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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:
Mar. 18, 1980
Filed:
May. 25, 1978
Bruce M D'Andrade, Flemington, NJ (US);
Kwok Wa Tsui, WanChai, HK;
Arco Industries Ltd., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A wheeled toy having an inertia type flywheel to drive at least one wheel to propel the toy along a surface after applied force has pushed the toy along a surface sufficient to store kinetic energy in the flywheel, the toy including in the body thereof an electric generating device also driven by said flywheel to activate an auxiliary electrical device on said toy, such as a sounding device, electric light bulb to illuminate the same, or otherwise. The toy also includes a commutator operable to effect intermittent actuation of the auxiliary electric device and thereby cause flashing of the electric bulb when said auxiliary device is an electric bulb.