Patent Application
20220226744
The present invention relates generally to a water toy that is powered by a powder agent or a bath salt.
Parents often struggle to get their children to bathe. In order to encourage children to bathe, numerous bath toys have been created in order to stimulate children's imaginations while not depriving them of playing with their toys while they are bathing.
More specifically, such bath toys range from water guns, flotation devices, motorized boats that are specifically designed for use in a bathtub. These toys are often used to not only coax children to get into the bathtub, but to also induce children to regularly take baths. Such toys must not only be resilient to breaking and easy to clean, but they must also be fun and engaging to children. However, the problem with such bath toys is that they are so engaging that they distract children from washing themselves or preoccupy their attention so much that they refuse to permit their parents to wash them while they are playing with their bath toys.
To address this problem, “toy” shaped soaps and bath toys having integral soap dispensers have been created, so as to encourage children to not only play with their toys while in the bath, but to also wash themselves with the soap dispensed as they bathe. However, many of these toy shaped soaps and bath toy soap dispensers are one dimensional, in that the only function they serve is that of a soap dispensing apparatus.
Therefore, there is a need to provide fun engaging toys that can be used in the bath tub (or in any body of water), that not only encourage children to regularly bathe, but also encourage children to wash themselves while in the bath tub. The present invention provides a novel floating toy for use in water having a replaceable propulsion capsule attached to the bottom of the toy for propelling the toy through water using the replaceable, dissolving fizzing powder, e.g., bath salts tablets, that impart cleansing and detoxifying properties to the surrounding water, including children's bath water.
There are prior art bath toys having internal compartments containing replaceable, effervescent tablets that produce a gas propulsive force for propelling the toy on the surface of the bath water as the tablets dissolving in the water.
For instance, prior art U.S. Pat. No. 1,612,794 to Frederick C. Bender discloses a children's toy, having an interior compartment therein containing a replaceable effervescent source, and a discharge port. The discharge port is in fluid communication with the interior compartment such that as the effervescent source dissolves when it comes into contact with water it generates a propelling gas. The gas is expelled through the discharge port which in turn generates a force that propels the toy on the surface of the water in a desired direction.
Prior art U.S. Patent App. Pub. No. 2019/0314734 to Brenda P. Cayton, et al. discloses a bath toy that is capable of moving across the water through the production of bubbles. The disclosed bath toy includes an interior compartment housing an effervescent source that generates a gas upon contact with a fluid, such as water. The bath toy further includes a discharge port connected with the interior compartment such that the effervescent source generates a gas (e.g., bubbles) that exits through the discharge port and propels the bath toy through the water.
Also, prior art U.S. Pat. No. 8,074,305 to Toyohiro Matsuda discloses a bath toy having a suction port that dissolves a bath additive that causes the bath toy to move forward.
However, the aforementioned existing bath toys fail to disclose a toy for use in water, having an upper toy removably connected to a lower hollow capsule containing a replaceable, dissolving powder agent. The toy is propelled through water by the emission of gas from the dissolving powder agent. The lower hollow capsule is removably connected to the upper toy by a rotatable connecter to facilitate ease of use and cleaning of the toy.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water, including through bath water.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water that is fun and captures children's imagination, such that the toy encourages children to get into the bathtub and to bathe regularly.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having an upper toy that is removably connected to a lower hollow capsule by a rotatable connecter to facilitate ease of use and cleaning of the toy.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having a capsule containing a replaceable, dissolving powder agent, wherein the toy is propelled through water by the emission of gas from the dissolving powder agent.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having a capsule containing a replaceable, dissolving powder agent for use in a bath tub that imparts cleansing and detoxifying properties to the surrounding bath tub water which helps cleanse and detoxify the bather's body.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water that has a low cost of manufacture with regard to materials and labor, and has a low cost to the consumer.
A power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having an upper toy for floating on the surface of water and a lower hollow capsule removably connected to the upper toy for submerging the capsule in a body of water. The capsule has an interior section for receiving therein a replaceable powder agent that dissolves in water, and a removable cover for opening and closing the capsule. The capsule also has first and second openings located at the two ends of the capsule for forming and transmitting streams of gas out of the two openings for propelling the upper toy on the surface of the body of water. The lower hollow capsule is removably connected to the upper toy by a rotatable connecter for attaching the capsule to the toy. The powder agent is a tablet that dissolves in water and produces carbon dioxide that is emitted through the openings of the capsule for propelling the toy through the body of water. The toy has the configuration of a duck, boat, car, or any other toy.
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In order to disconnect the lower hollow capsule 14 from the upper toy 12, for cleaning purposes, for example, the user simply rotates the lower connector section 16b of the lower hollow capsule 14 relative to the upper connector section 16a of the upper toy 12 for cleaning in a counterclockwise direction. The user then continues to twist the lower hollow capsule 14 relative to the upper toy 12 in a counterclockwise direction until the locking pins 18 of the upper and lower connector sections 16a and 16b disengage so as to separate the lower hollow capsule 14 from the upper toy 12.
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The fizziness of the bath bomb, the preferable form of the powder agent 22, occurs as a result of the chemical reactions of baking soda (NaHCO3) and citric acid coming into contact with water in capsule 14. Baking soda quickly dissolves in water, and the positively charged sodium (Na+) breaks apart from negatively charged bicarbonate (HCO3−) to produce the “fizz” or gas. The citric acid also dissolves, with a single hydrogen ion (H+) separating from the rest of the molecule. Then, that positively charged hydrogen from the citric acid and the negatively charged bicarbonate from the baking soda mingle, very quickly undergoing a series of reactions. One of the end products is carbon dioxide (CO2) for propelling the toy 12. Because carbon dioxide is a gas, it forms small bubbles in the bath water, creating a fizz.
While various embodiments of the power driven toy 10 for propelling the toy through a body of water have been described, it should be understood that they have been presented by way of example, and not limitation. For example, the shape, materials of construction, and design of the power driven toy 10 for propelling the toy through a body of water as illustrated and described are not intended to be limiting.
It is an advantage of the present invention to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water, including through bath water.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water that is fun and captures children's imagination, such that the toy encourages children to get into the bathtub and to bathe regularly.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having an upper toy that is removably connected to a lower hollow capsule by a rotatable connecter to facilitate ease of use and cleaning of the toy.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having a capsule containing a replaceable, dissolving powder agent, wherein the toy is propelled through water by the emission of gas from the dissolving powder agent.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water having a capsule containing a replaceable, dissolving powder agent for use in a bath tub that imparts cleansing and detoxifying properties to the surrounding bath tub water which helps cleanse and detoxify the bather's body.
Another advantage of the present invention is to provide a novel power driven toy for propelling the toy through a body of water that has a low cost of manufacture with regard to materials and labor, and has a low cost to the consumer.
A latitude of modification, change and substitution is intended in the foregoing disclosure, and in some instances, some features of the invention will be employed without a corresponding use of other features. Accordingly, it is appropriate that the appended claims be construed broadly and in a manner consistent with the spirit and scope of the invention herein.
