US12590786 - Toy foam dart with impact absorbing tip
The patent describes a toy foam dart featuring an elongate body and a dart tip designed with a hollow passage that creates mouth openings and eye socket indents, giving it a face-like appearance. The configuration aims to enhance the visual appeal while maintaining safety through its impact-absorbing design.
Claim 1
1 . A toy form dart, comprising: an elongate dart body having an interior bore that extends in a longitudinal direction from a head end to a tail end of the elongate dart body; a dart tip connected to the head end of the elongate dart body, the dart tip having a top, a bottom that is affixed into the interior bore at the head end of the elongate dart body, and an outer surface extending from the top to the bottom of the dart tip in the longitudinal direction; a hollow passage extends through the dart tip in a first direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction defining first and second mouth openings on opposing sides of the dart tip, the hollow passage having an aspect ratio of at least 1:1 of a passage width in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and the longitudinal direction in comparison to a passage height in the longitudinal direction, edges of the hollow passage define the width in the first direction; first and second pairs of eye socket indents located between the respective first and second mouth openings and the top of the dart tip, the first and second eye socket indents penetrating only partially into the dart tip and an interior boundary wall formed between each one of the first pair of eye socket indents and each respective oppositely located one of the second pair of eye socket indents; wherein the first and second pairs of eye socket indents and the respective first and second mouth openings form a face configuration on the opposing sides of the dart tip. an elongate dart body having an interior bore that extends in a longitudinal direction from a head end to a tail end of the elongate dart body; a dart tip connected to the head end of the elongate dart body, the dart tip having a top, a bottom that is affixed into the interior bore at the head end of the elongate dart body, and an outer surface extending from the top to the bottom of the dart tip in the longitudinal direction; a hollow passage extends through the dart tip in a first direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction defining first and second mouth openings on opposing sides of the dart tip, the hollow passage having an aspect ratio of at least 1:1 of a passage width in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction and the longitudinal direction in comparison to a passage height in the longitudinal direction, edges of the hollow passage define the width in the first direction; first and second pairs of eye socket indents located between the respective first and second mouth openings and the top of the dart tip, the first and second eye socket indents penetrating only partially into the dart tip and an interior boundary wall formed between each one of the first pair of eye socket indents and each respective oppositely located one of the second pair of eye socket indents; wherein the first and second pairs of eye socket indents and the respective first and second mouth openings form a face configuration on the opposing sides of the dart tip.
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