Patent ID: 7101247
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: A23G,A23L,A23P,A23V,A61K,A63B,A63H,B32B,B41M,B43K,B43M,B65D,C08J,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An elastomer gel children's toy jelly block set comprising: a plurality of toy elastomer gel jelly blocks, said jelly blocks being fabricated at least in part from an elastomer gel material, at least some of said jelly blocks having a tacky exterior, said tacky exterior causing said jelly blocks to have a tendency to adhere to each other, such adherence resulting in easy stacking of said blocks with each other such as by children who do not have fully developed coordination skills, said jelly blocks each being soft, having shape memory, and being stretchable, said elastomer gel material including a plasticizer including a plurality of plasticizing polymer molecules, an elastomer comprising a plurality of elastomeric triblock copolymers of the general configuration A-B-A, each of said triblock copolymers having: two end blocks A and one mid block B, and a plurality of hollow spherical objects; wherein each of said mid block B is covalently linked to one of said end blocks A; wherein said end blocks A are non-elastomeric polymers; wherein said mid block B is an elastomeric polymer, wherein said mid block B of at least some of said triblock copolymers includes a plurality of backbone carbon molecules and a plurality of side chains; wherein said elastomer has a weight average molecular weight of at least about 300,000 when determined by gel permeation chromatography; wherein said plasticizing polymer molecules, upon placement of the material under a load, tend to facilitate disentanglement and elongation of said mid blocks B during elongation of the material; wherein said plasticizing polymer molecules, upon release of the load from the material, tend to facilitate recontraction of the material; wherein said plasticizing polymer molecules comprise at least about 60 weight percent of the material, based on the combined weights of said triblock copolymers and said plasticizing polymers; wherein said elastomer has a measurable percent elongation at break; wherein said plasticizer tends to increase the percent elongation at break of said elastomer; wherein said elastomer has a rigidity measurable on the Gram Bloom scale, and wherein said plasticizer tends to decrease the Gram Bloom rigidity of said elastomer.