Patents by Inventor William J. Kelley

William J. Kelley 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: 4655726
    Abstract: A toy doll figure for displaying colors through an opening formed in the torso of the doll figure. The torso opening is covered with a hinged flap member. Disposed inside the torso which is a hollow housing is a drum member that is journaled in the housing. The drum member is covered with colored strip members that extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the drum member. The drum member has a ratchet member with ratchet teeth mounted thereon that is driven by opening and closing the hinged flap member on the torso exposing a different colored strip member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1987
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryszard J. Brzezinski, William J. Kelley
  • Patent number: 4500299
    Abstract: A toy cargo plane having a fuselage (24) with two front doors (32, 34) pivotably mounted within the front of the fuselage. The doors are mechanically opened by actuation of a lever and rod arrangement (44, 46) slideable along its axis and mounted within a slot formed in the tail end of the body. A further lever and rod arrangement (50, 52) slideably moves a ramp (36) in and out of the open front doors to enable vehicles or other toys to be loaded onto the ramp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1985
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Kelley, Terry K. Prince
  • Patent number: 4485586
    Abstract: A toy vehicle having a motor drive mechanism with a control arm actuable from a first position to a second position for changing the speed thereof, the vehicle having a pivotable linkage arm with a cam follower coacting with a cam movable in response to vehicle travel for pivoting a trigger foot against the control arm for moving it from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne R. Halford, William J. Kelley
  • Patent number: 4349983
    Abstract: A carrying case may be opened to present upper and lower scene-simulating objects including a serpentine roadway for toy vehicles which may coast down the roadway from the top of the rearwall of an upper carrying case portion to the bottom wall of a lower carrying case portion hinged to the upper carrying case portion along a diagonal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1982
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene J. Kilroy, William J. Kelley, Philip W. Crain
  • Patent number: 4249339
    Abstract: A toy space vehicle having a main body. A door in the upper surface of the main body may be caused to slowyly open and close accompanied by sounds simulating the movement of heavy doors. Pods affixed to the main body may be made to slowly open or close accompanied by the same sounds. A gun residing in the main body may be caused to fire and aircraft residing in the pods to be launched when the doors are opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1981
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip W. Crain, William J. Kelley, Daniel J. Shoff
  • Patent number: 4224757
    Abstract: A toy perfume maker having a vial capable of containing a liquid in which perfume is to be mixed and an arrangement for suspending a perfume concentrate in the vial and rotating it. The arrangement includes a base, a cup which rotates on the upper surface of the base, a holder for perfume concentrate held and rotated by the cup, and a receptacle fixed to the base for fixedly supporting the vial within the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventor: William J. Kelley