Patent ID: 8141876
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. A ball assembly including: a central mounting core defining a number of core mounting formations; and a number of construction elements which are mountable to the central mounting core in an arrangement wherein the construction elements extend radially outwardly from the central mounting core, the construction elements being configured to define a ball when mounted to the central mounting core in an assembled condition of the ball assembly, each construction element having an inner end and an outer end and a number of side walls extending between the inner and outer ends thereof, the construction elements being configured thereby to permit the construction elements to be located adjacent one another in the assembled condition of the ball assembly in an arrangement wherein each side wall of each construction element abuts a particular one of the side walls of an adjacent construction element, each construction element including a convexly curved outer panel at the outer end of the construction element which defines part of an outer surface of the ball assembly in an assembled condition thereof, the outer panel having a radius of curvature equivalent to the radius of curvature of the outer surface of the ball defined by the ball assembly in its assembled condition, the outer panels of the construction elements being configured and dimensioned so that peripheral edges of each outer panel are bordered by the peripheral edges of the outer panels of adjacent construction elements in the assembled condition of the ball assembly thereby providing the ball assembly with a continuous spherical outer surface, wherein each construction element is one of a pentagonal element having a pentagonal configuration when viewed in cross-section and wherein the outer panel has a pentagonal shape in plan view and a hexagonal element having a hexagonal configuration when viewed in cross-section and wherein the outer panel has a hexagonal shape in plan view, wherein each pentagonal element is in the form of a pentagonal container, wherein each hexagonal element is in the form of a hexagonal container, and wherein each pentagonal and each hexagonal container defines an opening at its inner end, through which flowable material that is contained in the container, can flow, in use.