Abstract:
A device for placement on a toy racing track to count the number of laps traversed by a toy vehicle, comprising a spring loaded lever extending into the path of the vehicle that advances counting wheels which display the count. The deflection of the lever by the toy vehicle winds the spring, and the advance of a counting wheel occurs only on the return of the lever, so that the counting wheels do not receive the shock of a fast vehicle hitting the lever. The lever directly advances both a digit wheel and a 10-counting wheel, the digit wheel having a depression that allows a ratchet on the lever to engage the ten-counting wheel once in each revolution of the digit wheel.
Abstract:
A garage for toy vehicles including a housing having a lower platform coupled to a track layout for receiving vehicles from the layout, an upper platform coupled to the layout for delivering the vehicles back to the layout, and an elevator for carrying toy vehicles from the lower platform to the upper platform. A drift and drag meter is located on the upper platform, the meter including a motor driven belt on which cars are supported. The drag portion of the meter includes a member for abutting one end of the vehicle as it lies on the moving belt, to indicate the force applied to it by the vehicle. The drift portion of the meter includes a pair of rails on either side of the vehicle, which can be moved to either side if the vehicle tends to drift to one side on the moving belt, and a dial for indicating the force and direction of force applied to the rails.
Abstract:
A doll which can hold any of several objects and which plays a message corresponding to the particular object being held, including a hand with an aperture for receiving posts on the objects, a group of elements with holes aligned with the aperture, a slide for pulling the elements out of alignment with the aperture if they are not held against movement by the post of an object, and a cable extending from the slide to a phonograph in the body to select one of several messages.
Abstract:
The record is a flexible endless record tape or band which has a plurality of parallel sound tracks over substantially the entire length thereof. At the juncture between the beginning and ends of these sound tracks a transition section means or guide track means cooperates with all of the sound tracks to carry the stylus to one side of the record. At least one hole is punched through the record where the guide track is at one side of the record. The random playback mechanism has a stylus which is continuously engaged in either one of the sound tracks or the guide track, depending upon its relative position. During normal play it is in one of the sound tracks, and when the end of play is reached, the guide track carries the stylus to one side. A pin engages the hole in the record, which pin is connected to a pawl which spins a random cam. The cam acts as a stop for transverse motion of the stylus as it is moving out of the guide track into one of the sound tracks so that, as the stylus engages the cam as a stop, the next sound track to be played is randomly selected.