JPH084063Y2 - Riding toys - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention relates to a riding toy, and more particularly, to an improvement for expanding a mode of play by the riding toy.

[Prior Art] As a prior art which is of interest to the present invention, a riding toy including a vehicle main body formed with a seat for a child and a plurality of wheels movably supporting the vehicle main body with respect to the ground. There is. Such a riding toy is disclosed, for example, in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 58-1428 published by the present applicant.

The riding toy as described above is usually run by a child sitting on a seat and kicking the ground with both feet. There is also a vehicle body having a push handle attached to the rear end thereof. In this case, the riding toy can also be played as a push cart. In addition, some steering wheels can be used to change the direction of the front wheels.
In this case, the traveling direction can be changed during traveling.

As described above, riding toys are devised so that they can play in various modes. It is thereby
The purpose is to attract children's interest and, in turn, to increase the commercial value.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] The applicant of the present invention will be able to further expand the modes of play in Japanese Patent Application No. 63-206541 "Riding toy" filed on August 19, 1988. Suggested improvements for. In this earlier application, the riding toy has a string attached to it for towing. Therefore, by pulling this riding toy with a string, it becomes possible to play as a pulling vehicle.

This invention intends to provide a riding toy which is configured to allow the riding toy to be played as a pulling vehicle and further increase the types of play.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a riding toy including a vehicle main body having a seat for a child and a plurality of wheels movably supporting the vehicle main body with respect to the ground. It is directed. Then, as suggested in the above-mentioned previous application, this riding toy is provided with a string for pulling the riding toy. The string is adapted to be wound on a rotatable reel, which reel is arranged in the part covered by the vehicle body.

In such a device, in order to solve the above-mentioned technical problem, the riding toy further includes a rotating body rotatably attached to the vehicle body and a rotation of the reel in a state of being visible from the outside. And a rotation transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotation to the rotating body.

[Operation] In this invention, the string is wound around the reel when it is not needed, and when it is needed,
It is pulled out from the reel. The reel is rotated in response to the winding or pulling out of the string. The rotation of the reel rotates the rotating body which is visible from the outside through the rotation transmission mechanism.

[Advantages of the Invention] The riding toy according to the present invention can be played as a pulling vehicle by pulling with a string, and when the pulling vehicle is not played, the string is wound on a reel. It can be stored in. The latter effect also produces a safety effect of preventing an accident in which the string is entangled in any place and causes the riding toy to fall.

In addition, especially as a remarkable effect for the present invention, the rotating body is rotated according to taking in and out of the reel of the string,
It should be noted that it can produce interesting sights. For example, when the bonnet-shaped portion of the vehicle body has a shape imitating the face of an animal or a human, such rotation of the rotating body is used to rotate the eyeballs included in such a face. You can

[Embodiment] FIGS. 1 to 3 show an embodiment of the present invention. The riding toy 1 shown here has a vehicle body 3 forming a seat 2 for a child to sit on, and a plurality of wheels, for example, two front wheels 4 and 2 for movably supporting the vehicle body 3 with respect to the ground. The rear wheel 5 is provided.

The front wheel 4 is connected to a lower end of a handle post 6 which is rotatably supported with respect to the vehicle body 3, and
The direction may be changed by rotating the steering handle 7 attached to the upper end of the.

A push handle 8 may be provided at the rear end of the vehicle body 3 so as to project upward. The push handle 8 is also
It may be detachable from the vehicle body 3.

The bonnet-like portion 9 forming the front and upper portions of the vehicle body 3 represents a cartoonized human face, as well shown in FIG. Two faces 10a, 10b, a nose 11 and a mouth 12 are given to such a face. Eyes 13a and 13b are formed on the respective eyeballs 10a and 10b.

