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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4979748 | Token aligning three-dimensional strategy game and method of play A token aligning three-dimensional strategy game for a number of players includes aligned tubes defining passageways with each tube having an opaque upper portion and a transparent lower portion. Graphically distinguished sets of tokens are provided for e... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4961580 | Rotating ball collecting game An action game including a receptacle styled as a bathtub having a motor driven impeller in the bottom of the bathtub. Disposed above and adjacent one end of the bathtub is a tank with a hinged lid in which a plurality of different colored balls are store... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4948145 | Market investing game apparatus and method of play A market investment game includes a board providing a peripheral path containing directions on play of the game, a separate, segmented track used in determining the duration of the game, and a central spinner. Both the board and the spinner are divided in... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4948146 | Apparatus and method of playing a menu item collecting game A game in which a number of players each attempt to collect all of the parts of a meal indicated on a menu allocated to each player at the outset of the game. No two menus are alike, but there is one part of the meal that is common to each of the menus. O... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4941859 | Town playset A playset including various building facades representing a food store, pet shop, florist, post office, bank and the like have both exterior and interior details with various movable play features. Additional town structures such as mailboxes, benches, la... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4929216 | Rotating ring and character toy A cylindrical ring and a character having a number of extending parts that are circumscribed by a circle having a diameter equal to the inside diameter of the ring are readily combinable by a child to make a rotating toy. Insertion and removal of the char... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4900026 | Whirling ball collecting game An interactive action game involving the selective collection of colored balls has a housing which supports a concave bowl with an electric battery motor driven foam paddle at the center of the concave surface. As the balls drop down to the center of the ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4897065 | Toy vehicle and handheld pneumatic launcher A toy vehicle and a handheld pneumatic launcher combination includes a piston and an elongated hollow cylinder with a flange adjacent one end of the cylinder providing grips for a child which simulate an airplane control yoke. While supporting lateral ext... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4878874 | Selectively rocking or walking doll A character includes legs that pivot as well as move up and down relative to the torso either in an alternating, out of phase, walking simulating motion or simultaneously, in phase, to simulate rocking, as selected by the user. Movement of the legs is eff... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4874166 | Skill action game with a tiltable housing and an alarm producing disturbance sensor A skill action game includes a hollow foot that is balanced on the rounded heel and ball when placed on a flat surface. The foot has a number of threaded bolts removably inserted into it and a wrench is provided for removing the bolts. Inside the foot is ... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4863172 | Front and back grids comprising puzzle with movable squares A puzzle in which alphabet letters or other graphics are displayed in movable squares forming a grid on a front side of the puzzle. On the back side of the puzzle is another grid of movable squares containing alphabet letters or other graphics. Each squar... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4852886 | Board game with stackable tokens and random moving disrupter A game in which a number of players each attempt to move a plurality of assigned stackable playing tokens to the center of a board along one of four concentric spiral paths. Once a player has all of the assigned tokens on the path, a stack of tokens may b... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4834391 | Target game apparatus with steps A game including a housing formed of two opposed halves that pivot together. Each half has steps from a raised end proximal a player to a gap at the lower distal end where the halves are pivotally connected. Two players are each allocated a number of marb... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4832339 | Toy bowling game A toy bowling game for young children includes a soft bowling ball and a ramp providing an angled bowling surface. Adjacent the raised end of the ramp are a number of wells with a pin elastically tethered to the bottom of each well. Each pin has a rounded... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4824415 | Doll with remote controlled supporting accessory A doll with articulated legs and an articulated neck is releasably connected to a motor driven, steerable, remote controlled shopping cart. Movement of the cart causes a cam driven set of handles, to which the doll is attached, to pivot from side-to-side ... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4802878 | Doll with rotating and bendable arms A doll has bendable arms that are movable from a position generally alongside the doll's torso up toward the doll's head. Each arm has a hand attached for rotation about the wrist. When an arm is bent and moved up, the attached hand rotates. Movement of e... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4799678 | Electronic game with animated host An electronic game playing device including an animated character and a synthesized voice. Game play instructions, required responses and awards, are contained in a program memory within a base on which the character is mounted. Carried by the base are a ... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4798455 | User reconfigurable novelty glasses User reconfigurable novelty glasses include separate eye frames and separate temple pieces that may be readily combined with each other and with other separate eye frames and separate temple pieces by the user to form a variety of outrageously designed no... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4783080 | Method of playing a military board game A board game in which players, using markers representing different types of global influence, challenge individual opponents. The outcome of the challenge being effected by point values of the markers of a selected type of global influence. In one form t... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4773889 | Wheel for a toy vehicle A toy vehicle wheel that changes from a generally cylindrical periphery with an initial diameter and axial width to a greater diameter periphery. The wheel has a hollow shell of rubber or some other flexible material and opposed sidewalls of the wheel are... