Amusement devices: toys – Figure toy or accessory therefor – Leaping or projected figure or accessory
Patent
1998-11-16
2000-01-25
Rimell, Sam
Amusement devices: toys
Figure toy or accessory therefor
Leaping or projected figure or accessory
446268, 446176, A63H 1310
Patent
active
060172622
ABSTRACT:
An animated toy with an extendible tongue appendage that can be retracted back towards the opened mouth of the toy creature. In the first preferred embodiment an inner spring and outer spring are used, respectively, to propel the tongue away from the creature's body and to retract the extended tongue. In another second embodiment, the body of the creature is hollow, deformable and resilient with an internal air chamber. Air pressure in this chamber is used in place of the springs to extend and retract the hollow tongue. In a third embodiment, similar to the second embodiment in operation, pressurized air is supplied by an external bellows to extend the creature's tongue before it is retracted by an internal spring. At the end of the tongue in all embodiments, there is a hook and loop surface material area or a slow setting sticky material area which engages a similar surface material area on a small light weight spaced toy prey such that the tongue will stick to the prey and then move the prey towards the opened mouth of the creature.
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McGlynn Joseph H.
Rimell Sam
Zack Thomas
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