This application is based on and claims priority from Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-105820 filed on Jun. 6, 2019, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to a model toy and a cooking appliance toy.
In the related art, a model toy imitating a kitchen utensil has been provided. For example, a toy set disclosed in JP-A-2018-164492 is a simulated oven into which an intermediate material obtained by mixing a base material and an expanding agent can be put. When the intermediate material is produced as dough of the simulated bread and then put into the simulated oven, a thickness of the intermediate material is expanded to about 1.2 times after 20 minutes. Further, JP-A-2018-164492 also describes that the simulated bread is applied with baking-imitating color by applying an oiliness agent after drying.
However, with the model toy of JP-A-2018-164492, it takes time from the putting of the simulated bread to the end of cooking, and it is difficult to easily enjoy a state change before and after cooking.
An object of one or more embodiments of the present invention is to provide a model toy and a cooking appliance toy which allow easily enjoying of a state change.
In an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a model toy including: a tray support configured to support a supported portion of a tray, the tray including a first placement portion and a second placement portion provided on an opposite side of the first placement portion; a housing which supports the tray support rotatably around a first axis, and which has an opening formed to oppose the tray support in a first axis direction; a door which is supported rotatably around a second axis with respect to the housing, and which is provided at the opening; and an operation unit configured to operate rotation of the tray support, wherein the door includes a main body and a regulated portion which are provided at symmetrical positions with respect to the second axis, and wherein when the tray support is in an intermediate angle range between a first angle posture and a second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, at least part of the tray support is located closer to the regulated portion than that in the first angle posture and the second posture such that the tray support regulates an opening operation of the door and supports the door in a closed state.
In another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance toy including: a tray support configured to support a supported portion of a tray, the tray including a first placement portion and a second placement portion provided on an opposite side of the first placement portion; a housing which supports the tray support rotatably around a first axis, and which has an opening formed to oppose the tray support in a first axis direction; a door which is supported rotatably around a second axis with respect to the housing, and which is provided at the opening; and an operation unit configured to operate the rotation of the tray support, wherein the door includes a main body and a regulated portion which are provided at symmetrical positions with respect to the second axis, wherein when the tray support is in an intermediate angle range between a first angle posture and a second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, at least part of the tray support is located closer to the regulated portion than that in the first angle posture and the second posture such that the tray support regulates an opening operation of the door and supports the door in a closed state, and a first figure body before cooking is disposed on the first placement portion, and a second figure body after cooking is disposed on the second placement portion.
According to the above aspects, it is possible to provide a model toy and a cooking appliance toy which allow easily enjoying of the state change.
Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
The cooking appliance toy 1 is formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and includes a first housing 2 that forms a rear surface, and side surfaces on upper, lower, left and right sides, and a second housing 3 that forms a front surface. An opening 31 is provided in the second housing 3. In the opening 31, a door 8 that can be opened and closed by one side is provided. The door 8 is rotatably supported by a rotation shaft 83 (second axis B) with respect to the second housing 3 at left and right inner edges on a lower end side of the opening 31 (see also
As shown in
Outer frame portions 21, 22 and inner frame portions 23, 24 each formed in a substantially short cylindrical shape are disposed inside the first housing 2. A disk portion 61 of the tray support 6 is accommodated inside the frame portion 21. Spur gears (a drive gear 511, an intermediate gear 52, and a driven gear 611, which are to be described later) are accommodated in the three frame portions 22 to 24. A part of each of side surfaces of the frame portions 22 to 24 corresponding to a meshing position of the spur gears are cut away so as to communicate with each other.
The drive gear 511 of a drive shaft 51 provided in the transmission mechanism 5 and the intermediate gear 52 that meshes with the drive gear 511 are accommodated in the frame portion 22 and the frame portion 23, respectively. The drive gear 511 and the intermediate gear 52 are rotatably supported by shafts (not shown) provided in the respective frame portions 22, 23. Further, the driven gear 611 formed on the tray support 6 is accommodated in the frame portion 24. The driven gear 611 is supported by a shaft 241 provided inside the frame portion 24. Thus, the first housing 2 can support the tray support 6 rotatably around a first axis A that is coaxial with the shaft 241. A front end of the drive shaft 51 is connected to the operation unit 4. Therefore, the drive shaft 51 is rotated by the rotation operation of the operation unit 4.
