US 12,030,335 B2
Marker kit for providing marker with selectable property
Matthew James Callahan, San Francisco, CA (US); Vlasta Anastasia Komorous-King, Berkeley, CA (US); James Adam Skaates, San Francisco, CA (US); Brendan Boyle, Palo Alto, CA (US); Joshua Lee Finkle, Tampa, FL (US); Andrew Richardson Stewart, San Francisco, CA (US); Chenyu Liu, Cary, NC (US); Justin Chyun Chang, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Rikki MariaLynn Devlin, Carmichael, CA (US)
Assigned to IDEO LP, San Francisco, CA (US); and SPIN MASTER LTD., Toronto (CA)
Filed by IDEO LP, San Francisco, CA (US); and Spin Master Ltd., Toronto (CA)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,983.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/149,619, filed on Feb. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258525 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B43K 17/01 (2006.01); A45C 11/34 (2006.01); A45C 13/02 (2006.01); B43M 99/00 (2010.01)
CPC B43K 17/01 (2013.01) [A45C 11/34 (2013.01); A45C 13/02 (2013.01); B43M 99/008 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A marker kit for providing a marker with a selectable marker property, comprising:
a plurality of marker tip holders, each including a marker tip holder body having a marker tip holder connecting portion, and a marker tip extending from the marker tip holder body and being shaped to dispense ink;
a marker tip holder storage member including a base having a surface with a plurality of receptacles thereon, each of the plurality of receptacles being shaped to removably hold one of the plurality of marker tip holders such that the marker tip holder connecting portion of each of the plurality of marker tip holders is exposed; and
an extension member including an elongated extension member body for grasping by a user, the elongated extension member body having an extension member securing portion and an actuatable member, the extension member securing portion of the extension member being releasably connectable to the marker tip holder connecting portion of each of the plurality of marker tip holders so as to enable sufficiently strong securing of one of the plurality of marker tip holders to the extension member, for removal from one of the plurality of receptacles, and the actuatable member being actuatable for disconnecting the releasably connectable extension member securing portion of the extension member from the marker tip holder connecting portion of the one of the plurality of marker tip holders secured to the extension member so as to release the one of the plurality of marker tip holders back into one of the plurality of receptacles of the marker tip holder storage member,
wherein the marker tip holder connecting portion of each of the plurality of marker tip holders includes a protruding member that extends from a surrounding portion of the marker tip holder body,
wherein the extension member securing portion of the extension member includes a recess and a latch member, the recess being shaped to receive the protruding member of one of the plurality of marker tip holders, the latch member being positioned within the recess to releasably connect the protruding member of the one of the plurality of marker tip holders to the extension member,
wherein the actuatable member of the extension member includes an axial rod positioned within a hollow inner portion of the elongated extension member body of the extension member, the axial rod being supported within the hollow inner portion of the extension member so as move between an unactuated position and an actuated position where the axial rod abuts the protruding member of the one of the plurality of marker tip holders received within the recess of the protruding member such that the latch member is disconnected from the protruding member of the marker tip holder connecting portion of the one of the plurality of marker tip holders.