Combination plush slipper with integral dressable character

Abstract

A slipper having a sole and a foot covering that transforms into a toy play character by coupling the sole to the foot covering. The toy character may take the form of an animal, a human figure, or an imaginary, or abstract character, or other object. The transforming slipper toy may be made of plush material and having a head and torso extending upward from the foot covering. Conveniently, the character can be dressable where the toy clothing item can be coupled to the character using Velcro.RTM., button or snap fasteners, hooks, a zipper.RTM. or string. The sole may also have a pocket for receiving a heel portion of the sole whereby the sole and the foot covering are united.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 712,464, filed Aug. 30, 2005, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of Invention [0003] This invention relates generally to plush toys and plush clothing items such as plush slippers and, more particularly, to dressable plush slippers. [0004] 2. Background Art [0005] Novelty slippers may take on the shape or part of the shape of an animal or other character. These slippers may bear the face along with floppy ears or other features of the character. Typically novelty shoes of this category include the main body of the slipper where the foot of the wearer is inserted and on the top portion of the toe portion of the slipper, the head portion of a plush toy teddy-bear character or other character is integrally stitched thereon. These type of novelty slippers can be designed for use as an actual house-...

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Benefits of technology

[0007] In accordance with this invention, there is provided a dressable slipper toy having a sole and a foot covering and integral character. The slipper has coupling means for uniting a sole portion of the slipper with the foot covering portion of the slipper where the foot covering portion can have an opening so that a can foot access the interior cavity of the slipper that can be closed like a low top shoe or a high top boot / bootie covering the ankle of the wearer. The foot covering can also have the back portion of the foot covering open with the heel portion of the sole fully exposed to allow the foot of the wearer to easily slide into the slipper. On the top portion of the toe portion of the foot covering, a torso and head portion of a toy character can be integrally connected thereto and the torso portion can project upward above the foot covering and the torso portion of the toy character can further include articulated appendages extending from the torso of the toy character.

[0010] One embodiment of the invention is a slipper having a sole and a foot covering upper portion where a toy play character head and torso extends upward from the foot covering. The toy character may take the form of an animal, a human figure, or an imaginary, or abstract character, or other object. The slipper may be made of plush material or other appropriate soft pliable material. The torso can have articulated appendages extending there from. This novelty slipper invention has the advantage of allowing the owner to dress their slipper or the slipper for a plush doll for a given occasion or event.

Problems solved by technology

However, none of these known slippers allows the owner of the slipper to vary the dress or costume of the integral character, particularly in recognition of certain special events such as the celebration of a birth date or holiday or to express various themes or display slogans or other verbiage, thereby changing the outward appearance of character for the given occasion or event or theme.

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