Abstract: A motor skill game which comprises a game board having a plurality of apertures therein. A plurality of pegs are provided and sized for insertion into the apertures with the number of pegs equal to the number of apertures. Each peg is provided with some form of sequenced indicia, as for example, numerical indicia, on its underside. The pegs are mixed up and randomly inserted in the various apertures. The indicia are presented downwardly and unobservable to the player until the peg is removed from its aperture. A timer is included on the game board and is started by a "start" switch. The player of the game removes one peg at a time from the apertures and returns it face down until he finds the peg with the first indicia in the sequence (e.g. number "one" or letter A); this peg he places in the first position in a peg retaining tray.

Abstract: A competitive athletic toy game, such as a basketball game, comprising a vertical construction having at least two articulatable player-figures located between two partially transparent walls which also restrain the movement of a playing piece in the form of a disc between the two walls. In the case of a basketball game, this disc would serve as a basketball. Each player of the toy game can control one or more of its own player-figures by means of external levers on opposite sides of the vertical construction. These levers manipulate the player-figures to shoot or to block the disc from entering the opponent's goal area.

Abstract: A flexible plastic safety cap for bottles containing pressurized liquid such as champagne or sparkling burgundy. This cap is designed for bottles having a neck open at the top and with an external downwardly facing shoulder. The cap includes an inner sealing portion which goes into the opening of the neck and an outer locking portion which includes a flexible, resilient tubular section that surrounds the neck. The tubular section includes two or more internal rib portions which engage the neck shoulder to lock the cap to the bottle neck. The tubular section may also include an integral pull tab portion for readily releasing and removing the cap from the bottle.

Abstract: A children's bowling game comprising a frame having a bowling alley included therewith, and which is slightly inclined downwardly from a ball propelling end toward an end remote therefrom. The remote end carries a plurality of upstanding elements which have the silhouette of bowling pins, and which are located in the arrangement of normal bowling pins. These elements, however, are relatively flat members. A recess is located immediately behind each of the bowling pins which are hingedly mounted with respect to the bowling alley, so that the bowling pins will be shifted from a first upstanding position to a second flat position where they are located in the recesses when contacted by the bowling ball. In this way, the upper surface of the bowling pins are flush with the surface of the bowling alley when in a second position. An actuating means is also associated with the frame in order to shift the pins to the upright or first position by means of a manually operable lever.

Abstract: An animal characterization for preschool children which may adopt a toy figure of unique design having articulated body components, as for example, the head, arms and legs. This character can be dressed or decorated to depict various occupations or professions or activities. In essence, the character figure includes first and second mating torso sections which are secured together to form a torso. Apertures in the torso accommodate articulatable arms and the torso section is also designed to accommodate articulatable legs. Feet may be provided with respect to each of the legs and movable with respect to the legs. Hands may also be provided for articulatable movement with respect to the arms. Finally, a head section is pivotally mounted on the torso and may be provided with any of a number of hats in order to depict a certain profession or activity or occupation.

Abstract: A magnetically operable play doll set which includes a doll and a housing which has a floorboard that is elevated above a supporting surface and is divided by walls into a plurality of rooms with doorways permitting passage of the doll through the doorways and into the various rooms. The floorboard is very thin and is supported by means which secure it to the bottom edges of the walls. The walls are supported by a frame underlying the floorboard. The doll is provided on its bottom surface with a magnet which cooperates with a magnet mounted on a retaining plate. The plate, in turn, is pivotally mounted on a wand. Thus, the child desiring to move the doll may insert the wand having the cooperating magnet under the floorboard. The cooperating magnet on the wand will magnetically couple with the magnet on the doll. Inasmuch as the cooperating magnet on the wand is pivotal, the doll will always be moved in a direction with the doll facing forwardly with respect to the direction of movement imparted by the wand.

Abstract: A toy game involving chance as well as strategy and skill which includes a playing structure having a pair of opposed spaced apart, generally parallel inclined ramps. The game is preferably played by two individuals, and each of which locate a playing piece, including a movable member, at the upper end of each of the ramps. Upon release of the movable members, they will roll down the inclined ramps toward each other. Each of the movable members removably carry a characterization figure, such that the movable member may adopt the design of a horse and the characterization figure may adopt the design of a man. Projecting elements, as for example, a lance, extend from each of the movable members. Moreover, camming means operate between the ramps and the projected elements to cause the projected elements to swing toward and away from the opposite ramp, so as to possibly engage the rider or other form of characterization figure on one of the movable members.

