Amusement devices: toys – Discrete launcher – accelerator – or retarder for toy vehicle – Including helical spring or elastomeric strip
Patent
1986-07-07
1988-03-22
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Discrete launcher, accelerator, or retarder for toy vehicle
Including helical spring or elastomeric strip
A63H 2900
Patent
active
047325690
ABSTRACT:
A toy vehicle launcher used to propel a toy vehicle forward by pulling a flexible rack so that cam portions attached to the rack and launcher operably engage each other bending a flexible support downward in order to release the vehicle. A slider attaches to the front of the toy vehicle and pulls it forward after it is released. The toy vehicle may be easily mounted on top of the launcher by attaching it to horizontal and vertical supports. While in this position, the rear wheels of the vehicle rest on top of and engage wheels rotatably mounted on the launcher. Plates attached to the flexible support help to guide the rack as it engages a gear attached to the wheels mounted on the launcher. The rack rotates these wheels as it is pulled, resulting in the wheels of the toy vehicle being rotated as it is launched forward.
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Hippely Keith
Soulakis George
Goldman Ronald M.
Klein Melvin A.
Mattel Inc.
Sullivan Daniel F.
Yu Mickey
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