Patents by Inventor Burt Ensmann

Burt Ensmann 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: 4186516
    Abstract: A toy doll adapted to simulate skating movements of an ice skater which includes a torso, and a pair of legs pivotally connected to the torso so that one of the legs is free to rotate with substantially unrestrained movement, while the other leg is mounted on the torso for frictionally restrained rotation so that it can be held in selected positions. The doll is positioned on a stand and movement of the stand will cause the torso to pivot about the first leg, to a plurality of different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Ideal Toy Corporation
    Inventor: Burt Ensmann
  • Patent number: 4045908
    Abstract: A toy vehicle game, for use with a powered toy vehicle having at least one driven wheel, includes a transport vehicle which is adapted to receive and support the powered vehicle on an associated track. The transport vehicle has means therein for locating the powered vehicle on the transport vehicle in a predetermined position, and includes at least one track engageable wheel rotatably mounted therein which is located in operative engagement with the driven wheel of the powered vehicle when the powered vehicle is in said predetermined position on the transport vehicle. As a result, the driven wheel of the powered vehicle rotates the track engageable wheel of the transport vehicle in order to propel the transport vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Ideal Toy Corporation
    Inventors: Burt Ensmann, Edwin A. Nielsen, Edward Snyder, III, Frank D. Ventura
  • Patent number: 3997163
    Abstract: A target game is disclosed in which a plurality of targets are mounted on a play surface and moved between exposed and concealed positions in an apparently random sequence. Projectiles, such as marbles or balls, are directed at the targets which can capture and retain projectiles that engage them. Retention of a projectile in the target will prevent the target from returning to its concealed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1976
    Assignee: Ideal Toy Corporation
    Inventors: Julius Cooper, Edward Snyder, III, Burt Ensmann
  • Patent number: 3958361
    Abstract: A toy vehicle racing game is described utilizing a continuous, unguided vehicle race track with steeply banked curves and straight, flat horizontal track sections. The width of the unguided roadbed surface is selected so that vehicles may pass one another. A player-controlled chicane is employed in the path of the high speed vehicles. The chicane includes normally active slow-down devices which the players attempt to disable manually just at the time that their vehicle is about to pass over the chicane. Vehicles which are able to pass the chicane without a speed reduction travel over the high end of the steeply banked curves to pass other vehicles which were slowed down. A vehicle diverter is employed to segregate the vehicles on a right-left basis before traversing the chicane. The vehicle diverter employs track guides in dove-tailed relationship to guide the vehicles and prevent their bouncing off the track as they engage the track guides at high speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: Ideal Toy Corporation
    Inventors: Julius Cooper, Burt Ensmann, Edwin Nielsen, Vincent Carella