Spinning toy apparatus
AssigneeHasbro, Inc.
InventorsMeredith Brooks, Dean Carley, Sean Carmine Isabella
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Abstract
A toy apparatus having a lower base, an upper base and a doll cover for the upper base where the lower base and the upper base attach and detach with an easy twisting motion. The lower base encloses a flywheel on a shaft, and a passageway for a rack and includes a cover with an outside screw thread. The upper base is either empty or encloses three switches, a sound generator, a light source, a controller printed circuit board, and a battery chamber and includes a cover with an inside screw thread that mates with the screw thread of the lower base. The toy apparatus has two primary play modes, a first mode where the lower base, the upper base and the cover are connected and a user uses the rack to spin the flywheel.
Claims27
A toy apparatus comprising:
- a housing enclosing a flywheel and a passageway for a rack to rotate the flywheel, a chamber for a battery, a plurality of switches, a sound generator and a controller;
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- a doll for covering a portion of the housing wherein the toy has two play modes, a first mode where the housing and doll spin rapidly to enable a switch to energize the sound generator, and a second mode where the housing and doll are handheld and another switch, manually operable, enables the sound generator to be energized.
A toy apparatus comprising:
- a lower base enclosing a flywheel and a passageway for a rack to enable the flywheel to be energized;
- an upper base detachably connectible to the lower base;
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- a covering for the upper base.
A toy apparatus comprising:
- a lower base enclosing a flywheel and a passageway for a rack;
- an upper base detachably connectible to the lower base, the upper base enclosing a chamber for a battery, a first switch, a second switch, a sound generator and a controller for the sound generator;
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- a doll for covering the upper base wherein the first switch is manually operated and the second switch is actuated when the flywheel is spinning.
A rack for a toy apparatus comprising:
- a handle;
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- an elongated flexible bar, the bar having a rectangular cross section with opposing surfaces wherein each of the opposing surfaces includes a series of evenly spaced recessed teeth for receiving teeth of a flywheel drive gear.
A method for manufacturing a toy apparatus having two modes of play comprising the steps of:
- forming a lower base having a rotatable flywheel, a passageway for receiving a rack to operate the flywheel and an outside screw thread;
- forming an upper base having a sound generator, a battery compartment, three switches, a controller and an inside screw thread for engaging the outside screw thread of the lower base;
- forming a doll to be placed over the upper base;
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- connecting the doll to the upper base wherein the toy apparatus may be operated with the doll, the upper base and the lower base connected, or with only the upper base and the doll connected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.