Abstract: The present invention involves a liquid jet propelled transporter and launcher toy. The launcher has a housing with a reservoir for holding a predetermined amount of liquid therein less than the volume of a transporter container and related to that volume. There is a reservoir fill port and cap to enable a user to fill the reservoir and close it. The launcher has a jet tube receiver adapted to receive a jet tube of a transporter. A pump is connected to the housing with a manually actuated pump and a one way valve from the pump to the reservoir. There is a transporter latch mechanism located on the housing and a release for releasing the latch mechanism so as to launch a transporter. The transporter includes a container for receiving liquid from the reservoir of the housing and a jet tube extending from the container which is adapted to fit onto the jet tube located in the housing.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a toy water gun which is operated by selectively releasing water from a water reservoir pressurized with air. The present invention has a manually operated pump incorporated into the design. As the pump is cycled, water and air is drawn from a water storage tank. Once drawn, the water and air are forced into a pressure reservoir. As the amount of water and air forced into the pressure reservoir increases, the pressure on the water within the pressure reservoir increases. The pressure of the water and air within the pressure reservoir increases with each cycle of the pump, until the pump can no longer overcome the pressure of the water and air within the pressure tank. The pressurized water and air within the pressure tank has an avenue of release that is regulated by the trigger mechanism of the invention. When no force is applied to the trigger, the pressurized water and air are held at bay with no means of release.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a toy water gun which is operated by selectively releasing water from a water reservoir that is pressurized with air. The present invention is a one piece device formed in the general shape of a gun that has a manually operated air pump incorporated into the design. The air pump pressurized a water reservoir and consequently pressurizes any water found therein. The pressurized water has an avenue of release that is regulated by the trigger mechanism of the invention. When no force is applied to the trigger, the pressurized water is held at bay with no means of release. When force is applied to the trigger, water is released from the pressurized container and is channeled through a narrow nozzle. The escape of the pressurized water through the narrow nozzle creates a stream of propelled water that lasts as long as the trigger is engaged or until the pressure of the water equals the ambient air.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a toy molder/extruder which is used for cold molding and/or cold extruding of clay dough with the use of toy molds and toy dies. This toy has a main housing with a base, an upright middle section and a top. A pinion gear is rotatably located at the top of the housing and a crank wheel and handle is connected to the pinion gear to enable the user to rotate the pinion gear. A ram piston with a rack gear is attached to the main housing with the ram piston being connected to the top of the housing in a vertically movable fashion, so as to engage the rack gear and the pinion gear with on another. The toy also has a compression chamber with an open top which is connected to the housing and located below the ram piston. It has a cross-sectional dimension adequate to allow ram insertion of the ram piston and has a tapered bottom with an outlet orifice substantially smaller than the compression chamber's open top.

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: The present invention involves a toy bubble blowing machine which has a housing which forms at least a part of a toy. The housing may simulate a motor and may be mounted on a ridable toy such as a bicycle, tricycle, toy auto, or the like. The toy bubble blowing machine includes a drive axle and a motive power source connected to, and capable of, driving the drive axle. The motive power source may be a battery operated motor and batteries or may be direct drive through gears, pulleys, or otherwise from the axle of wheels on a ridable toy. The bubble blowing machine also includes a bubble wand which has a plurality of wand heads with bubble forming orifices and a central hub. The wand heads are arranged symmetrically and concentrically above the hub and a hub axle extends from the hub. A Geneva mechanism is used which has a first gear which is continuously rotatable and a second gear which is a step gear and is rotatable through an arc intermittently.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a toy water gun which is battery operated. The present invention water gun has a housing which has a general configuration of a gun with a barrel and a handle. A water reservoir is located within the housing and a battery operated pumping system is also located within the housing. In addition, there is a pick up tube and a water tube, one being connected to an intake valve and the other being connected to the exhaust valve of the pumping system. The water tube which is connected to the exhaust valve is connected to a spray nozzle at its opposite end which is attached to the end of the barrel of the housing of the gun. A battery chamber is also located within the housing and electric circuitry is included which connects the battery chamber to the drive motor and to a switch which is connected to a trigger on the gun.

Abstract: The present invention involves a toy vehicle which includes a body, at least three wheels, wheel support means and a suspension system. The wheel support means connects the body and the wheels in conjunction with the suspension system such that the body may be raised or lowered merely by pulling or pushing on the wheels away from or toward the underside of the body. The suspension system utilizes hollow plastic tubes which include a flexible zone with a plurality of circumferential corrugations which enable the tube to be stretched to sequential lengths until the corrugations assume a longitudinally spaced position. The toy vehicle of the present invention may have as part of its suspension system a single tube as described, or a plurality of tubes, such as one for each of the two front wheels or one for the front wheels and one for the back wheels, or any other combination which may be functionally possible. At least two tubes is preferred.

