Starting gate for a multiple-track toy vehicle racing set

Details Starting gate for a multiple-track toy vehicle racing set Starting gate for a multiple-track toy vehicle racing set

1979-08-17

1981-09-29

Oechsle, Anton O.

Amusement devices: games

Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...

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46 1K, A63F 914

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active

042918782

ABSTRACT:
A starting gate for use in connection with a multiple-track toy vehicle racing arrangement for releasing self-propelled toy vehicles onto the tracks includes a base having a plurality of bays each of which accommodates one toy vehicle prior to the start of the race. A blocking portion of a starting element retains the respective vehicle in the respective bay in an extended position of the starting element. A spring urges the starting element toward its extended position while the starting element can be displaced into its retracted position in which it releases the respective toy vehicle for travel on the respective track upon depression of an actuating portion of the starting element. The starting gate further includes a housing member accommodating an indicating member equipped with a cam follower received in a zig-zagging cam track of the housing member for retarding the gravity descent of the indicating member during a countdown sequence, and a plurality of indicating elements, one for each of the starting elements and pivotable by gravitational forces from a concealed to a revealed position thereof when the respective starting element is depressed during the countdown sequence.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3463493 (1969-08-01), Guild
patent: 3707802 (1973-01-01), Tucker et al.
patent: 4108437 (1978-08-01), DeAnda et al.

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