Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-14
2001-12-04
Passaniti, Sebastiano (Department: 3711)
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
C273S108520, C273S108540
Reexamination Certificate
active
06325372
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a foot shell of a toy football player for a toy football field, particularly to one effectively stopping a football, stabilizing and controlling it easily.
A conventional toy football player for a toy football field is generally made of a hard plastic, shaped similar to a true human form, having a ball kicking block formed in the foot portion, whereby the toy player may kick the ball to roll towards the opposite team field or to kick the ball into the opposite goal. So the ball kicking block not only has offensive function to kick the ball, but also defending function to stop and stabilizing the ball. Nevertheless, the ball kicking block may produce counter function to permit the ball rebound away when the ball rolls to hit the ball kicking block because of the hard material the ball and the ball kicking block are both made of. So a known conventional foot shell
10
of a toy football player shown in
FIG. 1
has been disclosed, made of a soft material and having a hollow interior, a flat ball receiving surface
101
formed in a front side, a plurality of rough stripes
102
formed in the ball receiving surface
101
, an insert hole
103
formed in an upper side, and a hollow interior
104
formed to communicate with the insert hole
103
. Then the foot shell
10
is fixed around a ball kicking block
201
of a toy football player
20
, with the insert hole
103
constricting an upper portion of the ball kicking block
201
not falling off the block
201
, as shown in FIG.
2
. Then the foot shell
10
produces a buffering effect owing to its softness, reducing rebounding force of the ball when the ball rolls and collide with it, and in addition, the rough stripes
102
may produce friction against the ball to reduce the speed of the ball and let it gradually cease to move. Next, the ball is adjusted in its position by the toy player and then kicked out to enhance its defense and offence effect as well.
But the known conventional foot shell
10
has been found to still have rebounding phenomenon against the ball
30
when it rolls toward the foot shell
10
in spite of some buffering and speed reducing effect the foot shell
10
has, as shown in FIG.
3
. After research, it is found that the reason of ball rebound is caused by the rough stripes
102
, limited in its friction against the ball in colliding only owing to point touch of the both. So it cannot surely stabilize the ball although it reduces the speed of the ball. As the fact that a human foot has its inner side shaped concave, the receiving surface
101
does not kick the ball just in the way a human foot kicks it, impossible to obtain the same effect in kicking the ball.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention has been devised to offer a foot shell of a toy football player for a toy football field, which has a concave surface in a front side of the foot shell, similar to the shape of a human foot so as to stop and stabilize the ball, upgrading defense and offence force.
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patent: 4290606 (1981-09-01), Maxwell
patent: 3046466 (1982-07-01), None
patent: 701847 (1954-01-01), None
patent: 508780 (1955-01-01), None
patent: 532808 (1955-09-01), None
patent: 535734 (1955-11-01), None
Pai Li Business Co., LTD
Passaniti Sebastiano
Pro-Techtor Inter-national Services
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