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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 1986
Filed:
Dec. 14, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Phedon J Tsiknopoulos, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Roger H Sweet, Long Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
446330 ; 446334 ; 446359 ; 446236 ; 446383 ; 446219 ;
Abstract
An animated figure toy (10) includes an upper torso (14) provided with a pair of arms (22) articulately mounted for relative movement thereto upward toward the plane of the shoulders by centrifugal force, as the upper torso is rotated relative to a lower torso (16) upon which it is mounted, by means of a thumbwheel (64) coacting with a drive means (44) connected between the torsos. The individual arms are also rotatable for 360.degree. about an axis through the shoulders.