material
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
  • A63B39/00—Hollow non-inflatable balls, i.e. having no valves
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
  • A63B43/00—Balls with special arrangements
  • A63B43/002—Balls with special arrangements with special configuration, e.g. non-spherical
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
  • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
  • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
  • A63F9/1208—Connections between puzzle elements
  • A63F2009/1224—Connections between puzzle elements using two or more types of connections
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
  • A63F9/12—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
  • A63F2009/124—Three-dimensional jig-saw puzzles with a final configuration being a sphere

Definitions

• the present invention is related to the field of toys and / or promotional and / or ornamental items. More specifically, it refers to a promotional toy formed by ball segments and connecting elements that ultimately result in a functional ball.
• the characteristics of the joining means make the bodies generated by the joining of these cards make the body easily disassembled and any slippage causes a deformation of the body that has to be corrected by someone.
• the ball In some uses, it is required that the ball be easily disassembled and assembled, for example with single hands, to fulfill the functions of experts. As it is not easily disassembled and assembled, it cannot be used as a container or container for consumer products, because it would have to be destroyed to extract the contents. None of the functional balls of the state of the art allows to be formed from the collection of its parts, so that when buying a product of relatively low price, you can get a part of the ball and start to gather all the segments required for the formation of said ball, buying these products several times.
• the functional balls of the state of the art be formed by pieces comprising on their exposed faces diverse graphic elements that allow to exchange with other collectors trying to integrate in a single ball the segments with the impression of the figures of the players of a single team or single selection.
• the main objective of the present invention is to make possible a soccer ball segment that allows to assemble a complete ball, only with the hands, when all the necessary segments are had.
• Another objective is to give characteristics to these segments so that they can be used as advertising media for consumer products.
• Yet another objective is to provide this with means of joining segments to achieve the first objective and also allow the ball to be used to kick it.
• the present invention consists of a balloon segment comprising a fastening system, which in one of the modalities, are formed by fixed elements and by accessory elements, on its periphery.
• Both the fixed elements and the accessory elements can be an integral part of the segment, or they can be, at least the accessory elements, independent of the balloon segment.
• these elements can be both elastic or both rigid, depending mainly on this characteristic in the segment.
• the fixed element may be rigid and the accessory element may be elastic.
• the fixed elements can be projections of any conformation and arrangement that allow it to be joined with other segments by simple sliding of the fixed joining elements of a segment in an accessory element and the fixed joining element of the adjacent balloon segment, sliding in the groove. free of accessory attachment element.
• These accessory joining elements comprise two longitudinal grooves with a wall separating these. These slots are to be occupied by the fixed connecting elements of the neighboring banding segments. One of the fixed elements slides in one of the slots at one end and the other fixed element penetrates the other slot on the opposite end to facilitate the assembly of the ball.
• this element also comprises notches in the longitudinal middle part, on the faces that face the corresponding edge of the balloon segment.
• a wall is understood that maintains the separation between the fixed connecting elements of a balloon segment and the corresponding fixed connecting element of the neighboring ball segment, thus achieving a kind of shock absorber in the movements and slides of said fixed connecting elements.
• the conformation of the segments can vary, and the numbers of elements of the joining system can also do so.
• the segments can be pentagons, but nothing prevents them from being circular, square, triangles, etc.
• the rigid means can also have the shape of the edge of the segment in which they are located. But it has even been possible to see that this can vary and although the edge of the segment is straight, the rigid joining means can have a curvature and yet the invention continues to function. They can also be flat or curved segments, with concavity and convexity, and can also be hollow or solid, rigid, flexible and elastic.
• They may simply be the segment or they may include certain recesses or certain projections on their concave or convex face, additional projections to those that form the joint system. These additional projections can be used to fix a product in said segment.
• the joining means and the segments for example the segment can be flexible and the joining system can be formed exclusively by rigid elements, but also both can be flexible, although in one of the applications, at least one of these is expected to be flexible.
• the segment when in addition to being flexible, the segment is hollow and elastic, this segment can be inflated to fulfill even better the function of being functional in a match.
