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US 3,942,285 AGranted
Miniature toy vehicle construction
AssigneeTonka Corporation
InventorBernard J. Dehner
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Abstract
A miniature toy vehicle having an elongated body and two or more wheel and axle assemblies disposed on the underside of the body in longitudinally spaced positions with the axles disposed transversely of the body in parallelism and being seated in notches in the body, and a pan extending along the underside of the body between the wheels to hold the axles in said notches with the ends of the pan being secured to the body.
Claims3
In a miniature toy vehicle,
- a. a vehicle body shell having a front wall with a grille opening and a rear wall with an aperture therein,
- b. a body insert having a projection at one end fitting in the grille opening, an aperture at its other end and slots on its underside for receiving a wheel axle,
- c. a wheel carrying axle disposed in said slots,
- d. a pan extending along the underside of the insert to prohibit removal of the axle from the insert slots and having a hook means at one end engaging over the projection and an aperture at its other end aligned with the apertures in the insert and shell when the members are assembled, and
- e. a fastener extending through said apertures to lock the shell, insert and pan together.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.