Abstract: A fluid control for powering and supplying coolant liquid to gas operated surgical and dental tools and for supplying irrigant to a suction-irrigation handpiece, selectively by remove control from a surgical or dental operating site. A console remote from the operating site has a pressurized gas source. The tool and an operator valve actuable for turning on the tool are located at the operating site, remote from the console. A tool gas supply at the console is actuable for supplying pressurized gas from the source to the remote operator valve and tool. A coolant supply at the console is actuable for delivering coolant liquid to an outlet tip located at the tool. Gas circuitry in the console responds to the drop in gas pressure in the tool gas supply resulting from turning on of the tool and thereby causes the coolant supply to supply liquid to the tip while the tool is running.

Abstract: An electrical circuit module easily assembled by hand and especially adapted for use in a circuit package for a model includes an insulator substrate with an upper surface and a plurality of apertures extending through the substrate from the upper surface. A plurality of circuit components on the upper surface of the insulator substrate have leads extending into the apertures. A conductive eyelet extends into each aperture and is dimensioned to form a friction fit with the leads of the components and any additional connecting wires in each aperture. The circuit module may then be mounted in a base including a control panel for an electrical circuit including the module on the base. Light, sound and similar effects are generated by the circuit for a model mounted on the base.

Abstract: An articulated toy figure or doll having a torso with limb members attached to it which are readily movable. A skeletal structure is provided for one or more of the limb members, which enables the limb member to be connected to the torso or another limb member, for movement relative thereto. The leg members of the toy figure are connected to the torso by a hip joint in such a manner that such leg members are swingably movable relative to each other, as well as relative to the torso.

Abstract: An audio-visual amusement device is provided wherein one or more movable animated figures are associated with a housing structure containing an audio-amplifier, and from which extends an elongated cable terminating in a microphone and dual control head, one control establishing electrical circuit between the microphone and amplifier, and the other control activating an electrical drive mechanism which imparts motion to the animated figures. The housing structure includes a main housing with a horizontal partition to which a drive mechanism sub-assemblage and electrical circuit components can be mounted and tested before a top closure sub-assemblage carrying the animated figures, and finally a bottom closure providing battery storage, are respectively attached to complete the overall assemblage. In a disclosed adaptation the motion of a first figure simulates hand clapping, while the motion of a second figure, if present, simulates excited jumping.

Abstract: A toy vehicle which includes a mechanism for firing projectiles such as rockets. After the vehicle has been operative for a prescribed period of time the rocket is fired. Simultaneously, or after a coordinated delay, the vehicle is caused to undergo a change in operation, such as a change in speed such that the impression is given that the speed change is caused by the firing of the rocket.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for preventing tooth decay by use of laser beams and to a method of preventing tooth decay by use of such a device. According to the invention, high-speed repetition pulses projected from Q-switched continuous excitation Nd:YAG laser is irradiated upon teeth through a glass beam guide, whereby treatment of the teeth is reduced in time, is safe, effective and is readily useable for use by general practice.

Abstract: A toy driving simulator has a body in the form of a vehicle, e.g., automobile, boat, snowmobile, tank or spaceship, within which is a selectively driven belt upon which a path or paths to be followed and obstacles to be avoided are depicted. A miniature vehicle to be steered is connected to be moved laterally with respect to the belt by a manipulatable steering device. The path-displaying surface of the belt and the miniature vehicle are viewable in a mirror that is generally, but not necessarily, in the form of the inside surface of a simulated windshield.

Abstract: There is provided a toy building set facilitating the construction of integral plane horizontal and stepped surfaces in vertical building structures. The set is formed from a number of elements each having a rectangular cross section along at least a portion of their length wherein the elements each have a width of x, a height of substantially 2x and at least two notches cut into the height of the element along its length. The two notches being positioned adjacent the respective ends of the element and each having a length substantially equal to x and a height of m(x/2) wherein with regard to each individual element, m is the same and equal to 1 or 3 and wherein the length of the elements as measured between the center-lines of the two notches is substantially equal to p times x wherein x is a whole number or fraction thereof and p is a whole number.

Abstract: A remote controlled self-propelled toy vehicle is disclosed which is capable of moving on a solid support surface and also on water. Two motors and a power source are mounted to the hull of the toy vehicle. Each motor drives, through a suitable transmission assembly, a drive wheel and a screw propeller. The drive wheels are disposed to come into contact with the solid support surface for operation as a land going vehicle, and the screw propellers are disposed for submersion in water when the toy vehicle is operated as a boat.Steering of the vehicle is accomplished on the solid surface and also on water by varying the power output of the motors so that uneven power output of the two motors causes the vehicle to turn. A suitable, preferably radio signal emitting remote control system and associated circuitry is provided to allow a player to steer the vehicle from a remote location.

Abstract: A frame of the motorcycle rotatably bears at its rear end, the rear wheel and has, at the front end, a pivot shaft extending along the central axis of the frame. Rotatably connected to the pivot shaft is a connecting block that supports a handle shaft axis of the front wheel.The connecting block is rotated about the pivot shaft by a servomotor which is driven by the signals from the transmitter and whose rotating force is conveyed to the block via the transmission mechanism whereby the frame is forcibly banked to turn the motorcycle.

