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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard C Levy, Bethesda, MD (US);
Richard J Maddocks, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ; A63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
446295 ; 446267 ;
Abstract
A toy figure has microcapsules affixed to its surface with the microcapsules containing a colored medium, such as a liquid or viscous substance. Upon rupture of the microcapsules, the colored medium is dispersed and is in contrast to the surrounding color to simulate 'bleeding' of the toy figure. The microcapsules can be provided in a patch form such that, upon rupture of substantially all of the microcapsules in a particular patch, such patch can be replaced by a subsequent patch having unruptured microcapsules.