Patents by Inventor Fred Zant

Fred Zant 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: 4160338
    Abstract: A toy doll has a mouth opening adapted to receive a simulated nursing bottle from which water is fed to the interior of the doll, some of such water producing a wetting action. The doll is also adapted to produce a burping sound when its back is patted, and simultaneously to spit up through the mouth opening some of the water previously fed from the bottle. The burping sound is produced by a bellows in the body portion of the doll which is successively compressed upon patting the back of the doll and which progressively feeds air into another bellows located in the head of the doll until the head bellows reaches an expanded position. An actuating member then automatically releases the air from the expanded head bellows, which air flows in a sudden controlled flow through a sound producing device. Some of this released air also causes liquid to be emitted from the mouth opening to produce the spitting-up effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Assignee: Ned Strongin Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Lyons, Fred Zant, Charles Resnick
  • Patent number: 4016674
    Abstract: A miniature toy vehicle launcher having an inclined platform adapted to support a toy vehicle in a launching position. A stop is provided which is movable from a hold position to hold the toy vehicle on the platform against movement and to a release position for release thereof. A finger is movably coupled with the stop to move it to the hold position, and the stop is spring biased by means of a first spring towards the release position to move the stop to the release position. A locking element retains the stop in the first position against the tension of the first spring, and a slide is spring biased by means of a second spring for movement to disable the locking element to cause the stop to move to its release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1977
    Assignee: Lesney Products Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Resnick, Fred Zant