Login| Sign Up| Help| Contact|

Patent Searching and Data


Title:
TOY TRACK SET
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/027751
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A toy track set is disclosed herein, the toy track set having: a vehicle path defined by a track and a gap disposed between a pair of ends of the track; a carriage assembly configured to carry a toy vehicle across the gap such that the toy vehicle may travel from one of the pair of ends of the track to another one of the pair of ends of the track on the carriage assembly; a ferromagnetic material disposed in the track; wherein the toy vehicle has at least one magnet disposed on the toy vehicle such that the toy vehicle may travel on the track in anyone of an inverted or vertical fashion; and a release mechanism positioned on the carriage assembly, the release mechanism being configured to engage one of the pair of ends of the track when the release mechanism is in a first position and release the release mechanism from the one of the pair of ends of the track when the release mechanism is moved to a second position from the first position by the toy vehicle travelling onto the carriage assembly; and wherein the carriage assembly slides along a line from the one of the pair of ends of the track to the other one of the pair of ends of the track when the release mechanism is moved to the second position from the first position by the toy vehicle travelling onto the carriage assembly and wherein the toy vehicle travels from the carriage assembly onto the other one of the pair of ends of the track when the carriage assembly contacts the other one of the pair of ends of the track.

Inventors:
PAYNE JULIAN R (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2011/049581
Publication Date:
June 14, 2012
Filing Date:
August 29, 2011
Export Citation:
Click for automatic bibliography generation   Help
Assignee:
MATTEL INC (US)
PAYNE JULIAN R (US)
International Classes:
A63H18/00; A63H18/14
Foreign References:
US7549906B22009-06-23
US20090130946A12009-05-21
US20050287919A12005-12-29
JP2004194920A2004-07-15
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
BOEHM, Christopher C. (20 Church Street22nd Floo, Hartford Connecticut, US)
Download PDF: