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US 5,193,808 AGranted
Toy game apparatus
AssigneeAsahi Corporation
InventorSano Takeshi
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Abstract
A toy game apparatus includes a character figure assembly having a mouth portion which is movable to an open position, a plurality of teeth removably received in the mouth portion, and a pliers-like instrument for removing the teeth from the mouth portion. The toy game apparatus further includes a mechanism for automatically moving the mouth portion to a closed position, propelling the game apparatus forwardly, and producing a screeching sound when a randomly preselected tooth is removed from the mouth portion.
Claims12
A toy game apparatus comprising:
- a. a character figure having a mouth portion which is moveable between open and closed positions, said mouth portion having a plurality of game piece sockets therein;
- a plurality of game pieces moveably received in said game piece sockets;
- c. detecting means for detecting the movement of a game piece from a predetermined normal position in at least one of said game piece sockets;
- d. means for releasably retaining said mouth portion in the open position thereof;
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- e. means for automatically moving said mouth portion to the closed position thereof in response to the movement of a game piece from the normal position thereof in said at least one game piece receiving socket as detected by said detecting means.
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A toy game apparatus comprising:
- a. a housing including hingeably connected upper and lower housing portions said upper housing portion being hingeable relative to said lower housing portion between an open position wherein said upper housing portion is hinged upwardly relative to said lower housing portion and a downwardly hinged closed position wherein said upper housing portion is received on said lower housing portion, said lower housing portion having a plurality of game piece sockets therein;
- b. a plurality of game pieces moveably received in said game piece sockets;
- c. detecting means for detecting the movement of a game piece from a normal position in at lest one of said game piece sockets;
- d. means for releasably retaining said housing in the open position thereof;
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- e. means responsive to said detecting means for automatically moving said housing to the closed position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.