In the first housing 2, a rotation regulating member 25 fixed in a cantilevered leaf spring shape is provided. The rotation regulating member 25 is formed in an arc shape along an outer surface of the frame portion 21. The frame portion 21 is provided with a cutout portion 211. The rotation regulating member 25 has a protrusion 251 on a cutout portion 211 side at a front end of a free end side. The protrusion 251 can be disposed in the cutout portion 211 and protrude toward an inside of the frame portion 21 (see also
Further, rotation regulating portions 261, 262 extending from the frame portion 23 are formed between the frame portion 21 and the frame portion 24. Front ends of the rotation regulating portions 261, 262 are disposed at substantially symmetrical positions on a concentric circle around the first axis A.
The second housing 3 is formed in a plate shape and has a substantially rectangular opening 31 on a front side in a direction of the first axis A. As shown in
The tray support 6 includes the disk portion 61 and a frame portion 62 formed on a front side of the disk portion 61. As shown in
In the tray support 6 shown in
The swing regulating protrusions 631 are erected from inner surfaces of the short side surface portions 62b toward a first axis A side in a front view of the tray support 6. Similarly to the groove portions 632, the swing regulating protrusions 631 extend in the direction of the first axis A. On both outer sides of the swing regulating protrusion 631, that is, long side surface portion 62a sides, open state support portions 631c that abut with the door 8 in an open state are formed. Top portions 631a of the swing regulating protrusions 631 abut with side surfaces 7a of the tray 7 to regulate excessive swing (left-right movement) of the tray 7. An inclined portion 631b having a flat surface shape and extending from the top portion 631a to the groove portion 632 is formed on the swing regulating protrusion 631.
Flat plate-shaped rear-side support portions 64 extending from the first support portion 63a to the second support portion 63b are formed inside the frame portion 62. Both ends of the rear-side support portion 64 are adjacent to the swing regulating protrusions 631 on long side surface portion 62a sides. Therefore, an inner surface 64a of the rear-side support portion 64 on the first axis A side and the open state support portion 631c of the swing regulating protrusion 631 are formed in substantially the same plane.
The tray support 6 has spaces S inside the frame portion 62 between the long side surface portions 62a and the support portions 63. The space S functions as an escape portion of the regulated portion 82 when the door 8 is opened so as to allow an opening operation of the door 8.
Referring back to
The first figure body Fd1 can be formed by imitating bread before baking, and the second figure body Fd2 can be formed by imitating the bread after baking. For example, the first figure body Fd1 may be set to a bright bread dough color (such as a cream color) before baking and have no pattern. The second figure body Fd2 may be set to a dark color (such as a brown color) after baking and have a pattern. The first figure body Fd1 can be formed smaller than the second figure body Fd2 with a substantially similar shape.
The tray 7 has the supported portions 75 erected from base end portions of the frame portions 711, 721 which are on short sides of the bottom plate 73. The supported portions 75 are formed along a short side direction of the tray 7 so as to be located on substantially the same plane with the bottom plate 73.
