Amusement devices: toys – Convertible from – or serving as diverse article – Including container or storing toy parts
Patent
1995-05-04
1996-12-03
Hafer, Robert A.
Amusement devices: toys
Convertible from, or serving as diverse article
Including container or storing toy parts
446107, 446109, 446479, 446486, 446489, A63H 1500
Patent
active
055802931
ABSTRACT:
A toy stairway is disclosed which may be used to play with a spring toy and which comprises elongated first and second collapsible side rails in confronting spaced relationship relative to each other, a plurality of rigid steps disposed between the first and second side rails, and means for releasably connecting the plurality of steps to the first and second side rails. Each side rail may be coilable and resilient, or may be foldable and comprised of a plurality of hingedly connected fold sections. The first and second side rails preferably are formed from a single stringer having a first portion and a second portion, the stringer being made of a material to permit the stringer to bend for bringing the second portion in a confronting spaced relationship relative to the first portion to define the first and second side rails. The stringer may be made of a coilable resilient material or of a foldable material comprised of a plurality of hingedly connected fold sections. Each of the rigid steps preferably comprises an L-shaped step piece having a tread portion and a riser portion, or each of the rigid steps may comprise a flat tread and the toy staircase may further comprise at least one brace portion connectable between the side rails. Each of the rigid steps may comprise a tread portion hingedly attached to a riser portion, and there may be a plurality of the hingedly attached tread and riser portions hingedly attached to each other to form a continuous set of the rigid steps.
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Lariccia Anthony H.
Sestak Joseph T.
Carlson Jeffrey D.
Hafer Robert A.
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