Foam material modular toy structure

Abstract

A foam material modular toy structure consisting of differently shaped solid components fabricated from a foam material, wherein each solid foam component has an octagonal through-hole and a projecting umbrella-shaped tenon, enabling assembly into a creative toy. Furthermore, the joints formed by umbrella-shaped tenons and the octagonal through-holes enables articulation at a range of angles and maintenance at fixed positions, with the utilization of a foam material having inherent elasticity enabling disassembly to reduce space occupancy and facilitate storage. As such, the present invention achieves the objectives of repeated creative assembly as well as lively, flexile operational performance.

1 . A foam material modular toy structure, comprising: 
 a plurality of differently shaped solid components, each being fabricated from an elastic foam material, each solid component having at least one of an octagonal through-hole, and a projecting umbrella-shaped tenon integrally fixed to a neck portion, with the tenon of one of the solid components being insertable into the octagonal through-hole of another one of the solid components, such that when users manually assemble the solid components according to their own creativity by inserting the tenon into one side of a corresponding octagonal through-hole until the neck portion is disposed within the corresponding octagonal through-hole, and the tenon projects from another side of the corresponding through hole, the solid components are conjoined into imaginative toys; at the same time, an insertional coupling formed by the inserting of the tenon into the corresponding octagonal through-hole provides for rotatably controlled joint applications, with each said solid component being capable of being articulated at a range of angles and kept in a fixed position without collapsing due to weight factors, thereby enabling an assembled toy to be flexile and lively;    wherein the elastic foam material has an inherent elasticity that allows said umbrella-shaped tenons to be manually withdrawn from the octagonal through-holes, thereby allowing the assembled toy to be easily disassembled into constituent parts to reduce space occupancy and facilitate storage, so that the invention herein is thereby capable of providing for repeated creative assembly as well as lively and flexile operational performance.    
   
   
       2 . The foam material modular toy structure recited in  claim 1 , wherein the tenons and the octagonal through-holes are adapted to maintain the solid foam components in a fixed position.