To Move Figure Or Figure Portion Patents (Class 446/198)
  • Patent number: 11376517
    Abstract: A rotary displacement structure of a fun device includes a container body. The container body has a space therein. A fluid is provided in the space. A rotary displacement unit is disposed in the space. The rotary displacement unit has buoyancy or gravity. The rotary displacement unit includes at least one blade assembly. When the container body is overturned, the rotary displacement unit will rise or descend through buoyancy or gravity. At the same time, the blade assembly enables the rotary displacement unit to rotate when ascending or descending, so as to obtain a different visual effect from the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: FOLUCK INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Tay Hsu
  • Patent number: 11051592
    Abstract: An accessory includes a band member and a button. The band member includes an elongated body defining a band interior cavity containing a fluid (gas or liquid) and further includes a band contact region formed along a length of the elongated body. The button has top and bottom portions and a body extending therebetween. The bottom portion is operably coupled to the band member. The body defines a button interior cavity that is in fluid communication with the band interior cavity, and further includes an expandable mechanism that includes first and second ends and a longitudinal axis. The expandable mechanism is movable between an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration to selectively move the button between an expanded position and a collapsed position. Upon engaging the band contact region, the fluid urges the button to the expanded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: POPSOCKETS LLC
    Inventor: David B. Barnett
  • Patent number: 10603601
    Abstract: A party popper contains: a body which includes two first openings defined on two ends of the body respectively. A flexible push portion is mounted on an end of the body, and a launchable cylinder is slidably accommodated in the body. The body includes a surrounding rib fitted thereon, and the flexible push portion is configured to drive the launchable cylinder to slide until the launchable cylinder is stopped by the surrounding rib. Multiple launchable objects are launched from the launchable cylinder inertially, thus launching the multiple launchable objects safely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventor: Yu-Jen Wang
  • Patent number: 7874892
    Abstract: A playset includes a launching device and one or more accessory toys. The launching device includes a launch tube and a bellows system operable to generate a flow of air through the launch tube. The accessory toys may include vehicles such as air-launched vehicles and surface-launched vehicles. Each accessory toy may include a port that receives the launch tube. In use, an accessory toy is mounted onto the launch tube and the bellows is compressed, causing the air to propel the vehicle into the air or along a surface. In another embodiment, the launch tube may include and interference assembly that selectively prohibits the mounting of an accessory toy onto the launch tube, or prevents the launching of accessory toys already mounted onto the tube. The launching device may further be incorporated into a carrying case or a transport vehicle toy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Alan Hippely
  • Patent number: 7247079
    Abstract: A toy figure, particularly a functional doll, includes a central torso provided with a body shell surrounding a hollow space inside the torso and several extremities such as a head, arms, and legs, which are disposed on the torso. At least the arms and legs are made of a soft elastic material. A functional unit is integrated into the toy figure for ensuring one or several functions that are typical of a functional doll. The arms and/or legs and/or the head are pivotally mounted on the torso through fluid-tight joint connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Zapf Creation AG
    Inventor: Lienhard Maar
  • Patent number: 6328675
    Abstract: A manually squeezable and resilient exercise ball having an outwardly protruding, rounded nipple that simulates the nipple of a woman's breast, and a ring on the surface of the ball encircling the nipple and having an irregular surface simulating the areola of a woman's breast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Inventor: Lowell Kaye
  • Patent number: 6322417
    Abstract: A toy includes a supporting frame having a pair of legs secured to a pair of feet by pivotal attachments. The frame further supports a cockpit within which a removable toy figure is seated. The toy frame further supports an air cylinder which is angled rearwardly and downwardly with respect to the remainder of the frame. A piston having a piston rod is movably supported within the cylinder and defines an outer end which is pivotally secured to a third foot. The pressure end of the air cylinder is coupled by an air tube to a collapsible bellows. Squeezing of the air bellows produces compressed air within the cylinder causing extension thereof which drives the toy upwardly and forwardly from the support surface by the extension of the third foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Mattel Inc.
