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1979 Patent For Robot Lamp

Sun, 30 May 2010 14:02:08 +0000

The patent was applied for in 1979 and granted in 1981.

Robot halloween masks

Sat, 11 May 2024 03:13:57 +0000

main thing im interested in are the robot halloween masks does anyone know about these? or even have one? I know I have a smoking spaceman robot mask that lights up from spirit halloween

1955 and 1961 patents for Sonicon toy control.

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 15:42:03 +0000

There have been a few designs for the Sonicon toys, but the early Electro mechanical ones "no IC's or transsistors, or microphones" versions are my favorite. A few images of the sonicon toys.

The system works by using a Helmholtz resonator. This is a tuned enclosure, think of a drum. Then add two electrical contacts that can freely open and close in a way that if the resonator were to receive a sound that is in tune with it the two contacts would vibrate. The two electrical contacts control a DC relay, so if no sound is present the contacts keep the relay ON and if the electrical contacts vibrate then the relay will turn OFF as a DC relay does not like fast switching control signals. The relay can then be used to turn a drive motor ON or OFF or in the case on Sonicon toys it can be used to reveses the direction of motor rotation. If the motor runs one direction then the toy moves forward, if the motor runs the other direction the drive wheel unit rotates to a new direction.

Marvin Glass. Yakkity Yob robot. for sale in 1961

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:40:23 +0000

PDF file for Yakkity Yob robot for sale in 1961, but patent date is 1964.

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1976 Patent For Zel Robot

Sun, 30 May 2010 14:57:38 +0000

patented applied for in 1976 and granted in 1978, this seems to be the design for the ZEL ROBOT. What realy makes this wind up robot different from other wind up robots is the wind up spring, its nothing like a normal wind up toy, its like the wind up radios that you have seen or own, not the ones that charge a battery when you turn a crank but the ones that wind a large flat coil of metal from one spool to another spool. You know you wind then up for 30 seconds and they run for 30 minuts. Well the same type of wind up device is used in this toy , it runs longer than any other wind up robot for its size and the power and speed stay very constant from start to finnish.

1983 Patent For Verbot

Sun, 30 May 2010 15:47:53 +0000

The patent was applied for in 1983 and granted in 1988. Verbot was one of the first toys that could actualy tell the difference from one word or sound from another. For example remember Electro at the 1939 worlds fair "no I was not there" he had voice command but it worked by detecting the pause between sounds and counting these pauses just like a old rotory phone counted the contact closeures. There have been other toys that had so called voice command controls as well but these were like Robot Commando (breath control) or counted pauses as well. But the realy cool part of VERBOT is not the voice control its actualy the motor gearbox design. It a automated version of the gear box in Robot COmmando in that 1 motor runs almost everything, the computer control's the gear box shifter and the main motor does the rest. Other toys have used this single motor design like the TOMY ARMOTRON toy.

1979 Silver Warrior Patent Drawings

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:51:35 +0000

The patent was filed in 1979 and granted in 1982. I have one in my collection made by BLUE BOX the same company that held the patent. The arms are different on mine and pictures I have seen of another Alphadromers Silver Warrior had the same arms as mine so I am not sure if the robot was sold with the arms shown in the patent or not. The same body was also used on a few variations of the Karate robots. Not in the time line so I do not know when it was actualy first offord for sale.

1956 Z-man The Brain Patent Drawings

Sat, 29 May 2010 16:15:52 +0000

Z-Man the Brain was the first electric robot that was programable. Patent file date is 1956 and was issued in 1957, our time line shows the toy being sold in 1956. I do have a Z-Man in my collection but again it was dirt cheep and is missing the rocket launchers. I new a guy once that had a mint in box Z-Man, instruction book and all inserts, he did not want to sell it. So if you have good pictures of a Z-Man and box feel free to post the pictures here.

1960 - Astro Base By Ideal

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 21:58:33 +0000

Yes, yes, I know. Astro Base has already been TIMELINE dated to 1960 in a Sears Christmas Catalog. But, I just couldn't resist this full color picture of the toy in this catalog imprinted with the Bickels store name from Logansport, Indiana.

Here's the main auction site:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1960-TOY-CATALOG-IN-CO...1QQcmdZViewItem

And the specific page:

http://i7.ebayimg.com/02/i/04/e3/d5/e7_12_sb.JPG

1940 Robot Bowler

Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:29:24 +0000

Julie 8, 1943.

I. H. M FALLS ROBOT BOWLING DEVICE Filed Dec. 2, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN VENTCR.

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ROBOT BOWLING DEVICE Filed Dec. 2, 194g 2 Sheets-Shea; 2

5 INVENTOR.

' JRV/NE HMaFHLLs @ATTOPNEY Patented June 8, 1943 l ROBOT BOWLING DEVICE Irving H. lVlcFalls, Mount Vernon, N. I, assignor to FrankBloise, New York, N. Y.

Application December 2, 1940, Serial No. 368,154

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Can You ID this Trademark?

Sun, 05 Jan 2020 14:59:30 +0000

Can you ID this trademark. Toy arrived in an Alps box. (Not a Space toy) Thanks in Advance!

The Great Garloo PDF of patent filed 1962

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 05:35:32 +0000

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Patents for string climbing toys

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:53:45 +0000

My climbing robot and space craft link here.

1905 Lehmann walking mechanisim Pat. 801,668

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 13:29:23 +0000

Back in 1904 Lehmann applied for a patent for a human like walking mechanism. The patent was granted in 1905. They used for a wind up toy called ADAM. I have used the basic design for walking robots starting 2007 with a smoking robot cart pusher I called Speedy delivery and in 2019 with a 3d printed cart pusher I call ADAM. I have a PDF of the patent. but the new Alphadrome set up does not take PDF files any longer. So will look for a PDF to jpeg converter program.

1961 Astro Base Patent Drawings

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:27:43 +0000

Applied for in 1961 and granted in 1963. The Time shows it as being sold in 1960. I loved the mechanics of the patent so saved it but thought some of you that collect space station stuff might like it as well and have a picture to post.

1959 Roboter 700 Patent Drawing

Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:24:57 +0000

Thanks too HENK for this patent drawing of Roboter 700 from 1959.

Robot Ramp walker

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:58:22 +0000

Here is recent patent for a Passive walking robot also refered to Ramp walker and Gravity walking toys. There are patents that go back over 100 years for these types of toys the most famous one being the Wilson walking toy of 1936. But this one is aimed at a robot toy being the end result so thought it should be here. Alot of the patent tex is in japanese but not all, and the drawings nere the end of the PDF file tell the real story anyway. Here is link for the files, the patent files are to large to attach.

http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detailPdf.jsf?ia=JP2002013744&docIdPdf=090063618013387b&name=(WO2003055566)WALKING TOY&woNum=WO2003055566&prevRecNum=1&nextRecNum=2&recNum=1&queryString=&office=&sortOption=&prevFilter=&maxRec=

1980 patent for ROBOKUN-1 message robot

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:55 +0000

US4282677.pdfToy Box corp applied for a patent in 1980 for the ROBOKUN-1 message robot made in Japan. I also have a broom sweeping version made in china.

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