Patents by Inventor Paul Heinz Bruder
Paul Heinz Bruder 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: 9808732Abstract: A coupling for connecting a first coupling part to one toy component and a second coupling part connected to another toy component. The two coupling parts are connected to one another along a connecting axis to be rotated relative to one another thereabout. One of the coupling parts is a receiving coupling part having a locking guide receiving portion, which has a locking receiver extending in the peripheral direction about the connecting axis through more than 180°. The other coupling part is an insert coupling part having at least two insert guide portions axially spaced apart from one another along the connecting axis and guided radially in the receiving coupling part. A first insert guide portion is received to lock in the locking guide receiving portion of the receiving coupling part. A second insert guide portion is guided in a second guide receiving portion of the receiving coupling part.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: BRUDER SPIELWAREN GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Publication number: 20170203222Abstract: A rotating device module for a toy has an axle component, which provides a rotation axis of the rotating device module. A hub part is connected to the axle component. A disc part can be screwed by means of a threaded connection to the hub part, said connection being torque proof. The hub part has an external thread of the threaded connection. The disc part has an internal thread of the threaded connection complementary to the external thread. The result is a removable rotating device module which is designed to increase play value and can be made at low cost and assembled with little effort.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventor: Paul Heinz BRUDER
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Patent number: 9566533Abstract: A toy vehicle including a chassis, four running wheels, which are attached to the chassis, an activating element configured to steer the toy vehicle, and a steering device. The steering device includes a steering plate articulated onto all four running wheels. The steering plate is movable by the steering activating element relative to the chassis. The vehicle also includes four axle knuckles, each axle knuckle supporting one of the four running wheels, thee axle knuckles being articulated both onto the steering plate and also the chassis. The steering plate has a central portion extending along a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, and four cross-arms extending outwardly from the central portion, each of the cross-arms connecting to a respective one of the four axle knuckles.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: BRUDER SPIELWAREN GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Patent number: 8801491Abstract: Building element system comprising first and second building elements, in particular toy building elements, wherein, for the releasable connection of a first building element to a second building element, a first connecting means is provided on the first building element and a second connecting means is provided on the second building element, which connecting means can be latched together, wherein the first connecting means (2) is a circular bore (3) situated on the building element side and having at least two latching projections (4) which jut inward in the manner of a chord, and the second connecting means (15) is an annular bead (16) configured on a projection (17) situated on the building element side.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Publication number: 20140220858Abstract: A toy vehicle including a chassis, four running wheels, which are attached to the chassis, an activating element configured to steer the toy vehicle, and a steering device. The steering device includes a steering plate articulated onto all four running wheels. The steering plate is movable by the steering activating element relative to the chassis. The vehicle also includes four axle knuckles, each axle knuckle supporting one of the four running wheels, thee axle knuckles being articulated both onto the steering plate and also the chassis. The steering plate has a central portion extending along a longitudinal axis of the vehicle, and four cross-arms extending outwardly from the central portion, each of the cross-arms connecting to a respective one of the four axle knuckles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz BRUDER
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Patent number: 8734199Abstract: A toy component group (17) has a loading arm (18) with a free end for lifting a load and with a connecting end (19) via which the loading arm (18) is mounted on a frame (20) of the component group (17). An activating device (21) serves for adjusting a loading arm setting angle (?) and, thereby, for lifting the free end of the loading arm (18). The activating device (21) comprises an activating element (23), a spindle (22) mounted on the frame (20) which is in drive connection with the activating element (23) for rotation about a spindle axis (24). Further, the activating device (21) comprises a spindle nut (25) with at least one guiding element (26) and a connecting link (27) secured to the loading arm (18). The connecting link (27) cooperates with the at least one guiding element (26) of the spindle nut (25) for link guiding.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH and Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Publication number: 20110189923Abstract: A toy component group (17) has a loading arm (18) with a free end for lifting a load and with a connecting end (19) via which the loading arm (18) is mounted on a frame (20) of the component group (17). An activating device (21) serves for adjusting a loading arm setting angle (?) and, thereby, for lifting the free end of the loading arm (18). The activating device (21) comprises an activating element (23), a spindle (22) mounted on the frame (20) which is in drive connection with the activating element (23) for rotation about a spindle axis (24). Further, the activating device (21) comprises a spindle nut (25) with at least one guiding element (26) and a connecting link (27) secured to the loading arm (18). The connecting link (27) cooperates with the at least one guiding element (26) of the spindle nut (25) for link guiding.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: BRUDER SPIELWAREN GMBH AND CO. KGInventor: Paul Heinz BRUDER
