Abstract: A toy vehicle having a drive wheel and winch driven by an inertia flywheel. The winch has a winch drum that winds a cord attached thereto in only one direction of rotation of the drum. A double detent mechanism precisely positions the winch transmission in its neutral position. A fixed gear tooth brakes or locks the winch drum when the winch transmission is in its neutral position.A drive transmission for selectively driving the drive wheel to cause the vehicle to move in a forward or a reverse direction.

Abstract: A toy inertia motor for driving a rotatable power or drive shaft. The drive shaft is coupled, for example, to any suitable members or mechanisms such as the drive wheels on a toy car, or a windlass.The motor comprises a rotatable flywheel, and separate winding and driving gear trains for coupling the flywheel to the drive shaft. A gear of the winding and driving gear trains is movable, in response to rotation of the drive shaft, between a normal drive position in the driving gear train to a wind position in the winding gear train. A latch is responsive to such gear movement for releasably latching the gear in its wind position. When so latched, the flywheel inertia can be built up by rotating the flywheel. When the latch is released, the gear returns to its drive position and the flywheel inertia is transmitted via the driving gears to the drive shaft.

Abstract: A food processor includes a power unit in a base connected to drive a rotatable hub mounted on a vertically-oriented drive shaft extending into a removable bowl with cutting means on the shaft. To this general combination an improvement has the shaft stepfitted into a porous oil-impregnated sleeve bearing that is fixedly press-fitted into and carried from the base within the hub. The bearing thus vertically and rotatably supports and lubricates the shaft. A radially extending flange with upper and lower surfaces, is provided on the top of the bearing. Spaced vertical channels are provided in the inner and outer bearing surfaces to extend the length of the bearing from the top flange end to the lower sleeve end in the base. Circular oil collecting grooves are disposed in the upper and lower radial flange surfaces with the grooves connected respectively to the inner and outer channels.

Abstract: In a multi container interlocked food machine having a power base with a bowl-supporting portion and driven shaft extending vertically therefrom, with an upstanding motor-containing housing, a processor bowl having structure locking it on the supporting portion and containing a cutter on the shaft, a lid on the bowl operatively connected to an interlock of an internal lid switch-controlled motor energizing circuit to deenergize said circuit on lid removal, an improved second interlock mechanism is provided comprising a separate smaller diameter blender jar and cutter disposable on the shaft, base securing structure on the jar locks it on the base portion concentric with the bowl locking portion, an internal separate jar switch is connected to the motor circuit in parallel with the lid switch, the base securing structure operatively connecting with the jar switch through a biased slider mechanism, whereby on mounting the jar on the base, the jar switch is closed to "on" position to automatically by-pass the li

Abstract: A motor assembly is provided for a blind tube mounting the tube having one open end with a tapered inner surface and an opening through the tube downstream of the end and facing the surface. A switch wiper is movably mounted in the opening. The tube may be the handle of a movable tool such as a toothbrush or vegetable peeler or the like. For driving the tool there is provided a sized motor mount that includes a second tubular member with an outer tapered surface for telescopic mating with the tapered inner surface of the tube, the second member having an end vertical wall with a smaller sized motor secured to and cantilevered from the wall and extending into the tube. The second tubular member is an insulating plastic for an electrical barrier between the switch terminals and the motor.

Abstract: A vegetable peeler with a handle supporting a cylindrical and electrically rotatable shafted cutter body connected to the handle with a plurality of spaced cutter blades extending longitudinally from the outer to the inner end of the body and a fixed splatter shield partially surrounding and spaced from the body and supported directly on the handle. In this general arrangement there is provided an improved cutter and shield release assembly of a cylindrical tapered support surface on the handle and a matching tapered support surface on the shield for telescopically locking the parts together. A cam and slot connection between the surfaces of different sized pins entering cooperating angled slots cams the tapered surfaces together and locks them. The body has a flared inner end and an abutment is provided on the shield adjacent the flared end so rotation of the shield breaks the tapered connection while simultaneously abutting the body to release the cutter without handling it.