Iwaya Corporation

Jiro Yamaguchi

Satoru Ebihara

A moving animal toy consisting of a ski member having a guide slot at the center thereof, a toy member erected on the ski member and having right and left arms holding poles, and a wheel rotatably supported by the toy member and partially projected from the bottom of the ski through the guide slot, wherein as the wheel is turned, the toy member slides resting on the ski member, and the right and left arms alternately oscillate vertically to raise and lower the right and left poles alternately, performing slalom.

Moving animal toy

A motion toy body consisting of a trunk containing a housing therein, and a head; a frame in the housing which can be vertically moved, and which supports a crankshaft on which left and right feet are mounted so that the feet can be moved forward and backward; a slide shaft supported by a frame so that the slide shaft can be moved axially and turned, and which has a change-over gear, adapted to engage and disengage from a foot-driving gear by which power is transmitted to the crankshaft, and a singing gear; a screw on the outer circumferential surface of the slide shaft; a support member fixed to a bottom member of the housing and having a feed screw adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from the screw on the slide shaft and thereby move the slide shaft when the feed screw is engaged with the screw on the slide shaft; a spring fitted around the slide shaft for urging the slide shaft constantly toward the support member; an electric motor fixed to the frame and adapted to turn the slide shaft; a spring provided between the housing and the frame and resiliently supporting the frame with the screw on the slide shaft lower than the feed screw on the support member; a switch mechanism adapted to energize the electric motor when the frame is raised against the spring; and a singing member proivided on the bottom member of the housing and having a slide portion which the singing gear engages and disengages from.

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Tokyo, Japan

Jiro Yamaguchi