Patents by Inventor Brian L. Dean

Brian L. Dean has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4906215
    Abstract: The toy combination includes a toy vehicle having one or more pairs of spaced apart shoulders on exterior sides of the vehicle body and one or more toy attachments releasably secured on the pairs of shoulders by snap-fitting a respective pair of rails on the toy attachment against a respective pair of shoulders. The toy attachment includes resilient extensions on which the rails are carried. The extensions are flexed to snap-fit the rails on the shoulders. The toy attachment can include first and second pairs of extensions adjacent opposite ends with a receptacle intermediate the extensions for releasably receiving a toy figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Lionel Trains, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor G. Reiling, Jr., Brian L. Dean, D. Michael Ledyard, Daniel J. Cooney, John W. Brady
  • Patent number: 4869700
    Abstract: The toy combination includes a self-powered toy vehicle with driven wheels adjacent the front thereof and a toy trailer with non-driven wheels and with a receptacle on the trailer in front of its wheels releasably receiving the rear of the toy vehicle. The toy vehicle and trailer include cooperative details for locating and interlocking them together when the rear of the vehicle is received in the receptacle. The toy vehicle and trailer are configured such that the toy combination formed thereby resembles a tractor-trailer type truck whose front wheels comprise the driven wheels of the toy vehicle and whose rear wheels comprise the wheels of the trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Lionel Trains, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor G. Reiling, Jr., Brian L. Dean, Daniel J. Cooney