US3616571A - Combination toy vehicle and holding means therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

A COMBINATION TOY VEHICLE AND MEANS FOR SUSPENDING THE VEHICLE FROM A BELT OR HAT OR THE LIKE, SAID VEHICLE HAVING A PAIR OF APERTURES ON THE UNDERSIDE THEREOF AND SAID MEANS COMPRISING AN ELONGATED HANGER STRAP OF THE FLEXIBLE MATERIAL HAVING A CLIP AT ONE END FOR ATTACHMENT TO THE BELT AND A PAIR OF SPACED STUDS NEAR THE OTHER END FOR INSERTION ONE INTO EACH OF SAID APERTURES ON THE VEHICLE. THE STUDS HAVE RESILIENTLY DEFORMABLE HEADS WHICH COMPRESS AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE APERTURES.

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Nov. 2, 1971 F AmcKE 3,616,571

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United States Patent 3,616,571 COMBINATION TOY VEHICLE AND HOLDING MEANS THEREFOR Cecil F. Adickes, Playa del Rey, Califl, assignor to Tonka Corporation, Mound, Minn. Filed Feb. 11, 1970, Ser. No. 10,402 Int. Cl. A63h 11/10 US. Cl. 46-202 2 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A combination toy vehicle and means for suspending the vehicle from a belt or hat or the like, said vehicle having a pair of apertures on the underside thereof and said means comprising an elongated hanger strap of flexible material having a clip at one end for attachment to the belt and a pair of spaced studs near the other end for insertion one into each of said apertures on the vehicle. The studs have resiliently deformable heads which compress as they pass through the apertures.

It is becoming increasingly more common for young children to possess and play with sets of small vehicular toys each in the size range of one to three inches in length.

It is an object of this invention to provide a novel combination-of a small toy vehicle and a holding means therefor which will enable a child to carry and have available for immediate and convenient use a great many of such vehicles.

The above mentioned and other objects of the invention will be brought to light during the course of the following specification, reference being made to the accompanying drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a front elevation of the hanger strap shown clipped to a belt and with the mounted position of a toy vehicle shown in broken lines.

FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the hanger strap.

FIG. 3 is a vertical section through the hanger strap taken on line 3-3 of FIG. 1.

FIG. 4 is a bottom end view of the strap.

FIG. 5 is a horizontal section through the strap taken on line 55 of FIG. 1 and showing a toy vehicle partially broken away in mounted position thereon.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing reference characters will be used to denote like parts or structural features in the different views. The hanger member is denoted generally at and comprises an elongated strap of semirigid resilient deformable material such as plastic. The strap has a name plate 11 formed on its upper end facing forwardly to prominently display a name or trademark. Below the name plate 1 the strap has a clip 12 punched from the central portion thereof to extend downwardly in slightly spaced relation behind the plane of the strap. The clip opens downwardly enabling a belt 14 to be received in supporting position between the clip and strap.

The lower portion of the hanger member 10 is molded so as to have a mounting box 15 extending across the "ice front of the hanger. A pair of cylindrical studs 16 project forwardly from box 15 in transversely spaced relation and are interconnected by a rib 17. Studs 16 are provided near their extended ends with small inwardly pointing teeth 18.

A miniature toy vehicle denoted generally at 20 has a body 21 with a bottom pan 22 extending along the underside thereof and four conventionally spaced ground wheels 24. The pan 22 has a pair of apertures 25 spaced longitudinally of the vehicle, midway between the wheels and the same distance apart as studs 16. Each aperture 25 is larger than the width of a stud 16 but slightly smaller than the combined dimension of the stud and its tooth 18. Accordingly, the vehicle 20 may be detachably connected to hanger member 10 by inserting the studs 16 into apertures 25 as shown in FIG. 5. Teeth 25 will deform slightly as they pass through the apertures and then will resiliently return to their extended positions to frictionally secure the vehicle on the hanger until removal pulling force is applied thereto.

Strap 10 is preferably provided with a groove 27 extending across its longtiudinal center to form a hinge allowing the lower portion of the strap to be bent upwardly for mounting or dismounting the vehicle. The mounting box 15 is provided so that studs 16 are olfset sufliciently to prohibit interference of vehicle wheels with the strap.

It will be understood that a child may with the combination described carry several hanger straps 10 on a belt or other article of clothing with each strap mounting a different type of miniature vehicle for his selective use. The invention accordingly carries out the aforementioned objective.

Having now therefore fully illustrated and described my invention, what I claim to be new and desire to protect by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A combination toy vehicle and holding means therefor comprising a toy vehicle having a pair of spaced apertures in its underside, anda hanger strap having a clip at one end for attachment to a belt or the like and a pair of studs projecting outwardly in parallelism from the other end and equally spaced with said vehicle apertures for frictional insertion into the apertures to provide a detachable connection between the strap and vehicle.

2. The subject matter of claim 1 wherein the hanger strap and the clip and studs thereon are formed of a unitary piece of resilient deformable material.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 660,302 10/1900 Lowman 2242 D 2,910,804 11/1959 \Vhite 224-2 C FOREIGN PATENTS 252,930 6/1912 Germany 224-5 GERALD M. FORLENZA, Primary Examiner L. J. ORESKY, Assistant Examiner US. 01. X.R. 248-316 R; 224-25 R

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