Abstract: A novelty toy in the shape of a skull includes a cranial shaped housing and a pivotal jaw portion. The jaw is biased to a closed position by a biasing element and includes a grip portion to be gripped by the user of the device to move the jaw to an open position. A depending handle is also defined on the skull to allow the skull to be supported by the user. A pair of lights are mounted in the eye apertures and reflectors are rotatably mounted within the apertures surrounding the lightbulbs. A gear train connects the reflectors to a manually operated gear to allow rotation of the reflectors within the housing. Each reflector includes a colored lens that may be rotated in front of the light to provide a different appearance to the toy. The lights are connected through a switch mounted within the housing to a portable power source. The switch includes a plurality of positions for producing alternate lighting or flashing effects.

Abstract: A toy figure configured in the shape of a person or animal and capable of effectively simulating a roller skating motion, is disclosed. The toy figure incorporates a chassis having a source of rotary motion such as a spring powered motor. A pair of substantially upright support members are mounted to the chassis and effectively simulate leg and foot portions of a person or of an animal. The support members are capable of a pendulum like oscillating motion relative to the chassis. A mechanism is operatively connected with the motor to move the support members in said oscillating motion.Each support member incorporates at least one roller or wheel which is continuously driven by the motor through a suitable gear train and pulley and belt assembly or the like. The continuous rotation of the rollers or wheels and the simultaneous pendulum like oscillating motion of the support members propels the toy figure along a support surface in effective simulation of a roller skating or like motion.

Abstract: An animated doll includes a hollow head and a hollow body with the head having a face on the front defining a mouth opening. The mouth opening is elongated in one direction and includes a pair of lips defined along opposite longitudinal edges. A movable tongue extends downwardly of the mouth opening between the lips and includes an outer end portion which is formed to cover over an area of one of the lips. An operator is provided for moving the tongue along the edges of the mouth between the lips and rotating the tongue about an axis extending outwardly of the mouth whereby the outer end portion of the tongue appears to smack the lips.

Abstract: A novel toy simulating a crusher for compressing junk cars includes in combination, one or more small toy cars having a hollow body shell formed of readily deformable, thin, sheet material and a crushing mechanism including a guideway with a slide movable in the guideway to press a first wall against a toy car placed therein. A second wall is movable into and out of a stop position between sides of the guideway and faces the first wall. A manually operable mechanism is provided for moving the slide toward the second stop wall and shell of the toy car disposed in the guideway is compressed or crushed and thereafter the mechanism is operated to remove the crushed car from the guideway. A sound generator is activated by movement of the slide when crushing a car sheel to provide a realistic sound effect of a car being crushed.

Abstract: An animated doll includes a hollow body with a head having a face with a mouth opening and movable limbs mounted on the body. An internal pneumatic motor in the form of a bellows is mounted in the hollow body in fluid communication with the mouth opening and the motor is drivingly interconnected with the limbs of the doll including arms and legs pivotally mounted on the body. A fluid pump in the form of a nursing bottle is insertable into the doll's mouth and when systematically compressed and released, the inserted bottle actuates the pneumatic motor to pivot the arms and legs of the doll to a position wherein the limbs appear to hold the nursing bottle in a nursing position.

Abstract: A simple fluid actuated vehicle is described in the shape of a hollow hand which, by remote bulb pressure, precesses along a given route by means of advancing digits.

Abstract: A hair waving appliance of the type having a hood assembly includes a plurality of independently controllable heating means such as infrared heaters or lamps valves each disposed to heat a different hairline area of the head of a patron. A temperature control and a timer are provided for individual ones of the heating elements for controlling a temperature and a period of heating independently of one another. In addition, an ultrasonic atomizer is provided within the head supporting assembly to generate moisture-laden air mist, imparting longer-lasting curl retention. A heating temperature or a period of heating can be determined under the control of at least either the temperature control or the timer depending upon the hair nature of the hairline areas and personal taste of the patron.

Abstract: A model vehicle of the steerable road racing type for confined movement along a trough type roadway or track of plural land width including a dirigible wheeled chassis carrying a drive motor, a clutch mechanism operative to drive the wheeled running gear continuously in forward direction upon actuation of the motor in opposite directions, and an operating mechanism steering the running gear in opposite directions responsive to the motor running in opposite directions for controlling vehicle movement between lanes and along a selected trough side wall.

Abstract: There is disclosed a hollow form building block useful for toys as a constructional block for play houses, forts, and the like, which is formed of inexpensive sheet material such as corrugated cardboard. The block element is a hollow-form, polyhedron that is provided with end walls, one of which has a polygonal aperture and the other of which has a coacting polygonal raised rim that is formed by folded tabs cut from the end wall and coacting tabs folded from an underlying end wall. The raised rim coacts with the apertures of other block elements to provide element-to-element interconnecting means and the raised rim also functions to secure the hollow-form block structure of the assembled, folded block element.

Abstract: A reversible aerodynamic disc-shaped object is provided, shaped as a disc, an outer rim section attached to the periphery of the disc, and a central section disposed within the center of the disc, wherein the central section contains a substantial amount of the weight of the disc-shaped object for increasing the rotational spin of the object.The aerodynamic disc-shaped object may be reversible wherein the disc is of a thin, flexible membrane and the rim section extends from both sides of the periphery of the disc, the rim section being of sufficient weight to create an arcuate cross-sectional configuration in the disc-shaped object when the same is airborne, independent of the side of the disc-shaped object that is facing up.