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4753369 | Napkin dispenser A dispenser for paper napkins including a container having a substantially open top and front. Opposed side walls of the container receive a cover that can pivot about an axis adjacent the rearward edges of the cover. In addition to pivotal movement, the ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4740187 | Robot vehicle carrier A toy robot having a handle, one or more small vehicle-receiving recesses provided in its head and/or on its torso and limbs and blade-like supporting posts for vehicle track members. Certain of the robot's vehicle-receiving recesses may have associated t... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4733871 | Item jumping game A game in which players, in turn, lay down cards, or other distinguishable items, that are divided into two or more sets of two or more items each. The cards are laid down in lines with the goal of laying down an end card that matches the one at the other... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4729564 | Card reading responsive electronic game A microprocessor controlled game having an optical sensor for reading bar codes on cards. The cards visually depict a combination of number, size, color and shape that is represented by the bar code. Instructions and responses with respect to player card ... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4717367 | Toy vehicle with extendable section A toy vehicle having a front to back dimension includes a body with a forward end and a rearward end. The body carries an extendable tail section adjacent the rearward end for extension from a retracted position adjacent the rearward end to an extended po... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4717365 | Transformable toy vehicle and sword combination A toy sword spaceship having a generally hollow body shell containing opposed track channels in which lateral guide rails of an elongated toy sword blade are received for sliding back and forth. Pivotally mounted wings fold out when the sword blade is sli... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4710146 | Projectile propelling attachment for toy figures Projectile propelling attachments are provided for toy figures that have an arm connected at the shoulder end for pivotal movement relative to the torso through approximately ninety degrees. The attachments include an apparatus releasably mountable on the... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4710873 | Video game incorporating digitized images of being into game graphics Video game apparatus and method includes an arrangement for acquiring and storing data representing an image of the face of a game player or other entity and for selectively incorporating the image of the entity throughout the play of the game at predeter... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4708348 | Portable game with captive parts A game in which all of the pieces, while movable for play, are captured against removal and loss from the game. Player movable pieces are received for movement along slots extending through the thickness of a playing surface but are captured by upper and ... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4708690 | Toy mechanical monster A toy mechanical monster has a rounded base that engages a playing surface and houses a motor driving an eccentric weight within the housing. Legs pivotally attached to the housing move to and away from the outside of the housing as it is driven by the ec... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4707921 | Extension handle for a handheld electrically powered tool An extension handle facilitating use of a handheld electrically driven grass shear from an upright standing position that removably attaches to the hand grippable portion of the grass shear by depending pairs of opposed, resilient, inwardly biased clamps.... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4696654 | Ammunition belt advancing attachment for toy figures An attachment for a toy figure includes a simulated automatic firing weapon and a flexible belt with spaced apart simulated ammunition. The belt is movable through a backpack attachable to the figure by manual rotation of an exposed portion of a gear whee... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4674169 | Method of making a permanent doll wig A method of making a permanently attached doll wig integrating a high pile, backed piece of material and strands of synthetic doll hair rooted through both the material and the doll head. Initially, the material is attached to the doll head pile side down... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4673181 | Skill action game A skill action game in which players try to remove cards from an opening without tripping a mechanical action feature. In order to remove the cards, players must use an electrically conductive probe. If the probe is allowed to contact a conductive strip a... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4669997 | Pneumatic action toy creatures Pneumatic action toy creatures each have a body with a hollow resilient compressible portion. An opening in the compressible portion receives an elongated piston with a cross section substantially conforming to the opening to provide for pneumatic recipro... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4662855 | Pop-up crib toy A pop-up crib toy including a head mounted on a rod with a cylindrical gear rack. The rod is slidably carried in a tube included in a housing for a motor driven gear segment. Engagement of the teeth on the gear segment with the cylindrical rack drives the... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4662633 | Biased receptacle action game A game involving the insertion of simulated articles of dirty clothing into a washing machine receptacle, the sides of which are biased to explode open. The number and type of articles to be inserted during a turn is determined by a spinner. Insertion of ... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4643421 | Video game in which a host image repels ravenous images by serving filled vessels A video game in which the player must fill mugs from a keg and slide the filled mugs down a bar to advancing thirsty patrons to repel the patron out the bar. The player controls movement of a host image from one horizontal bar to another and laterally alo... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4626225 | Toy figures with flexible hair inserts A toy horse figure with a generally hollow body of plastic is provided with a soft flexible mane and tail. The flexible strands of the mane are secured to a foldable membrane, adjacent to, but inward of, a relief decorated edge along each foldable side. W... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4623319 | Figure including extrusion means actuated by figure appendages An activity toy with a body including a hollow cylindrical portions supported on a base and having pivotally mounted arms has a hollow upper member including a skull with extrusion openings. The bottom of the upper member has a loading opening for a plast... | 11/18/1986 |
