Spinning toy apparatus
AssigneeHasbro, Inc.
InventorsMeredith Brooks, Dean Carley, Sean Carmine Isabella
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Abstract
A toy apparatus having a lower base, an upper base and a doll cover for the upper base where the lower base and the upper base attach and detach with an easy twisting motion. The lower base encloses a flywheel on a shaft, and a passageway for a rack and includes a cover with an outside screw thread. The upper base is either empty or encloses three switches, a sound generator, a light source, a controller printed circuit board, and a battery chamber and includes a cover with an inside screw thread that mates with the screw thread of the lower base. The toy apparatus has two primary play modes, a first mode where the lower base, the upper base and the cover are connected and a user uses the rack to spin the flywheel.
Claims18
A toy apparatus comprising:
- a housing comprising,
- a lower base portion,
- a detachable upper base portion, and
- a twistable separation attachment between the upper base portion
- and the lower base portion;
- a flywheel enclosed within the lower base portion of the housing with the lower base portion including a passageway for a rack to rotate the flywheel;
- a doll for covering the detachable upper base portion of the housing;
- and
- said detachable upper base including a chamber for a battery, a plurality of switches, a sound generator and a controller wherein the toy has two play modes, a first mode where the housing and doll spin rapidly to enable a switch to energize the sound generator, and a second mode where the housing and doll are handheld and another switch, manually operable, enables the sound generator to be energized.
A toy apparatus comprising:
- a lower base enclosing a flywheel and a passageway for a rack;
- an upper base detachably connectible to the lower base, the upper base enclosing a chamber for a battery, a first switch, a second switch, a sound generator and a controller for the sound generator;
- a twistable separation attachment connecting the upper and lower bases;
- and
- a doll for covering the upper base wherein the first switch is manually operated and the second switch is actuated when the flywheel is spinning wherein the toy has two play modes, a first mode where the housing and doll spin rapidly to enable a switch to energize the sound generator, and a second mode where the housing and doll are handheld and another switch, manually operable, enables the sound generator to be energized.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.