• Figure 1 shows an exterior view of the balloon segment with its fixed attachment means and accessories.
• Figure 2 illustrates an embodiment of a balloon, in explosive, composed of 12 pentagonal segments and the fixed joining means one for each edge,
• Figure 3 illustrates the ball of Figure 2, armed with all the joining means in place.
• Figure 4 shows one of the possibilities of using the balloon segment, as part of a lid of a container.
• Figure 5 illustrates an embodiment of the balloon segment in which there are only four fixed joining means and the segment configuration is circular at its periphery.
• Figure 6 illustrates an embodiment in which the balloon segment is hollow and comprises a cover for removing the product it contains from within.
• Figure 7 shows an exploded view of a ball formed by only six ball segments.
• Figure 8 illustrates the ball of Figure 7, this time armed.
• Figure 9 shows how only two balloon segments can enclose a space in which some types of products can be contained.
• Figure 1 shows an external view of the segment 1 with its joining means formed by fixed elements 2 to the segment and accessory elements 3.
• said connecting accessory elements 3 comprise notches to facilitate deformation of these elements and allow the insertion of the fixed connection elements 2 into the grooves 5 of said accessory elements.
• the joint element fixed to the balloon segment comprises a step or stop 6 where it touches the accessory element and prevents said accessory element from reaching corner 7 and hinders the deformations that the joint elements have to undergo to assemble and deform as a result of the blows that the ball receives when playing it.
• This element of fixed connection to the ball segment is parallel to the edge of said ball segment, joining only at one end.
• all these elements of fixed union to the ball segment have their free end towards the same side, that is, they all point to the same side, either clockwise, counterclockwise, but all in the same direction, with this it achieves that when assembling the tank, a correct coupling is achieved.
• the accessory attachment means is part of the balloon segment with an appropriate material, to achieve its flexibility when this is necessary.
• Figure 2 illustrates an embodiment of a balloon, in explosive, integrated by 12 pentagonal segments 1 and the fixed joining means 2, one for each edge.
• the elements present are the same as those described in Figure 1, multiplied to combine the ball with the 12 segments, with their respective fixed connection elements on the periphery of the segments and the appropriate number of accessory connection elements. to join the 12 segments and form the ball.
• Figure 3 illustrates the ball of Figure 2, armed with all the joining means in place. This figure allows to visualize the aspect that the ball will present when it is armed.
• the accessory joining elements deform and return to their original shape and dimension giving a good boat.
• the rigid connection elements are inserted in the longitudinal grooves of the accessory connection element. With the presence of a wall between each slot, said grooves wrap tightly to the corresponding fixed connecting element and there is no direct contact between the fixed connecting elements of one of the segments and the corresponding fixed connecting element of the neighboring balloon segment .
• Figure 4 shows one of the possibilities of using the balloon segment, as part of, or as a cover 41 of a container 40, In the promotion the balloon segment can be had in the modality in which the accessory connecting element can form a single piece with the joint element fixed to the balloon segment.
• Figure 5 illustrates an embodiment of balloon segment 1 in which there are only four fixed joining means 2 and the segment configuration is circular at its periphery.
• the periphery of the segment has a diagonal recess 50.
• Figure 6 illustrates an embodiment in which the balloon segment 1 is hollow and comprises a cover 60 for removing the product it contains from within.
• the lid can be of smaller dimensions to reduce the amount of material to be used to manufacture the segment and to give the segment another aspect.
• the segment gap can be included in the fixed joining elements.
• Figure 7 shows an exploded view of a ball formed by only six ball segments. As a cube with convex faces, the balloon segments with four fixed connecting elements can engage to form a more or less spherical ball.
• Figure 8 illustrates the ball of Figure 7, this time armed.
• the drawback in a ball formed only by 6 segments is that of leaving holes 80 in the periphery and not making this ball useful for containing products of small dimensions. But it can be seen that this type of balloon segment is technically possible.
• Figure 9 shows how only two balloon segments can enclose a space in which some types of products can be contained. This would be the minimum association of balloon segments for the commercialization of some product packed inside the space formed by the union of the two segments.
• these segments may have different modalities in terms of the consistency of the balloon segments.
• These can be hollow and solid, flexible, rigid and elastic. They can even be segments that can be inflated to improve the performance in terms of ball bouncing. Being hollow, these segments can be used to be filled with a consumer product and marketed as a container for these products, and if they come in an opaque or non-transparent plastic bag, it is possible to generate an uncertain result when buying this product, having to resort to the exchange of segments to unite all the segments printed by motives or photographs of the players of a team.

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