Robert Louie Atwood

US Patent:

42990491, Nov 10, 1981

Filed:

Feb 11, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/120249

Inventors:

Gary W. Pimentel - Fountain Valley CA
Jeffrey B. Poznick - La Crecenta CA
Robert W. Atwood - Whittier CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - Hawthorne CA

International Classification:

A63H 3328

US Classification:

46 8

Abstract:

A toy which generates bubbles and shapes those bubbles into a recognizable form. The toy has a unique pump mechanism which injects air under pressure into a stream of liquid soap then forces the aerated stream through a screen to break up the stream into a multiplicity of bubbles. A removable shaper is arranged at the exit for bubbles from the pump mechanism. The shaper has an exterior which is the incomplete shape of an object recognizable to a child and a series of conduits which conduct the bubbles into porisions in which they complete the recognizable form.

US Patent:

46392343, Jan 27, 1987

Filed:

Oct 4, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/784147

Inventors:

Robert W. Atwood - Whittier CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - Hawthorne CA

International Classification:

A63H 3300

US Classification:

446327

Abstract:

A toy playset for use with toy action figures including a simulated cage having a door, an arrangement for securing and releasing the door capable of being reached by a toy action figure used with the playset, a trap capable of ensnaring a toy action figure positioned in front of the cage, a hand-puppet monster guarding the cage, and a tree capable of grasping a toy action figure positioned to guard the arrangement for releasing the door.