Toy vehicle for children
AssigneeKassai Kabushikikaisha
InventorKenzou Kassai
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Abstract
A vehicle for children is constructed so that a child sits on it with the legs on either side and drives it with leg strokes kicking the ground. A bonnet-like portion forming the front top of the body of the vehicle is tiltably attached to the front of the body excluding the portion. Thus, the tilting of the bonnet-like portion enables the portion to assume a closed position and an open position. The outer surface of the bonnet-like portion indicates a caricature of a human facial expression with the eyes opened, while the outer surface of the portion of the body remainder located below the bonnet-like portion indicates a human facial expression with the eyes closed. As a result, the appearance of the front of the vehicle for children will vary between the closed and open positions of the bonnet-like portion.
Claims17
A toy vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body, a seat provided on the upper surface of said vehicle body, a plurality of ground-engaging wheels rotatably attached to the lower surface of said vehicle body, said vehicle body including a body remainder housing portion and a separate front housing portion forming the upper front surface of the vehicle body, shaft-receiving holes in said separate housing portions aligned with each other to extend through said front housing portion and through said body remainder portion, a shaft member adapted to be received in said shaft-receiving holes, whereby said front housing portion is tiltably attached to said body remainder portion, spring means operatively interposed between said separate housing portions to constantly urge said front housing portion into an open position, latch means operatively supported by said remainder housing portion and adapted for engaging said separate front housing portion to normally prevent the front housing portion from being opened by said spring means, operating means operatively connected to said latch means for unlatching said latch means, first image means applied to said separate front housing portion and second image means applied to said remainder housing portion below said separate front housing portion, whereby actuation of said latch operating means exposes said second image means by the resulting opening of said front housing portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.