As shown in FIG. 2, a space is formed below the bonnet-shaped portion 9 forming a part of the vehicle main body 3, and the winding device 14 is arranged therein. The winding device 14 is also shown in FIG. The winding device 14 includes a reel 16 for winding the string 15 and a reel stand 17 for rotatably supporting the reel 16. The reel stand 17 is, for example, a screw.
Attached to the vehicle body 3 by 18. Reel 16
A spirally shaped spring 19 is always biased to rotate in one direction, that is, in the direction in which the cord 15 is wound. Spacers 20a and 20b are arranged on both sides of the spring 19.

The string 15 has one end fixed to the reel 16 (not shown). On the other hand, the other end of the string 15 is guided to the outside through a through hole 21 provided in the bonnet-shaped portion 9, and is attached to the nose 11 described above outside. Nose 11 is second
As shown by an imaginary line in the figure, it can be separated from the bonnet-shaped portion 9 and also serves as a grip portion when the string 15 is pulled out. The bonnet-shaped portion 9 is preferably formed with a recess 22 for positioning the nose 11.

The eyeballs 10a, 10b are, as shown in FIG. 3, rotating shafts 23a, 23b.
Are formed respectively. And these rotary shafts 23a, 23
The eyeballs 10a and 10b are rotatably attached to the bonnet-shaped portion 9 by b. That is, these eyeballs 10a, 10
b is a rotating body.

Bearing brackets 24a and 24b extending downward from the bonnet-like portion 9 are formed at a predetermined interval as shown in FIG. Each of the bearing brackets 24a, 24b is provided with a longitudinal bearing hole 25a, 25b extending in the vertical direction.

Between the bearing brackets 24a and 24b, the rotation transmission drum 26
Is arranged. Both ends of the central shaft 27 of the rotation transmission drum 26 are received in the bearing holes 25a and 25b, respectively. As a result, the rotation transmission drum 26 is held rotatably about the central shaft 27.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the rotation transmission drum 26
Is in contact with reel 16. As described above, the rotation transmission drum 26, in which the central shaft 27 is received in the vertically extending bearing holes 25a and 25b, is kept in contact with the reel 16 by the gravity applied to itself.

Further, as shown in FIG.
The peripheral portions of the eyeballs 10a and 10b are in contact with each other.

Therefore, when the reel 16 is rotated, the rotation is transmitted to the eyeballs 10a and 10b via the rotation transmission drum 26, and the eyeballs 10a and 10b are rotated about the rotation shafts 23a and 23b, respectively. As well shown in FIG. 3, the above-mentioned pupils 13a and 13b are formed at eccentric positions of the eyeballs 10a and 10b, respectively. Therefore, when the eyeballs 10a and 10b are rotated, such a rotating state can be clearly seen from the outside by the movement of the pupils 13a and 13b.

In order to reliably perform the rotation transmission from the reel 16 to the rotation transmission drum 26 and the rotation transmission from the rotation transmission drum 26 to the eyeballs 10a and 10b as described above, the frictional force at each contact interface is increased. Different treatments may be applied. For example, knurls are formed at the contact interface, and the contact interface is made of a material having a high friction coefficient such as rubber.

In the embodiment described above, when the riding toy 1 is used as a pulling vehicle, the nose 11 is held by the hand and the string 15 is pulled out forward as shown by the phantom line in FIG. . On the other hand, when you finish playing as a tug,
When the hand is released from 11, the string 15 is automatically wound on the reel 16 by the action of the spring 19 (FIG. 3) described above. At the final stage, the nose 11 is positioned in the recess 22 as shown by the solid line in FIGS.

Since the reel 16 is rotated when the above-described pulling-out and winding-up operation of the string 15 is performed, the eyeballs 10a and 10b are rotated through the rotation transmission mechanism as described above, and an interesting scene is produced. .

4 and 5 are for explaining another embodiment of the present invention.

This embodiment is different from the above-described embodiment in the rotation transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotation of the reel to the eyeball as a rotating body. In addition, in FIGS. 4 and 5, in order to avoid duplication of description, corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and different parts will be mainly described below.

