Abstract: A toy playing game representative of an athletic game, as for example, baseball, and including a pair of player devices. A first of these player devices represents a baseball pitcher comprised of a structure capable of ejecting and propelling a ball toward the second of the player devices. The second of the player devices represents a baseball batter and is freely shifted with regard to the pitcher in order to locate an outwardly extending element, representative of a baseball bat, so it can be swung so as to hit the propelled ball. The batter device is comprised of an upstanding base section with a torso section pivotally mounted on the base section. The torso section carries the bat. The head section of the batter device is shiftably mounted for movement with respect to the torso section, so that upon depressing the head section, the torso section will pivot and thereby cause the pivotal or swinging movement of the bat.

Abstract: A movable doll's head having two randomly selected movements, one a nodding movement signifying a "yes" answer, and the other a turning or "shaking" movement signifying a "no" answer. The doll's head is mounted on a support plate which is pivotally mounted for movement about a pair of axes. An actuating element, such as a playing card, may be introduced into the device so as to engage a portion of the support plate at a point offset from both axes of movement, thereby tending to cause movement about both the axes. However, a latch is operatively engageable with the support plate, to thereby cause movement to occur about only one of the axes. A camming wheel is randomly rotated by the movement of the card into and out of the device, with the resultant position of the camming wheel determining the latched or unlatched position of the latch. This in turn produces movement of the head on a random basis.

Abstract: A preschool toy amusement arcade which includes a base frame having a plurality of amusement arcade games thereon. Each of the amusement games are designed so that they are self-contained and include no loose parts. In each of the games, a moving part is tied to some part of the arcade by a flexible connector, or otherwise a moving part is contained within a completely enclosed housing. Thus, the amusement arcade may contain all game features where the moving part is located in an enclosed housing. Otherwise, the arcade may contain one or more game features where the moving part is connected to the arcade by a flexible connector. Game features which utilize a moving part connected to the game by a flexible connector may adopt the form of a simulated gun range where a simulated gun issues a projectile toward a target member located to be contacted by the projectile.

Abstract: A play device for suspending a floatable object such as a foam plastic ball or a ping pong ball in an air stream and selectively manipulating the direction and position of the air stream so as to move the ball into areas defined by movable structures. The structures are themselves movable when contacted by the air stream to thereby move the ball-receiving areas and increase the difficulty and excitement of the play of the device. The areas may comprise passageways completely through the movable structures or may be the entrances to receptacles in which the ball may be received or may be defined areas adjacent to portions of the structures. The air stream may be provided by a hand-held blower unit which preferrably includes a cradle for the ball. The cradle includes apertures or openings therein which permits the ball to be lifted by the air stream from a starting position in the cradle and suspended in the air stream a substantial distance above the cradle.

Abstract: A competitive action game apparatus including a game board having a playing surface thereon. The playing surface has a high section intermediate each of a pair of opposed player ends and extends downwardly toward each of such player ends. A goal area is located at each of the opposed player ends. A rebound frame surrounds the playing surface except at the goal areas to retain a playing piece in the form of a ball on the surface. The playing surface is generally solid and continuous and uninterrupted between each of the goal areas. Manually shiftable support members are located in front of each of the goal areas and are capable of being shifted transversely in a direction substantially perpendicular to a line extending between the opposed playing ends. A pair of actuable striker elements, which may adopt the form of flippers, are disposed on each of the support members, and are manually actuated by means on the support members.

Abstract: An action skill game including a game board with a pair of simulated aircraft shiftably mounted on the game board at each of the opposite ends thereof and each of which are operated by opponent players. The simulated aircraft are carried by a shiftable carrier mechanism which is also provided with a projectile shooting mechanism and which carrier mechanism also enables "transverse movement" of the aircraft relative to the game board and "pivotal movement" relative to the game board and the shooting mechanism. Each of the shooting mechanisms are provided with control sticks so that the opponent players can manuever the simulated aircraft as well as shoot projectiles at the other simulated aircraft. Each of the particular simulated aircraft employ a pair of moveable target elements which will shift rearwardly with respect to the fuselage of the aircraft when hit by a projectile from the opposite simulated aircraft.

Abstract: A toy game apparatus including a game playing board with a retaining wall extending around the playing board for retaining a playing surface of complex curvature with a pair of spaced apart recessed goals located at low areas in the playing board and with the game board having inclined walls leading from the center of the board and the periphery of the board to the pair of recessed goals. In this way, the portions of the game board surrounding the goal areas converge downwardly and inwardly toward the recessed goals so that a playing piece on the game board can enter the goals through arcuate paths and at any point around the entire periphery of the goals and from any direction. A goal cup is rotatably mounted in each of the goal recesses and a striker member is operatively connected to the goal cup for rotation therewith.

