Hasbro, Inc.

The Procter Gamble Company

Jeffrey T Halter

Brian S Dengler

Matthew Lloyd Newman

Jennifer Ellen Davis-Wilson

Leo Kopelow

Thomas George Crowe

Jerome Joo Ge Goh

Michael A Moore

Christine Marie Kurjan

Joseph J Smith

Elizabeth Ann Rohrbaugh

Tracey Ann Wurzelbacher

Ramona Zenkich

Gerard M O'Shea

Jan Hendik Maria Verbiest

Erin Meredith Lang

Arthur Bryon Stackpole, Jr

Anthony John Watkins

A cleaning implement is provided for cleaning surfaces with a cleaning substrate. The cleaning implement includes a handle connected via a universal joint to a mop head. The mop head includes a bumper pad, which is made of a deformable and nonabsorbent material. The bumper pad can be deformed in the Z direction and within the X-Y plane. The cleaning implement can also include a motor for causing a portion of the mop head to move relative to the handle.

Multi-surfaces cleaning implement

A toy gun which fires at least two projectiles with a single cycle of an actuation device is disclosed. The gun includes a piston for developing a firing force and a magazine having at least two stations, each of which receives a projectile. The magazine is movable to sequentially position each of the stations in a firing position to receive the firing force from the piston. The actuating device operatively engages the piston and the magazine for periodic actuation thereof. In some embodiments, the actuating device comprises an elongated strip with a plurality of spaced abutments.

Toy gun for sequentially firing a plurality of projectiles

A toy gun having a pneumatic projectile launcher for launching a foam projectile and a retractable sighting mechanism which automatically raises to an operative viewing position when the gun is cocked. The pneumatic launcher having a plunger is concealed by a sliding housing which simulates the action of an automatic weapon, and the sight is pivotally mounted to the housing. When the gun is cocked by sliding the housing rearwardly relative to the body of the gun, the sight contacts an actuator which rotates the sight to an operative viewing position. When the gun is fired, the housing moves forwardly in unison with the plunger, and the sight automatically rotates to its inoperative position.

Toy gun having a retractable sight

A collapsible sport goal includes a collapsible frame assembly, and a net extended around the collapsible frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a base frame, an inverted U-shaped goal frame, an inverted U-shaped rear frame, and pivoting connector rods connected laterally between center portions of the goal frame and the rear frame. The goal frame includes a center portion and two leg portions which are pivotally attached to a front portion of the base frame such that the goal frame is pivotally movable relative to the base frame. The rear frame includes a center portion and two leg portions which are pivotally attached to a rear portion of the base frame wherein the rear frame is pivotally movable relative to the base frame. The connector rods are pivotally connected at each end thereof between the respective center portions of the goal frame and the rear frame such that the connector rods are pivotally rotatable relative to the goal frame and the rear frame. In use, the frame assembly is movable between an open position wherein the base frame is positioned on a supporting surface, the goal frame extends vertically, the rear frame extends generally upwardly and forwardly and the connector rods extend laterally between the goal frame and the rear frame, and a closed position wherein the goal frame, rear frame and connector rods are substantially coplanar with the base frame. The frame assembly further includes a simple locking mechanism for releasably locking the frame assembly in the open position.

Collapsible sports goal

A children's basketball backboard and hoop assembly includes a backboard, and a hoop having a rim which is pivotably attached to the backboard, and a net attached to the rim. The assembly further includes an enlarged secondary training rim pivotably attached to the backboard for movement between an operative position wherein the secondary rim is located above the hoop rim in substantially parallel relation to the hoop rim, and a storage position generally parallel to the backboard. The hoop rim is pivotably attached to the backboard for movement between an operative position wherein the rim extends substantially perpendicular to the backboard and a storage position wherein the rim is positioned in closely spaced parallel relation to the backboard. When the secondary training rim is moved to the storage position it is received within a recess extending along an upper peripheral edge of the backboard. The basketball backboard and hoop assembly also includes one set of straps for releasably securing the backboard to a door, and a second set of straps for releasably securing the backboard to a vertical post. The enlarged secondary hoop is intended to be used by relatively young children to guide stray balls downwardly into the hoop, thereby increasing the chances of making a basket.

Basketball backboard and hoop assembly including an enlarged secondary

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Jeffrey T Halter