Title: Toy ball with gear-driven figure

Abstract: A rigid, hollow transparent ball has a figure therewithin. As the ball rotates, the figure is rotated by the mesh between a gear fixed to the figure and a gear fixed to the inner surface of the ball.

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Inventors: Malek, Jack H. (Westbury, NY, US)
Siegel, Herman M. (Stamford, CT, US)

Application Number: 904041
Filing Date: 1978-05-08
Publication_date: 1980-05-20
Assignee: CBS Inc. (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 446/236 185/27, 185/30, 446/289
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US Patent Ref:

955435	Apr, 1910	Reed	46/1.
2519248	Aug, 1950	Hulbert	46/100.
2949697	Aug, 1960	Licitis et al.	46/207.
3058261	Oct, 1962	Lakin	46/99.
3798835	Mar, 1974	McKeehan	46/100.

Other Refs: 443666

May, 1927	DE2

Primary Examiner: Shay, F. Barry
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Seidel, Gonda, Goldhammer & Panitch