Combat action figures

• US 4,569,666 A
• Filed: 06/05/1984
• Issued: 02/11/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tobin Wolf
• Original Assignee: Tobin Wolf
• Inventors: Wolf, Tobin
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Application Number:
  US06/617,592
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 446/309, 446/308, 446/473, 446/399, 446/400, 446/401, 446/418, 446/336, 446/268, 124/27, 124/37
• US Class Current: 446/308
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 13/00 Toy figures with self-moving parts, with or without movement of the toy as a whole
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 13/10 shooting arrows or other missiles

Abstract

Action figures or super hero types of dolls wherein actual and realistic combat confrontations between hero and enemy can take place, the figures taking the shape of human beings, animals, robots or the like. A super hero doll or action figure carrying a simulated weapon such as a laser gun, the weapon having a retracted projectile therein with a spring force applied thereto, the projectile being held in place by a latching member on the gun. A trigger is positioned in the body of the action figure which, when moved by the finger of the player in a forward direction, rotates the latch which is pivotally mounted on the gun. This removes the latching action on the projectile and permits the spring member, which was in compressed condition, to expand and move the projectile outwardly. A flange is provided on the projectile to contact a lip at the end of the gun barrel and prevent the projectile from leaving the gun in the form of a free flying missile or the like. The opposing force or enemy is also a toy in the form of an action figure carrying a breast plate in front of the body which is normally spring biased away from the body. The breast plate is the end portion of a lever which is pivotally secured within the body torso at a central part of the lever, the end of the lever including a finger which latches into a notch on a rotating drum. The drum is secured to the legs of the figure and carries an expanded spring thereon which is secured at its other end within the action figure torso. When the breast plate is moved inwardly toward the body and against the biasing force of the spring on the lever, the finger is removed from the notch in the drum and permits the drum and legs secured thereto to rotate relative to the torso under the force of the spring attached to the drum and torso, thereby causing rotation at the waist to the point where the center of gravity is no longer over the feet of the action figure. At this point the action figure will fall over to simulate an injured or fatally wounded animal, human or robot or the like.

Claims

1. A toy which comprises, in combination:

(a) a toy action figure comprising a body having an aperture therethough, a trigger member slidably disposed in said aperture and extending from both sides of the body, and

(b) utilization means secured to said body and including

(c) a barrel spaced from the trigger member,

(d) a projectile slidably supported within said barrel at the upstream portion thereof,

(e) force means in the downstream portion of said barrel capable of applying a force to said projectile, and

(f) latching means responsive to movement of said trigger member for causing said force means to apply a force to said projectile.

2. A toy as set forth in claim 1 wherein said force means is a spring and said projectile includes a flange latchable to said latching means.

3. A toy as set forth in claim 1 wherein said projectile includes a flange at its downstream end for latching with said latching means and said barrel supports lip means at its upstream end for engaging said flange.

4. A toy as set forth in claim 2 wherein said projectile includes a flange at its downstream end for latching with said latching means and said barrel supports lip means at its upstream end for engaging said flange.

5. A toy as set forth in claim 3 wherein said latching means includes a latch for engaging said flange and a further portion for engaging said trigger and pivot means positioned between said latch and said further portion for pivotally securing said latching means to said barrel.

6. A toy as set forth in claim 4 wherein said latching means includes a latch for engaging said flange and a further portion for engaging said trigger and pivot means positioned between said latch and said further portion for pivotally securing said latching means to said barrel.