Driven By Frictional Contact Patents (Class 40/525)
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Patent number: 10688380Abstract: A moving ball-in-a-maze puzzle game includes at least two moving maze rings. Each maze ring includes a respective maze, the maze rings moving relative to one another over a platform, defining dynamic paths therebetween enabling maneuvering a ball on the platform from a start position to an end position through the mazes, while passing between the respective moving maze rings.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: WOWEE GROUP LTD.Inventors: Dan Aronson, Davin Sufer, Adam Fairless, Anthony Lemire
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Patent number: 10529259Abstract: A sign incorporating a fixed panel with multiple windows. A moving panel is provided behind each window. Each moving panel includes multiple messages. By moving a particular moving panel with respect to its associated window, a different message can be displayed through the window. A control system is provided for controlling the position of the moving panels. This control system is preferably remotely located, so that a user can operate the inventive sign from a safe position.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: DBI Services, LLCInventor: John E. Kiehart, III
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Patent number: 10403179Abstract: A display device includes a base holder having a cavity and a roller assembly. The roller assembly can include an upper cylindrical roller, a lower cylindrical roller, a framework arranged and constructed to maintain the upper cylindrical roller and the lower cylindrical roller a predetermined distance away from each other, and a conveyor belt wrapped around the upper cylindrical roller and the lower cylindrical roller. At least one or more rotating mechanisms can be attached to one or more of a left side of the upper cylindrical roller, a right side of the upper cylindrical roller, a left side of the lower cylindrical roller, or a right side of the lower cylindrical roller, where the one or more rotating mechanisms drive the lower cylinder to rotate and cause the conveyer belt to move around the upper cylinder and the lower cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Inventor: David B. Bass
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Patent number: 9305473Abstract: A sign assembly for displaying information about a vehicle includes a vehicle that has a hood and a front side. A display is coupled to the vehicle. The display is visible forward of the front side. The display may contain information and images pertaining to the vehicle. The display extends between the hood and the front side. A belt is movably coupled to the display. A plurality of pockets is coupled to said belt and contains the information about the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Inventor: Claude Alunni
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Patent number: 4600198Abstract: A device for checking columnar arranged digits on lotto tickets. Winning number combinations are preset on the device. The preset numbers are linearally arranged at one end of the device for alignment with the digits printed on the lotto tickets. Pre-setting is accomplished by tape and thumbwheel set ups.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1984Date of Patent: July 15, 1986Inventor: Delbert H. Fox
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Patent number: 4437248Abstract: A toy television receiver has a light-diffusing screen curved about a small light bulb, approximating a punctiform source of radiation, which transluminates a transparent carrier of positive images such as an endless film strip or a string of slides. The carrier can be manually advanced by being mounted on one or two reels or on a drum rotatable with the aid of a knurled wheel, which projects from the housing of the device, or by being juxtaposed with an externally manipulable pressure roller.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1981Date of Patent: March 20, 1984Inventor: Hubertus Ramme
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Patent number: 4427387Abstract: Disclosed is a drawing toy which includes a plurality of light transmitting carriers that are manually movable past a writing platen which supports portions of the carrier. Each carrier has on its surface a series of different figure fragments which inhibit light from passing through the carrier where a figure fragment is displayed. Selectively moving the carriers to the platen positions different figure fragments over the platen. There is a light source adjacent to the platen and on the side of the platen opposite the carrier so that light passes through the platen and then through the carrier. Preferably, a transparent protective member overlies the portion of the carriers supported by the platen, with the carriers being sandwiched between this member and the platen. A translucent sheet of paper is placed over the protective member opposite the platen.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1982Date of Patent: January 24, 1984Assignee: Takara Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tohru Tomita
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Patent number: 4326351Abstract: A display device for a machine such as a poker machine or fruit machine in which information to be displayed is arranged on a closed loop of flexible strip material arranged to pass in front of a viewing window. The closed loop is moved around the predetermined path by electric motors for example. The closed loop can be stopped or started as required and when in motion its position is sensed by an electronic sensor, the output of which is fed to a microprocessor. In a poker or fruit machine a number of such loops of flexible strip material are arranged side by side in a casing which may have the appearance of a conventional fruit machine or poker machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1980Date of Patent: April 27, 1982Inventors: Joseph R. Heywood, Leonard H. Ainsworth
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Patent number: 4258491Abstract: A location indicating device has a size and shape to be carried on a key ring or chain and is adjustable to display various indicia corresponding to a location, such as that of a parked vehicle. The location indicating device is formed of a flat housing having opposite display and operating ends and an adjustable indicator assembly disposed in the housing including indicating strips carrying indicia for positioning at the display end, the indicating strips being movable via rotatable thumb wheels extending externally of the housing at the operating end to permit selective rotation thereof for positioning selected indicia at the display end of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1979Date of Patent: March 31, 1981Inventors: Frank J. Ernst, Milton P. Chernack, Gordon R. Perry
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Patent number: 4110926Abstract: A changeable exhibitor comprising a video or script tape movable on vertical guide rollers in a closed loop, a weighted roller freely movable along a substantially horizontal roller path within the interior space of said loop, a disc on one side of the roller, and projections on the side of the tape facing the roller path, said disc and projections cooperating to advance the tape in response to movement of the weighted roller in one direction along the roller path.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1976Date of Patent: September 5, 1978Assignee: Moviefig APSInventor: Borge Andreas Ravn