Spring-supported electric contact device for toy vehicle and track assemblies
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Abstract
A spring-supported electric contact device including a track mounting sapce in a lower part of a vehicle body for a flexible track passing through, a seesaw plastic frame pivotably fastened in an open chamber in the vehicle body beneath the track mounting space and having one end supported on a conical spring, an electric contact assembly consisted of two spaced pairs of contact nails electrical connected to the motor drive by an electric wire and fastened to the seesaw plastic frame and constantly disposed in contact with respective metallic electrical conductor strips on the flexible track to connect DC electricity supplied by a DC adapted from city power to the motor drive.
Claims5
A spring-supported electric contact device for toy vehicle and track assemblies comprising:
- a vehicle body having a track mounting space extending from a front end to a rear end of said vehicle body, said space adapted to allow a flexible track to pass through said vehicle body, said vehicle body further having a side wall at a lower portion thereof and defining a first boundary of a chamber below said track mounting space, said wall including a pivot hole;
- a seesaw frame having a pivot hole in an intermediate portion thereof and having one end supported on a conical spring;
- an electric contact assembly fastened to said seesaw frame and disposed for constant contact with metallic electrical conductor strips fastened to the flexible track;
- a side cover having a pivot hole in an intermediate portion thereof, said side cover defining a portion of said vehicle body and defining a second boundary of said chamber;
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- a pivot pin extending through said pivot hole in said seesaw frame and supported at its respective ends by the respective pivot holes in said side wall and said side cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.