Bodyslammers toy racing vehicles
OwnerLeonard R. Clark, Jr., H. Peter Greeneinventors
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Abstract
Toy racing vehicles for operating on preexisting track of a particular scale comprise sub bodies including conventional chassis and larger-scale “visible cars”, which are supported by the sub bodies, but are not fixed or mounted thereto. Instead, a visible car simply rests on the sub body, and is retained loosely thereon by one or more guide pins mounted on the sub body, and fitting loosely within apertures in a plate fixed with respect to the visible car. Accordingly, when the larger-scale visible cars bump one another during racing, they can be jostled out of their normal positions on their sub bodies, but are not separated therefrom, and return to their normal positions when the contact ceases. Realistic and exciting racing action results.
Claims16
A toy racing vehicle, intended to be operated on a predetermined track comprising paired electrical conductors and a guiding groove, said vehicle comprising:
- a sub body, said sub body comprising a chassis, said chassis comprising electrical pickup members for contacting said paired conductors, a motor connected to said pickup members, wheels driven by said motor, and a guide member adapted to cooperate with said guiding groove, and
- a visible car adapted to be supported on said sub body without being fixed thereto,
- wherein said sub body and said visible car comprise cooperating features for loosely retaining said visible car on said sub body, said cooperating features allowing motion of the visible car with respect to the sub body, and tending to urge said visible car toward a normal position with respect to said sub body;
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- wherein said chassis is designed to run on a predetermined track designed for the operation of toy racing cars of a first scale, and wherein the visible car is of substantially larger scale.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.