Toy amusement device

• US 4,618,330 A
• Filed: 01/22/1985
• Issued: 10/21/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1985
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
• Inventors: Abe, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Application Number:
  US06/693,842
• Time in Patent Office: 637 Days
• Field of Search: 446/236, 446/241, 446/246, 446/256, 446/265, 446/227, 446/238, 446/243, 446/244, 446/268, 446/360, 446/359, 446/242, 446/246, 446/259, 446/464, 446/420, 446/418
• US Class Current: 446/236
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 1/06 with integral winding devices

Abstract

An amusement toy includes a first member which is cylindrical in shape and is located within a housing. This first member is capable of rotating on the housing. A second elongated member is located within the center of the cylindrical shaped first member and moves up and down within the first member. A first gear located on the first member engages a connecting gear which in turn engages a gear located on the second member so as to transfer linear motion of the second member into rotational motion of the first member. Rotation of the first member transferred to at least one output member whereby the output member is rotated ultimately in response to linear motion of the second member.

Claims

1. A toy which comprises:

a housing;

first and second members located on said housing;

said first member shaped as a surface of rotation having a hollow interior and open ends opening into said hollow interior, said first member rotatively mounted on said housing;

said second member being elongated in shape and located on said housing so as at least a portion of said second member is located within the hollow interior of said first member with at least a portion of said second member extending out of one of said ends of said first member, said second member linearly movable in and out of one of said ends of said first member;

first gear means located on said first member;

second gear means located on said second member;

connecting gear means located on said housing in operative association with both said first and said second gear means so as to transfer linear motion of said second member into rotational motion of said first member;

output means for producing a mechanical output, said output means independent of said first member, said output means movably located on said housing in operative association with said first member whereby rotational motion of said first member moves said output means on said housing;

said housing includes an upstanding element shaped as a surface of rotation mimicking the shape of the surface of rotation of said first member, said upstanding element sized and shaped so as to fit within the interior of said first member whereby said first member rotates around said upstanding element;

said upstanding element further including an opening located through the interior of said upstanding element, said opening sized and shaped so as to contain at least a portion of said second member;

said first member rotating around said upstanding element in response to movement of said second member with respect to said upstanding element.

2. The toy of claim 1 wherein:

said connecting gear means is rotatively mounted to said upstanding element in a position so as to contact both said first and said second members.

3. The toy of claim 1 including:

biasing means associated with said second member;

said second member movable between an initial position and a subsequent position, said second member in moving from said initial position to said subsequent position inducing a bias into said biasing means whereby in response to said bias introduced into said biasing means, said biasing means moves said second member from said subsequent position back to said initial position.

4. The toy of claim 3 wherein:

said connecting gear means includes a clutch means, said clutch means for transferring motion of said second member to said first member so as to rotate said first member when said second member moves in a first direction and disrupting the transfer of motion between said second member to said first member when said second member moves in a second direction whereby said first member does not rotate in response to movement of said second member in said second direction;

said second member in moving from said initial position to said subsequent position moves in said second direction, and in moving from said subsequent position to said initial position moves in said first direction.

5. The toy of claim 1 including:

a second output means;

said second output means operatively associated with said first member so as to be rotated in response to rotation of said first member;

said second output means includes a first element rotatively mounted on said housing, said first element operatively connected to said first member so as to be rotated on said housing in response to rotation of said first member on said housing;

said second output means further including at least one second element rotatively mounted to said first element;

second element moving means, said second element moving means operatively associated between said housing and said second element whereby as said first element moves on said housing, said second element moving means rotates said second element with respect to said first element.

6. The toy of claim 1 wherein:

said second member includes an elongated opening;

said second gear means comprising a gear rack located within the interior of said opening;

said connecting gear means having at least a portion thereof lcoated within said opening so as to contact said gear rack and be rotated by said gear rack in response to linear movement of said second member.

7. A toy which comprises:

a housing;

first and second members located on said housing;

said first member shaped as a surface of rotation having a hollow interior and open ends opening into said hollow interior, said first member rotatively mounted on said housing;

said second member being elongated in shape and located on said housing so as at least a portion of said second member is located within the hollow interior of said first member with at least a poriton of said second member extending out of one of said ends of said first member, said second member linearly movable in and out of one of said ends of said first member;

first gear means located on said first member;

second gear means located on said second member;

connecting gear means located on said housing in operative association with both said first and said second gear means so as to transfer linear motion of said second member into rotational motion of said first member;

output means for producing a mechanical output, said output means independent of said first member, said output means movably located on said housing in operative association with said first member whereby rotational motion of said first member moves said output means on said housing;

said output means including gear train means located in association with said first member;

said first member including third gear means located thereon, said third gear means engaged with said gear train means so as to rotate said gear train means in response to rotation of said first member with respect to said housing;

said output means further including movable means located on said housing in operative association with said gear train means so as to be moved by said gear train means.