Abstract: The present invention wheels have extendable traction spikes (spike pins) which are contained within the wheels and are automatically extended to enhance wheel traction. The automatic extension of the spike pins occurs, in one embodiment, upon achievement of a predetermined torque. In another embodiment, when a predetermined movement, i.e. forward motion of the vehicle, occurs, the spike pins are automatically extended. The invention also includes vehicular toys including such wheels.

Abstract: A remote control toy vehicle having a chassis with a pair of wheels respectively adjacent opposite ends thereof, a pair of electric motors of reversible polarity, drive mechanism respectively between said motors and the fore and aft wheels on opposite sides of the chassis, a battery, electric circuitry between the battery and said motors, separate switches in the circuitry of which one is operable to cause the motors to have the polarity reversed selectively to effect forward or rearward movement of the vehicle, and the other switch is operable to connect a resistance selectively into the circuitry of one or the other motors, whereby the motor having the resistance in the circuit runs slower than the other and the faster running other motor drives the wheels on one side of the vehicle faster than the wheels on the other side and thereby effects turning of the vehicle selectively in one direction or the opposite direction.

Abstract: A toy barn and silo connected thereto in which an elevator is operable to receive and elevate toy hay bales to the loft of the barn and eject them into and through the loft for discharge into a vehicle in a bay of the barn. The barn below the loft has stalls closed by gates and containing animals which can be ejected from the stalls by plungers and the gates are opened by discharge movement of the animals.

Abstract: A toy motorcycle having at least one electric light bulb thereon and comprising an elongated frame having front and rear portions supporting wheels for free rotation and a central portion comprising, in combination, a gear train having interengaging gears supported on shafts extending transversely to the vertical plane of the frame and rotatably mounted in bearings in opposite side plates of the housing, an inertia flywheel rotatable upon another transverse shaft parallel to the others, an electric armature fixed coaxially to the flywheel for rotation therewith, a stationary field coil supported by one side plate of the housing coaxially with the armature, and a transverse axle extending at opposite ends through bearings in the side plates of the housing to which drive wheels are connected on opposite ends thereof and positioned outwardly from opposite sides of the enclosure for the housing for frictional engagement with a supporting surface to cause rotation of the inertia flywheel to energize the same by ma

Abstract: A toy of an educational nature including a plurality of receptacles in a supporting frame respectively for toy coins of different sizes and arranged to be received only in one of the receptacles as controlled by the size of the entrance opening for that particular coin. The value of the coins are prominently shown on the respective toy coins and such values are also shown adjacent the entrance openings. Ejector mechanism also is included to effect removal of the coins from the respective receptacles.

Abstract: A toy boat powered by a rubber-band as a source of driving power for a propeller, the rubber band being wound to energize it by a helical type spiral rod adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally within the hull of the boat respectively in opposite directions to wind the rubber band by means of a gear train actuated by the spiral rod when moved in one longitudinal direction and clutch structures being included to permit sequential retraction of the spiral rod while the rubber band is prevented from unwinding during such retraction without the use of a locking member or the like.

Abstract: A toy automobile having front and rear axles on a body respectively supporting wheels, one of the axles being driven by a gear train energized by a twisted elongated member such as a rubber band, the elastic member being energized by twisting it by means of a reciprocable elongated rack extendable axially in opposite directions relative to the body of the automobile, which rack when pulled outwardly actuating the gear train to wind a drive shaft for the elastic member and, when the rack is pushed in retraction into the body, a throwout gear in the train is disconnected to prevent unwinding the elastic member, and a manually operable stop member engages the drive axle to prevent movement thereof until released.

Abstract: A target game adapted to be operated by darts from toy dart guns, thrown objects and the like, comprises a front panel arranged for vertical positioning, a row of simulated tin can targets are arrived along the upper edge of said panel and are supported upon depending arms pivotally supported rearwardly of the front panel, and score indicating panels are mounted on said arms in a manner to be positioned opposite one of a series of viewing openings in the front panel when a can target is hit by an object and toppled rearwardly and pivotally. Each arm adjacent the pivot therefor has a cam engageable with a corresponding projection on a horizontal rod rearwardly of the front panel to cause limited rotatary movement of the rod to actuate an elongated flexible member having a striker positioned to hit an audible signal member when the flexible member is flexed incident to the aforementioned movement of the rod.

Abstract: A spelling machine includes a housing having a row of drums on a shaft and is provided with a series of evenly spaced letters on the drums viewable through a row of holes in the housing. A row of slides in the forward portion of the machine has lugs and stop members respectively on opposite end portions. A series of cards each having a different picture thereon is inserted into the machine. Each card is provided with a row of holes spaced predetermined distances from an edge of the card which is parallel to the shaft when the card is inserted in the machine. The holes respectively receive the lugs on the slides and are operable to move the slides and stops thereon toward the drums various distances corresponding to letters respectively on the drums when the drums are rotated from starting position in one direction.