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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7108576 | Foam projectile exhibiting an illuminating element A projectile adapted for being discharged from a suitable firing device such as a gun, slingshot, cannon and the like. The device includes a three-dimensional shaped body constructed of a foam material and which may include such as a disc shaped, conical arrow shape... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7004813 | Toy gun with glowing projectiles and method of providing glowing projectiles to a toy gun A toy gun that shoots glowing projectiles and the method of providing glowing projectiles to a toy gun. The toy gun having a body, at least one black light responsive projectile, a cartridge for supplying the projectiles to the body, at least one black light source ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6464554 | Non-mechanical contact trigger for an article An article, for example, a toy weapon, has a hand grip provided with a trigger zone. The trigger zone is divided into first and second trigger zone portions forwardly of the hand grip and in a common plane therewith. A light source emits a light beam acro... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6173451 | Golfer's accessory wrist band An improved wrist band for carrying golf tees, ball position markers and other small accessories such as a divot tool. The wrist band includes a carrier band having a fastener for securing the carrier band around the user's wrist, a golf tee holder attach... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6071166 | Light shooting and detecting toy figures The invention disclosed herein provides toy objects such as action figures, robots, vehicles, creatures, etc., with apparatus for playing a shooting game controlled by one or more human players. Each toy object includes either a energy emitter, a energy s... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6062939 | Toy power tool A toy power tool is shown having a tool-holding housing and a handle housing rotatably connected at interfacing surfaces inclined to the central axes of both housings. Relative rotation of the housing about a transformation axis perpendicular to the incli... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5741185 | Interactive light-operated toy shooting game The invention provides a toy light projector or light gun and player-worn and self-propelled toy targets which detect light emitted by a toy light gun, and a toy shooting game which includes at least one toy light gun, and at least one toy target. The gam... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5676450 | Stimulus responsive sound/light amusement assembly Disclosed is a motion or impact responsive amusement device assembly comprising (1) a light transparent chamber; (2) a light source in communication with said chamber; (3) an impact or motion sensitive member within the amusement device to activate a cont... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5564964 | Toy gun with helically driven reciprocating barrel A toy gun includes two discs secured in a gun barrel. A roller is rotatably supported between the discs and has three helical grooves. Three tubes are slidably extended through one of the discs and are engaged with the helical grooves of the roller such t... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5385344 | Modular device for playing pranks A system of remotely actuated novelty devices is disclosed having triggering and actuating components packaged in separate, interchangeable modules. The system includes several interchangeable trigger modules, each of which detects the occurrence of an ac... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5283970 | Toy guns Toy guns are disclosed which are capable of simultaneously generating light and sound effects, having rotating a barrel assembly, creating vibrations in the body of the toy gun and operating a rapid indexing and cap firing mechanism. The rotating barrels,... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5259807 | Mascot cheer simulator A battery operated, hand held, clamor making device is provided in this invention, for use by booster fans of a sports team to express identifiable outcry and clamorous support for their team. The device is trigger switch operated. A read-only-memory circ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5253068 | Gun shaped remote control unit for a television A universal remote control unit for changing television channels is shaped like a gun to allow a viewer to point the gun at a television set, and shoot the channel to change the program. The unit is gun shaped having a barrel with a muzzle end containing ... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5244431 | Recoiling toy pistol with cocking and firing sound The present invention is directed to a toy gun which has a housing with a main section and a handle, a barrel, a trigger, a battery holder, electrical connections, a printed circuit board, a sound amplifier/speaker, a recoiling weight and spring, and suff... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5004444 | Toy submachine gun A toy submachine gun is provided. The toy submachine gun includes a body housing having a magazine housing and a pistol grip, a trigger, a plate spring, and a contact contacting with the plate spring. When the trigger is squeezed, a motor, a reduction gea... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4961718 | Toy pistol with a ball bullet This invention relates to a toy pistol with a ball bullet and in particular to one characterized in a ball bullet which will rotate in unison with a bullet seat when the trigger is pressed and which will produce a cracking noise as the hammer hits thereon... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4932913 | Child's simulated vehicle control device A hand held control device for use by a child to simulate directional and speed control of a vehicle, which device includes a wheel for grasping by the hands of a child at opposed parts thereof, a plurality of electrical switches on the device operable to... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4890404 | Magazine for strip ammunition, with rectangular prismatic housing and sliding extraction detent The magazine is for use with strip ammunition capable of being fed by slide action into the firearm whenever the trigger is pulled; a housing accommodates a number of ammunition strips resting on top of one another, and a pressure device props the strips ... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4808143 | Toy machine gun An improved toy machine gun is disclosed. The toy gun has a trigger associated with a microswitch. The microswitch engages a rotatable wheel through a reduction gear. A link assembly together with the rotatable wheel provides a reciprocating motion and cr... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4750641 | Continuous water-ejecting pistol toy with simultaneous sound and red-flash effects A toy pistol capable of ejecting a continuous stream of water while simultaneously generating a sound and a flashing light. A d-c motor positioned within the toy pistol operates a pump to pump water from a water storage cartridge in order to cause water t... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4365439 | Toy laser-type gun A toy gun incorporates light and sound sources for simultaneous generation of light pulses and sounds reminiscent of an outer space laser gun when a trigger is depressed. Light transmission material in conjunction with a reflector, radiate and project the... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4175353 | Toy simulated ray gun A gun-like toy device for producing controllable audio and visual effects simulating a fictitious futuristic space-age weapon. The device has a general hand gun shape with a handle attached to a central body section that has an audio speaker on its upper ... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4114311 | Toy guns A toy gun having a barrel and handle supporting a pivoted trigger and spring-pressed hammer engageable with an elongated slide having driving teeth engageable with pinion drive means for a noise-producing unit in said barrel which includes a vibratable sp... | 09/19/1978 |
