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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1979
Filed:
Feb. 10, 1978
Allison W Katzman, Chicago, IL (US);
Palmer J Schoenfield, Evanston, IL (US);
Burton C Meyer, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Marvin Glass & Associates, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An amusement set (for use particularly by children) comprises a carrying case including a pair of mating, hollow housing members pivotally connected along one edge to open and close around a peripheral seam line of each member. Each of the housing members includes internal wall structure defining a plurality of rooms at different levels and a hollow elevator shaft is mounted in coaxial alignment with the axis of pivotal interconnection between the housing members to extend between the different room levels. Openings are provided in the elevator shaft walls at different levels and an elevator is provided for manual movement up and down within the shaft between the different room levels. The amusement set includes a plurality of toy figurines which represent fictional play characters such as bugs and/or insects. The upper walls of the housing members are formed to resemble the surface of the ground and a plurality of openings are provided for access to the rooms within the housing members from the top. The underground rooms provide play spaces for the bug or insect-like characters. At the upper end, the elevator shaft is provided with a sewer-like grate which opens and closes access to the shaft from ground level and several of the openings provided in the upper walls of the housing members provide a holding space for hollow enclosures which are insertable therein for holding the play characters. These hollow enclosures are shaped and decorated to resemble growing vegetables or the like in a garden and a novel handle for the carrying case also shaped and decorated to resemble growing plant-life is provided.