Remote electrically controlled wheeled toy

• US 3,101,569 A
• Filed: 05/17/1960
• Issued: 08/27/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Andrew N. Giardina
• Original Assignee: Andrew N. Giardina
• Inventors: Giardina, Andrew N.
• Application Number:
  US04/029,725
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• US Class Current: 446/230
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/36 Steering-mechanisms for toy vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/02 Electrical arrangements transformers H01F; converters H02M
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/003 Convertible toys, e.g. robots convertible into rockets or vehicles convertible into planes

Claims

1. A REMOTELY CONTROLLED TOY AIRPLANE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A TOY AIRPLANE, MOUNTED ON WHEELS, A REVERSIBLE ELECTRIC MOTOR MOUNTED ON SAID AIRPLANE FOR SELECTIVELY DRIVING SAID AIRPLANE FORWARDLY OR REARWARDLY, A REMOTE CONTROL ELEMENT ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO SAID MOTOR BY A FLEXIBLE CABLE AND BEING IN THE FORM OF A SUBSTANTIALLY SEMI-CIRCULAR STEERING WHEEL HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL CASING EXTENDING DIAMETRICALLY THEREOF, STATIONARY DRY CELL MEANS SNUGLY ENCLOSED IN SAID CASING, SAID AIRPLANE INCLUDING A PAIR OF SOLENOIDS AND FRONT WHEEL BRAKING ELEMENTS OPERATED THEREBY TO OBTAIN STEERING MOVEMENTS OF SAID AIRPLANE, A CYLINDRICAL ELEMENT MOUNTED FOR ROLLING MOVEMENT IN A CONFINED PORTION OF SAID CASING, ELECTRICAL CONTACT STRIPS MOUNTED IN A WALL PORTION OF SAID CASING AND COOPERABLE WITH SAID ROLLING CONTACT ELEMENT IN RESPONSE TO ROTATIONAL MOVEMENTS OF SAID STEERING WHEEL IN ITS OWN PLANE FOR SELECTIVELY ENERGIZING SAID SOLENOIDS TO EFFECT RIGHT AND LEFT STEERING MOVEMENTS OF SAID AIRPLANE.