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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1987
Victor G Reiling, Jr, West Cornwall, CT (US);
Brian L Dean, Torrington, CT (US);
D Michael Ledyard, Grosse Pointe, MI (US);
Daniel J Cooney, Birmingham, MI (US);
John W Brady, Utica, MI (US);
Lionel Trains, Inc., Mt. Clemens, MI (US);
Abstract
The toy combination includes a toy vehicle having one or more pairs of spaced apart shoulders on exterior sides of the vehicle body and one or more toy attachments releasably secured on the pairs of shoulders by snap-fitting a respective pair of rails on the toy attachment against a respective pair of shoulders. The toy attachment includes resilient extensions on which the rails are carried. The extensions are flexed to snap-fit the rails on the shoulders. The toy attachment can include first and second pairs of extensions adjacent opposite ends with a receptacle intermediate the extensions for releasably receiving a toy figure.