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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1978
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1976
Yutaka Tanaka, Urawa, JA;
Toytown Corporation, Tokyo, JA;
Abstract
An amusement device consisting of a vehicle provided with wheels, first continuously rotating gears, and a stationary second gear mounted concentrically about one of the first rotating gears; and a trackway engaged by the wheels of the vehicle and provided with a carrier for the vehicle which is mounted to rotate between spaced apart end portions of the trackway and normally biased against one of the end portions such that after the vehicle enters the carrier its momentum causes the carrier and the vehicle to be rotated to the other end portion of the trackway to continue its movement along the trackway, and a tower positioned along the trackway having upstanding side portions provided with continuous racks to be engaged by the rotating gears of the vehicle to propel the vehicle upwardly therealong and an abbreviated rack provided on one of the upstanding side portions to be engaged by the stationary gear to cause the vehicle to perform somersaults as it moves upwardly along the tower.