8. The toy of claim 7 including:

biasing means associated with said second member;

said second member movable between an initial position and a subsequent position, said second member in moving from said initial position to said subsequent position inducing a bias into said biasing means whereby in response to said bias introduced into said biasing means, said biasing means moves said second member from said subsequent position back to said initial position.

9. The toy of claim 7 wherein:

said output means includes audible means capable of emitting a noise in repsonse to rotation of said gear train means.

10. The toy of claim 7 further including:

a second output means;

said second output means operatively associated with said first member so as to be rotated in response to rotation of said first member.

11. The toy of claim 10 wherein:

said second output means includes a first element rotatably mounted on said housing, said first element operatively connected to said first member so as to be rotated on said housing in response to rotation of said first member on said housing;

said second output means further including at least one second element rotatively mounted to said first element;

second element moving means, said second element moving means operatively associated between said housing and said second element whereby as said first element moves on said housing, said second element moving means rotates said second element with respect to said first element.

12. The toy of claim 11 wherein:

said second element moving means includes a portion thereof fixedly mounted on said housing and a further portion thereof located on said second element, said portion of said second element moving means located on said second element contacting the portion of said second element moving means located on said housing as said first member rotates with respect to said housing so as to rotate said second element with respect to said first element.

13. The toy of claim 7 wherein:

said second member includes an elongated opening;

said second gear means comprising a gear rack located within the interior of said opening;

said connecting gear means having at least a portion thereof located within said opening so as to contact said gear rack and be rotated by said gear rack in response to linear movement of said second member.

14. A toy which comprises:

a housing;

first and second members located on said housing;

said first member shaped as a surface of rotation having a hollow interior and open ends opening into said hollow interior, said first member rotatively mounted on said housing;

said second member being elongated in shape and located on said housing so as at least a portion of said second member is located within the hollow interior of said first member with at least a portion of said second member extending out of one of said ends of said first member, said second member linearly movable in and out of one of said ends of said first member;

first gear means located on said first member;

second gear means located on said second member;

connecting gear means located on said housing in operative association with both said first and said second gear means so as to transfer linear motion of said second member into rotational motion of said first member;

output means for producing a mechanical output, said output means independent of said first member, said output means movably located on said housing in operative association with said first member whereby rotational motion of said first member moves said output means on said housing;

said second member includes an elongated opening;

said second gear means comprising a gear rack located within the interior of said opening;

said connecting gear means having at least a portion thereof located within said opening so as to contact said gear rack and be rotated by said gear rack in response to linear movement of said second member.

15. The toy of claim 14 wherein:

said connecting gear means includes a clutch means, said clutch means for transferring motion of said second member to said first member so as to rotate said first member when said second member moves in a first direction and disrupting the transfer of motion between said second member to said first member when said second member moves in a second direction whereby said first member does not rotate in response to movement of said second member in said second direction.

16. The toy of claim 14 including:

a second output means;

said second output means operatively associated with said first member so as to be rotated in response to rotation of said first member;

said second output means includes a first element rotatively mounted on said housing, said first element operatively connected to said first member so as to be rotated on said housing in response to rotation of said first member on said housing;

said second output means further including at least one second element rotatively mounted to said first element;

second element moving means, said second element moving means operatively associated between said housing and said second element whereby as said first element moves on said housing, said second element moving means rotates said second element with respect to said first element.

17. The toy of claim 14 wherein:

said connecting gear means is rotatively mounted to said upstanding element in a position so as to contact both said first and said second members.

18. The toy of claim 15 including:

biasing means associated with said second member;

said second member movable between an initial position and a subsequent position, said second member in moving from said initial position to said subsequent position inducing a bias into said biasing means whereby in response to said bias introduced into said biasing means, said biasing means moves said second member from said subsequent position back to said initial position.

19. The toy of claim 18 wherein:

said second member in moving from said initial position to said subsequent position moves in said second direction, and in moving from said subsequent position to said initial position moves in said first direction.