Abstract: An illuminated toy pail includes a translucent pail body, a handle attached to the pail body, and a retainer affixed to the interior of the pail body which is effective for holding a chemical light stick within the interior of the pail body. The bottom of the retainer includes a press-fit flange which is press fit into a pre-formed hole in the bottom wall of the pail body, and the top of the retainer includes a vertical bore which releasably receives and holds the light stick in a vertical orientation within the interior of the pail. The activated chemical light sticks can be easily inserted into the pail to illuminate the pail, thereby providing both novelty and safety aspects to the pail. When used, for example, in a Halloween, pumpkin-shaped pail body, the light causes the translucent pail body to glow as if a candle were lighted inside the pumpkin, provides a small amount of light to illuminate the ground below, and provides a highly visible, lighted safety indicator for passing vehicles.

Abstract: A platen for stacking wheeled articles examples of which are toy shopping carts and comprises a bottom wall and two side portions joined to opposite sides of the bottom wall. The side portions include an outer flange which extends upwardly from the bottom wall, and an inside flange depending from the outside flange which extends downwardly in spaced relation to the outside flange thereby forming a spacing therebetween. The inside flange includes spaced slots in the lowermost edge thereof. A toy shopping cart is received on the bottom wall with its wheels adjacent the side portions. The inner flanges of the side portions are folded over the wheels of the cart so that the wheels are received in the spacing between the inner and outer flanges. The spaced slots on the lower edge of the inner flange engage with the hubs of the wheels.

Abstract: An inexpensive toy ski including an integral, upstanding heel rest and a separate toe clamp longitudinally adjustable to a number of different selected positions with respect to the heel rest such that adjustment may be readily viewed by the child or other person utilizing the ski while simultaneously providing a strong heel rest. Opposite sides of the ski in front of the heel rest are provided with a pair of laterally spaced upstanding side bars which in turn are provided with a plurality of aligned spaced openings so as to receive headed projections laterally extending from the toe clamp and thus provide the means by which the toe clamp is secured to the ski and longitudinally adjustable with respect thereto.