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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7258609 | Gaming device having display with multiple radially translating indicators The present invention provides a mechanical display and indication for gaming devices. The display includes a set of symbols or indicia. The displays also cooperate with a plurality of radially spaced apart translating indicators, such as arrows. The indicators tran... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7241223 | Toy car racing apparatus A racing game device for use with non-powered toy vehicles which are released from a starting incline and travel along independent tracks through a finish gate. Electronic starting light tower signals players for remote vehicle release which are electronically inter... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7235013 | Game machine using self-propelled members In a game machine, platen dots are provided on a traveling field. A plurality of self-propelled members are provided on the traveling field. Each self-propelled member includes a first linear motor and a second linear motor for respectively propelling the self-prope... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7201628 | Race track game system A car has a front and a back with a chamber there within. The back of the car includes a fan with a motor. The back of the car also includes a hinged fin extending rearwardly with a driver and a linkage. A source of power is located in the chamber and is coupled to ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7150178 | Golf ball COR testing machine The present invention comprises an automated machine for testing the physical properties of spherical objects. Preferably, the apparatus comprises a firing mechanism that includes an inner and outer barrel. An object inside the firing mechanism is propelled towards ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7127933 | High speed resiliometer An apparatus and method for testing the physical properties of a material is disclosed. Preferably, the physical properties that may be tested include, but are not limited to, the COR of a material. Accordingly, the apparatus includes a projectile that may be capabl... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7115071 | “Figure-eight” track, apparatus and method for sensory-motor exercise A track for cognitive and physical training has a figure-eight surface with both or alternate inner and outer borders. Adjustable weight-bearing rails inside and outside the track assist rehabilitation. Gates in outer rails admit users to the track. Oppositely swing... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7086922 | Track for model cars A race track for model cars with series of pressurized air conduits. The track is designed to race at least two cars in a manner similar to a “Drag Race.” Each car has its own lane. The system of pressurized air propels the cars with bursts of air from jets. The... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6957960 | Method and apparatus kit for demonstrating archimedes' principle A kit for demonstrating Archimedes' principle, comprising a tub having an overflow spout, such that when fluid reaches the overflow spout, all additional fluid added to the tub will flow out the overflow spout; and a stable boat sized to float in the tub without tou... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6752720 | Mobile remote control video gaming system In one embodiment, a gaming system includes a mobile remote control vehicle. The mobile remote control vehicle communicates wirelessly with a control unit, and may be operated outside a line-of-sight (LOS) of the control unit. ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6499409 | Pneumatic propulsion track apparatus An apparatus for propelling an object by pneumatic air flow along one or more individual track sections utilizing a unique air controller providing a conduit for entrance of the object thereinto and an exit as well as a switching means for moving the obje... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6227967 | Prize redemption game apparatus A prize redemption game apparatus includes an elongated runway, an elastic abutment member at the second end of the runway, and a rollable object disposed for rolling travel along the runway between the first end and the second end. The playing is dispose... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5658198 | Pneumatic running toy A pneumatic toy including a board provided with a runway, a body for running along the runway, an air chamber formed within the board, a blower for supplying air to the air chamber, a plurality of holes associated with the board which communicate with the... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5651736 | Racer toy utilizing water-driven boats A racer toy in which a pair of flat-bottomed boats each having an interior chamber which terminates in an opening at the aft end of the boat are launched onto respective side-by-side tracks from a launching tower having two water passages each extending f... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5052972 | Drive device for toy automobile A drive device for a toy automobile includes a casing open at front and rear ends thereof and covering a path of travel, a flywheel rotatably supported on the casing for coming into abutting contact with an upper surface of a toy automobile at a prescribe... | 10/01/1991 |
