Patents Assigned to The Quakers Oats Company
  • Transmitter with power reduction to compensate for varying radiated electric field strength when switching between batteries and AC power
    Patent number: 4989260
    Abstract: A radio frequency transmitter of the type that is adapted to be powered from an internal battery power source, or from an external power supply that is connected to the transmitter by an electrical conductor, which conductor acts as a part of the antenna system for such transmitter and increases the strength of the signal radiated by the transmitter when the transmitter is powered from the external power supply, and which includes a circuit for reducing the power output of the transmitter, when the transmitter is connected to the external power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: James P. Meade
  • Marble shooting toy
    Patent number: 4978124
    Abstract: Apparatus for propelling an object along a surface only when the apparatus is positioned closely adjacent the surface and for inhibiting the object from being propelled when the apparatus is lifted from the surface, includes a magazine for holding a plurality of objects, means for releasing an object from the magazine into a launching position supported on the surface, and hammer means for propelling the object along the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: Robert L. Brown, Robert D. Shilen, Robert F. Rosnak
  • Step shaped dominoes
    Patent number: 4968040
    Abstract: A domino type game is provided having game interlocking pieces formed with matching shapes rather than number dot patterns. In accordance with a preferred aspect of this invention, a playing piece is provided that has a stepped configuration with two generally flat engaging portions lying in two spaced apart planes and joined by a web. An upstanding post having a regular shape is mounted on one surface of one engaging portion, and a socket extends through the other engaging portion to the opposite surface. In at least some of the pieces, the shape of the post and the shape of the socket are different, so that a chain of shaped dominoes may be formed as a game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Craig J. McElhaney
  • Baby playpen-bassinet combination
    Patent number: 4967432
    Abstract: A baby playpen-bassinet combination is disclosed in which the playpen has a bottom and four sides extending upwardly from the bottom, with one edge portion of the side secured to the bottom, and the opposite edge portions free. A bassinet is releasably mountable on the opposite free edge portions of the playpen for locating the bassinet in a more accessible position, requiring less bending and lifting in handling a baby for naps, diaper changing and dressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: Stanley M. Kujawski, James E. Slowe
  • Tent movable between a collapsed position and a latched erect position
    Patent number: 4966178
    Abstract: A tent is disclosed having movable tent poles for supporting a flexible tent body. An apex junction member is provided for pivotally supporting one of the ends of each of the tent poles, the opposite ends of which are held in a fixed position. A tensioning member is provided movable between a normal position in which the tent is collapsed with the tent poles parallel and adjacent to each other, and a tensioned position for tensioning the tent poles in a splayed apart configuration for placing the tent body in an erect position. A latch member is provided for releasably latching the tensioning member in its tensioned position and the tent in its erect position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Anthony E. Eichhorn
  • Process for the manufacture of shelf-stable oat hot cereal
    Patent number: 4957762
    Abstract: High-temperature, low-moisture partial gelatinization of oat groats, having a moisture level between 10-20%, sufficient to drop the moisture level to between 3-6%, inclusive, can be used to prepare a flaked oat cereal which is shelf stable, provided the moisture levels of the post gelatinized oats are returned to critical levels of 8-12% inclusive, within 100 minutes after the heat treatment, and provided the flaking step takes place within 48 hours after the end of the remoisturization step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: Suja P. Finnerty, Marvin K. Lenz
  • Toy sound-emitting and bubble-blowing saxophone
    Patent number: 4955840
    Abstract: A toy saxophone is disclosed having a mouthpiece, a sound-emitting mechanism, a bubble-blowing mechanism, and air tubes connecting the mouthpiece to the sound-emitting and bubble-blowing mechanisms. The toy saxophone further has an actuating mechanism comprising a manually depressible button coupled to the sound-emitting and bubble-blowing mechanisms whereby simultaneously blowing into the mouthpiece and depressing the button causes sound to be emitted from the sound-emitting mechanism and bubbles to be blown from the bubble-blowing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: David E. Moomaw
  • Stacking toy
    Patent number: D310394
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventors: David C. Roy, Marjorie E. C. Roy
  • Combined toy house and garage
    Patent number: D310395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: William J. Maloney, II
  • Toy school house
    Patent number: D310396
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Craig J. McElhaney
  • Monitor receiver
    Patent number: D310664
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Patrick J. Murphy
  • Toy camera
    Patent number: D310855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Janet E. Snell-Kelly
  • Educational toy viewing machine
    Patent number: D311036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Michael B. Kelly
  • Toy house
    Patent number: D311566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: David J. Ciganko
  • Toy check-out counter
    Patent number: D312106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Miriam Kolker
  • Teeter totter
    Patent number: D312293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Stephen D. Wehmeyer
  • Sand box
    Patent number: D313058
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Stephen D. Wehmeyer
  • Toy wheelbarrow
    Patent number: D313254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Wade A. F. Maple
  • Toy safe
    Patent number: D314406
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Karl D. Lerch
  • Toy vehicle
    Patent number: D314594
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1991
    Assignee: The Quaker Oats Company
    Inventor: Martin M. Trossman