Abstract: A movable amusement toy in the form of a vehicle adapted for pulling, and which is also provided with a seat for a user to push the vehicle with his legs while sitting on the same. The vehicle could also be adapted for pedalling action. A "popper" or ejecting mechanism provides an action or ejecting or "popping" balls or similar objects into a chamber formed by a transparent cover on the toy vehicle during movement. The chamber transparent cover is highly visible to a child as the child rides or pulls the toy. The ejecting mechanism includes a head which is capable of simultaneously popping several of the balls or similar objects from a trough formed beneath the housing and is actuable through mechanical connection to the wheels of the vehicle so that rotation of the wheels during movement of the toy will actuate the mechanism to pop the various balls or similar objects.

Abstract: A competitive game device which comprises a frame having a rippled playing surface. The rippled surface is formed by a plurality of transversely extending spaced apart recesses separated by arcuately shaped transversely extending ridge portions. The various recesses are assigned scoring values and certain of the recesses also have higher scoring values than other recesses. Each player may have a plurality of balls bearing his indicia. For example, the balls of each player may be a different color. A ramp leads downwardly to the first recess and the players take turns releasing balls down the ramp and onto the rippled playing surface. In a preferred form, the values of successive recesses initially increase; however, if a player's ball goes past the highest value recess, he will get a lower score, by virtue of the ball landing in a lower scoring recess or other area such as a gutter.

Abstract: A three-dimensional toy representation of a figure such as an animal, e.g. a goat, which includes an outer body and a head pivotally mounted on the body which may be manually shifted between an upright and a lower position. The head includes an opening representative of a mouth and a conveyer mechanism inside the body extends into the head and has a portion located close to the mouth opening. Articles representative of solid or relatively solid "food," such as carrots, tin cans, etc., can be introduced into the mouth. The articles may be physically grasped by the conveyer mechanism and moved into an interior compartment. A portion of the path of movement of the articles may be upward or partially upward. The conveyer mechanism can be operated by manually actuating a portion of the animal figure, such as reciprocatively shifting a tail thereon.

Abstract: A competitive toss game where each player has tossable play objects such as bean bags and there is a target apparatus with one or more receptacles each having a pivotally mounted flippable lid. Each lid is provided with an opening large enough for a bean bag to be tossed directly into the associated receptacle. The bean bags of each player bear an encoding or indicia, with the indicia being different for each player. Thus, the bean bags of one player may be one color and the bean bags of the other player may be a different color. The lids have different indicia on each side, the indicia on one side matching the indicia of one player's bean bags, the indicia on the other side matching the indicia of the other player's bean bags.

Abstract: A toy milkable figure representative of an animal of the type capable of dispensing milk. The figure has a pivotally mounted head which may be pushed downwardly from an upper position to a lower position where a mouth opening in the head is immersed in liquid. The figure has a pivotally mounted tail which may be pumped up and down to create a liquid pumping action. The figure has an udder that forms a liquid holding chamber and has one or more flexible and squeezable teats. When the head is lowered into the liquid supply and the tail pumped, liquid is drawn into the mouth opening and delivered into the udder chamber. A liquid intake limiting mechanism causes the head to automatically raise out of the liquid after a predetermined amount of pumping.

Abstract: A game which includes a downwardly inclined primary pathway or track. The track may be serpentine and a first player attempts to roll an object such as a marble down the track. One or more interception devices are positioned along the track. These devices may take the form of a movable striker which will move, when actuated, into the path of a marble moving down the track. The striker may be operated by the opposing player through a manually actuatable control mechanism. The second player attempts to intercept the ball of the first player and divert it into a secondary pathway. The scoring of the game may depend on the ball reaching the end of the primary track or being intercepted and diverted into a secondary pathway. Preferably, the apparatus includes a pair of the inclined primary tracks leading and inclined downwardly in opposite directions.

Abstract: A play apparatus for producing a simulated explosion or other sudden action. The apparatus has a plurality of pieces that are releasably assembled together to form an interior chamber. An expandable bag such as a balloon is disposed in the chamber and connected to a manually operable pump. The pieces are connected together in such a manner that they resist the outward push of the expanding balloon against them until there is sufficient expansion of the balloon to release the pieces from one another and permit the balloon to thrust the pieces outwardly in a sudden action. The apparatus may be incorporated in the play of a game where players take turns pumping more air into the balloon. The release of air from the expanded balloon may be used also, as for example, to create a suitable sound effect.

