Did You Know...
...that several people are credited with the invention of the flush toilet? Most people have heard of Thomas Crapper (1837-1910), the sanitary engineer who invented the valve-and-siphon arrangement that made the modern toilet possible. Another claimant to "the throne" was British inventor Alexander Cumming who patented a toilet in 1775. Then there's a nameless Minoan (a native of ancient Crete) who lived 4,000 years ago who supposedly was ahead of his time and created the first flush toilet!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4508516 | Steering system and reversible drive for toy vehicles A remote control toy vehicle having a chassis with a pair of wheels respectively adjacent opposite ends thereof, a pair of electric motors of reversible polarity, drive mechanism respectively between said motors and the fore and aft wheels on opposite sid... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4458440 | Toy barn and silo A toy barn and silo connected thereto in which an elevator is operable to receive and elevate toy hay bales to the loft of the barn and eject them into and through the loft for discharge into a vehicle in a bay of the barn. The barn below the loft has sta... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4438587 | Blowgun toy car launcher A toy car launcher provided with a base having a flat bottom surface of limited area to be placed upon a horizontal supporting surface, the base having a mouthpiece blowing tube extending upward and outward from one end portion of the base and a launching... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4427389 | Toy coin changer A toy of an educational nature including a plurality of receptacles in a supporting frame respectively for toy coins of different sizes and arranged to be received only in one of the receptacles as controlled by the size of the entrance opening for that p... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4409753 | Powered toy boat A toy boat powered by a rubber-band as a source of driving power for a propeller, the rubber band being wound to energize it by a helical type spiral rod adapted to be reciprocated longitudinally within the hull of the boat respectively in opposite direct... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4406084 | Toy car with rubber band motor A toy automobile having front and rear axles on a body respectively supporting wheels, one of the axles being driven by a gear train energized by a twisted elongated member such as a rubber band, the elastic member being energized by twisting it by means ... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4397468 | Simulated tin can target game A target game adapted to be operated by darts from toy dart guns, thrown objects and the like, comprises a front panel arranged for vertical positioning, a row of simulated tin can targets are arrived along the upper edge of said panel and are supported u... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4361981 | Toy make-up center A case having a hinged top supporting a mirror and battery-powered lighting structure including rows of at least three transparent bulbous globes along opposite side edges of the mirror, a single electric bulb adjacent each row of globes, a reflector posi... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4341034 | Toy washing machine A toy washing machine having a cabinet with a top opening in alignment with a tub in the cabinet and a rotatable agitator movable about a vertical axis by mechanism driven by a manually operated rack and gear train unit including one throwout gear operabl... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340373 | Spelling machine A spelling machine includes a housing having a row of drums on a shaft and is provided with a series of evenly spaced letters on the drums viewable through a row of holes in the housing. A row of slides in the forward portion of the machine has lugs and s... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4338741 | Toy dryer A toy dryer having a box-like cabinet with a front wall provided with an opening for insertion and removal of items, a hinged door for the opening, a cup-shaped drum having an open end facing the opening and supported by a horizontal drive shaft in the ca... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4289109 | Toy air pistol with hollow breech slide A toy pistol formed by molding from relatively rigid plastic material and comprising a hollow elongated frame portion having a handle depending from one end, a composite tubular barrel and coaxial cylinder rearward thereof and of larger diameter than said... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4272909 | Toy medical monitor unit A toy medical monitoring unit having a housing with viewing openings for a plurality of rotatable cylindrical drums respectively having indicia-simulating pulse rate and blood pressure, bellows means operable manually to rotate said drums, a dial indicati... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4245425 | Toy horse with mechanism to produce trotting sound A toy horse supported on wheels which reciprocate and oscillate the four legs and bob the pivoted head as the horse is pulled along a surface, the horse also having a hollow body containing a noise-making unit which imitates the clip-clop noise of a trott... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4241716 | Automatic toy gun for ping pong balls A toy gun simulating an automatic rifle adapted to shoot ping pong balls and comprising a pair of complementary molded hollow shells which are connectable along a central plane to form an elongated frame having a shoulder stock at the rear end, a short cy... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4227508 | Toy automatic pistol for ping pong balls A toy pistol for shooting ping pong balls having a frame with a barrel portion at the forward end and a handle extending downward from the rearward end, a magazine extending upward and rearward therefrom, a ram movable along longitudinal guide member in t... | 10/14/1980 |
