A63H TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
Introduced: September 1968
Classification Context
- Section:
- HUMAN NECESSITIES
- Class:
- SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- Subclass:
- TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
Description
A63H covers the design and manufacture of toys and play articles intended for entertainment and amusement, including mechanical, structural, and functional aspects of toy construction. This subclass encompasses traditional toys such as tops, dolls, hoops, and building blocks, as well as puzzle toys, figurines, action toys, and similar recreational objects designed for children or general play. The classification includes innovations in toy mechanisms, materials, assembly systems, and interactive features that enhance play value. Related toy-adjacent technologies involving sports equipment or electronic gaming are classified separately under A63B (sports) and A63F (electronic games/amusements).
Scope Notes
Glossary: Toy Toys A plaything to be actively played with by children or others; something contrived for amusement rather than for practical or serious use. Toy figure Toy figures A toy that is a caricature or a stylised or symbolic form of a human being, animal, cartoon, fictional character or mythological being. | Limiting references: Blowing smoke-rings Changeable or secret pictures Firecrackers Hand-thrown impact-exploded noise makers Kaleidoscopes | Application references: Throwing toys as part of a game Traffic games with figures moved by players Spring toy guns Examples (not mentioned above) of devices, articles or apparatus which are applicable to humans instead of toys, or of "full-size" working devices or machines with a practical use: . Eyelashes, eyebrows for humans Artificial eyes for humans Picture books Parachutes for aeronautics Ultra-small engines, e.g. for driving models Models or scenery for general purposes Music, sound or noise production in general Transformers Electric motors per se Converters
Related Keywords
20 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- A63H 1/00 Tops
- A63H 11/00 Self-movable toy figures
- A63H 13/00 Toy figures with self-moving parts, with or without movement of the toy as a whole
- A63H 15/00 Other gravity-operated toy figures
- A63H 17/00 Toy vehicles, e.g. with self-drive; Accessories therefor
- A63H 18/00 Highways or trackways for toys; Propulsion by special interaction between vehicle and track
- A63H 19/00 Model railways
- A63H 21/00 Other toy railways
- A63H 23/00 Toy boats; Floating toys; Other aquatic toy devices
- A63H 25/00 Toy steam, gas, or compressed-air engines
- A63H 27/00 Toy aircraft; Other flying toys
- A63H 29/00 Drive mechanisms for toys in general
- A63H 3/00 Dolls
- A63H 30/00 Remote-control arrangements specially adapted for toys, e.g. for toy vehicles
- A63H 31/00 Gearing for toys
- A63H 33/00 Other toys
- A63H 37/00 Jokes; Confetti, streamers, or other dance favours
- A63H 5/00 Musical or noise-producing devices for additional toy effects other than acoustical
- A63H 7/00 Toy figures led or propelled by the user
- A63H 9/00 Special methods or compositions for the manufacture of dolls, toy animals, toy figures, or parts thereof