1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a hollow color toy, and more particularly to a color toy having clear color boundary.
2. Description of the Related Art
Typically, hollow plastic toys are made by injection molding that such toys are single color. To make multi-color toys, the toys will be painted after the toys are molded.
These painted color toys have fancy looks to attract children, but the paint may be off when children play the toys and crash them on some hard or sharp object. Beside that, some children may put the toy in mouth that the paint may harm children's health so that painting is not a good treatment for a color toy.
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a color toy, which pours plastics with different colors into the cavity of die to mold the toy having portions with various colors and there are clear boundaries between these portions. It would overcome the problems of the conventional painted toys.
To achieve the objective of the present invention, a color toy includes a hollow main body. The main body is made from a plurality of color portions having different colors molded together. Between each of the two neighboring color portions is a clear boundary that the color toy of the present invention may have two or more colors and clear boundary therebetween.
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A method of making the color toy 10 of the present invention includes pouring a first plastic with a first color into a cavity of a die, which molds the toy, to form the color portion 22. The first plastic is only poured in a half of the cavity. And then, pouring a second plastic with a second color in the die to fill the cavity that forms the color portion 24. After opening the die, a color toy 10 having the color portions 22, 24 is molded. The color portions 22, 24 have different colors and a clear boundary 26 therebetween.
The color toy 10 of the present invention has no painting treatment involved that no drawback of the conventional color toys, peelable paint and children eat the poison paint, will be shown in the present invention.
It has to be mentioned that the color toy of the present invention may have three or more color portions with two or more colors.
In conclusion, the color toy of the present invention provides two or more color portions, which are made by pouring different color plastic in the die. The color toy of the present invention has at least a clear boundary between the color portions. The color toy of the present invention overcomes the problems of the conventional painted color toys, including paint peeling off and children eat the poison paint.
Although a particular embodiment of the invention has been described in detail for purposes of illustration, various modifications and enhancements may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not to be limited except as by the appended claims.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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96214955 | Sep 2007 | TW | national |