TOY VEHICLE HAVING MEANS FOR CANTING WHEELS ON COLLISION

• US 3,859,752 A
• Filed: 06/01/1973
• Issued: 01/14/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Donald F. Nix, Howard J. Morrison
• Original Assignee: Donald F. Nix, Howard J. Morrison
• Inventors: Morrison, Howard J., Nix, Donald F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shay, F. Barry
• Application Number:
  US05/365,952
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 46/201,211,221 280/1.1R,1.1A,1.11R 273/12.1C
• US Class Current: 446/6
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/02 convertible into other forms under the action of impact or shock, e.g. arrangements for imitating accidents

Abstract

A child'"'"''"'"'s entertainment or amusement toy in the form of a wheeled vehicle having dislocatable parts providing a simultaneous set of events involving dislocation of the parts triggered by collision impact of the vehicle. After impact and dislocation of the various parts of the vehicle, the parts remain connected to the vehicle chassis. The vehicle includes a body containing a singular actuator mounted for sliding movement within the body between a normal protruding position and a retracted dislocate position. The actuator is spring loaded for automatic return to its normal protruding position. The actuator extends to the exterior of the automobile body at the front thereof and acts as a bumper having simulated human feet with shoes. Impact of the bumper moves the slide member to its retracted dislocate position by collision of the automobile. Such movement of the slide member causes the front and rear hoods to pop open, a simulated driver'"'"''"'"'s head to pop out of the top of the vehicle, and the vehicle wheels to move to a canted position simulating collapse of the axles and wheels. The slide actuator returns to its normal position whereby the head, wheels and front and rear hoods can be manually returned to their proper located positions where they are held for the next collision.

Claims

1. A wheeled toy vehicle comprising:

a body having a plurality of movable parts including a plurality of wheels mounted on axles for rotation relative to said body, and transverse pivot means associated with each axle for arcuate movement of the wheels from a normal rolling position to a canted dislocated position;

a unitary slide member, means mounting said slide member on said body for lengthwise sliding movement on impact from a normal position to a dislocated position relative to said body, said slide member including a portion exposed on the exterior of the body in the form of a bumper element for moving the slide member to its dislocated position upon impact against the bumper element; and

blocking means associated with said slide member and said wheels for preventing movement of the wheels to canted position when the slide member is in its normal position, said blocking means being disengageable for permitting movement of the wheels to canted position upon movement of the slide member to its dislocated position.

2. The toy vehicle of claim 1 including resilient means biasing said slide member in a return direction to its normal position and said blocking means being adapted to permit return of said wheels from their dislocated position to their normal position with said slide member already returned to its normal position by said resilient means.

3. The wheeled vehicle of claim 1 wherein said pivot means are so located relative to the body that said wheels move to canted position under the weight of the vehicle.

4. The wheeled vehicle of claim 1, said body comprising a simulated automobile body having a roof, a port in said roof, a simulated human-form head received in said port for movement between a normal retracted position within the body and a dislocated position extended through the roof port, means for urging said head to dislocated position, latch means associated with said slide member and said head to hold the head in normal retracted position with the slide member in normal position, said latch means releasing said head to dislocated position responsive to movement of the slide member to dislocated position.

5. The wheeled vehicle of claim 4 including stop means for preventing complete removal of said head means from said body through the roof port.

6. The wheeled vehicle of claim 4 wherein the bumper element is in the form of simulated human-form feet extending from the front of the vehicle.

7. The wheeled vehicle of claim 4 comprising additional dislocatable parts including front and rear decks mounted on said body for movement between closed or normal and open or dislocated positions, means for preventing movement of said decks from their closed positions and for releasing and moving said decks to open positions responsive to movement of said slide member to the dislocated position.

8. A toy in the form of an automobile which is dislocatable by a collision impact or shock, said automobile having a body with a roof, front and rear decks pivotally mounted for opening and closing and a plurality of separate axles each mounting separate wheels for rotation relative to said body, transverse pivot means on each axle for movement of the wheels from a normal rolling position to a canted dislocated position, a port in said roof, a simulated human-form head received in said port for sliding movement between a normal position within the body and a dislocated position extended through the roof port, a unitary slide member mounted within the automobile body for lengthwise sliding movement from a forward normal position to a rearward dislocate position, said slide member extending through the front of the automobile body to the body exterior as a bumper element for moving said slide member to dislocate position upon impact against the bumper element, means biasing said slide member in the return direction to its normal position, front and rear deck biasing means for biasing said front and rear decks each to open position, front deck blocking means mounted on said slide member for blocking movement of the front deck to open position with said slide member in normal position and unblocking movement of the front deck on movement of said slide member to dislocate position, rear deck blocking means for preventing movement of the rear deck to open position with said slide member in normal position and unblocking movement of the rear deck on movement of said slide member to dislocate position, head biasing means urging said head to its dislocated position, stop means for blocking said head against removal through said roof in dislocated position, latch means secured to said slide member and engaging said head in normal position with said slide member in normal position, said latch means moving with said slide member to disengage from said head with said slide member in dislocate position, axle blocking means on said slide member for blocking each axle and wheel combination from pivoting to dislocated position and moving with said slide member to disengage from said axle and wheel combinations with said slide member in dislocate position, whereby upon movement of said slide member to dislocate position all of said blocking means unblock and said latch means disengage, the front and rear decks pop open, the head pops up through the roof port and the wheels move to canted positions, said front deck blocking means, axle blocking means and head latch means being sufficiently resilient to permit re-engagement of the blocking and latch surfaces for closing the front and rear decks, straightening the wheels and returning the head within the body with said slide member returned to normal position.