Patents by Inventor Erwin Benkoe, deceased
Erwin Benkoe, deceased 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).
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Patent number: 4255894Abstract: A doll and an eye assembly, intended for use in a doll, wherein the assembly comprises a combined representational eyeball and eyelid movable mounted relative to a carrier or retainer, and weighted, in such a way as to tend to occupy a first positional relationship with the carrier or retainer (such as "open") in one attitude of the assembly to the horizontal but to occupy a second positional relationship with said carrier or retainer (such as "closed") in a different attitude of the assembly to the horizontal. The assembly also includes a fluid pressure actuable control operable to displace the combined eyeball and eyelid from said first "open" positional relationship to said second "closed" positional relationship.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1977Date of Patent: March 17, 1981Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elisabeth BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Elonne Dantzer
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Patent number: 4206925Abstract: A surprise action game apparatus comprising in a presently preferred form a game board defining a plurality of pathways, one for each player, and each having a starting end and extending longitudinally therefrom to a finish line. There are a plurality of play pieces, one on each player's path for longitudinal movement therealong. The play pieces are adapted to be knocked over when engaged. The game apparatus further includes a knock-down unit which may be positioned at the starting end of any selected one of the pathways. The unit includes a movable wheeled toy striker vehicle and operating mechanism for propelling the vehicle along the selected pathway, but only after random or apparently random operation of the mechanism, to engage and knock down the play piece on that pathway. In play of the game, at each player's turn, the player places the knock-down unit at the start of his or her pathway and selectively operates the mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1978Date of Patent: June 10, 1980Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elisabeth BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Delmar K. Everitt, Ronald F. Chesley, Richard D. Frierdich
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Patent number: 4192092Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1978Date of Patent: March 11, 1980Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elisabeth Benkoe, Executrix for Estate of Erwin BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, Executrix, Elonne Dantzer
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Patent number: 4186925Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1978Date of Patent: February 5, 1980Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix for the estate of Erwin BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Don Robinson
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Patent number: 4185413Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1978Date of Patent: January 29, 1980Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elisabeth BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix, Elonne Dantzer, William R. La Dow, Wayne M. Ginn, L. Ray Dyson
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Patent number: 4183535Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1978Date of Patent: January 15, 1980Inventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix
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Patent number: 4171806Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1978Date of Patent: October 23, 1979Inventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix
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Patent number: 4164092Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1977Date of Patent: August 14, 1979Assignee: A. E. GoldfarbInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Elonne Dantzer
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Patent number: 4113255Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1977Date of Patent: September 12, 1978Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elizabeth BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Don Robinson
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Patent number: D248881Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1977Date of Patent: August 8, 1978Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elizabeth BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Delmar K. Everitt, Ronald F. Chesley, Richard D. Friedrich
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Patent number: D248988Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1976Date of Patent: August 15, 1978Assignees: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Elisabeth BenkoeInventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix, Delmar K. Everitt, Ronald F. Chesley, Richard D. Frierdich
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Patent number: D250216Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1977Date of Patent: November 7, 1978Inventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix
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Patent number: D252816Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1977Date of Patent: September 4, 1979Inventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix
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Patent number: D252817Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1977Date of Patent: September 4, 1979Inventors: Adolph E. Goldfarb, Erwin Benkoe, deceased, by Elisabeth Benkoe, executrix