Patents by Inventor Lawrence Schnipke

Lawrence Schnipke 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).

  • Toy vehicle and track with a reduced amount of resistance therebetween
    Patent number: 4395843
    Abstract: A free wheeling toy vehicle has the outer faces of its front wheels spaced a greater distance apart than the outer faces of its rear wheels. When the toy vehicle travels down an inclined track having upstanding sidewalls and one of the front wheels strikes one of the sidewalls due to travel of the vehicle at an acute angle toward that sidewall, the angle of travel of the vehicle is changed so that the vehicle moves away from the sidewall it has just struck. The overall resistance to movement down the inclined track is thereby reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: CPG Products Corp.
    Inventors: Barry Fichter, Chet Wolgamot, Lawrence Schnipke