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Infant's curiosity article

Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1992-01-17
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Granted: 1992-12-01
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Expires: 2012-01-17
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Abstract

Abstract An infant's curiosity article having a receiver body which has attached to its outer surface or surfaces a plurality of small attractor bodies which are spaced in a discrete arrangement on the receiver body; and the receiver body and the attractor bodies, and their atachment, are such that unless a certain attractor body is being manipulated by the infant the respective attractor body lies along the receiver body, but the infant can manually and easily move the respective attractor body or bodies away from the receiver body to provide a relatively more three dimensional appearance of the moved attractor(s) body and receiver body.

Inventors

  • 👤 Julie A. Metcalf

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-11-03 11:35
CPC Classifications
A; A63; A63F; A63F9/00; A63F9/06; A63F2250/00; A63F2250/60; A63F2250/601

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim 282 words
An infant's curiosity article, comprising, in combination: a receiver body, the receiver body having a surface which is of a relatively two dimensional nature, a plurality of attractor bodies, each of which is of much smaller size than the receiver body, there being permanent attaching means for each of the attractor bodies, the attaching means for each respective attractor body being provided to be of a limited length such as to provide a holding effect only at two attaching portions of each respective attractor body, each of the attractor bodies being thereby permanently attached to the receiver body by respective attaching means at two attaching portions of the attractor body and no more than two attaching portions of the receiver body, the remainder of each attractor body being non-attached to the receiver body except through the said attaching means, the attaching means being located on the receiver body in spaced locations, thus providing that the attractor bodies are spaced in a discrete arrangement on the receiver body, and each of the attaching means, and each of their respective attractor bodies, being such that unless being manipulated by the infant the respective attractor body lies generally along the surface of the receiver body, and generally partaking of the generally two dimensional nature of the surface of the receiver body, but the non-attached portion of the attractor body permits the infant, by just no more than extremely low manual force, to manually move each of the attractor bodies away from the receiver body to provide a relatively more three dimensional appearance of the moved attractor body and receiver body but with the attaching means permanently holding the respective attractor body to the receiver body.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 282 words
An infant's curiosity article, comprising, in combination: a receiver body, the receiver body having a surface which is of a relatively two dimensional nature, a plurality of attractor bodies, each of which is of much smaller size than the receiver body, there being permanent attaching means for each of the attractor bodies, the attaching means for each respective attractor body being provided to be of a limited length such as to provide a holding effect only at two attaching portions of each respective attractor body, each of the attractor bodies being thereby permanently attached to the receiver body by respective attaching means at two attaching portions of the attractor body and no more than two attaching portions of the receiver body, the remainder of each attractor body being non-attached to the receiver body except through the said attaching means, the attaching means being located on the receiver body in spaced locations, thus providing that the attractor bodies are spaced in a discrete arrangement on the receiver body, and each of the attaching means, and each of their respective attractor bodies, being such that unless being manipulated by the infant the respective attractor body lies generally along the surface of the receiver body, and generally partaking of the generally two dimensional nature of the surface of the receiver body, but the non-attached portion of the attractor body permits the infant, by just no more than extremely low manual force, to manually move each of the attractor bodies away from the receiver body to provide a relatively more three dimensional appearance of the moved attractor body and receiver body but with the attaching means permanently holding the respective attractor body to the receiver body.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 20 words
The invention as set forth in claim 1, in a combination in which the attractor bodies include a related set.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 20 words
The invention as set forth in claim 1, in a combination in which the receiver body is formed of cloth.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 20 words
The invention as set forth in claim 2, in a combination in which the receiver body is formed of cloth.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 40 words
The invention as set forth in claim 1, in a combination in which one or more attractor bodies, as mentioned above, and are attached to the receiver body as mentioned above, are provided on both faces of the receiver body.

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