Mattel, Inc.

Other

Richard G Garza

Wayne R Halford

Gary M Saffer

Peter C Hill

Jay M Bro

Raymond R Lynch

James R Bjorklund

Pinhas Sayegh

Arthur J Foss

A football down chain set for monitoring the position of a football. The chain set includes a standard having a pointer attached thereon. The pointer is spaced at a distance from the standard. The pointer gauges a position of the football. Another standard has another pointer attached thereon. The other pointer is spaced at a distance from the other standard, the other pointer gauges a position of the football. A strap interconnects the standard and the other standard. The strap is dimensioned for providing a spacing of ten yards between the pointer and the other pointer.

Football down chain set

A toy top having an air impeller-driven flywheel and a spring-latch mechanism which releases an upper portion of the top from a lower housing when an articulated arm of the spinning top comes into contact with an object such as a stationary object or another top. The flywheel located inside the lower housing is rotated by blowing air into one of two ducts on the housing. The stream of air comes into contact with the blades of an impeller causing rotation of the impeller and the flywheel which is attached to the impeller. The flywheel is attached to a shaft rotatably mounted inside the housing. Slots in bosses extending upward from the housing releasably engage a plate at the bottom of the upper portion. The slots disengage from the plate when one of two articulated arms of the spinning top contacts an object allowing a spring mounted inside the upper portion to push the upper portion away from the lower housing. The top appears to 'blow up' as the upper portion pops up from the housing.

Toy top with impeller-driven flywheel

An animated figure toy (10) includes a head (14) in which a pendulum (26) is swingably mounted for reciprocating a cam follower (48) to blink eyelids (60, 62) and simultaneously move eyeballs (68, 70) from side to side.

Eye-moving mechanism for a figure toy

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Paramount, CA, United States of America

Richard G Garza