Abstract: An articulated toy figure has head, limb, and hip portions each jointed for pivotal motion. The hip portion is formed by a flat plate which is positioned adjacent to the bottom of the figure's torso, and is supported for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the torso. This hip plate has tab means extending normally from the bottom surface thereof, these tab means having knobs extending therefrom over which the upper leg portions fit in pivotal mating engagement. The upper leg portions of the figure, which are joined at one end thereof as just described to the hip plate, and are joined at the other end to the lower leg portions of the figure, have similar recessed joinder portions at each end, these joinder portions having receptacles formed therein into which knobs of the hip plate tab means and lower leg end portions matingly fit for relative pivotal motion.

Abstract: A toy vehicle target game including a propelling apparatus to propel a toy vehicle, as for example a miniature car, toward a selected target. The propelling apparatus employs a pneumatically operable ejector which propels the toy vehicle by pneumatic fluid under pressure, and includes an aiming device for directing the car from a ramp associated with the propelling apparatus toward the target.

Abstract: A tire retrieval tool for retrieving a tire disposed in an otherwise inaccessible or difficult to reach receptacle, such as a tire well of a station wagon automobile, comprises a pair of arms joined at an elbow for applying torque to the rim of the wheel on which the tire is mounted. The arms comprise a contact member for contacting the wheel within the receptacle and a handle member for controlling and exerting force upon the contact arm. A brace attached to the arms engages the tire during retrieval thereof to prevent loss of contact between the contact member and the wheel. The handle member and the contact member are joined at an acute angle and may have different lengths to provide a mechanical advantage for facilitating retrieval of the tire from the receptacle.

Abstract: A system for producing a variety of static multicolor light displays includes a plurality of different colored translucent image-producing elements. A light source is positioned to direct light through the image-producing elements and onto a display surface. The image-producing elements are three-dimensional and positionable to produce a variety of different static visual and aesthetic displays. The image producing elements are detachably held in position, against a base which may comprise all or part of the display surface. To provide the capability of vertically suspending the system, like a painting, the elements may be held in position by magnetic force or means such as pegs as mechanical interlocks or adhesives. Such means, or others, such as weights, may be employed for systems positioned horizontally. The light source may be attached to the base to provide a self-contained unit.

Abstract: A manipulative skill game apparatus in the form of a generally upright game board on which are tiltably mounted (in a series extending from the top toward the bottom of the board) a plurality of tiltable, generally horizontally extending platforms. Structure is also provided for controlling the tilting of the platforms. The game includes a plurality of balls, and the platforms are in staggered positions from side to side so that a ball rolling off one end of a platform will land on an end of a platform below it. The object of the game is to tilt the platforms so as to guide a ball from a higher platform successively to lower platforms. A feeder mechanism automatically delivers the balls one at a time in timed sequence to the uppermost platform. After a predetermined timed interval the next ball is delivered to that same uppermost platform.

Abstract: An improved air table for use in playing a game. The table has a perforated horizontal surface and means coupled to the underside of the surface to form an air chamber. This means may be in the form of a flexible sheet. An air pump forces air into the chamber and out through the perforations, thereby creating an air cushion on the upper playing side of the surface for facilitating the movement of one or more playing pieces over that upper playing side. The table may have goals and guard rails disposed in front of the goals to permit the playpiece to enter the goals while limiting the degree of blockage of the goal entrance.

Abstract: A game, primarily designed for preschool children, which includes a game board having a plurality of apertures located in the game board. Selected ones of the apertures have a first type of upstanding peg located within the aperture and the others of the apertures have a second type of upstanding peg within the aperture; the first pegs are longer, but the pegs and apertures are arranged to disguise the difference between the longer and shorter pegs. A card, or similar substrate, with questions on the top thereof can be disposed over the game board and this card or substrate will have a plurality of apertures therein capable of being aligned with certain of the apertures in the game board to provide multiple choice answers. A probe, or stylus, may be inserted in the apertures of the card and into the apertures of the game board.