Interfitting toy figure

Abstract

A unitary humanoid figure comprising a robust torso from which projects a head, oppositely extending arms, diverging legs, a neck, shoulders, hands having palms and backs, and feet having bridges, soles, toes, and heels. The body parts of plural figures can be interconnected in a variety of combinations and orientations. Both the projecting body parts and the part-receiving openings, spaces, pockets, etc. have close dimensional tolerances to insure that interfitting parts will easily slide into engagement with one another yet stay in place due to frictional force resisting disassembly.

What I claim as my invention is:  
     
         1 ) like humanoid figures having front and back surfaces connected by a profile surface defining projecting body parts having interstices therebetween; said body parts of a first figure being configured and dimensioned for insertion into interstices of a second figure with a surface-to-surface sliding fit therebetween; and, the force of friction between the surface of an inserted body part and the surface of its receiving interstices forestalling separation of said first and second figures:  
     
     
         2 ) The figures set forth in  claim 1 , wherein: 
 a) said body parts of said figures are symmetrical and include a head, opposite feet and opposite hands;    b) said hands and said feet define therebetween hand-to-foot interstices opening laterally to opposite sides of said figures; and,    c) either of said feet or the head of said first figure are receivable into either of the hand-to-foot interstices of said second figure.    
     
     
         3 ) The figure set forth in  claim 2 , wherein: 
 abutting opposite feet of a pair of figures are receivable in a common hand-to-foot interstices.    
     
     
         4 ) The figures set forth in  claim 2 , wherein: 
 a) said opposite feet define therebetween foot-tofoot interstices; and,    b) abutting opposite feet of a pair of figures are receivable in said foot-to-foot interstices.    
     
     
         5 ) The figures set forth in  claim 4 , wherein: 
 a) said body parts include diverging legs and a neck;    b) said head is receivable in an interstices defined by said legs; and,    c) and said neck is received in said foot-to-foot interstices.    
     
     
         6 ) The figures set forth in  claim 1 , wherein: 
 said first and second figures are pivotable with respect to one another.    
     
     
         7 ) The figures set forth in  claim 6 , where n: 
 said figures are pivotable from a substantially coplanar relationship to a normal relationship.    
     
     
         8 ) The figures set forth in  claim 4 , wherein: 
 a) said feet have toes, pointing toward opposite sides of said figures, together with heel, sole and bridge surfaces;    b) said sole and bridge surfaces are parallel with one another and are normal to said heel surfaces; and,    c) said foot-to-foot interstices is equal in length to the distance between said heel surfaces.    
     
     
         9 ) The figures set forth in  claim 8 , wherein: 
 the sole-to-bridge thickness of a foot is half the length of the foot-to-foot interstices.    
     
     
         10 ) The figures set forth in  claim 8 , wherein: 
 the sole-to-bridge thickness of a foot is one half the front-to-back thickness of said figures.    
     
     
         11 ) The figures set forth in  claim 1 , wherein: 
 said figures molded of polypropylene copolymer and have hard rectilinear surfaces.    
     
     
         12 ) A set of toy figures comprising a plurality of the figures set forth in  claim 1 .  
     
     
         13 ) Plural humanoid toy blocks joined together and extending 
 in substantially the same plane; and,    said blocks are pivotable with respect to one another to lie in angularly spaced planes.    
     
     
         14 . The blocks set forth in  claim 13 , wherein: 
 a pair of blocks are remote from each other and are each pivotably joined to an intermediate block; and,    said pair of blocks are individually movable with respect to said intermediate block to lie selectively in planes normal to one another and in planes normal to said same plane.    
     
     
         15 . The blocks set forth in  claim 13 , wherein: 
 a pair of blocks abutt one another and are pivotably joined by another block; and,    said pair of blocks are pivotable relative to one another and relative to said another block.