Spring tail bouncing figure
AssigneeBruce D. Lund
InventorsBruce D. Lund, Krishnan Sriangam
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Abstract
A toy character assembly having a coiled tail spring connected to one of said legs. There is mechanism provided for movably mounting the legs relative to said body portion. A gear train is operated by a motor to move the legs relative to the body portion in a downwardly direction to compress the coiled tail spring and then release the legs and body portion to set up a harmonic motion of the body and spring tail.
Claims12
A toy character comprising a body portion having a leg assembly and a spring tail portion connected to said leg assembly, a motor secured to said body portion, a switch operated powered motor controller means for operating said motor, a gear train driven by said motor, a gear rack secured to said leg assembly, means including springs for movably mounting said leg assembly relative to said body portion, said gear train including a drive pinion having a partial tooth portion for engagement and disengagement with said rack whereby when the pinion is in engagement with the rack the legs will move downward against the action of the springs and when moved out of engagement with the rack the character will be moved upward by the spring tail.
A toy character comprising a body portion having a pair of legs, a spring tail connected to one of said legs, means connecting said legs together, means for movably mounting the legs relative to said body portion, a motor secured to said body portion, a switch operated powered motor controller means for operating said motor, a gear train driven by said motor, a gear rack secured to one of said legs, said gear train including a drive pinion having a partial tooth portion for engagement and disengagement with said rack whereby when the pinion is in engagement with the rack the legs will be moved downward against the action of the spring tail and when moved out of engagement with the rack the character will be moved upward by the spring tail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.