Next, operations of the cooking appliance toy 1 will be described. The tray support 6 shown in
In the first angle posture, the space S is located behind the second axis B of the door 8 in the left-right direction substantially parallel to the second axis B. Therefore, when the door 8 indicated by a solid line in
When the door 8 is opened at substantially 90 degrees, an inner surface 8c of the door 8 is located substantially on the same plane with the inner surface 64a of the rear-side support portion 64 and a lower surface of the swing regulating protrusion 631. A length from the supported portion 75 of the tray 7 to an end portion of the first placement portion 71 or the second placement portion 72 (a distal end of the first placement portion 71 or the second placement portion 72) of the tray 7 in a height direction (a direction perpendicular to the bottom plate 73 in the embodiment) is substantially the same as a length from an inner wall 632a of the groove portion 632 of the tray support 6 to the open state support portion 631c in an upper-lower direction (see
Further, when the tray 7 is accommodated inside the frame portion 62, the supported portions 75 of the tray 7 abut with the inner walls 632a on the lower side of the groove portions 632, and as shown in
As described above, the player opens the door 8, puts the tray 7 into the cooking appliance toy 1 (tray support 6) from the opening 31 with the first placement portion 71 on which the first figure body Fd1 is placed facing upward, and closes the door 8.
In the first angle posture, rotation of the tray support 6 in the counterclockwise direction is regulated by the protrusion 612 abutting with the rotation regulating portion 262. In the first angle posture, the protrusion 251 of the rotation regulating member 25 engages with one of the recessed portions 613a of the tray support 6 via the cutout portion 211. Therefore, free rotation of the tray support 6 in a clockwise direction is regulated by an elastic force of the rotation regulating member 25.
In the first angle posture shown in
When the rotation of the tray support 6 is started, as shown in
In an intermediate angle range between the first angle posture and the second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, the tray support 6 can regulate the opening operation of the door 8 by being close to the regulated portion 82, so that the door 8 can be supported in the closed state. That is, when the posture of the tray support 6 is in the intermediate angle range, a front edge 621 (see also
As shown in
In a case where the first figure body Fd1 is not fixed to the first placement portion 71, the first figure body Fd1 falls on the lower frame portion 33 in the cooking appliance toy 1 by reversing the tray 7. The dropped first figure body Fd1 can be taken out from the opening 31 by taking out the tray 7 first, and then inclining the cooking appliance toy 1.
In a case of playing the cooking appliance toy 1 again, the player places the taken out first figure body Fd1 on the first placement portion 71 of the tray 7, puts the tray 7 in the tray support 6 with the first placement portion 71 facing upward, and closes the door 8. Further, when the posture of the tray support 6 is at the rotating end (second angle posture) in the clockwise direction in the front view as shown in
Similarly to the second figure body Fd2, the first figure body Fd1 may be fixed to the first placement portion 71 of the tray 7 in advance. Accordingly, it is possible to omit the operation of taking out the first figure body Fd1 separately from the tray 7 every time the tray 7 is reversed.
Further, in the description of the present embodiment, the first placement portion 71 of the tray 7 is disposed to face upward when the tray support 6 is at the rotating end in the counterclockwise direction, but the first placement portion 71 of the tray 7 may be disposed to face upward when the tray support 6 is at the rotating end in the clockwise direction and the tray 7 may be reversed by rotating the tray support 6 in the counterclockwise direction.
According to the embodiment of the present invention as described above, the model toy and the cooking appliance toy 1 of the following aspect can be provided.
In a first aspect, there is provided a model toy including: a tray support configured to support a supported portion of a tray, the tray including a first placement portion and a second placement portion provided on an opposite side of the first placement portion; a housing which supports the tray support rotatably around a first axis, and which has an opening formed to oppose the tray support in a first axis direction; a door which is supported rotatably around a second axis with respect to the housing, and which is provided at the opening; and an operation unit configured to operate rotation of the tray support, wherein the door includes a main body and a regulated portion which are provided at symmetrical positions with respect to the second axis, and wherein when the tray support is in an intermediate angle range between a first angle posture and a second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, at least part of the tray support is located closer to the regulated portion than that in the first angle posture and the second posture such that the tray support regulates an opening operation of the door and supports the door in a closed state.
According to the configuration, since the door 8 is not opened during the movement between the first angle posture and the second angle posture, the player can enjoy a change of a figure body disposed on the tray by finishing the operation of the operation unit 4 without visually recognize the reversing operation of the tray 7. Therefore, it is possible to easily enjoy the state change.
