Amusement devices: toys – Discrete launcher – accelerator – or retarder for toy vehicle
Patent
1986-07-01
1987-09-01
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Discrete launcher, accelerator, or retarder for toy vehicle
124 79, 273129T, A63H 2900
Patent
active
046906584
ABSTRACT:
A toy vehicle launcher having a hand grip which can be squeezed to move expandable scissors members forward in order to launch a toy vehicle. The scissors members form an expandable parallelogram linkage which is slidable mounted inside the launcher. When the hand grip is squeezed, a trigger member pivotably mounted to the grip moves a sliding plate mounted inside the launcher. As the sliding plate moves, two pins attached to the sliding plate operably engage elongated slots in two of the scissors members, pulling the two members backward and causing the linkage to expand forward. A launching plate supported on top of the scissors members moves forward with the expanding linkage pushing a toy vehicle forward. Since the linkage expands forward in a relatively smooth and uniform manner, the toy vehicle is also launched in a relatively uniform manner, helping to avoid activating or damaging any impact-activated mechanisms in the vehicle. A child may control the rate of acceleration of a vehicle being launched by controlling how hard the hand grip is squeezed.
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Crosson Peter
Goldstein Samuel M.
Gray Kevin
Sanchez Terry
Goldman Ronald M.
Klein Melvin A.
Mattel Inc.
Sullivan Daniel F.
Yu Mickey
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