The rotation transmission mechanism will be described.
Are provided so as not to contact the reel 16. Further, the rotation transmission drum 28 includes the above-mentioned bearing bracket 24a,
Similar to 24b, it is located between bearing brackets 29a, 29b provided so as to extend downward from the bonnet-shaped portion 9. Each of the bearing brackets 29a, 29b is provided with bearing holes 31a, 31b for receiving the central shafts 30a, 30b of the rotation transmission drum 28.These bearing holes 31a, 31b are the same as the above-mentioned bearing holes 25a, 25b. Unlike, it does not have a longitudinal shape.

The string 15 pulled out from the reel 16 is wound around the outer peripheral surface of the rotation transmission drum 28, and is then through-hole 21 provided in the bonnet-shaped portion 9, as shown in FIG.
From the outside. Therefore, in this embodiment, the rotation of the reel 16 is transmitted to the rotation transmission drum 28 by the string 15. Rotation transmission drum 28 to eyes 10a, 10b
The rotation transmission mechanism to the is similar to that of the above-described embodiment.

Therefore, according to this embodiment as well, the eyeballs 10a and 10b can be rotated in accordance with the pulling out and winding of the string 15.

Further, in this embodiment, more interesting functions are added. That is, when the string 15 is pulled out and wound up, a sound is produced. Therefore, in this embodiment, the rotation of the rotation transmission drum 28 is used.

As shown in FIG. 5, inside the rotation transmission drum 28,
A chime toy 32 is built in. Chime toy 32
Is provided with a plurality of rod-shaped sound generators 33 that emit different tones when played. The plurality of sounding bodies 33 are arranged along the circumferential surface of the cylinder, and the striking body 34 is placed in a free state in a space surrounded by the plurality of sounding bodies 33.
Therefore, when the rotation transmission drum 28 is rotated, the impact body is
While randomly rolling, 34 randomly strikes a plurality of sounding bodies 33, thereby producing sounds of various pitches. In order to make such a sound more audible to the outside, sound passage holes 35 may be formed in both end surfaces of the rotation transmission drum 28.

Although the present invention has been described above with reference to the illustrated embodiments, various other modifications are possible within the scope of the present invention.

For example, in the illustrated embodiment, the eyeball 10 is used as the rotating body.
Although a and 10b are adopted, other members or toys may be rotated.

Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the reel 16 for winding the string 15 is biased by the spring 19 so as to rotate in the winding direction of the string 15, but the reel is manually wound in the winding direction. It may be operated so as to rotate.

Further, in the illustrated embodiment, the reel 16 for winding the string 15 and the eyeballs 10a and 10b as the rotating body are provided on or near the bonnet-shaped portion 9, but such a reel and rotating body are , May be provided in another place of the vehicle body.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a riding toy 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a riding toy 1 shown in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a partially cutaway side view showing a front portion of FIG. FIG. 3 shows the reels 16 shown in FIG. 2 to the eyeballs 10a, 10b shown in FIG.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a rotation transmission mechanism for the. FIG. 4 is a schematic side view showing the relationship between the rotation transmission drum 28 and the cord 15 included in another embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a view corresponding to FIG. 3 in the embodiment shown in FIG. In the figure, 1 is a riding toy, 2 is a seat, 3 is a vehicle body,
Reference numeral 4 is a front wheel (wheel), 5 is a rear wheel (wheel), 10a and 10b are eyeballs (rotating bodies), 15 is a string, 16 is a reel, and 26 and 28 are rotation transmission drums (rotation transmission mechanism).

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A riding toy comprising: a vehicle body having a seat for a child to sit on; and a plurality of wheels for movably supporting the vehicle body with respect to the ground, for towing the riding toy. And a rotatable reel arranged in a portion covered by the vehicle main body, for rotating the string, and a rotation reel rotatably attached to the vehicle main body as seen from the outside. A riding toy, comprising: a body, and a rotation transmission mechanism for transmitting the rotation of the reel to the rotating body.