Including Toy Appurtenance Attachable To Container Patents (Class 446/77)
  • Patent number: 4976646
    Abstract: In accordance with this invention there is provided a toy which engages a member such as a finger or a liquid medicine dispenser. The member acts as a lower jaw for the toy. The toy includes a head with an upper jaw and a body. The body is contiguous to the head and includes a trunk with front and rear limbs extended therefrom. Together, the upper jaw, the body, the front limbs and the rear limbs define a longitudinal passageway which passes through the toy. The toy accommodates the member in this passageway. The front limbs extending down from the front section of the trunk form a portion of the passageway which semi-positively engage the member. The rear limbs extending down from the rear portion of the trunk form a portion of the passageway which positively engage the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 11, 1990
    Inventor: Vickie D. Hull
  • Patent number: 4932542
    Abstract: A container includes a wall body having a projection extending inwardly from the internal wall surface of the wall body and a cavity extending inwardly from the external wall surface of the wall body into the projection with an opening which is located at the external wall surface. A rotatable member is rotatably and unremovably received in the cavity. A portion of the rotatable member protrudes out from the opening of the wall body. Whereby, the rotatable member can be rotated by a user's fingers so as to enhance the aesthetic quality of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Assignee: Great Truth Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying-Che Chen, Ing-Lang Tsay
  • Patent number: 4930645
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making tethered pair liquid feeder/toy sets for infant use. Spherical shaped containers with segmental spherical seal rings are connected by a tether line long enough to space feeding nipples of containers about same as that of average mother's breasts. Interchangeable nipple substitutes are used are used to convert liquid containers to play ball sets and toys. Invention also shows how conventional elongated liquid containers can be converted to tethered pair containers by attachment of tether line to conventional seal rings, and by use of free tether line assemblage with thin flat washer-like rings that can be placed under seal rings. A wide variety of toy items can be placed inside containers and on tops of closure caps for containers, with toy items having visual, audible, and mechanically actuated features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Inventor: Norwood R. Warehime
  • Patent number: 4884987
    Abstract: The disclosed toy balloon-gondola combination has an improved gondola that has an open top and a peripheral sidewall with spaced upper and lower edges. The gondola also has a cross member with means formed therein adapted to cooperate with the balloon fill stem, extended from an upper side of the cross member to a lower side thereof, for holding the balloon relative to the cross member. Two types of cross members are disclosed. One type of cross member is formed integrally with the gondola, and the gondola itself is of a special design. The other type of cross member is formed on a separate plug, adapted to be inserted into the open top of a conventional lightweight disposable drinking cup, and to become fixed relative to the sidewall thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Inventor: Charles P. Mason
  • Patent number: 4860896
    Abstract: A device for creating imaginative structures from used beverage containers and like cylindrical refuse having an annular belt member having a plurality of axially extending attachment means integrally formed on the outer surface thereof in spaced generally parallel relationship to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Inventor: Keith Snider
  • Patent number: 4822314
    Abstract: A construction set including a set of interlocking blocks and a container for the set which can be constructed so that at least a part of the container interlocks with the blocks. As a consequence, a structure may be erected using both the blocks and the container. Such a structure is desirable because it is significantly larger than a structure which could be created from the set of blocks alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Inventors: Edward D. O'Brian, William M. Plachy
  • Patent number: 4804350
    Abstract: A toy building block set suitable for assembling articles of play includes ring like block elements with a circular inner periphery and a polygonal outer periphery with straight side faces. A sixteen-sided polygonal block is provided with square dovetail connector and socket elements arranged on the side faces for connecting the block elements together. Other side faces of the block elements are provided with vertical dovetail chutes for co-operation with elongate stacking members having elongate dovetail projections. The block elements are thus able to be arranged in stacks on the stacking members for storage and transportation. Lashing points are provided on the stacking member ends for accepting a lashing means to secure the stack positively, and several stacks of block elements can be lashed together for packaging large sets of blocks. Different embodiments are presented. In one embodiment the block elements are provided with snap-fit socket elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Inventor: Chen-Tsung Chen
  • Patent number: 4714444
    Abstract: This invention is an unmanned aircraft which utilizes commonly available drink cans as a fuselage and central connecting point. The aircraft can be used with any pop top-type can, is easy to assemble without tools or adhesive materials, and gives above average performance relative to comparable sized craft. The wings are of break away type to prevent damage in landings or striking of other objects and the can fuselage which takes the brunt of landings can be readily replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1987
    Inventor: Robert D. Rendel
  • Patent number: 4593817
    Abstract: A container for food products, which can be used as a money box after consumption of the products, comprises a hollow casing constituted by two trough-shaped bodies which can be joined together releasably at their complementary free edges. One of the free edges has a notch which defines a slot with other free edge when the bodies are joined together. The two bodies have shaped appendages which give the container an animal-like appearance, and some of the appendages serve to support the container with the slot facing upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Ferrero S.p.A.
    Inventor: Pietro Ferrero
  • Patent number: 4544365
    Abstract: A puppet constructed from a hamburger container having a hinged lid.Finger-receiving means are provided as holes in the container or as cylindrical portions to be attached to it. Face portions may be drawn or constructed and attached to the container. A string may be attached to the lower portion, passed out through the upper portion and attached to a wall by means of tape to hang the puppet. An attachment may be attached to the container as a puppet body. Movable arms on the body may be made to move by means of string running from the arms to the lid. The attachments may be provided as cutout portions on a placemat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Inventor: James E. Donovan