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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7114463 | Articles for enhancing the environment of contained animals An enrichment article for animals. The article generally includes a platform that is suspended from the floor of a cage or other containment. The article may be a tray having a flange for suspension from the walls of a container. The platform bottom may have an open... | 10/03/2006 |
| 6953377 | Suspended runway A runway over which can travel vehicles driven by gravity, comprising a supporting structure and a track line structure sustained by the supporting structure and extending from a upper start region to a lower arrival region, wherein the supporting structure is limit... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6945839 | Suspended runway A runway over which can travel vehicles driven by gravity, comprising a supporting structure and a track line structure sustained by the supporting structure and extending from a upper start region to a lower arrival region, wherein the supporting structure is limit... | 09/20/2005 |
| 5951357 | Ski jump amusement device A magnetic strip of material formed into a loop which is placed around two pulleys. The pulleys rotate, thereby moving the magnetic strip. Skiers have skis which are attracted to the magnetic strip and are thereby moved with the loop as the loop is pulled... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5908343 | Kinetic toy A kinetic toy in which a ball rolls down a trackway from an upper location to a lower location and is automatically returned to the upper location for recycling, the toy being constructed of individual parts which are readily assembled in various configur... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5855501 | Circulating toy assembly A circulating toy assembly has a toy piece that circulates through an elevator and an inclining track member. A swing lever is mounted between a platform provided at the top of the elevator and an entrance end of the track member for conveying the toy pie... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5800240 | Marble race toy with elevator and supporting infrastructure A marble race toy including a modular track that is assembled by the user from channel components into any desired configuration. An infrastructure is utilized to support the desired track layout. An infrastructure is utilized to support the desired track... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5785573 | Kinetic toy A kinetic toy in which a ball rolls down a trackway from an upper location to a lower location and is automatically returned to the upper location for recycling, the toy including an accesory, such as a ball-operated switch, adapted for quick-connection o... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5735724 | Toy assembly having moving toy elements A toy assembly is provided with manual and electrical operation units which can be selectively actuated to rotate a shaft, which has a helical advancing path, in one direction in an ascending chamber. Toy elements are moved upward in the ascending chamber... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5709581 | Kinetic toy A kinetic toy in which a ball rolls down a trackway from an upper location to a lower location and is automatically returned to the upper location for recycling, the toy being constructed of individual parts which are readily assembled in various configur... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5499467 | Information display stand An information stand with a plurality of faces which are successively exposed to a viewer. The stand has a rigid hollow frame within which one or more multi-face information carrier elements are positioned. The frame has a pair of unequal in length parall... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5279871 | Action ornament with Christmas tree mounting therefor The present invention is a Christmas display (10) resembling a ski-lift and ski-slope, for use in conjunction with a Christmas tree (92). The display (10) comprises a track (12) having a first end (14) and a second end (16), wherein the first end is at a ... | 01/18/1994 |
| 4928955 | Toy having sliding rail A toy includes a base, a curved sliding rail having a first end and a second opposite end, a tower having thereon a waved continuous guiding surface, a rotatable shaft in the tower, a flying piece guided to revolve along the waved guiding surface, and a s... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4844447 | Sound and visual display apparatus An apparatus for producing a sound and visual display has a generally upstanding tubular body having a circumferential wall defining a centrally located vertically extending longitudinal axis. A reservoir is formed in the lower part of the generally cylin... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4778430 | Water slide toy A water slide toy including: a downwardly inclined slide having an upper end and a lower end; a carrier for moving separate discreet objects such as human or animal figures from the lower end of the slide back up to the upper end of the slide so that the ... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4708685 | Toys A helter-skelter toy having a track-way extending from an upper end to a lower end. A number of baby animal shaped vehicles which can run freely down the track-way. A lifting member in the shape of a mother animal which lifts the vehicles one by one from ... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4678449 | Trackway toy assembly A trackway toy assembly includes a plate-like member, a plurality of toy pieces in the shape of dolphins or other animals, which can be attracted by a magnetic force, a trackway with two ends for the toy pieces to slide along, mounted on the front-face of... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4609363 | Track toy The toy set includes a spiral track member mounted with respect to a larger toy robot, and there are two engaged gears mounted on the larger toy robot at positions substantially corresponding to the upper and lower ends of the track member, these gears ar... | 09/02/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4604074 | Push toy A push toy having a wheel housing rotatably supporting a pair of wheels with an impeller within the housing actuated upon rotation of the wheels, the impeller coacting with the interior of a generally transparent, continuous loop tube formed partially wit... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4359837 | Labyrinth crib toy A crib toy is disclosed having a labyrinth for the passage of a ball from an elevator unloading station of high gravitational potential to an elevator loading station of low gravitational potential. At the loading station, the ball is blocked by a weighte... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4128964 | Transfer mechanism intended for use in toys A toy in which so-called "ball people"--figurines which are capable of rolling along an inclined surface--are transferred from one location to another in such a way as to amuse a child can be constructed so as to include a composite of several transfer me... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4091561 | Traveling road system of a toy A toy road system includes a helical, ascending roadway fixedly mounted on a base and coaxially enveloping a column rotatably mounted on the same base. A slide is axially freely movable on the column, but secured thereto for joint angular movement. A perm... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4073169 | Ball-operated labyrinthic lock A locking device including a labyrinthic passageway through which a ball may be moved until arriving at a position adjacent an associated locking mechanism that is operable solely in response to the presence of the ball. In an exemplary embodiment, the la... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4032148 | Game apparatus A game for use by the physically handicapped in which depressing an end of a large lever causes an elevator mechanism to raise a ball to an entry track which automatically conveys the ball to a gameboard by means of gravity. After leaving the gameboard, t... | 06/28/1977 |