Abstract: A toy spray painting system which includes a hand-held manually powered spray gun along with an easel for holding a substrate such as paper to receive a paint spray from the spray gun. The hand-held spray gun includes a frame having a pistol-grip handle with a trigger for one hand operation. Squeezing of the trigger will operate a member to issue air under pressure; the member could adopt the form of, for example, an expandable and contractable bellows which is operable by squeezing the trigger. Upon squeezing of the trigger, air under pressure is ejected through an orifice in a spray head of the spray gun to create an issued air stream. The issued air stream passes over a paint outlet defined by an opening in the upper end of an upright tube which extends down into a container of liquid paint. The paint container is also held by the frame. The spray gun operates in the manner of a liquid ejector so that a portion of the liquid paint is atomized and entrained in and carried by the stream to the substrate.

Abstract: A projectile toy which may be thrown by a first player and caught by a second receiving player. The toy is designed to follow a generally horizontal stable flight path and to glide in a generally horizontal orientation, particularly through the latter portion of its flight to facilitate being caught by the receiving player. The toy includes an elongated shaft, a set of front fins mounted at the forward end of the shaft, and a set of rear fins mounted at the rear end of the shaft. Both sets of fins are circumferentially spaced around the shaft and extend outwardly therefrom. The fins are made of a readily deformable plastic material which tends to retain its deformed shape upon removal of deforming forces. The toy is of lightweight construction, particularly with reference to its weight versus fin area ratio.

Abstract: A fast action air table handball game having a perforated, upwardly directed inclined playing surface. Disposed beneath the playing surface is enclosing structure which creates an air chamber beneath the playing surface. A pump or blower is provided for pumping air into the chamber under pressure so that air is emitted through apertures in the playing surface to thereby form an air flow cushion to aid in the movement over the surface of a disc-shaped play piece. The playing surface has a rear player's end and an opposite forward rebound end. The player's end is divided by an upstanding dividing structure into side-by-side player goal areas. The playing surface is surrounded except at the goal areas with upstanding peripheral play piece rebound surfaces piece on the playing surface, and off piece rebounds during play. The dividing structure provides added rebound surfaces.

Abstract: A competitive board game wherein two players propel a ball back and forth between them, each attempting to get the ball past his opponent. Each player has a mechanical energy-storing catch-and-propel mechanism which is coupled to the board for limited movement. When the ball is propelled toward a player, he attempts to catch it with his mechanism. The mechanism automatically returns the ball toward the player's opponent. Each catch and propel mechanism is manually cocked by a player after each discharge. The player directs the return to attempt to make it more difficult for the opponent to catch the ball. The play proceeds until someone misses. The players may be opposite one another with the board extending between them, or they may both face an upright wall against which the ball is rebounded. The ball is discharged automatically and essentially instantaneously each time it is caught by a mechanism. One illustrated form of the mechanism discharges the ball each time at a generally predetermined speed.

Abstract: A propeller-driven toy flying vehicle set which includes a hand-held launcher and a propeller-driven toy flying vehicle detachably mounted on the handle. The toy flying vehicle, which may be in the form of an airplane, has a body with wings and a propeller which is substantially oversized with respect to the body and wings of a conventional propeller-driven airplane. A gear-driven mechanism is included within the hand-held launcher which is actuated by pulling a member, such as a string, to impart rotation to the vehicle propeller while the toy vehicle is retentively held on the hand-held launcher. The gear train includes multiplier means, in the form of step-up gears, to increase the speed of rotation imparted to the propeller through the pulling of the string.

Abstract: A doll of the type having a flexible, compliant outer casing or sack of material such as cloth, and which is substantially filled with a solid particulate filler such as beans or plastic beads. The doll of the present disclosure is characterized by having a self-standing main or central upright stack portion which is divided into two separate compartments one disposed vertically above the other. The doll may also have appendages such as arms and a head. By virtue of this arrangement, the particulate material is prevented from shifting to the bottom of the central portion. Such movement of the particulate material out of the top portion of the doll tends to create a distortion of the appearance of the doll and to provide inadequate support for the head. In a particular form of the doll the lower compartment may be filled with heavier material than is the upper compartment, which lowers the center of gravity and makes the doll more stable in its upright position.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for carving a design in a transparent substrate of the type capable of having substrate material removed by a rotary routing action. A design pattern is applied to one surface of the substrate, as by means of a removable transparent label or the like, which carries lines representing the design pattern. The substrate is located on a table which is, in turn, mounted on and normally biased upwardly from a base housing. When the substrate is disposed upon the table and the table is pushed downwardly toward the base housing, a cutting member will project upwardly a selected distance through an aperture in the table for engaging the substrate in cutting action. The cutting member is rotated by a motor in the base housing. Switch means is provided to automatically energize the motor when the table is lowered but before the cutting member engages the substrate so that the user can use both hands to guide the substrate over the table top.

Abstract: Apparatus for molding, in a single integrated operation, a tubular part having an internal recess which may take the form of a groove extending completely around the inside of the part for receipt therein of an O-ring or the like. The apparatus comprises a core assembly having a longitudinal axis, and base means movable along the axis and defining an annular outer mold surface for forming of the interior wall of the tubular part. The core assembly further includes a plurality of groove-forming segments carried on the base means adjacent to the annular surface and movable between first contracted positions and second expanded positions. When the segments are in the contracted positions they do not extend radially outwardly of the annular surface, and the surface and segments may be withdrawn from the molded tubular part by movement along the longitudinal axis.