Patents by Inventor Robert Ford Dyer

Robert Ford Dyer 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).

  • Vehicle racing game apparatus
    Patent number: 3998460
    Abstract: Two side-by-side tracks form a closed loop having a curve at each end; the tracks support vehicles each of which moves around the closed loop as a result of impulses supplied to it by an improved vehicle-propulsion device located entirely within one of the curves for manual actuation by a child-user, and characterized by a novel propulsion arm which tilts upwards into its operating position about a fulcrum in response to an actuating force transmitted by a flexible tape which also causes said arm to rotate horizontally about a shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Ford Dyer
  • Tape fastening system
    Patent number: 3982844
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel fastener for attaching flexible tape comprising a tri-laterally symmetric retainer and a receiving aperture such that a portion of the flexible tape wrapped around said retainer may be gripped and said aperture, the gripping force increasing when tension is supplied to said tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas De Anda, Robert Ford Dyer