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US 5,611,322 AGranted
Disc discharging toy
AssigneeToybox Corporation
InventorsTatsuya Matsuzaki, Hisashi Ishida
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Abstract
A disc discharging toy for discharging discs is provided which comprises a plurality of resilient discs, a magazine for holding the discs in a stacked position, a forcibly feeding device for forcibly feeding the discs so held in the supply portion piece by piece toward a discharging position, and a discharging device for discharging the disc so fed. The discharging device includes two rollers and a motor for rotating at least one of the two rollers in a direction in which the disc is discharged.
Claims11
A disc discharging toy comprising:
- a plate having an upper longitudinal surface and two opposite lateral sides, a forward portion and a rearward portion;
- means for holding a plurality of discs in a vertical stack on the upper longitudinal surface at the rearward portion of the plate;
- a first drive roller driven by an electric motor and being positioned on one side of the plate, the drive roller cooperating with a non-driven element to impart a discharging force to each disc;
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- means for feeding a lower-most one of the discs into engagement with the first drive roller and the non-driven element, thereby discharging each disc from the forward portion of the plate.
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A toy comprising:
- a body having a forward portion, a rearward portion, and a partition plate dividing the body into upper and lower portions;
- a magazine extending upwardly from the upper portion of the body and having an open upper end, and an open lower end positioned over the partition plate;
- a plurality of resilient discs mounted substantially coaxially in a stacked relation to each other in the magazine, with a lower-most one of the discs resting on the partition plate each disc having a cylindrical peripheral surface;
- means including a drive roller having a cylindrical outer surface, for discharging the discs one by one from the body;
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- means for feeding the discs one by one from the magazine to the discharging means whereby the cylindrical outer surface of the drive roller engages the cylindrical outer surface of each disc to impart a rotating discharge force to each disc.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.