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US 12,102,932 B2Granted
Assembly with inner object in housing that breaks out of housing
AssigneeSpin Master Ltd.
InventorsDavid Lewis McDonald, Amy Anne Pruzansky
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Abstract
In an aspect, a toy assembly is provided, and includes a housing, an inner object (which may, in some embodiments, be a toy character) inside the housing, a tether, and a breakout motor. The breakout motor is operatively connected to the tether such that operation of the breakout motor drives the tether to rip a hole in the housing to open the housing.
Claims6
A toy assembly, comprising:
- a housing having an outside surface, wherein the housing defines an interior space, wherein the housing includes a base that includes a first base portion and a second base portion that is rotatably mounted to the first base portion, wherein the first base portion includes a toothed travel path which is a ring gear;
- a toy character in the interior space of the housing, wherein the toy character is mounted to the second base portion;
- a tether connected to the outside surface of the housing, wherein the second base portion is operatively connected to an end of the tether;
- a breakout motor inside the toy character,
- a travel gear beneath the second base portion that is engaged with the ring gear and such that rotation of the travel gear drives rolling of the travel gear along the ring gear,
- wherein the breakout motor is operatively connected to the travel gear such that rotation of the breakout motor drives the travel gear to roll along the ring gear, thereby driving rotation of the toy character and the second base portion relative to the first base portion, which in turn drives pulling of the tether to pull a portion of the outside surface of the housing through into the interior space of the housing, thereby ripping a hole in the housing so as to open the housing,
- wherein the toy character is sized to be removable from the housing when the housing is open.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.