Abstract: A tethered flying disc toy having a conventional inverted saucer body and an elongated flexible tether attached to the body by an annular ball bearing providing full freedom of rotation of the disc relative to the tether. In another form, the tether line slides through a bore in an upwardly projecting shank of a plug inserted into the inner race of a ball bearing having an axis of rotation coincident with the axis of rotation of the disc body so that the disc can move freely along the tether line while spinning.

Abstract: A working toy which alternately moves its hips left and right while slowly turning counterclockwise and a Hawaiian melody is heard to give a lifelikeness that compares with a real hula dancer. The toy includes an upper portion, a lower portion, and a base portion. The upper portion resembles the head through waist of a human; the lower portion resembles the waist through hip portion of a human. The upper portion is pivotally connected to the lower portion by a hinge pin. The base portion supports the upper portion and the lower portion by a support bar, one end of which is secured to the base portion and the other end of which is placed in a cavity within the body of the upper portion. The base portion includes a housing with a rotating base secured to its bottom portion, a stationary base with feet spaced below the rotating base, a three-way switch, a battery, a motor, a melody I.C.

Abstract: A remote control lighter-than-air toy apparatus has an inflatable container having a predetermined shape, such as the shape of a dirigible, for holding a lighter-than-air gas. A gondola is removably attached to the inflatable container and has a shaft extending therethrough and rotably supported thereon. A reversible electric motor is attached to each end portion of the shaft passing through the gondola with each electric motor having a propeller attached thereto for rotation upon actuation of the electric motor. Each of the electric motors and propellers are fixedly attached to the shaft. A tether line is formed of a plurality of conductors, each connected at one end to one of the electric motors and connected at the other end to a control box having a plurality of controls thereon for remotely controlling each motor separately, so that a lighter than air toy can be remotely controlled with two propellers.

Abstract: A hand-operated game call having a sound chamber, a handle including a horn at one end of the chamber, a bellows at the other end of the chamber and openings in both chamber ends; the chamber including a diaphragm normally closing each chamber, each diaphragm having a normally taut edge engaging an opening chord edge, the chord edge including a lip on the outside of the wall for preventing the diaphragm from overlapping the wall during vibration.

Abstract: An animal motion toy wherein a toy body modeled in the form of an animal has movable arm frames on both sides, movable leg frames on both sides, an openable mouth portion, and a built-in sounding member. The arm frames are rotated by a first crankshaft incorporated in the toy body and the mouth portion is opened and closed and the sounding member makes a sound by a second crankshaft incorporated in the toy body. The leg frames are moved by a third crankshaft incorporated in the toy body. A gear changeover mechanism is connected to a motor which is turned on when a microphone provided in the toy body receives a sound generated by an external signal. The gear changeover mechanism is operative to drive either said first and second crankshafts or said third crankshaft.

Abstract: The doll is considered a "Twin" for a child. It is a method for making a twin doll for a newborn child in which the newborn child has vital statistics including the name, date of birth, weight, length, handprints and footprints. The doll is constructed to have the exact length of the newborn child and to have the exact weight of the newborn child. The imprints of the newborn child are placed on the palm of the hands and the sole of the feet of the doll. The weight, length and imprints remain fixed and the doll is indeed a "replica" of the newborn child. Vital statistics including date of birth and name are also inscribed on the doll.

Abstract: A preferred embodiment of a bubble making system for making large bubbles comprises a pallet for holding bubble-making fluid and a bubble maker with a plurality of user controlled bow members. The bow members are pivotally attached to each other at upper ends and lower ends and having protruding hand grips at the lower ends on their concave sides. Each bow member may include a supply system to wick and hold a supply of bubble-making fluid.In operation, a user draws the bow members through bubble-making fluid held by the pallet to fill the supply system. Then, while waving the bows through the air or projecting the bows into the wind, the user pivots the bow members with the hand grips to produce a variable sized opening between the bows to form a bubble between the bows. The bubble can then be set free by twisting the hand grips in the opposite direction, causing the bows to close and contact each other.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for maintaining the interlocked relationship of at least two relatively thin flat structural members positioned at right angles to each other. Bosses are provided on a notch on each element together with a spring means to receive and hold the other element in an interlocked state. The spring means comprises the material of a member intermediate a boss and a void formed in the material adjacent the boss.

Abstract: An eye-hand coordination game includes a hand-held hoop assembly and an untethered ball. A plurality of connecting posts and clicking assemblies join two rings of the hoop assembly. The game is utilized by keeping the unconstrained ball in motion along the inner edges of the rings via centrifugal force, whereupon a rhythmic, clicking sound is produced in time with the movement of the ball.

Abstract: A reusable pinata has a body with a frangible bottom closure surface which is replaceable, and a top closure surface which is outlined to define punch-out or cut-out areas for permitting access to the interior of the pinata body when desired. The pinata may have a hood overlying the top closure surface and the body, the hood being preferably bell-shaped and formed from at least one expansible paper unit.

Abstract: A convertible toy figure provided with a head having a face with interchangeable expressive mouths is disclosed. The face includes a first panel with an expressive mouth and nose thereon. The first panel is hingedly attached to the head along a border portion of the first panel above the nose. A second panel is also provided with a front including an expressive mouth and nose. The second panel is hingedly attached along a border portion thereof below the mouth to a portion of the border below the mounth of the first panel. The head also includes a pocket located beneath the first panel. The first panel is suitably held in place when the second panel is located in the pocket and the first panel is also suitably held in place when the second is removed from the pocket and is located over the top of the first panel. Preferably, the second panel is held on the first panel by a resilient band located around the border thereof and the first panel is held in place by suitable separable holder members.