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Patent number: 7976356Abstract: A boom assembly for a bucket of a toy vehicle comprises at least one bucket bearer, which is articulated to a frame of the toy vehicle by a first swivel joint, and at least one telescopic support with two telescopic elements, which can be displaced in telescopic manner with respect to one another. One of the telescopic elements is articulated to the bucket bearer by a second swivel joint, the other telescopic element is articulated to the frame by a third swivel joint. Furthermore, at least one latch mechanism is provided, the latch mechanism having a latch body which is provided on one of the telescopic elements, and a counter body which is provided on the bucket bearer. The bodies of the latch mechanism are positioned with respect to one another such that when the bucket bearers are moved from a lowered basic position into a raised position, the latch body comes to rest against the counter body before the raised position is reached, the telescopic support being bent with the production of a bending tension.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Publication number: 20110039474Abstract: Building element system comprising first and second building elements, in particular toy building elements, wherein, for the releasable connection of a first building element to a second building element, a first connecting means is provided on the first building element and a second connecting means is provided on the second building element, which connecting means can be latched together, wherein the first connecting means (2) is a circular bore (3) situated on the building element side and having at least two latching projections (4) which jut inward in the manner of a chord, and the second connecting means (15) is an annular bead (16) configured on a projection (17) situated on the building element side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Applicant: BRUDER SPIELWAREN GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Paul Heinz BRUDER
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Patent number: 7601047Abstract: The invention relates to a toy vehicle for collecting and conveying garbage, paper or the like, having a collection container with charging hole, and distinguished by a collecting and emptying arrangement for a garbage can, paper can or the like.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Publication number: 20090233520Abstract: A boom assembly for a bucket of a toy vehicle comprises at least one bucket bearer, which is articulated to a frame of the toy vehicle by a first swivel joint, and at least one telescopic support with two telescopic elements, which can be displaced in telescopic manner with respect to one another. One of the telescopic elements is articulated to the bucket bearer by a second swivel joint, the other telescopic element is articulated to the frame by a third swivel joint. Furthermore, at least one latch mechanism is provided, the latch mechanism having a latch body which is provided on one of the telescopic elements, and a counter body which is provided on the bucket bearer. The bodies of the latch mechanism are positioned with respect to one another such that when the bucket bearers are moved from a lowered basic position into a raised position, the latch body comes to rest against the counter body before the raised position is reached, the telescopic support being bent with the production of a bending tension.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH+Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz BRUDER
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Patent number: 7481692Abstract: A constructional system comprises a plurality of building blocks and one or more connectors. In order to propose an improved constructional system, the building block (1) is characterized by a square assembly opening (2) which is surrounded by an assembly funnel (3)(FIG. 1).Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2005Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Patent number: 7008291Abstract: In a toy vehicle, in particular tractor, comprising at least two steerable wheels, with a pivoting motion of a steering wheel being converted via a steering gear into a pivoting motion of a bolster, with wheels being mounted on steering knuckles that are pivotably mounted on a front axle, and with the pivoting motion that is occasioned by a steering job pivoting steering pivot pins and thus the wheels via a track rod and via steering drop arms, it is provided, with a view to accomplishing the extreme wheel turning found in full size tractors also in a toy vehicle, mechanical conversion being put into practice in as simple and functionally safe a way and at as low a cost as possible, that the front axle is connected to a first end of the bolster; that the steering gear is formed on a second end of the bolster; that the bolster, between the first and the second end, comprises a pivot bearing for a pivoting motion relative to the chassis to be obtained; and that the track rod centrally comprises a pivot bearingType: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: BRUDER Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Patent number: 6485351Abstract: In a toy garbage transportation truck comprising a cargo space (3) for the garbage that is to be disposed of, having an opening (4) on its rear to which an emptying casing (5) for garbage cans that are to be emptied is adjoined that has a rear discharge opening (7), provision is made that the floor (9) below the discharge opening is curved approximately in the shape of a segment of a circle, the floor (9) transitions into a slanted feeding surface (10) that extends to below a feeding opening (6), a conveyor shovel (12) is disposed above the floor (9), the conveyor shovel (12) can be swiveled along the floor (9) above the same, lifted parallel to the slanted feeding surface (16) to at least the lower edge of the feeding opening (6) and subsequently swiveled back and lowered to reach the end of the floor (9) on the opening side and repeat the conveyor movement again.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: November 26, 2002Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH + Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
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Patent number: RE41284Abstract: In a toy garbage transportation truck comprising a cargo space (3) for the garbage that is to be disposed of, having an opening (4) on its rear to which an emptying casing (5) for garbage cans that are to be emptied is adjoined that has a rear discharge opening (7), provision is made that the floor (9) below the discharge opening is curved approximately in the shape of a segment of a circle, the floor (9) transitions into a slanted feeding surface (10) that extends to below a feeding opening (6), the conveyor shovel (12) is disposed above the floor (9), the conveyor shovel (12) can be swiveled along the floor (9) above the same, lifted parallel to the slanted feeding surface (16) to at least the lower edge of the feeding opening (6) and subsequently swiveled back and lowered to reach the end of the floor (9) on the opening side and repeat the conveyor movement again.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2004Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Paul Heinz Bruder