Drawing toy and drawing toy set using the same

Abstract

An drawing toy 1 having a excellent performance in play to which water is applied to form images such as letters or characters, and patterns or designs, which are perceivable as images having brilliance is constituted of an drawable member 2 having a light-transmitting support 3 and provided on the surface thereof a porous layer 4 in which a low refractive index pigment has been made dispersedly fixed to a binder resin and which comes different in transparency between a liquid-absorbed condition and a liquid-non-absorbed condition, and a light source 5 which irradiates the back surface of the drawable member with light. A drawing toy set is constituted of the drawing toy 1 and a water-applying implement 15.

1 . A drawing toy which comprises a drawable member comprising a light-transmitting support and provided on the surface thereof a porous layer in which a low refractive index pigment has been made dispersedly fixed to a binder resin and which comes different in transparency between a liquid-absorbed condition and a liquid-non-absorbed condition, and a light source which irradiates the back surface of the drawable member with light. 
     
     
         2 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the light-transmitting support and the porous layer contains a coloring agent. 
     
     
         3 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , wherein a non-color-changeable layer containing a coloring agent is provided between the light-transmitting support and the porous layer and/or on the back surface of the light-transmitting support. 
     
     
         4 . The drawing toy according to  claim 2  or  3 , wherein the coloring agent is selected from the group consisting of a fluorescent pigment, a fluorescent dye, a fluorescent brightening pigment and a fluorescent brightening dye. 
     
     
         5 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , wherein the light-transmitting support holds the light source therein. 
     
     
         6 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a container which holds the light source therein, and the container has, at its part where the drawable member is disposed, a light-transmitting part which transmits light from the light source. 
     
     
         7 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a container which holds the light source therein, and the container is provided with an opening through which the drawable member is irradiated on the back surface thereof with the light from the light source, where the drawable member is so constructed as to be detachably mountable to the opening. 
     
     
         8 . The drawing toy according to  claim 7 , wherein the container is provided with a light-transmitting member at the opening, and the drawable member is disposed on the light-transmitting member. 
     
     
         9 . The drawing toy according to  claim 8 , wherein the light-transmitting member stands colored. 
     
     
         10 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a container which holds the light source therein, and the container is provided with an opening through which the drawable member is irradiated on the back surface thereof with the light from the light source, where the drawable member is fastened to the container at the opening thereof. 
     
     
         11 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a plurality of light sources different in colors. 
     
     
         12 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a colored filter which changes the color of the light source. 
     
     
         13 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a light-transmitting pattern sheet provided between the light source and the drawable member. 
     
     
         14 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , which comprises a light-transmitting sheet provided between the light source and the drawable member and a writing implement with which an erasable written image is formed on the light-transmitting sheet. 
     
     
         15 . The drawing toy according to  claim 6  or  7 , wherein the container holds therein an optical member which reflects and/or refracts the light from the light source. 
     
     
         16 . The drawing toy according to  claim 1 , wherein the light from the light source is light having at least one of visible light and ultraviolet light. 
     
     
         17 . A drawing toy set which comprises the drawing toy according to  claim 1  and a water-applying implement. 
     
     
         18 . A drawing toy set which comprises the drawing toy according to any one of  claims 6  to  8  and a water-applying implement.