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By Elisabeth Benkoe, Executrix

Adolph E Goldfarb

Erwin Benkoe, Deceased

Elonne Dantzer

William R La Dow

L Ray Dyson

Wayne M Ginn

A three-dimensional toy representation of a figure such as an animal, e.g. a goat, which includes an outer body and a head pivotally mounted on the body which may be manually shifted between an upright and a lower position. The head includes an opening representative of a mouth and a conveyer mechanism inside the body extends into the head and has a portion located close to the mouth opening. Articles representative of solid or relatively solid 'food,' such as carrots, tin cans, etc., can be introduced into the mouth. The articles may be physically grasped by the conveyer mechanism and moved into an interior compartment. A portion of the path of movement of the articles may be upward or partially upward. The conveyer mechanism can be operated by manually actuating a portion of the animal figure, such as reciprocatively shifting a tail thereon. A lower jaw on the animal figure may be caused by the conveyer mechanism to move up and down to represent a chewing action when the food articles are introduced into the mouth and while they are being moved by the conveyer mechanism. A removable access member on the side of the animal, representative of a side-pack, can be removed so that the child-user can retrieve the solid food articles.

Toy eating animal utilizing conveyor

A toy milkable figure representative of an animal of the type capable of dispensing milk. The figure has a pivotally mounted head which may be pushed downwardly from an upper position to a lower position where a mouth opening in the head is immersed in liquid. The figure has a pivotally mounted tail which may be pumped up and down to create a liquid pumping action. The figure has an udder that forms a liquid holding chamber and has one or more flexible and squeezable teats. When the head is lowered into the liquid supply and the tail pumped, liquid is drawn into the mouth opening and delivered into the udder chamber. A liquid intake limiting mechanism causes the head to automatically raise out of the liquid after a predetermined amount of pumping. The teat has a valve device at its inner end whereby when the teat is squeezed the valve device closes to limit liquid flow back into the udder chamber and there is a positive squirting discharge from an outer aperture of the teat representative of that of a real animal. If the amount of liquid introduced into the udder is excessive, an overflow device allows the excess to escape through another teat. A sound generating device is coupled to the head to generate a mooing sound when the head raises.

Toy milkable animal figure

A game which includes a downwardly inclined primary pathway or track. The track may be serpentine and a first player attempts to roll an object such as a marble down the track. One or more interception devices are positioned along the track. These devices may take the form of a movable striker which will move, when actuated, into the path of a marble moving down the track. The striker may be operated by the opposing player through a manually actuatable control mechanism. The second player attempts to intercept the ball of the first player and divert it into a secondary pathway. The scoring of the game may depend on the ball reaching the end of the primary track or being intercepted and diverted into a secondary pathway. Preferably, the apparatus includes a pair of the inclined primary tracks leading and inclined downwardly in opposite directions. Thus, each player is at one end of the apparatus and is both starting marbles down one primary track, and also operating a control mechanism to try to intercept and divert marbles from his opponent's track. In one form, each control mechanism may include an air system made up of a squeezable air bulb connected through an air line to an air cylinder-piston unit. When the piston is actuated, it strikes a captive ball which rolls and strikes a free-swinging striker that is thereby swung into the path of marbles moving down the associated primary track. This form of control mechanism imparts a momentary swing to the striker into the path of the marbles but prevents the striker from being held in that position.

Game with inclined surfaces and interceptors

A play apparatus for producing a simulated explosion or other sudden action. The apparatus has a plurality of pieces that are releasably assembled together to form an interior chamber. An expandable bag such as a balloon is disposed in the chamber and connected to a manually operable pump. The pieces are connected together in such a manner that they resist the outward push of the expanding balloon against them until there is sufficient expansion of the balloon to release the pieces from one another and permit the balloon to thrust the pieces outwardly in a sudden action. The apparatus may be incorporated in the play of a game where players take turns pumping more air into the balloon. The release of air from the expanded balloon may be used also, as for example, to create a suitable sound effect.

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Encino, CA, United States of America

By Elisabeth Benkoe, Executrix