Patent ID: 8096848
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. A collapsible toy airplane nondestructively and repeatably reconfigurable between a storage configuration and a use configuration, the toy airplane comprising: a fuselage comprising an elongate main body member with a forward end, an aft end, and a body portion wherein the elongate main body member forms substantially the entire fuselage, wherein the forward end of the elongate main body member forms a forward end of the fuselage, wherein the aft end of the elongate main body member forms an aft end of the fuselage, and wherein substantially the entire elongate main body member has an arcuate cross section and is formed from a spring material that is reconfigurable between a use configuration wherein the elongate main body member is substantially straight and a coiled configuration wherein the elongate main body member is coiled; first and second wings coupled to the fuselage wherein each wing has a proximal end and a distal end and wherein the first and second wings are formed by at least one spar member wherein substantially the entire at least one spar member that forms the first and second wings has an arcuate cross section and is formed from a spring material that is reconfigurable between a use configuration wherein the at least one spar member is substantially straight and a coiled configuration wherein the at least one spar member is coiled; wherein the elongate body member and the at least one spar member automatically open to a use configuration from their coiled configurations; whereby the entire fuselage and the entire at least one spar member are nondestructively and repeatably reconfigurable between a first, use configuration where the entire fuselage is substantially straight and the entire at least one spar member is substantially straight and a second, coiled configuration wherein the entire fuselage is coiled and the at least entire spar member is coiled.