Abstract: A soap-solution gathering and bubble blowing device includes a rigid base member having a central opening or air passageway therethrough, and a hollow brush which is supported from the base member and provides an extension of the air passageway.In use, the base member is moved over an open-topped vessel filled with a soap solution, and the bristle members are dipped into the solution in order to fill the spaces between them by capillary action. The bristle members may be bent of flexed against the bottom or side wall of the vessel while the spaces are being filled.

Abstract: A toy automobile diagnostic center in which a toy automobile is directed onto a platform where various measurements and tests are performed that simulate measurements and tests that are performed on real automobiles. The tests are performed upon the toy which is located at a single test location and include length and height measurements, weight, wheel rotation and others.

Abstract: A self-righting flywheel motor operated toy vehicle includes attitude restoration components at the rear thereof, the vehicle having the center of gravity thereof along the longitudinal centerline thereof. A first component includes an attitude restoration plate configured in the form of a spoiler member attached at the rear of the vehicle above the rear wheels and having a width greater than the distance between the outer sides of the wheels for enabling the maintaining of a slight elevational angle of the vehicle when on either side, with a corner of the driving wheel on that side in contact with the surface. The force of the driving wheel tends to self-right the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a toy cap gun which is battery operated. The present invention cap gun has a housing which has a general configuration of a gun with a barrel and a handle. A cap roll compartment and a battery operated cap advancing-repeat firing system is also located within the housing. In addition, there is a battery chamber located within the housing and electric circuitry is included which connects the battery chamber to a drive motor and to a switch which is connected to a trigger on the gun. The battery cap advancing repeat firing system has a drive motor, a gear system, a drive shaft, a cam, a spring-loaded hammer arm, a main spring, a strike plate, and a rotatable advance means. Uniquely, the cam is a step-function drop off cam which operates to open the hammer arm and then releases it so that it repeatedly strikes the strike plate so as to create automatic firing. The cam is uniquely trifunctional so as to operate a cap roll lock, a cap advance, and the hammer of the hammer arm.

Abstract: A gas-inflatable bladder toy is disclosed, in which a plurality of films are stacked with their peripheral edges being sealed for forming a bladder to be inflated by filling a required pressure gas therein, said bladder being adapted to be fed with an external gas and provided with an air valve in a flat double cylindrical form for checking an internal gas, or alternatively in which the same construction of the bladder contains a plurality of receiving bags separately receiving certain foaming agents which are chemically reacted upon mixing to produce a gas, these filling bags being broken by an external force. In accordance with the gas-inflatable bladder toy of the invention, the shape of the receiving body containing the preexpanded bladder 1 may be quite different from the shape of the expanded bladder 1 after opening the receiving body 7 and expanding to the given shape, thereby to provide an exciting bladder toy with a surprising effect.

Abstract: A carrying case which may be used as a toy building or toy playground. The carrying case has two foldable sides rotatably and removably hinged to its base by breakaway hinges featuring ball and socket portions. The other two sides of the carrying case remain in a vertical position attached to the base. A roof portion is connected to one of the foldable sides by breakaway hinges. The foldable sides and roof portion may be rotated to unfold the carrying case so that it may be used as toy playground. The roof portion has a built-in slide and swing. It may be removed from the carrying case and used as a separate toy. The carrying case may be folded to simulate a toy building or schoolhouse with a roof portion latched to the top of the case.

Abstract: A magnetically operated rotative amusement device or unit of a substantially self-starting nature has a see-through or transparent container or bowl-like support base provided with a lower, centrally disposed, pivot-receiving socket. A spinner has a pivot pin adapted to rest in the socket and to extend upwardly towards an open mouth portion of the support base. The support base has either an inner collar or a relatively narrow bowl to support the spinner in an upright, slightly tilted position in a ready-to-operate relation therein. A dome-shaped lid is used to close-off an open mouth portion of the support base and has a centrally, downwardly extending, permanent magnet supported in a vertically adjustable relation in which it is slightly spaced from and aligned with a second and opposing magnet carried by an upper end of the spinner.

Abstract: A vertically operable reed type game call for hunters which audibly generates a plurality of game attracting sounds. The game call comprises a rigid, generally tubular barrel shaped body having a lower cylindrical base integral with a mouthpiece segment which terminates in an upper angled surface penetrated by an air admission orifice in fluid flow communication with the hollow interior of the call. A pair of channels integrally disposed on opposite sides of the upper surface of the mouth piece are adapted to confine and slidably receive a reed which is adapted to be vibrated by inrushing air to produce sound. Preferably an annular, encircling groove is disposed between the lower base portion and the mouth piece for securing a tensioned, encircling necklace adapted to be worn by the user to readily facilitate convenient out-of-the way transportation of the call.

Abstract: A toppling toy unit and construction set enables a plurality of toy units to be assembled into a variety of structures of different configurations. Each toppling toy unit includes end-connectable track-like base sections of different shapes and configurations each with a plurality of dominoes that are pivoted to move from an up position to a down position with each held by a stop that projects up from the base section. When connected end to end when a rear-most domino is toppled the rows of dominoes topple. The base sections are straight, angled, Y-shaped, curved and stair-steps. The base section and stop are a molded plastic unitary construction. A keeper is adapted to be positioned forwardly of the front domino to stop the toppling progression at the forward domino. A pair of posts extended up from the base section are provided for each domino. Each post has an aligned opening for receiving the aligned pivot pins projecting from opposite sides of each domino.