Amusement devices: toys – Toy money box
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-23
2001-02-13
Hafer, Robert A. (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Toy money box
C446S073000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06186852
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to toy banks and more particularly pertains to a new toy bank for saving coins therein.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of toy banks is known in the prior art. More specifically, toy banks heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art toy banks include U.S. Pat. No. 4,345,400; U.S. Pat. No. 5,580,292; U.S. Pat. No. 4,401,259; U.S. Pat. No. 2,472,064; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 139,465; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,304,087.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new toy bank. The inventive device includes a stuffed doll having an exterior configured to resemble a predetermined figure. The stuffed doll has stuffed head and body portions each configured to resemble the head and body of the predetermined figure. The body portion has an interior, a top, a bottom, a front and a back. The bottom of the body portion is adapted for resting on a surface such that the head and body portions are generally vertical with respect to the surface. A container is provided in the interior of the body portion. The body portion has a slot into the container adapted for inserting coins into the container. The slot is located on the back of the body portion towards the top of the body portion. The body portion has a hole into the container adapted for removing coins disposed in the container. The hole is located on the back of the body portion towards the bottom of the body portion.
In these respects, the toy bank according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of saving coins therein.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of toy banks now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new toy bank construction wherein the same can be utilized for saving coins therein.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new toy bank apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the toy banks mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new toy bank which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art toy banks, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a stuffed doll having an exterior configured to resemble a predetermined figure. The stuffed doll has stuffed head and body portions each configured to resemble the head and body of the predetermined figure. The body portion has an interior, a top, a bottom, a front and a back. The bottom of the body portion is adapted for resting on a surface such that the head and body portions are generally vertical with respect to the surface. A container is provided in the interior of the body portion. The body portion has a slot into the container adapted for inserting coins into the container. The slot is located on the back of the body portion towards the top of the body portion. The body portion has a hole into the container adapted for removing coins disposed in the container. The hole is located on the back of the body portion towards the bottom of the body portion.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new toy bank apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the toy banks mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new toy bank which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art toy banks, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new toy bank which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new toy bank which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new toy bank which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such toy bank economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new toy bank which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new toy bank for saving coins therein.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new toy bank which includes a stuffed doll having an exterior configured to resemble a predetermined figure. The stuffed doll has stuffed head and body portions each configured to resemble the head and body of the predetermined figure. The body portion has an interior, a top, a bottom, a front and a back. The bottom of the body portion is adapted for resting on a surface such that the head and body portions are generally vertical with respect to the surface. A container is provided in the interior of the body portion. The body portion has a slot into the container adapted for inserting coins into the container. The slot is located on the back of the body portion towards the top of the body portion. The body portion has a hole into the container adapted for removing coins disposed in the container. The hole is located on the back of the body portion towards the bottom of the body portion.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to
Carlson Jeffrey D.
Hafer Robert A.
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