Abstract: A toy milkable animal figure such as a cow which includes a chamber for liquid, an inlet to the chamber, and an outlet from the chamber. The chamber defines a flexible udder having at least one teat with an openable aperture. The aperture comprises the outlet. The udder may be manually manipulated by a child-user as by squeezing to cause release of the liquid through the aperture. The animal figure may include a pump which may be manually operable, as for example, by pumping the tail, and the inlet to the chamber may be connected by an inlet tube to the mouth of the animal which may be immersable in a source of water. The pump may include an overflow system which permits water to be pumped through a return tube in the figure and back to the source of water when the chamber is filled.

Abstract: An electronically operable multiple-choice response evaluating apparatus comprises a housing having a plurality of first input switches which are manually actuable to introduce a code of indicia representative of a question and a plurality of second input switches which may be manually actuated in order to introduce indicia representative of a selected one of a plurality of possible answers for a question. The housing includes electronic processing means, such as a microprocessor, which compares the code of indicia representative of the question with the indicia representative of the selected answer and determines whether or not the user selected the proper answer. The apparatus may include one or more sheets having the questions listed thereon and with the identifying code of indicia for each question. Two or more answers may be provided on the sheet with each question, and each answer will have indicia representing that particular answer.

Abstract: A slow-moving object, such as a toy vehicle car, is movable forwardly along a roadway which is extended in one direction. The roadway is extended by laying successive planks on a pair of rails. The planks are present in sufficient number to extend between opposite ends of the rails. The edges of the planks are encoded by having irregular edges. The irregular edges of only one or a few of the planks will conform to the irregular edge of the then forwardmost end of the roadway. When properly matched, the planks form a generally continuous roadway for the slowly moving vehicle. The user must properly position planks in place in advance of the arrival of the vehicle to provide a roadway for the vehicle to travel upon. If the vehicle arrives at the forwardmost end of the roadway, the movement of the vehicle may be interrupted or the vehicle may fall through the roadway.

Abstract: A target toy for dropping objects such as parachutes from a carrier simulating an airborne vehicle such as an airplane, onto defined locations on an upwardly presented moving target area. A generally horizontal arm on a base extends above the target area and supports the toy airplane for generally radial back and forth scanning movement. The toy is provided with an optical sighting system which has a sight remote from the airplane and which may include a reducing lens to increase the illusion of height and permit the target locations to be seen in advance. The airplane appears to be flying high over the target area. There are manually operable mechanisms for selectively effecting the scanning movement of the toy airplane and for selectively releasing the parachutes from the airplane.

Abstract: A competitive action playing game with a shiftable ball-type playing piece. The playing game comprises a game board having a pair of oppositely spaced player ends with a frame peripherally surrounding the game board. The game board is provided with a plurality of rows of playing piece receiving recesses. The rows extend from end to end and there are a plurality of the recesses in each of the rows. A plurality of first and second actuating members are located at the respective first and second player ends with each one of the actuating members associated with a particular one of the rows. An individual first playing piece projecting element is located at each recess in each of the rows and like second projecting elements are located at each recess in each of the rows and the projecting elements in any one row are simultaneously operable by the first or second actuating member associated with that row.

Abstract: Apparatus for playing a game comprising a game board having a playing area comprising a plurality of playing positions arranged in regular array, and sets of opposed playing pieces adapted to be moved within the playing area on the playing positions. The playing area including opposed starting/finishing positions and including indicating devices which are adapted, upon actuation of operating controls connected thereto, to indicate whether a playing piece may move within the playing area. The apparatus also includes a determining device to determine the number of playing positions to be moved by a playing piece.

Abstract: A time controlled memory-skill game comprised of a tower capable of generally continuous rotating by means of a simple wind-up spring motor and displaying one or more designs to be recreated through playing pieces by one or more players. Substrates each having a design imprinted thereon can be removably retained on an exterior surface of the rotating tower such that it would rotate and intermittently present the designs to one or more players seated around the rotating tower. Each player may have a different design to recreate or one or more designs can be shared by players. Each of the players is provided with a playing board and a plurality of playing pieces with design portions thereon such that each player can recreate his design as shown on the tower by locating playing pieces in the proper locations and orientations. A switch may be connected to the tower for stopping its rotation when one of the players has recreated his design, or the tower may stop after a predetermined time interval.

Abstract: A toy game for removing objects from a trough representative of a trash dump with self-propelled toy vehicle. The game is comprised of a game board with longitudinally spaced opposed player ends with a playing surface eXtending between the opposed player ends. The playing surface includes a trough in which removable objects are disposed and a pair of inclined walls eXtending upwardly and outwardly from the trough toward each of the opposed player ends. The objects located within the trough are irregularly shaped score-representing objects and are movable by a self-propelled toy vehicle, preferably in the characterization of a bulldozer. The players take turns positioning and aiming the toy vehicle on the inclined wall at their player end and permitting the toy vehicle to run down the inclined wall into the trough in an attempt to engage an object and move the object up the inclined wall at the opposed player end.