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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7263953 | Automatic pet trainer This invention relates to an integrated automatic device for training and feeding a pet, which also functions as a play mate while the owner is absent or otherwise engaged. A toy holder, when actuated by an ejector, throws a toy placed therein to a predetermined dis... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261638 | Bowling practice device A bowling practice device for regularizing and perfecting bowling technique. An aerodynamically designed hollow body includes an outer wall and a cylindrical inner wall. The opposed ends of the outer wall taper to meet the cylindrical inner wall. The outer wall pref... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7232092 | Flying vehicle-launching apparatus and method A flying vehicle-launching apparatus and method for launching a winged flying vehicle by accelerating the vehicle in a predetermined direction includes a flying vehicle-supporting platform, a guide device, and a driving device. The flying vehicle-supporting platform... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7140575 | Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft, including methods and apparatuses for releasably gripping aircraft during launch Methods and apparatuses for launching unmanned aircraft and other flight devices or projectiles are described. In one embodiment, the aircraft can belaunched from an apparatus that includes a launch carriage that moves along a launch axis. A gripper carried by the l... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7077359 | Pneumatically launched folding wing glider toy A glider toy has pivoting wings that may be locked in a retracted position prior to launch. Upon launching of the glider, the wings may be unlocked. During flight, the wings extend forward for an entertaining glide at the urging of one or more elastic members. A lau... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7052357 | Toy submersible projectile A submersible projectile includes an elongate body. The elongate body has an axial forward end and an axial rearward end and a peripheral surface. The elongate body has a generally elliptical cross-section along substantially all of the axial length of the elongate ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7037164 | Flying toy apparatus A flying toy apparatus is provided. The flying toy apparatus typically includes a body having an elongate channel formed therein, the channel extending in a longitudinal direction along the body. The flying toy apparatus also typically includes an elastic launch mem... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6926579 | Toy rocket launch pad with directional safety valve Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for launching a toy rocket that includes rotating a launch tube about an axis that is parallel with a connecting tube, which is rotatably connected to the launch tube; extending the launch tube in a perpendicular direction... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6733356 | Flying-object launching toy gun A flying-object launching toy gun comprises a body 20 with a launch barrel 30, a running block 50 for holding the flying-object 12 in a separable condition, the running block 50 movable along the launch barrel 30 between a r... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6568980 | Toy airplane powered by electric motor and capacitor power source A toy airplane includes a flying wing body having a capacitor-powered electric motor propulsion apparatus supported within the body. A charging receptacle is formed in the airplane body and supports electrical contacts which in turn are coupled to the pro... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6443792 | Mechanically launched monowing toy A flying toy has a wing having a leading edge, a first end, and a second end. A ballast element is coupled to the first end of the wing, and a launcher receiver element that receives a launcher is coupled to the ballast element.... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6336838 | Automatic tow release system for model aircraft An automatic tow release system for model aircraft launched with the help of a tow line (12) which has novel means for continuously and automatically adjusting the climb angle of the fuselage and automatically releasing the tow line (12) when the aircraft... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6305642 | Glider launching device A device for launching a flying structure having a nose end and a tail end, having a cradle member having a first and a second end, a nose engagement member having a first and second end, a tail engagement member, and means for propelling the flying struc... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6247990 | High performance rubberband launched toy autogiro with fold out wings A new high performance rubberband launched toy autogiro is described. Using lightweight rigid materials, this device ascends at high velocity to over 100 feet, then unfolds its wings and begins a spinning slow-speed descent lasting 15 seconds or more. Min... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6220918 | Tossable ring airfoil projectile Tossable ring airfoil projectiles configured to adopt and maintain a flying orientation that generates lift. The tossable ring airfoil projectiles generally include (i) a ring airfoil having a trailing end, an aperture, and a longitudinal symmetry axis ru... