MINIATURE WHEELED TOY VEHICLE

• US 3,571,970 A
• Filed: 01/10/1969
• Issued: 03/23/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Armando P. Villasana, Ralph Dunn, Robert E. Finney
• Original Assignee: Armando P. Villasana, Ralph Dunn, Robert E. Finney
• Inventors: Dunn, Ralph, Villasana, Armando P., Finney, Robert E.
• Application Number:
  US04/790,209
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• US Class Current: 446/451
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 5/00 Musical or noise- producing devices for additional toy effects other than acoustical musical tops A63H1/28; sound-producing dolls A63H3/28; musical toy vehicles A63H17/268; acoustical vehicle-signalling devices A63H17/32; whistling toy locomotive arrangements A63H19/14; music, sound or noise production in general G10
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 7/04 moving together with a toy vehicle or together with wheels rolling on the ground, i.e. driven by vehicle or wheel movement

Abstract

This is a miniature toy vehicle including an enclosure carried by rotatable wheels. The enclosure is adapted to be easily opened for access to a removable toy figure mounted therein and is fabricated in a single molding process. It generally comprises a lower frame portion to which opposite sidewalls and end plates are hingedly connected and a roof section extending inwardly from the top of one of these sidewalls. Also, a latching arrangement is included at the top of an opposite sidewall for releasably holding a portion of the roof section.

Claims

1. In combination with a miniature toy vehicle having rotatable wheels, a unitary enclosure carried by said wheels, comprising:

a lower frame portion;

first and second opposite sidewalls as well as opposite front and rear end plates hingedly connected to said frame portion, said opposite end plates generally orthogonally extend from opposite ends of said first sidewall;

an integral enclosure roof section extending generally orthogonally inward from the top of said first sidewall toward said second sidewall;

latching means adjacent the top of said second sidewall for releasably holding a portion of said roof section; and

means for releasably holding said end plates adjacent the associated ends of said sidewalls.

2. In combination with a miniature toy vehicle having rotatable wheels, a unitary enclosure carried by said wheels, comprising:

a lower frame portion;

first and second opposite sidewalls as well as opposite front and rear end plates hingedly connected to said frame portion;

an integral enclosure roof section extending generally orthogonally inward from the top of said first said sidewall toward said second sidewall;

latching means adjacent the top of said second sidewall for releasably holding a portion of said roof sections;

means for releasably holding said end plates adjacent the associated ends of said sidewalls;

a handle of flexible material hingedly attached at one of its ends to an upper edge of said front end plate, said handle having an aperture disposed adjacent its free end; and

a holding post extending outwardly of the end of said second sidewall to removably hold said free end of said handle.

3. A toy vehicle according to claim 1, wherein said enclosure includes a bottom platform upon which a toy figure holding means is mounted, said platform being hingedly connected along one of its ends to a stationary lower end portion of said enclosure and including a cam follower on the underside of said platform adjacent its free end, and wherein an axle is attached to and rotates with at least one of said rotatable wheels, said axle having mounted thereon a cam on which rides said cam follower.