Baby toy belt

Abstract

A toy belt for stimulation and distraction of a baby during diapering. The belt includes a soft plush elongated belt element configured to snugly encircle and be fastened around a waist of the baby with engaged end fastening elements of hook and eye sections. The belt element has an outward surface section, when the heft is positioned on a stomach of the baby, having plush and hard pull toy elements which are capable of being manually manipulated by the baby are fixedly fastened. The belt and the toy elements are configured to be positioned on the baby whereby they do not interfere with diapering and feeding the baby. The toy belt further contains imbedded lighting and music elements activated by external compression switches.

Claims

1. A flexible toy belt garment configured for stimulation and distraction of a baby during diapering, the flexible toy belt garment comprising: a) a soft plush elongated flexible belt element having a substantially uniform thickness along its entire length with the thickness being sufficiently thin to enable winding around a waist of the baby, an elongated length sufficient to enable it to be wrapped completely around the waist of the baby, and the belt element further comprising engageable fastening elements at longitudinal opposite ends of the belt element; the flexible belt being configured to be placed against the waist of the baby in an elongated configuration and then flexibly wound around the waist of the baby to snugly encircle and be fastened around a waist of the baby, with engaged end fastening elements holding the belt element on the baby as a belt garment; b) the flexible belt element having an outward and upward facing surface section, when the belt is positioned on a stomach of the baby, to which at least one toy element is directly non-removably fastened, with the at least one toy element having dimensions and shape enabling it to be laterally viewable by the baby, in a face up lying position, as a toy element; c) the at least one toy element is directly non-removably fixedly fastened to the outward and upward facing surface section, wherein the at least one toy element is reachable and manually manipulable by the baby from an upper side of the flexible toy belt, and d) wherein the directly non-removably fixedly fastened at least one toy element, is configured to be positioned directly on the flexible belt element in a form and position which does not interfere with diapering and feeding the baby, when the flexible toy belt is positioned on the baby, and does not extend to impede reaching either a mouth or a diapering area of the baby.

2. The flexible toy belt garment of claim 1, wherein the engaged end fastening elements are comprised of respective hook and eye segment elements positioned on obverse end surfaces of the elongated flexible belt element.

3. The flexible toy belt garment of claim 1, wherein the at least one manually manipulated toy element, fixedly fastened to the outward and upward facing surface section of the flexible belt element, comprises any or all of plush light stalks, soft squeezable elements, and hard pull elements of varying shapes and colors.

4. The flexible toy belt garment of claim 3, wherein plush toy elements are: vertically affixed to other toy elements and wherein hard pull elements extend from at least one plush toy element.

5. The flexible toy belt garment of claim 4, wherein plush material of any or all of the plush toy elements is comprised of polyester fibers.

6. The flexible toy belt garment of claim 4, wherein one or more of the plush toy elements comprises an externally accessible press switch which: activates, for short duration, lighting elements in one or more plush elements and music chips in one or more of the plush toy elements.

7. The flexible toy belt garment of claim 1, wherein a width of the elongated flexible belt element is up to three inches, and sufficient to support the toy elements thereon.

Description

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) FIG. 1 is a front view of the belt of the invention in a folded configuration showing plush toy attachments and part of the rear;

(2) FIG. 2 is a view of the belt of FIG. 1 in an view enclosing configuration;

(3) FIG. 3 is a full rear view of the belt of FIG. 1; and

(4) FIG. 4 is a view of the belt of FIG. 1 as placed and positioned on a baby.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(5) With respect to the Figures, belt structure 1, comprises an elongated belt element, 10 having hook and eye elements 11 and 12, is of a dimension sufficient to snugly surround the waist 101 of a baby 100 shown in FIG. 4. The hook and eye elements 11 and 12, located on obverse end sections 11a and 12a of the belt element 10 whereby they provide a fastened encircling structure as shown in FIG. 2. The hook and eye elements 11 and 12 are of sufficient respective lengths along the length of the belt 10 whereby they permit attachment adjustment round a baby's waist for a snug fit. The attachment is situated behind the baby where it is not reachable for possible disengagement by the baby.

(6) Plush toy elements are affixed to one side surface of belt section 10a with connections which are either relatively non-removable or are of sufficient connective strength to resist any removal thereof from the belt by the baby. The plush elements extend primarily along the length of the belt 10 without excessive lateral extension from the belt edges whereby they do not interfere with diapering of the baby on the lower side and with feeding of the baby on the upper side (when positioned on the baby) and the plush elements are all within reach of the baby to permit stimulative manipulation and/or effective manipulation distraction. As seen in the figures, a series of plush elements are longitudinally arranged with some stacking of elements. The plush elements are of varying shapes and colors.

(7) Soft purple plush element 17, with an amorphous bone type configuration is fixedly positioned on belt section 10a, starting from about the midpoint of belt 10. Plush orange stalk 13a topped with a yellow end 13a′ extends upwardly from plush element 17. A second red stalk 13b with yellow end 13b′ extends from large orange plush pillow element 16. Plush green star 15 with yellow button 15a is fixedly positioned on plush bone 17. Yellow plush crescent 18 is affixed to an end of pillow 16. Hard plastic yellow and green grasping rectangles 19a and 19b are affixed to and extend from green star 15. Yellow hard plastic grasping ring 19c with loose purple and rings 19d and 19e extend from the end of crescent 18.

(8) As shown, pillow element has a push control 20, which when pressed, activates an imbedded music chip contained therein with associated battery as well as light elements contained in the yellow stalk end 13a′ and 13b′ which plays for a short period of time.

(9) Baby 100 is shown in FIG. 4 as happily grasping rectangle grasping element 19b as well as pillow 16 while being diapered.

(10) It is understood that specific elements on the belt including fastening elements and arrangements may vary in shape, configuration, color and arrangement without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.