Amusement devices: toys – Discrete launcher – accelerator – or retarder for toy vehicle
Patent
1997-05-16
1998-10-20
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Discrete launcher, accelerator, or retarder for toy vehicle
446462, 446484, A63H 2920
Patent
active
058238484
ABSTRACT:
The present invention proposes a toy vehicle powered and propelled by a launching device. More specifically, the invention includes a toy vehicle, preferably about three inches long, with a flywheel at its midpoint. The body, chassis, wheel and other parts are preferably plastic. The flywheel, however, is preferably a non-ferrous metal, and most preferably a diecast zinc metal. In one embodiment of the invention, the toy vehicle is placed in the launching device. The vehicle rolls down a ramp to a car stop. Magnets in the flywheel activate a switch that turns on an electromagnet, causing the flywheel to accelerate. When the vehicle reaches the vehicle stop of the launcher, the flywheel is spinning and magnets on the flywheel activate a reed switch that turns on an electromagnet each time a magnet passes the reed switch. The reed switch, acting as a commutator along with the magnets in the flywheel, creates the effect of a D.C. motor. When the shifter is moved into a specific gear setting, preferably fourth gear, the vehicle stop is lowered and the vehicle accelerates off the ramp.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3783550 (1974-01-01), Andrews
patent: 3803756 (1974-04-01), Stongin
patent: 3886682 (1975-06-01), Ieda et al.
Carlson Jeffrey D.
Grant Jonathan E.
Hafer Robert A.
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