Education and demonstration – Psychology
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-30
2001-09-04
Ackun, Jr., Jacob K. (Department: 3712)
Education and demonstration
Psychology
C434S262000, C434S237000, C206S541000, C206S457000, C206S591000, C206S594000, C446S072000, C446S073000, C446S076000, C426S106000, C426S413000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06283762
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF INVENTION
RELATED APPLICATIONS
There are no applications related hereto heretofore filed in this or any foreign country.
1. Field of Invention
This invention relates generally to toys and more particularly to a toy having a peripheral element formed of plastic bubble packing material defining an internal chamber filled with comestible stuffing material for use especially in juvenile counseling, education and psychology.
2. Background and Description of Prior Art
Bubble packing material formed by one or more sheets of flexible material, generally of a polymeric type defining a plurality of spaced gas filled pockets or “bubbles” originated in the fairly recent past for protecting packaged goods of a delicate nature and has gained substantial favor and use in the modern marketplace. Since the material has come into use it has become a popular toy or play article for many people and especially juveniles who gain pleasure and amusement from bursting the gas filled bubbles formed in the material by pressure exerted manually or otherwise. Because of the popularity of bubble packaging material as a toy per se, it, or simulations of it, have come into the marketplace for use as toys.
The destruction of bubbles in bubble packing material appears to have a tension relieving function in the bubble destroyer and the material has been used for this purpose not only by juveniles, but also by adults, as evidence by the existing general and patent literature. The instant invention seeks to provide a toy synergistically combining the amusement and pleasure associated with destroying bubbles in bubble packing material, the long known desirable effects of manual play with resiliently deformable three dimensional toys simulating natural objects and the pleasures of consumption of comestibles or its contemplation to create a toy of general desirability that is especially useful in juvenile psychology, counseling and education.
Dealing with juveniles in psychological, counseling or educational settings is often difficult because of the incomplete development of the patient's cognitive and reasoning functions, the novelty and unfamiliarity with the process and persons involved in it, short attention span and general lack of interest in the proceedings. Since toys are something familiar to and generally desirable by the patient they have been found useful in such work, somewhat in the nature of a placebo, to keep juvenile attention, alleviate fears and tensions and provide a reasonably pleasurable experience, all to aid the productivity of the processes.
My invention resides not in any one of these features or elements individually, but rather in the synergistic combination of all of the elements and structures forming my toy which necessarily give rise to the functions and uses flowing therefrom.
SUMMARY OF INVENTION
My invention provides a three dimensional toy with a configuration simulating a natural object or animal that has a resilient cover formed of bubble packing material enclosing a chamber stuffed with a confectionary or other alimentary product to maintain the three dimensional configuration of the toy. The bubble packing material comprises one or more polymeric sheets defining a plurality of small spacedly related, gas containing chambers that are of such nature that the bubbles can be burst by manual pressure, but yet are configurationally sustaining absent any bursting pressure. The stuffing material comprises some confectionary or other alimentary product that is desirable as a food to please the toy's user and has sufficient bulk to fulfill its stuffing purpose of providing a three dimensional configuration for the toy to simulate the desired form. The bubble packing material or its joined areas are preferably of such nature as to be openable by ordinary manual manipulation without use of tools to allow access to the stuffing material contained in the toy.
In providing such a toy it is:
a principal object to provide a toy formed with a covering of flexible polymeric bubble packing material that defines a chamber carrying a confectionary or other alimentary product desirable to and consumable by a user.
A further object is to provide such a toy that has a three dimensional configuration simulating some natural object or animal that is desirable to a user for manipulatable type play, such as in the case of stuffed animals.
A further object is to provide such a toy having bubble packing material that defines a plurality of small spacedly related gas filled chambers that may be burst by manual pressure exerted by a user's fingers that are interconnected by a flexible membrane that may be torn by manual manipulation without the use of tools to gain access to the comestibles carried in the toy chamber.
A further object is to provide such a toy that synergistically combines the features of its individual elements for use particularly in connection with educational, psychological and counseling work with juveniles to provide pleasurable experiences to a user to aid in relieving tensions in a learning or treatment process to make the process more effective and beneficial than they would have been without use of the toy.
A still further object is to provide such a toy that is of new and novel design, of rugged and durable nature, of simple and economic manufacture and one otherwise well adapted for the uses and purposes for which it is intended.
Other and further objects of my invention will appear from the following specification and accompanying drawings which form apart hereof. In carrying out the objects of my inventions however, it is to be remembered that its accidental features are susceptible of change in design and structural arrangement with only the best known mode of the preferred and practical embodiment being illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specified as is required.
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Ackun Jr. Jacob K.
Bergman Keith S.
Miller Bena B.
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