Patents by Inventor Dietmar Rahmstorf

Dietmar Rahmstorf has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4190982
    Abstract: An assemblable toy figure has a hollow trunk divided into front and rear portions, a head mounted for relative rotation on a locking bar that engages in internal recesses in the trunk portions, and arms and legs respectively pivotable relative to the trunk. The legs are mounted on pins extending from a pivot joint supported from within the trunk and rotatable about a vertical axis relative to the trunk, whereby in the assembled figure the trunk can turn laterally relative to the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Assignee: Messrs. BIG Spielwavenfabrik Dipl.-Ing. Ernst A. Bettag
    Inventor: Dietmar Rahmstorf
  • Patent number: 4185412
    Abstract: A toy figure has a head, a trunk, legs and arms wherein accessories such as representations of clothes made from an essentially non-deformable material can be mounted at the region of the trunk. To enable accessories to be mounted easily and reliably, to afford wide freedom in the shaping of the accessories and closely to approximate them to the natural appearance, the front and/or rear of the trunk has at least one detent member at which an accessory can be removable secured by a counterpiece fixed to the accessory. The accessory extends only over the front or rear of the toy figure and laterally around the trunk to about the vertical plane passing through connections of the arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1980
    Assignee: BIG Spielwarenfabrik Dipl.-Ing. Ernst A. Bettag
    Inventor: Dietmar Rahmstorf
  • Patent number: 4044498
    Abstract: The invention concerns toy animal figures with four legs and a rigid, shaped body. In order to achieve as natural an appearance of such figures as possible, also to enable a toy human figure with a realistically small leg spacing to be mounted on the animal figure, preferably with a saddle, the middle of the animal body is formed by a narrow web coverable either by a centerpiece completing the body or by a saddle. When the centerpiece is placed in position no "rider" can be mounted thereon. When, however, a saddle is mounted, in place of the centerpiece, a figure with small leg spacing can "ride" on the animal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Assignee: Messrs. BIG Spielwarenfabrik Dipl.-Ing. Ernst A. Bettag
    Inventor: Dietmar Rahmstorf
  • Patent number: 3995395
    Abstract: The invention concerns an assemblable toy figure including: a head mounted on one end of a downwardly extending locking bar which has a flattened locking shoulder; and a hollow trunk divided into two havles and journalling arms and legs for pivotal movement about a horizontal axis. Each arm terminates in flange engageable in a lateral opening in the trunk and has extensions serving as pivotal axes. The legs engage in recesses at the front of the trunk for pivotal movement and are journalled by laterally projecting pins. For rapid, easy, and optionally mechanised, assembly and reliable locking, oblique surfaces are formed in one trunk half which resilient webs extend downwardly and towards each other with lower edges running perpendicularly to and overlapping the dividing plane. The lower edges of the oblique resilient webs cooperate with the shoulder of the locking bar for locking. Feet, hairpieces and other accessories may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Messrs. BIG Spielwarenfabrik Dipl.-Ing. Ernst A. Bettag
    Inventor: Dietmar Rahmstorf
  • Patent number: D247054
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Messrs. BIG Spielwarenfabrik Dipl.-Ing. Ernst A. Bettag
    Inventor: Dietmar Rahmstorf