GB1314768A - Toy figure - Google Patents

Abstract

1314768 Toy animals IDEAL TOY CORP 14 May 1971 [1 June 1970] 14960/71 Heading A6S A toy animal comprises front legs 12 rigidly mounted on a base 10, a head assembly 16, 18, 20 rigid with a shaft 22 mounted in journals formed in the front legs, the assembly being pivotal as a unit about the axis of shaft 22, and a body 28 also pivotally secured to the front legs; a latch 34, detent 53 and springs 46, 60 are arranged so that as weights are sequentially loaded onto the animals back, body 28 is progressively pivoted in direction 106 Fig. 1 (clockwise in Fig. 3) until the detent is released at position 54, the body then moving rapidly under gravity in direction 106 and tripping the latch 34 by interengagement between 42 and 40 to radial projection 38 of shaft 22, which allows the spring 46 to pivot the head assembly in direction 108, member 20 of the head assembly finally striking the back and pivoting the body in direction 110 into a "bucking" position, Fig. 4 (not shown). Rear legs 66 and tail 76 are loosely pivoted to the body. The rear legs do not support the body in the Fig. 1 position. The weights comprise a saddle 80, a spigot 86 of which is positioned to be struck by member 20, and items, Fig. 5 (not shown), which may be hung on the saddle.