MOTOR OPERATED TOY VEHICLE

• US 3,733,739 A
• Filed: 12/30/1971
• Issued: 05/22/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rouben T. Terzian
• Original Assignee: Rouben T. Terzian
• Inventors: Terzian, Rouben T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Louis G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lever, J. Q.
• Application Number:
  US05/214,022
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 46/201,202,221,100,206,243LV 180/29,30-35
• US Class Current: 446/462
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/26 Details; Accessories drive mechanisms A63H29/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 31/00 Gearing for toys gearing in general F16H

Abstract

A toy vehicle which is capable of mobility on a solid surface or through a liquid medium, and which is possessed of self-righting capability, characterized by the provision of forward and rear driven spherical wheels and an intermediate body between the wheels having a low center of gravity with a power source for the vehicle and motor means held in sealed compartments within the body.

Claims

1. A toy vehicle comprising:

means defining a vehicle body having a top, bottom, opposite sides and opposite ends;

a pair of generally spherical driving wheels rotatably connected to each end of the body for supporting the body relative to a supporting surface, each of said wheels having an outer perimeter which projects beyond the top and bottom and opposite sides of the body; and

power means connected with the vehicle and in driving engagement with at least one of said wheels to rotate the same and propel the vehicle along a supporting surface whereby at least some portion of said wheels will be in engagement with a supporting surface, or surfaces transverse thereto, to continually drive said vehicle.

2. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein said power means includes a driving gear on the body and peripheral gear surfaces on at least one of the wheels.

3. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein each of said spherical wheels has an axle affording an axis of rotation and wherein said power means is substantially below the axis of rotation of each of the wheels to provide a substantially low center of gravity for the wheel.

4. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein said power means includes a motor and a storage battery casing on the vehicle body.

5. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein said body is provided with axle supporting extensions from each side thereof with each of said extensions receiving the axle of each of said spherical wheels within the perimeter of said wheels.

6. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein said wheels are formed in closely spaced apart segments joined together by an axle and said body has extensions extending into the space between said segments for rotatably supporting said axle.

7. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein said power meaNs includes a motor and a source of power for the motor on the vehicle, both said motor and source of power being substantially located below the axis of rotation of the wheels to provide a low center of gravity to the vehicle.

8. The toy vehicle of claim 1 wherein two wheels are provided at opposite ends of the body, with driving gears on the body in engagement with each of the peripheral gear surfaces on each wheel.

9. The toy vehicle of claim 8 wherein said wheels are formed in closely spaced apart segments joined together by an axle and said body has extensions extending into the space between said segments for rotatably supporting siad axle.