Spang & Company

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Spang Industries, Inc.

Ernest L Thornell

Toy sports module

Portable, lightweight-construction toy basketball set made of releasably interlocking plastic parts for ease of assembly and disassembly in which backboard structure and a base support are interconnected by an elongated upright standard. An elongated upright is provided which is divisible into separate columns which interfit telescopically and present helically-oriented interrupted threads for ease of selection of upright height and release for further adjustment or separation of the columns. A bracket interconnects a hoop flange to the backboard with the bracket and hoop flange having matching interfitting configurations for yieldably releasing the hoop for angular relative movement with respect to such backboard so as to prevent damage to interfitted parts during execution of a slam dunk play and to permit angular relative movement for manually returning such hoop to normal play position. Net attachment means unitary with the interior rim of the hoop provide for safe and secure attachment of net string loops to the hoop.

Adjustable height toy basketball goal

Toy basketball goal

Toy play scene

Beverage dispenser

A sheet of resiliently bendable but relatively stiff material has a hole from which slits radiate to define a circular series of stiff but resiliently bendable tabs. When the sheet is pressed downwardly over a fairly hard ball the tabs are flexed to pass over the diameter of the ball and they then snap back to normal position projecting the ball upwardly by cam action on its lower hemisphere. In one form of the invention a flexible magazine is secured to one side of the projector permitting sequential forcing of balls through the projector in rapid fire fashion.

Toy projector

A reusable badge is assembled by snapping a flanged concavo-convex lens of resilient sheet plastic material over the edge of a stiff but resilient backing plate with display material between them. The display material can be from a large sheet and sheared to size by the lens flange and backing plate as they are assembled. A press for assembling the components has an anvil with a centering boss that engages a hole in a clip secured to the backing plate. A hammer member presses the lens downwardly to snap its flange over the edge of the backing plate while flexing the edge of the backing plate slightly.

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Booneville, AR, United States of America

Ernest L Thornell