Guide Means Secured Centrally Of Wheel Patents (Class 446/452)
  • Patent number: 7008291
    Abstract: In a toy vehicle, in particular tractor, comprising at least two steerable wheels, with a pivoting motion of a steering wheel being converted via a steering gear into a pivoting motion of a bolster, with wheels being mounted on steering knuckles that are pivotably mounted on a front axle, and with the pivoting motion that is occasioned by a steering job pivoting steering pivot pins and thus the wheels via a track rod and via steering drop arms, it is provided, with a view to accomplishing the extreme wheel turning found in full size tractors also in a toy vehicle, mechanical conversion being put into practice in as simple and functionally safe a way and at as low a cost as possible, that the front axle is connected to a first end of the bolster; that the steering gear is formed on a second end of the bolster; that the bolster, between the first and the second end, comprises a pivot bearing for a pivoting motion relative to the chassis to be obtained; and that the track rod centrally comprises a pivot bearing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: BRUDER Spielwaren GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Paul Heinz Bruder
  • Patent number: 6425798
    Abstract: A wheel toy for entertaining and providing physical exercise. The wheel toy includes a wheel. A rod, which is elongate and has a first end and a second end, is extendable into and securely attached to an axis of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2002
    Inventor: Robert H. Uhlenkamp
  • Patent number: 5788557
    Abstract: A child's action toy includes an elongate extension arm, adjustable in length, with a proximal end zone defining a handle and a wheel attachment brace at an opposite distal end zone, and a wheel assembly engaged by the brace and including a first outer wheel and a second, concentrically mounted inner wheel; the outer wheel being rotatable relative to the inner wheel. Decorative gear elements are rotatably driven about gear tracks on the inner wheel as the outer wheel rotates by holding the handle and using the elongate extension arm to push the wheel assembly along a ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Inventor: Jean R. Pierre-Louis
  • Patent number: 5041043
    Abstract: The support member of a motorcycle simulation push toy which connects the wheel to the handlebars is fashioned from a pair of telescoping pieces so that the length of the support member can be adjusted. The support member can be fixed at several predetermined lengths by means of a plurality of through-bolts and nuts which securely fasten the telescoping pieces in a particular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: TCA Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas C. Hoke
  • Patent number: 4802875
    Abstract: A tethered flying disc toy having a conventional inverted saucer body and an elongated flexible tether attached to the body by an annular ball bearing providing full freedom of rotation of the disc relative to the tether. In another form, the tether line slides through a bore in an upwardly projecting shank of a plug inserted into the inner race of a ball bearing having an axis of rotation coincident with the axis of rotation of the disc body so that the disc can move freely along the tether line while spinning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Inventor: Paul E. Cunningham