Patents Assigned to 4Kidz, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5941753
    Abstract: A toplet assembly of inner, intermediate and outer toplets has releasable catches on respective housings of the outer and intermediate toplets which secure the intermediate and inner toplets to the outer and intermediate toplets, respectively, nested one inside another, on a common spin axis, for separation during spinning by floor impact, when dropped. The outer and intermediate toplets have respective pivot pins mounted in respective housings for limited axial sliding movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: 4 Kidz Inc.
    Inventor: James Diresta
  • Patent number: 5933970
    Abstract: A powered hand drawing device in which a pen is mounted in a barrel casing and operably connected through an eccentric to an electrc motor which rotates a writing tip to describe a related figure on a writing surface. The pen is removably mounted in a tubular holder carried by a fulcrum formed by a swivel joint comprising a ball having a diametrical, pen holder receiving bore and a pair of rings secured together entrapping the ball in swivelling relation between them. The barrel wall has two, opposed longitudinal slots and fingerpieces extend from one of the rings through respective slots thereby mounting the the fulcrum for manual sliding adjustment along the barrel (and pen holder) to alter an amplitude of the orbital movement of the writing tip and the figures described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: 4Kidz, Inc.
    Inventor: James Diresta