Toy vehicle with integral ball playing apparatus
AssigneeSoma International Ltd.
InventorsDouglas Polumbaum, Sean R. O'Meallie
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Abstract
A toy vehicle has an object projecting apparatus mounted on a chassis and enclosed by a removable body or cover. The object projecting apparatus includes a spring loaded arm and a catch and release mechanism. The spring loaded arm can be shaped like a baseball bat or have a hand or shoe for hitting, throwing or kicking a ball. The catch and release mechanism preferably has several spaced apart movable tabs which selectively engage a catch tab o the arm. This allows the spring loaded arm to be releasably held at one of several positions so that when released the arm will strike or throw a ball at different forces, each force corresponding to the selected position.
Claims20
A toy vehicle useable as either a toy vehicle or a game projectile projector comprising:
- a) a chassis shaped as a toy vehicle chassis with a hinged liftable body with said chassis normally contained under said body when said body is closed upon said chassis;
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- b) an object projecting apparatus mounted on the chassis, said apparatus comprised of:
- i) a spring biased arm which can be moved from a rest position to at least one biased position, the arm configured to simulate one of an arm, a leg and a playing piece which is moved to one of strike and throw another playing piece simulating a sports game projectile;
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- ii) a catch and release mechanism to which the spring biased arm is engagable when in a biased position and a command actuated trigger release which is normally hidden.
The toy vehicle of calim 1 also comprising a platform removably attached to the chassis on which the object projecting apparatus is mounted.
The toy vehicle of calim 1 also comprising a platform attached to the chassis in a manner so that the platform is movable relative to the chassis.
The toy vehicle of calim 1 also comprising a mounting extending from the chassis and a hinge connected between the mounting and the catch and release mechanism which permits the catch and release mechanism to be folded down against the platform.
The toy vehicle of calim 1 also comprising a finger tab attached to the arm so that the arm may be conveniently rotated relative to the catch and release mechanism.
A toy vehicle comprising:
- a) a chassis shaped as a toy vehicle chassis, and
- b) an object projecting apparatus mounted on the chassis comprised of:
- i) a spring biased arm which can be moved from a rest position to at least one biased position;
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- ii) a catch and release mechanism to which the spring biased arm is engagable when in a biased position, wherein the catch and release mechanism has a plurality of spaced apart movable tabs that releasably engage the arm, the tabs being positioned so that the arm may be retained at a selected position corresponding to a position of one of the plurality of tabs when moved relative to the catch and release mechanism and then released by movement of the tab at the selected position.
A toy vehicle comprising:
- a) a chassis shaped as a toy vehicle chassis;
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- b) an object projecting apparatus mounted on the chassis comprised of:
- i) a spring biased arm which can be moved from a rest position to at least one biased position;
- ii) a catch and release mechanism to which the spring biased arm is engagable when in a biased position;
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- iii a catch tab extending from the arm and wherein the catch and release mechanism comprises a series of radially aligned spaced notches which may be selectively engaged by the catch tab.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.