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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 1991
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1990
Yoshio Suimon, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuneo Hanzawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Hanzawa Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A drive device for a toy automobile includes a casing open at front and rear ends thereof and covering a path of travel, a flywheel rotatably supported on the casing for coming into abutting contact with an upper surface of a toy automobile at a prescribed position on the path of travel, an operating member axially slidably supported on the casing and having a push-button portion protruding externally of the casing and urged outwardly by a return spring, a pinion turned while in mesh with a rack provided on the operating member and extending axially thereof, and a gear speed-up mechanism incorporating a one-way clutch and interposed between the pinion and the flywheel for rotating the flywheel in a direction which propels the toy automobile forward only when the operating member is pushed inward.