    Inventor: Sid Bass
  • Patent number: 5921840
    Abstract: A squeezable ball-like toy having an outer spheroidal casing molded of resilient synthetic plastic material whose exposed surface is contoured to render the casing suggestive of an organic object, such as a humanoid head or human organ. Distributed about the casing are ports creating orifices of varying size and shape. Enclosed within the casing is a core of elastomer material having a distinctive color, the core normally blocking the ports. When the ball-like toy is squeezed and deformed by a player, streams of elastomer integral with the core are then extruded from the orifices to simulate discharges from the organic object. When the toy is released to resume its normal shape, the streams are retracted into the core whereby the toy is then throwable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Inventors: Joseph G. Diresta, James Diresta
  • Patent number: 5619980
    Abstract: A play material shooting toy utilizes a housing supporting a face element having a mouth aperture formed therein. The face element is removable from the housing and may receive a plug of amorphous play material. The housing further defines a collapsible bellows portion which facilitates the creation of pressurized air within the housing as the bellows are collapsed by the user's hand. The play material plug within the face unit may be launched or shot from the housing by replacing the loaded face unit into the housing and thereafter rapidly collapsing the bellows to pressurize the air within the housing and launch the plug of play material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean S. Lee, Mark Barthold
  • Patent number: 5205773
    Abstract: A squeeze toy has an outer body formed of generally resiliently deformable material which defines a main cavity. A portion of the body extends inwardly into the main cavity to form a receptacle. The receptacle includes a mouth which is dimensioned to enable a projectile to be inserted into and be supported by the receptacle. The receptacle has a configuration which normally causes an interference fit with the projectile to retain the projectile in the receptacle and prevent the receptacle from being removed through the mouth. The body of the squeeze toy can be deformed to cause a portion of the receptacle to be forced outward through the mouth and eject the projectile from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Those Characters From Cleveland
    Inventors: Ingrid M. Koepcke, Michael A. Robertson, Richard E. Knight, Edward G. Chanter, Thomas G. Barnum
  • Patent number: 5042807
    Abstract: A boxer doll has at least one articulate arm rotatably pivoted on a shaft provided in a shoulder portion of the body, and a pneumatic actuator operatively connected to the at least one articulate arm. An air supply tube has an inner end portion connected to the pneumatic actuator and an outer end portion, and a glove corresponding to the at least one articulate arm and being movable by a player is connected to the outer end portion of said air supply tube. An inertial pump disposed in said glove is connected through said air supply tube to said pneumatic actuator, for driving the pneumatic actuator in accordance with movements of the glove initiated by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: Tomy Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sasakawa, Yoshiaki Funakoshi
  • Patent number: 4778429
    Abstract: A toy for dabbling, having a toy body; a cylinder extending from one side portion of the toy body to the opposite portion thereof and supported fixedly therein; a fish bowl in which a smaller imitation fish is to swim, an imitation windmill, a larger imitation fish connected to a thread, a pump, and an ejection nozzle joined to the pump, all of which are fitted in different portions of the wall of the toy body; a reel which is urged so that the thread is constantly taken up therearound, and which is secured to the portion of the wall of the toy body in which the larger imitation fish is fitted; a lens or a transparent plate fitted in one end of the cylinder; and a cover having a plurality of air vents and fixed to the other end of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1988
    Assignee: Staff Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Todokoro
  • Patent number: 4759737
    Abstract: The invention provides a doll the arms of which are movable caressingly over the body of a child when the doll is held to the chest of the child with its arms about the sides of the child and when manual pressure is applied over the back of the doll. A compressible resilient sealed air filled container is disposed in the doll's body and has resilient flexible tubes sealed at their free ends and extending into the doll's arms. Upon the container being compressed under manual pressure applied over the back of the doll, air is pressured into the tubes causing the arms to caressingly move over the sides of the child. The arms and container relax upon release of the pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Inventor: Magda Ferenczi
  • Patent number: 4609195
    Abstract: A mechanical boxing toy comprising a baseplate, two opposing mechanical boxing dolls containing flexible and extendable arms, the dolls being slidably and rotatably mounted on the baseplate, a moving plate of the dolls, an air pipe for supplying the air to the arms of the dolls to extend the arms, a lever and a wire for raising and lowering the arms of the boxing dolls, and electric microswitches selectively located on the dolls for recording when contact is made between the respective dolls and counting the score between the respective dolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1986
    Inventor: Yong S. Ham
  • Patent number: 4576585
    Abstract: A toy figure with a head having a substantially rigid outer surface of a first appearance is covered by a relatively flexible outer mask having a second appearance which is self-supporting in normal atmospheric pressure. The mask is secured in substantially airtight relationship covering, but spaced from, the outer surface of the head. Reduction of the pressure in the space between the outer surface of the head and the mask by a pump collapses the mask and conforms its appearance to the first appearance of the outer surface of the underlying head. Both the interior of the mask and the outer surface of the head are provided with approximately the same surface area. Upper and lower portions of the torso of the figure are slidingly separable to operate a piston pump to reduce the pressure in the space between the head and the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Marvin Glass & Associates
    Inventors: John M. Balogh, Rouben T. Terzian
  • Patent number: 4521204
    Abstract: A remotely-controlled toy vehicle having a steering mechanism and driven by a dc motor selectively connected to a battery by a multi-position switch in a polarity which causes forward or reverse movement. Remote control is effected by a handset having first and second master diaphragm chambers linked through a flexible pneumatic line to first and second slave diaphragm chambers in the vehicle, one slave being operatively coupled to the steering mechanism and the other to the motor control switch. The handset is provided with a torsion bar having a handle, the bar being both swingable from side to side and also being rotatable. The bar is so coupled to the diaphragms of the master chambers whereby when the player swings the bar toward the left or right, this movement is pneumatically transmitted to the steering mechanism of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to turn toward the left or right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1985
    Inventors: Christopher C. Wiggs, Christopher J. C. Taylor
  • Patent number: 4489939
    Abstract: A game in which play elements are immersed in liquid within a transparent cell contained in a cartridge insertable in an optical viewer or projector. The play elements have a specific gravity which is either slightly higher or lower than that of the liquid whereby the elements normally sink to the bottom of the cell or rise to the top thereof. The cartridge is provided with an external actuator which when manipulated by a player causes the play elements to move towards targets or other goals, this activity being viewable by the player on a screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Inventor: Donald Spector
  • Patent number: 4480400
    Abstract: A bouncing toy having a base supported by four springs-attached balls to give the base a bounce while maintaining stability. Central to the base is another spring attached ball having a cylindrical upright member mounted thereon. Within the cylindrical member are a series of radially extending pegs arrayed spirally to form a helix. Mounted to the base and surrounding the cylindral member is a hollow shaft including a rotatable wheel mounted thereon, the wheel having a helix-structured shaft connected thereto which is disposed to engage the radially extending pegs. Movements of the central ball causes the pegs and shaft to engage resulting in rotation of the shaft and attached wheel. The up and down movement of the toy causes the wheel to rotate in opposite directions until the toy comes to a complete stop. Audio devices are arrayed in proximity to each of the supporting balls so that the movements of the balls creates an environment which actuates the audio devices rendering various tones as the toy bounces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Inventor: Jose E. diDonato