Robot toy and mechanism for actuating the same

• US 3,199,249 A
• Filed: 03/12/1962
• Issued: 08/10/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James Smith, Raymond J. Lohr, Richard N. Carver
• Original Assignee: James Smith, Raymond J. Lohr, Richard N. Carver
• Inventors: Carver, Richard N., Lohr, Raymond J., Smith, James
• Application Number:
  US04/179,175
• Time in Patent Office: 1,247 Days
• US Class Current: 446/290
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 11/10 Figure toys with single- or multiple-axle undercarriages, by which the figures perform a realistic running motion when the toy is moving over the floor
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 13/00 Toy figures with self-moving parts, with or without movement of the toy as a whole

Claims

2. A FIGURE TOY HAVINGAN UPRIGHT LEG PORTION ON WHICH THE FIGURE TOY IS ADAPTED TO STAND, A TORSO, A HEAD, AND ARMS, SAID TORSO BEING PIVOTED ON THE UPPER END OF THE LEG PORTION BY A HORIZONTAL WAIST PIVOT FOR FORWARD BENDING ACTION, AND MOTOR MEANS TO CAUSE SUCH BENDING ACTION, SAID MOTOR MEANS COMPRIISNG A SMALL BATTERY-OP ERATED REVERSIBLE ELECTRIC MOTOR IN THE LEG PORTION, A REVERSING SWITCH FOR SAID MOTOR, A TRAIN OF HIGH RATIO SPEED REDUCTION GEARING DRIVEN BY SAID MOTOR AND TERMINATING IN A CRANK, AN ANGLE LEVER ON THE WAIST PIVOT CONNECTED TO THE TORSO ASND ALSO BEING LONTIDUAINALLY SLOTTED TO RECEIVE THE PIN OF THE AFORESAID CRANK, THE RELATION OF THE PARTS BEING SUCH THAT SUCCESSIVE ONE-HALF REVOLUTIONS OF THE CRANK IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS CAUSE SUCCESSIVE ONEQUARTER REVOLUTIONS OF THE ANGLE LEVER AND WITH IT BENDING OF THE TORSO BETWEEN UPRIGHT AND BENT OVER POSITIONS AND RETURN, AND A TORSION SPRING EXERTING ITS TORQUE IN THAT DIRDCTION WHICH RESISTS DOWNWARD MOVEMENT AND AIDS UPWARD MOVEMENT AND THEREBY TENDS TO ALIGN THE TORSO WITH THE UPRIGHT LEG PORTION ,THEREBY TENDING TO COUNTERACT THE FORCE OF GRAVITY AND THE DIFFERENCE IN THE MOTOR LOAD WHEN LOWERING AND RIASING THE TORSO.