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US 5,996,564 AGranted
Disc discharging device
AssigneeKids Only, Inc.
InventorPaul J. Kotowski
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Abstract
A disc discharging toy includes a body having a hand grip; a plurality of resilient discs; a magazine mounted on the body and containing the plurality of resilient discs in a stacked position; and a single drive roller driven by a motor and imparting a discharge force to each disc when fed into a discharge position wherein the drive roller has an axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of each resilient disc.
Claims2
A disc discharging toy comprising:
- a body having a hand grip;
- a plurality of resilient discs;
- a magazine mounted on the body and containing the plurality of resilient discs in a stacked position;
- means for discharging the discs one by one from the body;
- means for feeding the discs one by one from the magazine to the discharging means, the disc feeding means including a trigger which engages a sliding plate, the trigger having teeth which cooperate with a ratchet portion of the sliding plate;
- wherein each disc includes upper and lower planar surfaces and a disc axis orthogonal to said upper and lower planar surfaces,
- wherein the disc discharging means includes a single drive roller driven by a motor and imparting a discharge force to each disc when fed into a discharge position by the means for feeding and wherein the drive roller has an axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of each resilient disc.
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A disc discharging toy comprising:
- a plate having two opposite sides, a forward portion, and a rearward portion;
- means for holding plurality of discs in a vertical stack over the plate;
- a roller driven by an electric motor, the roller rotatably attached to a housing disposed over the plate;
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- means for feeding a lower-most one of the discs into engagement with a side of the single roller to thereby be discharged from the forward position of the plate, the feeding means including a trigger which engages a sliding plate, the trigger having teeth which cooperate with a ratchet portion of the sliding plate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.