| 4963116 | Race water track toy A circumferential trough provides a water carrying channel, and has at least one water jet in the trough to which a supply of water under pressure is connected to produce a flow of water in the trough into which floating objects may be placed.... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4925188 | Toy race track and lap counter A toy race track and lap counter comprising a track with adjacent lanes each forming a complete circuit and racing objects which are propelled around the track by pressurized air controllably discharging from separate nozzles in a propulsion tower. Separa... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4605229 | Toy dragstrip and starting tower A mechanical toy dragstrip having a base, and a starting tower disposed on the base. As in drag racing, two parallel car tracks and two car loading or starting positions are provided. The starting tower is used to signal the beginning of the race by displ... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4564197 | Portable toy racing set A portable toy racing set is disclosed which includes a booster for accelerating toy vehicles around a curved track. The booster includes an arm which pivots about an axis perpendicular to the track and offset from the center of a curved portion of the tr... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4513967 | Toy vehicle game with launcher and return means A toy car collision set (10) in which children attempt to crash nonsteerable unpowered cars (28, 30) at an intersection (12) when travelling in either the forward or reverse directions. The set includes at least two sets of tracks (14, 16, 22, 24) connect... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4472906 | Manually activated toy vehicle launcher The toy vehicle launcher includes lower and upper casing units, the upper unit being slidable in a rectilinear direction relative to the lower unit. Rubber feet on the lower unit frictionally engage the playing surface onto which the toy vehicle is launch... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4423871 | Toy vehicle game The toy vehicle game includes a track, a toy vehicle for operation thereon, and a launcher for launching the vehicle to propel it along the track. The track includes a start position at which the launcher is located and an end position, located above the ... | 01/03/1984 |
| 4397465 | Flexible strip with rolling and bending means A toy vehicular track formed of a thin strip of flexible material having a pair of lines parallel to its length formed to enhance bending. The strip is connected at one end to a drum the rotation of which causes the strip to be rolled on the drum for stor... | 08/09/1983 |
| 4309034 | Competitive game moving objects through adjacent depressions in an inclined surface A toy is described which has a housing which includes an elevated centralized object repository. Associated with the object repository is at least one peripheral section of the housing which includes an inclined top surface. The inclined top surface has a... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4283053 | Air powered rocket sled game An air powered rocket sled game which includes a body member having at least one and preferably two separate elongated air passageways, the ends of each passageway terminating in close proximity to form a substantial loop pattern. A pair of continuous loo... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4229005 | Track racing game A pair of racing cars are individually propelled on tracks by impulses of air initiated by individual pumps at speeds that are a function of the individual operation of the air pumps. The propulsion portion of the tracks are enclosed and the rest of the t... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4209935 | Apparatus for rocket sled game An air-powered rocket sled game which includes a base having a pair of closed intersecting grooved tracks of substantially equal length in the upper surface thereof and a pair of air ducts in the interior of said base, each duct being in open communicatio... | 07/01/1980 |
| 4174587 | Air turbine operated vehicle accelerator toy A toy for accelerating unpowered toy vehicles along a roadway, the accelerator having a base with a roadway portion formed therein, the base having opposing elongate slots on either side of the roadway portion with vehicle engaging rollers rotatably mount... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4146991 | Toy trackway A toy trackway featuring a platform having an upper level and a lower level, the upper level provided with a trackway terminating at each end in a locking member, the lower level provided with two trackways each terminating in a locking member, and two fl... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4108437 | Toy vehicle starting and launching set A launching and starting apparatus for use with toy racing cars or the like, the starting apparatus having a pathway for passage thereon of a toy vehicle, the pathway including a resettable trigger engageable by a toy vehicle with a flag selectively raise... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4070024 | Continuous racetrack having vehicle accelerating device A continuous racing game consisting of a trackway provided with separate paths along which vehicles race, a propulsion system having pluralities of resilient spokes associated with each of the paths, each of the pluralities of spokes being mounted for rot... | 01/24/1978 |
| 3999758 | Racing game A racing game formed of a plurality of equal length tracks. A movable member is positioned on each of the tracks and contains a pair of track engaging members positioned thereon. A pair of drives are movable along each of the tracks for advancing the posi... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3998460 | Vehicle racing game apparatus Two side-by-side tracks form a closed loop having a curve at each end; the tracks support vehicles each of which moves around the closed loop as a result of impulses supplied to it by an improved vehicle-propulsion device located entirely within one of th... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3987581 | Controlled multiple track toy system with modular attachments A system wherein a plurality of selected objects are caused to move as a group at regulated speeds within a defined oval-shaped level area simulating a race track as well as to stop and go individually and separately apart from the group, and wherein a pl... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3950889 | Pressurized gas driven vehicle and methods for charging and launching it A pressurized gas driven vehicle, such as a toy automobile, comprises a body which defines a pressure chamber for confining pressurized gas. A nozzle is mounted on the body and has a jet outlet passage which communicates with the pressure chamber. An elec... | 04/20/1976 |