In a model toy according to a second aspect, the tray support includes a first support portion and a second support portion which extend in the first axis direction and are disposed at line symmetrical positions with respect to the first axis, and each of the first support portion and the second support portion has a groove portion formed on an inner side thereof and configured to accommodate the supported portion, and includes swing regulating protrusions provided on both outer sides of the groove portion and configured to regulate swing of the tray.
According to the configuration, since the tray support 6 appears substantially in the same appearance in both the first angle posture and the second angle posture as viewed from an opening 31 side where the door 8 is opened, it is possible to make it difficult for the player to recognize that the tray support 6 is rotated around the first axis. Therefore, only the figure body placed on the tray 7 can be seen as changed.
In a model toy according to a third aspect, each of the first support portion and the second support portion includes open state support portions formed on both outer sides of the groove portion to face in a direction opposite to the groove portion; when the tray support is in the first angle posture and the second angle posture, the open state support portion contacts the regulated portion such that an opening angle of the door is regulated, and the door is supported in an open state; when the tray support is in the first angle posture and the second angle posture, an inner surface of the door on an opening side and the open state support portion are located on a same plane; and a length from the supported portion to an end portion on a first placement portion side or second placement portion side of the tray is the same as a length from an inner wall of the groove portion to the open state support portion.
According to the configuration, the door 8 can be supported in the open state at a predetermined opening angle, and the tray 7 can be accommodated in the tray support 6 by a simple operation of placing the tray 7 on the inner surface 8c of the door 8 and sliding the tray 7 toward a tray support 6 side.
In a model toy according to a fourth aspect, each of the first placement portion and the second placement portion includes a bottom surface and a frame portion surrounding the bottom surface, and the bottom surface of the first placement portion allows a first figure body before change to be disposed thereon, and the bottom surface of the second placement portion allows a second figure body after change is fixed thereto.
According to the configuration, since the second figure body Fd2 after change is fixed to the tray 7 in advance, it is possible to simulate how the first figure body Fd1 before change is changed rapidly to the second figure body Fd2.
In a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cooking appliance toy including: a tray support configured to support a supported portion of a tray, the tray including a first placement portion and a second placement portion provided on an opposite side of the first placement portion; a housing which supports the tray support rotatably around a first axis, and which has an opening formed to oppose the tray support in a first axis direction; a door which is supported rotatably around a second axis with respect to the housing, and which is provided at the opening; and an operation unit configured to operate the rotation of the tray support, wherein the door includes a main body and a regulated portion which are provided at symmetrical positions with respect to the second axis, wherein when the tray support is in an intermediate angle range between a first angle posture and a second angle posture reversed from the first angle posture, at least part of the tray support is located closer to the regulated portion than that in the first angle posture and the second posture such that the tray support regulates an opening operation of the door and supports the door in a closed state, and a first figure body before cooking is disposed on the first placement portion, and a second figure body after cooking is disposed on the second placement portion.
According to the configuration, since the door 8 is not opened during movement between the first angle posture and the second angle posture, the player can enjoy a change due to cooking of a figure body (first figure body) disposed on the tray 7 by finishing the operation of the operation unit 4. Therefore, it is possible to easily enjoy the state change.
The embodiment of the present invention is as described above, but the present invention is not limited by the embodiment and hence can be modified variously.
For example, the frame portion 62 of the tray support 6 may have a shape in which the long side surface portions 62a on space S sides are cut out without being in a tubular shape. In this case, when the first figure body Fd1 before change is not fixed to the tray 7, the first figure body Fd1 falls downward due to the rotation of the tray support 6, for example, the lower frame portion 33 may be omitted, and the dropped first figure body Fd1 may be received by a receiving tray provided in the cooking appliance toy 1. The first figure body Fd1 can be easily collected by providing the receiving tray, for example, as a drawer under the second housing 3 such that the receiving tray can be inserted and removed.
In addition, the first figure body Fd1 and the second figure body Fd2 may be other shapes rather than food, and the cooking appliance toy 1 may be used as another model toy for enjoying the change of the figure body.
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