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6179680 | Safety device for a spring loaded flying toy The present invention provides an amusement device with a flying member launchable by a hand-held launcher. The launcher includes launching guide rod connected to a handle grip carrying a trigger mechanism with a catch hook. A coil spring is coaxially rec... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5908341 | Toy flying wing glider A toy glider having a single wing formed from a flat sheet of polystyrene foam, or other material of similar characteristics, and a specific finger gripped launch handle suitably attached to the forward portion of the wing along the longitudinal center-li... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5733164 | Glider with launching system The subject invention relates to a launcher and one or more gliders for use therewith. The dihedral of the glider is achieved with two parallel creases that run front to back down the center of the glider. At the leading edge of the wing surfaces, self ad... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5725410 | Projectile and launcher toy A toy is composed of a projectile and a tube for launching the projectile into the air. The projectile has a pair of wings symmetrically disposed about a longitudinal axis. The leading edge of the wings normally extend outwardly at an oblique angle from a... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5507451 | Shuttle launch system for model rocket A shuttle launch system for a model rocket which includes a model rocket engine having a propellant charge for propelling the model rocket in a first direction and an ejection charge for ejecting matter in a second direction generally opposite the first d... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5433641 | Toy vehicle launcher with pivoting linear propulsion members A toy vehicle launcher which has a vehicle that can slide along a track. The launcher includes a string which extends along each side of a longitudinal axis of the track. The string is attached to a pair of handles which can be pulled so that the string e... | 07/18/1995 |
| 4913675 | Missile helicopter device The present invention is a missile-helicopter device which is capable of a projected, nose up ascent and a helicopter nose up descent. The device has an elongated missile body, fins, a latch release for the fins, bias mechanism for the fins and propulsion... | 04/03/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4842222 | Kite load-releasing device A load carrying and releasing pendular device for attachment to a kite string and release the load on jerking on the kite string. The device is fixedly attached to the kite string at an upper location. The device is also releasably coupled to the kite str... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4836817 | Folding wing toy glider A folding swept wing toy glider having wind sections foldable to a first position wherein the upper surfaces are abutting for launching and biased for deployment at slow speed to a second gliding position wherein the wing sections are substantially coplan... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4605183 | Swing wing glider A glider comprising a pair of wings having overlapped forward, inner root portions that are freely pivotally connected and tailfins on rearward, outer portions of the wings. The tailfins are angularly offset from the general longitudinal axes of the wings... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4411249 | Toy glider with pneumatic launcher A toy glider comprising a projectile and a pneumatic launcher configured essentially as a bracelet for wearing on the user's wrist. The pneumatic launcher comprises an essentially bracelet-shaped, flexible conduit and an open-ended launching tube having o... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4399803 | Target launcher A target launcher for launching a target in the form of a propeller-shaped, air foil or wing having a reversible motor with a launching head connected to the end of the motor shaft and which head includes a holder for releasably supporting thereon the pro... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4329808 | Paper-airplane-making and launching device A tubular member holds a paper, tubular fuselage above a paper wing supported by a plate and below a folding die from which a fuselage presser depends; whereby the fuselage may be attached to the wing and the edges of the wing may be folded into an aerody... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4308849 | Projectile launcher A projectile launcher for launching toy airplanes, darts, and the like. An elongated rigid member has a handle portion on one end and has a resiliently flexible member extending from the handle in close adjacent parallel relationship to the rigid member. ... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4238093 | Aircraft launcher A launching system for lightweight aircraft includes a shuttle adapted to rry the aircraft and slidingly mounted to a launching frame along a track that guides launch direction. A piston rod is concentrically mounted within a launch tube parallel to the t... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4209937 | Toy aircraft A toy airplane operable by air pressure through a blowpipe is designed to make effective use of the full air pressure supplied to the blowpipe to enhance its flight distance and speed. The airplane includes a tubular support member having a plugged front ... | 07/01/1980 |
| 3968947 | Launching apparatus for flying device A pneumatic launching apparatus for a lightweight aircraft has a battery of three pneumatic tubes mounted upon a hydraulic piston and cylinder assembly. A launching tube is mounted on the central pneumatic tube, which blows it away from it in a manner sim... | 07/13/1976 |
