Movement About Vertical Axis Or By Bent Support Wheel Axle Patents (Class 446/287)
  • Patent number: 9623930
    Abstract: A personal mobility vehicle, such as a scooter, includes a plurality of wheels supporting a deck or other vehicle body portion. The vehicle has a movable portion that is movable relative to another portion of the vehicle. A motion transfer mechanism is operably coupled to the movable portion and causes movement of the movable portion in response to movement of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: RAZOR USA LLC
    Inventor: Ian Desberg
  • Patent number: 5273479
    Abstract: A doll (10) that dances by reciprocating a hip portion (20) and that simultaneously moves along a surface (S) in a generally curving path. The doll has a base (40) with a drive wheel assembly (70) and a crank (55) that reciprocates the hip portion (20). Preferably, the doll (10) also has sound emitting means (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Inventor: Pei H. Chang
  • Patent number: 5232390
    Abstract: The present invention provides an action amusement set having as a primary member a self-propelled, multi-purpose doll that can be disassembled to reveal a gameball usable with various sporting accessories included with the amusement set. The multi-purpose doll is provided with a drive mechanism for propelling and turning the doll. A remote control unit is also provided for remotely controlling the drive mechanism. The action amusement set includes several types of gameballs that can be selectively incorporated in the multi-purpose doll but which are configured for play in connection with a particular sport. The sporting accessories of the amusement set include several components that may be arranged into suitable setups corresponding to a particular sport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Inventor: Clay Brooks
  • Patent number: 5100362
    Abstract: A propellable articulating animal toy having a flexible, pliable stuffed body which simulates an animal, preferably a puppy, having freely moveable body components. The body fits over a housing which includes at least one ground-engaging support wheel connected within the housing. The housing also includes a forwardly extending lever pivotally mounted in the housing and structured to be pivotally articulated up and down through an acute angle by eccentric driving engagement with the wheel as the toy is manually propelled over a flat surface. The animal body also covering the lever is thus made to bob up and down appearing to be running or jumping as the toy is propelled over the flat surface. Although only the forwardly portion of the animal body is articulated by the pivoting movement of the lever, the entire body and all body components take on a realistic running motion due to the pliable nature of the animal body and its plush covering, which may also be made removable for holding and cuddling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Inventors: A. Edward Fogarty, Bonnie R. Fogarty
  • Patent number: 4943256
    Abstract: An amusement device consisting of a base frame having a first and second end. A pair of ratchet wheel assemblies mounted to an supporting the second end of the base frame. A motor is mounted within the base frame. A cam is rotatably driven by the motor. A yoke assembly having a first and second end in which the second end of the yoke assembly is oscillatorially activated by the cam to cause the first end of the yoke assembly to oscillate relative to the first end of the base frame. A pair of ratchet wheel assemblies are mounted at the first end of the yoke assembly such that when the first end of the yoke assembly oscillates, the ratchet wheels rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Assignee: PN International Corp.
    Inventor: Robert W. Symons
  • Patent number: 4798553
    Abstract: Toy figures and characters which incorporate a plurality of one or more styles or shapes of rotatable gear-like components which are formed of soft, yieldable material and which components are selectively mounted to a variety of frames to thereby create toys having animated body parts that rotate as the toys are moved across a support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Inventors: David G. Gentles, Mary A. Gentles