Toy vehicle monorail track set
AssigneeMattel, Inc.
InventorsPeter Chuang, Steven Verbera
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Abstract
A carrier and a conventional toy vehicle have mating structures to releasably connect the two together. The carrier is configured to support the vehicle to run along a T shaped portion of the monorail track. The carrier has a main housing having the mating structure and a through channel on upper and lower sides. Rollers support the carrier to move on the upper running surface of the track while other structures extend beneath the running surface to capture the surface in the through channel. Weights are supported from the main housing in legs extending below the main housing, through channel and running surface.
Claims20
A carrier configured for removable attachment to a toy vehicle to connect the toy vehicle with and to support the toy vehicle to move along a running surface of an elongated monorail track, the carrier comprising:
- a main housing having a lower side with a through channel configured to receive at least the running surface portion of the monorail track, wherein the through channel has a generally inverted U shaped configuration;
- a pair of legs extending downward and away from the main housing and the through channel on opposite sides of the main housing and the through channel;
- a plurality of rollers supported in the generally inverted U shaped channel so as to face the running surface of the monorail track received in the generally inverted U shaped through channel wherein each of the rollers is a spool having a pair of axially spaced, radially extending outer flanges, the outer flanges being sufficiently close to one another to support the carrier on the running surface of the monorail track received in the through channel;
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- at least one toy connector structure on an upper side of the main housing opposite the lower side, the connector structure being configured for removable attachment of the carrier to the toy vehicle.
A carrier configured for removable attachment to a toy vehicle to connect the toy vehicle with and to support the toy vehicle to move along a running surface of an elongated monorail track, the carrier comprising:
- a main housing having a lower side with a through channel configured to receive at least the running surface portion of the monorail track, wherein the through channel has a generally inverted U shaped configuration;
- a pair of legs extending downward and away from the main housing and the through channel on opposite sides of the main housing and the through channel;
- at least one toy connector structure on an upper side of the main housing opposite the lower side, the connector structure being configured for removable attachment of the carrier to the toy vehicle;
- a first weight member supported from the main housing below the main housing and the through channel and the running surface of the monorail track in the through channel;
- a second weight member, the first and second weight members being supported by separate legs of the pair below the running surface of the monorail track received in the through channel;
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- wherein the pair of legs are mirror images of one another, each with a chamber at a rear end receiving the weight member supported by that leg and a forward end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.