Patents Examined by Bera B. Miller
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Patent number: 6743070Abstract: A whipping top based bubble toy includes at least a whipping top, a fluid tube, a bracket board and a pull rod in which the whipping top, a conic block, has a central post to be mounted with sleeve and a ground tip. The bracket board has a vertical opening to receive the protruded sleeve from the whipping top and a transverse go-through aperture to house the rack which meshes the pinion gear installed in the bracket board. The whipping top forms a hollow vessel to be filled with bubble fluid. Aside from the whipping function, the whipping top also produces the bubbles.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2003Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Inventor: Mon-Sheng Lin
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Patent number: 6619892Abstract: A positional adjusting mechanism for a cutting insert in a tool for chip removing machining, preferably a milling cutter. The positional adjusting mechanism includes a hole formed in the tool body adjacent to the cutting seat which receives the cutting insert. A slotted bushing is mounted in that hole. An adjusting screw is received in the bushing to expand an upper end of the bushing. In the mounted state of the bushing in its hole, contact occurs between an upper part of the bushing and a support surface of the tool body which urges the bushing laterally in its hole to eliminate lateral play and thus stabilizes the bushing.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Sandvik ABInventor: Lars-Erik Enquist
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Patent number: 6616506Abstract: The present invention provides a wheel assembly for a model toy train wherein the wheel assembly includes a wheel and a traction tire. The wheel including an undercut recess and at least one sprue. The traction tire is molding into the undercut recess through the sprue.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Lionel L.L.C.Inventors: James G. Morrison, Robert A. Grubba
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Patent number: 6497605Abstract: The operater controlled bilingual or multilingual toy is a toy, such as a doll, with a programmable controllable voice synthesizer. The circuit of the toy, when activated, synthesizes a first random phase selected from a bank of phrases. When activated a second time the circuit of the toy will reproduce that first phrase as a translated phrase in a second language. After a specified elapse of time, or a continued reactivation within a specified period of time, this process is repeated by the choice of a second, third, and so forth randomly accessed phases. Each of the phrases is followed by a translation of that phases. If neither the manual switch or a second motion switch is operator activated within a predetermined time, the toy will turn itself off.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Inventors: Charels A. Cummings, Joanne Gerson
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Patent number: 6439954Abstract: A weight transferring sled toy for simulating a weight transfer sled used in truck and tractor pulls. The weight transferring sled toy includes a main body portion that has a main body base and a pair of tracks that extend upward from the main body base. A pair of wheels are coupled to a rear portion of the main body portion. An axle extends between the wheels and is coupled to the rear portion of the main body portion. An axle gear is coupled to a medial portion of the axle. A bar extends between a forward portion of the tracks. A drive chain extends between the bar and the axle gear such that rotation of the axle gear rotates the drive chain. A weight sled is positionable on the tracks. The weight sled has a hook member for engaging the drive chain whereby the weight sled is moved along the tracks when the wheels rotate and the hook member is engaged to the drive chain.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Inventors: Lyle F. Walter, Judy Walter
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Patent number: 6422509Abstract: A tracking device includes a motor, top and bottom propellers of opposite sense attached to the stator and rotor of the motor for rotation in opposite directions. Target sensors are provided on the propellers and signals from the target sensors are supplied to a controller that controls the rotation of the motor and the propellers. The tracking device also includes a power supply for the motor and the controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Mark H. Yim
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Patent number: 6413143Abstract: A dual-gearshift position transmission mechanism for remote control toy car includes an output shaft, a first transmission gear and a second transmission gear mounted on the output shaft, a two-way axle bearing supporting the output shaft in the first transmission gear, an one-way axle bearing supporting the output shaft in the second transmission gear, a clutch fixedly fastened to the output shaft, an idle gear wheel meshed between the first transmission gear and the second transmission gear, a driven gear coupled to the first transmission gear, a drive gear meshed with the driven gear, and an engine controlled to rotate the drive gear.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2001Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Inventor: Ke-Way Lu
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Patent number: 6368112Abstract: A sky diving training device for training a student to assume the correct position for free fall. The device has a platform mounted on a swivel. The student lies face down on the platform with his shoulders on a steering bar. When the student diver allows one shoulder to drop, the device begins rotating in a predetermined direction. When the student corrects his shoulder position, the device stops rotating, however if the student over corrects the shoulders, the device begins rotating in the opposite direction. The rotation simulates what happens in a free fall if the diver allows one shoulder to drop even slightly.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Inventor: Jeffrey S. Mason
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Patent number: 6250927Abstract: A cosmetic application training system includes a substrate having a facial image thereon, the facial image divided into multiple facial regions; and one or more transparent overlays having outlines of the facial image regions including printed instructions for applying make-up to each of the facial image regions; wherein the substrate is treated to permit application and removal of the make-up directly onto the substrate. Multiple pads with different facial region images are also contemplated, with removable facial region pieces being interchangeable.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Inventor: Jean Narlo
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Patent number: 6206699Abstract: The present invention is directed to an activity book designed to make reading more enjoyable and educational for young readers. The activity book of the present invention comprises at least one illustrated page with at least one opening on the page through which a moldable material such as modeling clay is forced or extruded by the reader as through a die. The moldable material is forced through the opening(s) by the reader compressing the illustrated page against an area located on a hard flat surface such as a table or another page of the book. The moldable material passing through the opening(s) completes the illustration on the page. The shape of the opening(s) compliments the illustration and facilitates the completion of the illustration when a moldable material is extruded through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1999Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Inventor: Deborah D'Andrea
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Patent number: 6171110Abstract: A teaching aid is designed to develop intelligence of the preschoolers and is composed of a base and a plurality of sliding members. The base has a pathway portion which is provided with a plurality of intersecting paths. The sliding members are provided thereon with an alphabet, pattern, or symbol and are selectively slid in the paths of the base to locate at a predetermined position of the pathway portion of the base such that the alphabet, pattern, or symbol of the selectively-slid sliding members form a predetermined word or figure.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1999Date of Patent: January 9, 2001Inventor: Yu-Ti Chang