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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:
Feb. 12, 1985
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
John S Cook, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
446462 ; 446466 ;
Abstract
A toy vehicle (11) having a motor drive mechanism (31) with a gear shift lever (28) actuable from a first position (A) to a second position (H) for changing the movement thereof. The vehicle has a pivotable linkage arm (35) with a gear sector (47) having a plurality of teeth (39) connected thereto coacting with a worm gear (37) rotatable in response to vehicle travel for pivoting a trigger finger (56) against the gear shift lever (28) for automatic movement of the gear shift lever from the first position (A) to the second position (H).