Self-powered toy animal
AssigneeMasudaya Toy Company Limited
InventorShigeru Saitoh
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Abstract
A self-powered toy comprises a relatively small toy animal and a relatively large toy animal having an openable mouth. A reel provided inside the large animal is connected to a drive and has a line connected to it that extends out the mouth of the large animal and is attached to the smaller animal. In addition the large animal, which may be constituted as a floatable fish or the like, is provided with means for propelling it through the water so that the drive unit can propel this large animal through the water and simultaneously reel in the small animal. Thus the large animal will appear to pursue and then eat the small animal as it pulls the small animal into its openable mouth.
Claims7
A toy comprising:
- a floatable and relatively small toy animal;
- a floatable and relatively large toy animal having a generally hollow interior and an openable mouth;
- a reel in said interior;
- a paddle projecting from said large animal and movable to displace said large animal in a liquid;
- a line having one end attached to said small animal and another end attached to said reel, said line passing through said mouth and being windable on said reel;
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- drive means including a spring windup mechanism in said interior attached to said reel and to said paddle for winding said line around said reel to pull said small animal into said interior through said mouth and to oscillate said paddle and thereby displace said large animal in a liquid in which same is floating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.