Radio controllable spherical toy

• US 4,927,401 A
• Filed: 08/08/1989
• Issued: 05/22/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harald V. Sonesson
• Original Assignee: Harald V. Sonesson
• Inventors: Sonesson, Harald V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Muir, D. Neal
• Application Number:
  US07/390,773
• Time in Patent Office: 287 Days
• Field of Search: 446/437, 446/438, 446/439, 446/433, 446/431, 446/456, 446/454, 446/457, 446/458, 446/462, 180/79.3, 280/206, 280/827, 280/1.22, 280/221, 280/226
• US Class Current: 446/456
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/005 Motorised rolling toys

Abstract

A radio-controlled spherical toy is designed as a hollow, preferably transparent sphere containing a radio-controlled vehicle supported on two drive bands having a track contact between points the maximum distance between which is less than 80% of the inner diameter of the sphere.

Claims

1. A radio-controllable substantially spherical toy comprising a hollow, substantially spherical toy body having an inner surface substantially concentric with an outer surface thereof and a predetermined diameter of the inner surface of said body containing a radio controlled vehicle having means frictionally engaging said inner surface for causing relative movements between said vehicle and said body, characterized in that said means consist of two endless bands each said band engaging the inner surface for traction and being wrapped around a system of a plurality of support wheels and at least one driving wheel defining an arced length, said endless bands having such dimensions that a maximum distance between end points of said arcedlength, of engagement between said bands with the inner surface of said body is less than 80% of the diameter of the inner surface of said body.

2. A toy according to claim 1 in which said bands are rubber bands.

3. A toy according to claim 1 in which said means are mounted on a chassi having a height which is less than 50% of the diameter of the inner surface of said body.

4. A toy according to claim 1 in which said bands along the system of support and guiding wheels thereof adjacent the inner surface of said body include means for guiding the bands to follow a substantially circular path corresponding to the inner surface of said body.