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US 5,560,500 AGranted
Scale car race track display
OwnerJay E. Wilcoxinventor
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Abstract
A U-shaped track formed into a banked curve mounted on the walls in a corner of a room with brackets. A pair of banked curves may be interconnected. Non-curved straightaway tracks may interconnect corner-mounted curved tracks.
Claims7
A display apparatus for scale cars to be mounted on a wall having a corner, said display apparatus comprising:
- at least one curved track having a first end, a second end, a bottom wall, a first wall, and a second wall, said first and second wall extending upward from said bottom wall, said first wall slopingly extending farther upward from said bottom wall than said second wall to provide the appearance of a realistic banked race track, said curved track being mountable to the corner of the wall;
- first and second straight tracks each having a primary end, a secondary end, a bottom wall, a first wall, a second wall, and an end wall, each said secondary end being opposite each said primary end, each said first, second, and end walls of said first and second track extending upward from each said bottom wall, each said end wall connecting each said first and second wall of said first and second track at each said secondary end, said primary end of said first straight track being abutted against said first end of said curved track, said primary end of said second straight track being abutted against said second end of said curved track;
- at least two brackets supporting each said straight and curved tracks, each said bracket being generally triangular in shape for mounting said straight and curved tracks at an angle to the wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.