Motor driven rolling toy

• US 3,312,013 A
• Filed: 01/15/1964
• Issued: 04/04/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ross Graves Joseph
• Original Assignee: Ross Graves Joseph
• Inventors: ROSS GRAVES JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US04/337,885
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• US Class Current: 446/288
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/005 Motorised rolling toys

Claims

4. A TOY OF THE CHARACTER REFERRED TO INCLUDING A FRAME HAVING A PAIR OF AXIALLY SPACED DISC-SHAPED END PLATES, A CONICAL GROUND ENGAGING RING CONVERING AXIALLY TOWARDS ONE END AND HAVING A PAIR OF AXIALLY-SPACED RADIALLY INWARDLY PROJECTING ANNULAR TRACKS, SAID RING BEING ARRANGED ABOUT THE FRAME, AN AXIALLY OUTWARDLY CONVERGENT TRUNCATED CONICAL SHELL FIXED TO EACH END PLATE TO PROJECT AXIALLY OUTWARDLY THEREFROM AND FROM WITHIN THE ADJACENT END OF THE RING, EACH SHELL HAVING INDICATING MEANS ARRANGED THEREIN AND A WINDOW OPENING IN ITS OUTER END THROUGH WHICH THE INDICATING MEANS CAN BE VIEWED, AND DRIVE MEANS CARRIED BY THE FRAME TO ROTATE THE RING RELATIVE TO THE FRAME AND ACROSS THE GROUND, SAID DRIVE MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED WHEELS CARRIED BY THE END PLATES OF THE FRAME AND ENGAGING THE TRACKS, A PRIME MOVER CARRIED BY THE FRAME BETWEEN THE END PLATES AND BELOW THE CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE FRAME AND COUPLED WITH AND DRIVING ONE OF THE WHEELS ON EACH END PLATE.