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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1977
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jack L Breneman, Orchard Park, NY (US);
Assignee:
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
46202 ; 46 40 ; 46 75 ;
Abstract
A toy vehicle has a pair of gripping tongs spring-biased open and loosely housed in a recess preferably in the underside of a housing for the toy vehicle. A pair of spaced-apart cam surfaces are located in the recess for engaging the tong arms on opposite sides of their pivot, and a manually operable lever engages and moves the pivot deeper into the recess so the cam surfaces pivot the free ends of the tong arms together against the spring bias. The cam surfaces are preferably closer to the pivot than to the free ends of the tong arms, and the tong arms preferably have shoulders slidably engaging the cam surfaces during opening and closing movements.