Abstract: A disguisable toy car is disclosed, which in a part of the car body is provided with an opening for mounting a rotatable disguising mechanism which is preferably formed with a rotatable element having two disguising faces, one of which is flat and normally covers the opening so as to blend-in with the contour of the car body, while the other face extends outwardly of the car body and includes a patrol-lighting fixture and being selectively positionable within the opening for altering the appearance of the car body.
Abstract: This invention relates to an improved method of causing light to be emitted from a roller skate wheel. The light is produced with energy obtained from the motion of the wheel. This invention uses a permanent magnet and an electrically conducting coil, wound around a magnetically permeable core, to produce electrical energy. The energy is used to produce an electric current through a light emitting diode, which results in light being emitted from the body of the wheel when the wheel rotates.
Abstract: A remote-controllable toy car is disclosed in which a car body is connected to an operating device through a single or a plurality of optical fibers. The toy car may be controlled in a simple optical communication system and is suitable for a small child.
Abstract: A toy vehicle having a set of wheels driven through a gear train and a gear shift by a direct-current motor. The motor and a single light bulb shunted thereacross are connectable by way of a switch to a battery power supply. The bulb is placed within the optical inlet of a plastic light guide contoured to define light outlets in the form of a pair of simulated front headlights and a bank of simulated dashboard and gear shift light indicators, whereby the illumination of these outlets is derived from the single bulb. In the automatic mode, with the switch closed, the motor is energized to drive the vehicle, the bulb being concurrently energized to provide a constant level of illumination for all lights. In the manual mode, with the switch open, the player propels the vehicle by hand, causing the turning wheels through the gear train to rotate the motor. The motor then functions as a dynamo to energize the bulb whose light intensity varies to reflect the force applied to the vehicle by the player.
Abstract: A shuttle wheel toy comprising a rotary wheel having a magnetized rotation shaft extending through a central portion of the wheel to have ends protruded beyond side walls of the wheel and mounted across a pair of substantially parallel arranged rails secured at one end respectively thereof in a grip, which may be gripped by a hand to axially sway the rails to thereby let the rotary wheel rotate and run on the rails which provide for a path of reciprocation to the wheel. Through a battery housed in the grip and the rails functioning as a positive and a negative electrodes, an illumination element housed in the rotary wheel can be energized to light.
Abstract: An electromechanical device comprised of a battery energized motor having widely separated poles and requiring momentum for operation applied by inertia from a lost motion fly-weight accelerated by the motor during commutation which momentarily starts and stops the motor for an extended dwell time and which subsequently restarts the motor for continued operation, there being primary sensory effects as a result of motor operation subject to speed change by the control of extraneous motion, there being a first motor commutated circuit energizing sensory effects, and there being a second cam switched circuit energizing sensory effects adjusted to long and short dwell modes, the motor operation and effects being synchronous at variable angular velocity within 180.degree. and 360.degree. of rotation.