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Squaregles® magnetic building-tile kits might be combined with manipulable, multi-piece toy sets with interchangeable parts, called OGGS™. These small cuties comprise three independent and cooperating parts: 1. a head with face features, 2. a base such as a toy robotic body part, or a toy car part, and 3. an attachment part such as a helmet or hair, serving to connect the head and base parts. The OGGS™ are thus designed to be manually, and easily, assembled, re-assembled, configured and re-configured, to roll around, or to stay put, according to a child’s fantasy play world, and available interchangeable parts.
OGGS™ are a patented invention. The US utility patent, US20190217212A1, titled Manipulable multi-piece toy, was awarded, on July 18, 2019, to Joseph Kelley and Noah Ornstein, both OGGS™ inventors. The invention seeks to provide a toy that is easily manipulated and produced, while still remaining customizable, adjustable, reconfigurable, and usable in different play worlds. For example, the OGGS™ spherical head part with face features is also made of rubber, so that it can be used as a small ball that bounces, or a marble that rolls around, independently from a base or attachment part. Base or attachment parts, which once connected or reconnected to the OGGS™ spherical head, provide their many different identities, for example, as an alien, a robot, a humanoid, a pilot, a driver or boat captain. The patent thus discloses some of the possibly boundless OGGS™ assemblies and configurations.
The patent Figure 1 displays an exploded view of a manipulable, multi-piece OGGS™ toy 10, in a disassembled configuration. The disassembled OGGS™ toy configuration 10 comprises a spherical (head) part 12 with face features 26, a base part 14, embodied as a car with wheels 32, and axle 38, and an attachment part 16, embodied as a helmet. The attachment (helmet) 16, has a housing 50, with a hollow cavity 24, designed to cooperate with the upper portion 42 of the spherical (head) part 12. The base (car) 14 has a receiving seat or depression 20, forming a recess 46, designed to cup the lower portion 36 of the spherical (head) part 12. The spherical (head) part 12 is secured within the depression 20, of the base (car) 14, using the extensions 28 of the attachment (helmet) 16. The extensions 28, of the attachment (helmet) 16, are designed to cooperate with the tabs 30 of the base (car) 14. The extensions 28 of the attachment (helmet) 16, are further equipped with small beads 44, which engage the fastening elements 18 of the base (car) 14, comprising small depressions 40, on the tabs 30. Thus, children are able to snap all the parts together and to pull them apart, to exchange and reconfigure their OGGS™, in their play.The scope of the Squaregles® OGGS™ invention extends to many varying bases 14, such as, for example, trucks, tractors, cycles, motorcycles, rail crafts, boats, personal watercrafts, snow mobiles, spacecrafts or surfboards, as well as varying bases in the shape of animal, insect, robotic or humanoid bodies. Likewise, many different sorts of attachment pieces 16, designed to cooperate with the bases 14, for the purposes of securing the spherical OGGS™ parts 12 (i.e., heads with facial expressions), also fall within the scope the OGGS™ invention.
Below, a YouTube video, all about OGGS™, together with the abstract of the invention.
A manipulable multi-piece toy having a spherical body that is removably captured between a base and an attachment member is provided. The base and the attachment member are configured to have portions of a coupling element associated therewith. The base also has a depression with curvature for receiving and securely retaining a first portion of the spherical body in its assembled configuration. In some configurations, the depression comprises a seat with geometry that mates with geometry of the spherical body. By one approach, the base includes a vehicular or figure body. In another aspect, the attachment member includes, for example, a helmet, a hat, a headdress, hair, horns, ears, and/or a mask. [Abstract US20190217212A1]
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