Abstract: A construction piece usable, in combination with other identical pieces, for forming a toy vehicle track, having interengaging slots and studs whereby a front side of one piece may be connected to the rear side of another, with slight inclination of the pieces being possible to allow for a curved track. On one face of the piece are segments of a road type tract suitable for a toy vehicle, and from the opposite face project rectangular segments which together provide rail tracks for a toy railway vehicle; this allows the track to be used with either of the two track types uppermost. The piece also has studs projecting from its ends which can engage in sockets in like pieces to form various structures. A construction set incorporating such track forming parts may also include toy vehicles having studs or sockets which can co-operate with corresponding track parts so that complex vehicles can be made.

Abstract: A miniature electrically powered vehicle including an electric motor having a pair of permanent magnets mounted with the North/South pole axis disposed vertically within the vehicle and with the same polarity ends thereof joined together by a common flux strap so that the magnets serve the dual function of interacting with the electric motor and providing an enhanced downward magnetic attraction of the vehicle to the track.

Abstract: An apparatus for changing the running track of a toy car racer in a racing toy, in which a motor-driven running body runs on a base having a plurality of guide tracks in parallel. The body has a guide element engageable with the guide track and the running body is provided with an electromagnetic coil for engaging and disengaging the guide element with the guide track. The electromagnetic coil at its pole portions is provided with yokes each energizable to a different polarity and protruding in parallel to a predetermined direction to form a pair of magnetic pole portions, opposite to which are swingably arranged linkage for controlling wheel-steerage, including a magnet at its middle portion adjacent to the magnetic pole portions.

Abstract: An electric drag strip apparatus is set forth wherein the organization includes the various features associated with the sport of "drag racing". Initially a "burn-out" area is provided wherein a plurality of troughs are positioned on either side of elongate guide slots and electrical contact strips wherein the troughs are filled with a fluid, such as water and the like, to simulate a "burn-out" area in a drag strip. A sequencing light arrangement is positioned at a starting line wherein a plurality of solenoid actuated flags indicate a winner wherein the flags are operated by means of a photo-electric eye positioned at the finish line of the drag strip. Further, a parachute docking arrangement is positioned adjacent and beyond the finish line to secure to an associated miniature car to simulate the analogous event at a drag strip.

Abstract: An endless rail for a running toy is described. The rail includes a plurality of block bodies, each having a guide groove formed on a top surface thereof. Each block body is in the shape of an alphabet letter or symbol. Each guide groove is open to at least one end surface of the block body. A female fitting portion and a male fitting portion are formed adjacent each opening of the guide groove to connect block bodies together and communicate the guide grooves. The running toy is provided with a guide pin fitted into the communicated grooves.

Abstract: A toy vehicle game is disclosed herein permitting continuous toy car racing in an endless slotted track without interruption of competitive zeal between racing opponents. An endless track is employed having at least two parallel slotted lanes in which multiple toy vehicles may operate. Each slot on the curved sections of the track is provided with a shoulder narrowing the entrance leading into the slot. Each toy vehicle includes a guide beam travelling through the slot and pivotally carried on the underside of the vehicle wherein each guide beam includes a central portion terminating at the lower end in an expanded or enlarged guide slidably carried on the continuous slot beneath the shoulder while the upper end of the guide beam terminates in a rotational control element adapted to engage limit stops downwardly depending from the vehicle chassis to limit the pivotal or rotational turning of the vehicle about the guide beam due to centrifugal force.

Abstract: The invention relates to a toy which has an annular frame with a curved, osed interior surface. A small toy vehicle is movable by manually moving and orienting the frame, for rolling on wheels around the curved interior surface. A retaining tether attaches the toy vehicle to the frame to permit the wheels to leave the interior surface of the frame but not to separate it entirely from it. In the preferred embodiment a continuous channel is provided throughout the entire interior of the frame and a slit communicates between the interior channel and the exposed interior surface of the frame. One end of the tether is tied to the toy vehicle and the other end is tied to a bead retained within the channel and freely moving throughout the entire length.

Abstract: A toy slot car system which simulates off-track racing. The system includes a track, toy vehicles and remote, hand-held controllers to permit each player to control the performance of a preselected vehicle. The track has coextensive, deep slots which have their sidewalls lined with electrical strip conductors, and the toy vehicles have a posts that are received in the deep slots and that carry electrical wipers at their lowermost ends. The surface of the track is rough and uneven with severe undulations which simulate off road conditions and which cause the toy vehicles to be jostled and thrown upwardly, above the track surface during races. Since the slots are quite deep and the electrical strip connectors are quite wide, the cars can bounce over the track and loose all wheel contact with the surface of the track, without loosing electrical continuity with the track, thus creating a realistic simulation of off-track racing.

Abstract: A toy vehicle is provided with a main frame which is tiltably mounted on a plate which, at an end thereof opposite the pivot mount is provided with a pair of mutually orthogonally located bushings one of which accommodates a vertical pivot shaft to which is connected a guide plate or fin; the vehicle is adapted to ride on tracks whereby the fin will serve to guide the vehicle and where the bushings will permit rotation of the frame about a vertical axis as well as turning of the vehicle to follow the contour of a track.

Abstract: Miniature, remote-controlled, electrically-driven slot cars and, more particularly, a novel dual-chassis assembly therefor.

Abstract: A toy slot car racing set is provided with linked, lead and follower car teams. The link is resilient and has a width substantially greater than the thickness, to provide some resistance to lateral flexing. Tight fits between a pin and aperture connection of each end of a link to a respective vehicle generally maintains the connected end of the link in a fixed angular relationship to the vehicle.

Abstract: A toy locomotive includes a locomotive body and a planar track member. The locomotive body comprises a clockwork driving mechanism with a knurled knob, a small bogie and a pinion mounted to an outshaft of the driving mechanism, a crown gear meshing with the pinion, a drive and an auxiliary wheels suspended on the bogie and one or more guide pin also extended from the bogie. The planar track member comprises an endless groove for engaging with the guide pin. The track member may be one of a number of planar track members, such as pages connected together in the manner of a book.