Amusement devices: toys – Rolling or tumbling – Including intrinsic motive power means for propulsion
Patent
1988-11-09
1990-04-24
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Rolling or tumbling
Including intrinsic motive power means for propulsion
446 95, 446471, 446469, 446484, A63H 1700, A63H 17267
Patent
active
049196391
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to a toy vehicle having a chassis travelling by means of wheels on a driving surface and with a body which can be fastened thereon.
2. The Prior Art
In known toy vehicles, the body is designed in a predetermined manner and is connected with the chassis in a complicated way by bent pieces or wedging means. Aside from the fact that such toy vehicles require complicated use of tools for accessing their interiors, perhaps for changing the power source or for repairs, the retention of the body is also imperative. Exchange of the body is either not possible or requires a difficult adaptation to the chassis or requires a chassis adapted to the respective body.
3. Summary of the Invention
It is an object of the invention to provide means for attaching any desired body on the vehicle chassis while retaining the same vehicle chassis.
This object is attained in accordance with the invention in that the vehicle chassis has fixed on the side towards the body at a distance adjacent to each other a number of pegs and the vehicle body has fixed on the side towards the chassis at the same distance and in relation to the pegs a number of sleeves which can be pushed onto the pegs of the vehicle chassis so they are frictionally engaged. The pegs and sleeves are preferably arranged in rows on the vehicle chassis or the vehicle body, an arrangement in multiple rows of the pegs or sleeves having proven advantageous and resulting in solid connections. In this way the pre-conditions for a simple exchange of any desired body on a vehicle chassis which can be retained unchanged are given by means of a simple plug procedure. Fixing each body to be used on the vehicle chassis or taking it off can be done without tools. To adjust for variations, the stubs are appropriately provided with adjustment pieces extending beyond their circumferential surfaces, which provide clamping engagement by their deformation when the sleeves are pushed on. It is to be understood that the adjustment pieces may also be provided on the inner circumferential surface of the sleeves, while the pegs are smooth on their outside.
The design of the toy vehicle provides that the structure of the vehicle chassis be formed boxlike by two vehicle chassis parts disposed on top of each other and connectable in a plane parallel to the plane of the driving surface, both of which can be connected by means of a peg disposed on a chassis part and a sleeve provided on the other chassis part, which can be pushed on the peg. The vehicle chassis thus formed is used, besides as a support for the wheels, for containing the power sources and transmission as well as the drive motor. Suitably one chassis part may be used as a reception chamber for a low voltage power source and a reception space for the drive motor, while the other chassis part receives a wheel drive, the electric conductors at least partially and a switching device. Protrusions or flanges provided on the chassis parts may be used to hold down the power source and the electrical conductors which are formed, for example, by loosely inserted conductor tracks. Fixing of the drive motor in the receptacle of the one chassis part may be made by means of frictional clamping. The electrical connection between drive motor and electric conductors is made by simply pressing them together.
It is provided in a further embodiment that the two chassis parts are provided with half shells which together form bearings for the vehicle wheels or wheel axles. In particular the two front vehicle wheels may be placed into two identical half shells extending one above the other, one of which is disposed on an extension of the upper chassis part and the other on the lower chassis part. Suitably, however, the rear vehicle wheels are fixedly disposed on an axle which is placed in recesses of both chassis parts.
It is further provided that each of the front vehicle wheels engages the half shells by means of a cylindrical axle journal in a freely rotatable manner and th
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