Toy vehicle capable of shooting color ribbon crackers

• US 5,248,274 A
• Filed: 08/14/1992
• Issued: 09/28/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kun-Meng Wang
• Original Assignee: Kun-Meng Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Kun-Meng
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stone, Gregory
• Application Number:
  US07/929,352
• Time in Patent Office: 410 Days
• Field of Search: 446/4, 446/5, 446/6, 446/435, 446/441, 446/471, 446/486
• US Class Current: 446/6
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 17/006 Missile-launching means on toy vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 37/00 Jokes; Confetti, streamers, or other dance favours ; Cracker bonbons or the like

Abstract

The present invention relates to a toy vehicle capable of shooting color ribbon crackers and is characterized by a master shooting member which is normally held by a retaining means. When the bumper of the toy vehicle collides with something else, it is pushed to cause an impact link to disengage the retaining means from said master shooting member, permitting the same to impact a secondary shooting member which has a percussion head that will in turn knock a color ribbon cracker pre-mounted on the toy vehicle. The percussed cracker shall explode and disperse colored ribbons or papers of different shapes or patterns contained therein, creating interesting and joyous air.

Claims

1. A toy vehicle capable of shooting color ribbon crackers comprising:

a collision bumper installed at the front end of a chassis of said toy vehicle, having a generally triangular member which extends backward from the inner side of said bumper and has a generally triangular opening formed therein near the pointed end thereof for receiving a retaining rod fixed to said chassis of said toy vehicle;

two guide blocks fixed on said chassis at positions near two sides of said triangular member such that said triangular member shall be guided to move between said two guide blocks when said collision bumper is subjected to either a front or a lateral collision force;

an impact link being longitudinally clamped between a pair of guide rails fixed on said chassis with one front end of said impact link pointing to said triangular member of said collision bumper and being movable backward when it is pushed by said triangular member due to collision of said collision bumper with something else;

a flat retaining means having a generally V-shaped configuration and being pivotly fixed to said chassis positioned behind said impact link, one lateral end of said flat retaining means being connected to and thereby held by a spring fixed to said chassis, and the other lateral free end of said flat retaining means being touchable by said impact link and thereby moving backward when said collision bumper collides with something else;

a master shooting member flatly laid on said chassis with a bottom key downward projected out of said chassis through a groove formed thereat;

said master shooting member having a laterally projected retaining wing which contacts said other lateral free end of said flat retaining means, and a front projected portion onto there a shooting spring is received;

said bottom key, and said master shooting member, accordingly, being able to be pushed toward the front end of said chassis, causing said shooting spring to be compressed until said retaining wing of said master shooting member engages with and is thereby retained by said flat retaining means at said free end thereof;

said retaining wing being disengaged from said lateral free end of said flat retaining means when said flat retaining means is pushed back by said impact link at the time said collision bumper collides with something else;

said shooting spring being able to spring said master shooting member toward the rear end of said chassis when said retaining wing of said master shooting member disengages from said lateral free end of said flat retaining means; and

a secondary shooting member having a shaft two ends of which laterally extend to be pivotly held by a pair of lug seats fixed on said chassis, allowing said secondary shooting member to turn about said shaft when said master shooting member is sprung and dashes toward the rear portion of said chassis, said secondary shooting member having a percussion head which normally faces said master shooting member and shall be turned around in a direction in which a force is applied to it by said master shooting member when said retaining wing disengages from said flat retaining means and permits said shooting spring to recover its normal status, that is, pushing said master shooting member backward, and thereby to face a bottom trigger core of a color ribbon cracker pre-mounted in a U=shaped compartment formed at the rear portion of the body of said toy vehicle;

said U-shaped compartment having retaining ribs and an annular elastic retainer for fitly holding said color ribbon cracker therein;

said color ribbon cracker having colored ribbons or papers of different shapes or patterns contained therein and being able to explode and disperse said ribbons and papers therein to form interesting and joyous air.