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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:
Jan. 21, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
John S Cook, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ; B60B / ; B60B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
446462 ; 301128 ; 446469 ; 464179 ;
Abstract
A toy vehicle utilizing a multiple-use shaft which is cylindrical and has a series of longitudinal grooves parallel to the longitudinal axis, each groove having a shape to mate with both gear teeth and keys. The groove edges are radiused to eliminate gouging of bearing surfaces in which the shaft is journaled. Internally splined gears are slidably mounted on the shaft with their splines fitted in driving relation to the multiple-use shaft.