Steven D Hanson, 652100 36Th Ave SW, Cambridge, MN 55008

4524967, Jun 25, 1985

Feb 9, 1984

6/578053

Steven P. Hanson - Winnetka IL
Jeffrey D. Breslow - Highland Park IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

A63F 900

273 1GE

A game for picking and identifying figurines during a timed turn for matching with corresponding identification on a card. The game housing establishes a raised playing surface having a number of openings communicating with the interior of the housing. Under the playing surface there is a spring motor driven cam with three identical lobes and having an outwardly extending lever for winding the motor for a single cycle of approximately 125 degrees of rotation. Above the cam there is a follower riser having two concentric coplanar annular plates that support the figurines for simultaneous, essentially vertical, raising and lowering of the figurines through the openings. Keeper rings on the follower riser cooperate with guide posts in the housing to maintain the essentially vertical movement.

4551109, Nov 5, 1985

Jan 22, 1985

6/693385

Steven P. Hanson - Winnetka IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

A63H 1700

446 95

A children's activity playset for building vehicles using a malleable material includes a chassis carrying free wheeling axle and wheel assemblies on the underside. Clear plastic body shells are provided for filling with colored malleable materials and then pressing on top of the chassis. Upwardly projecting posts on the chassis help secure the malleable material to the chassis. Once assembled the clear shell may be removed or left on the vehicle to protect it during play.

4337948, Jul 6, 1982

Feb 8, 1980

6/119824

Jeffrey D. Breslow - Highland Park IL
Donald A. Rosenwinkel - Tinley Park IL
Steven P. Hanson - Brea CA
Rex M. Harper - Chicago IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

A63F 300
A63F 900

273237

A game apparatus includes a manually movable game object having a finite number of generally planar exterior surfaces upon which the game object may rest. In one embodiment, a game board includes indicia defining positions of placement and movement of the game object as it is rotated about an edge from one planar surface to another. The game object includes an internal microcomputer capable of detecting which one of the planar surfaces is generally parallel with or in contact with the game board or any other suitable supporting surface to identify the discrete positions of movement of the game object. The microcomputer may provide an identifying sensorially perceptible signal identifying the various discrete positions. In addition, the microcomputer includes a storing unit for storing sequential movements of the game object through a finite number of movements. The microcomputer also identifies player turns for movement of the game object and provides a sensorially perceptible event at the end of a player's turn or at the end of a game when an incorrect movement of the game object is made or when a movement is not attempted within a predetermined time period.

4514175, Apr 30, 1985

Jan 20, 1984

6/572302

John V. Zaruba - Chicago IL
Steven P. Hanson - Winnetka IL
Beth E. Luecke - Chicago IL
Wayne A. Kuna - Oak Park IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

G09B 1100

434 82

A children's stuffed-art craft set includes a background board having two-dimensional graphics on a face surface with openings of various shapes forming elements of the graphics extending through the board to the opposite surface. Backing pieces, and relatively soft, stuffing pieces which are readily compressible compared to the background board and backing pieces, are shaped to fit into background board openings. Pieces of fabric or other material, larger than the openings and of various colors, patterns and textures are also supplied. A selected fabric piece is placed over the conforming stuffing and backing pieces and then inserted through the opening in the backing board from the opposite surface. The thickness of the extra fabric is wedged between the opening and the conforming backing piece to stretch the fabric, compress the stuffing and secure the combination in place creating a soft relief element of the picture or design following the two-dimensional graphics on the face of the background board.

5388390, Feb 14, 1995

Oct 15, 1993

8/138369

James W. Finkowski - Andover MN
William L. Murphy - Maple Grove MN
Steven K. Hanson - Shoreview MN

The Pillsbury Company - Minneapolis MN

B65B 6300

53516

A dough cutting and packing apparatus for cutting a sheet of dough into dough pieces and transferring the dough pieces to containers. A cutting unit is defined by a plurality of cutting plates having dough retaining openings. The sheet of dough is partially sheeted into the dough retaining openings by an initial compressor roll which is spaced from an upper surface of the cutting plates. A terminal compressor roll contacts the upper surface of the cutting plates, and acts to sheet a remaining portion of the dough sheet into the dough retaining openings to divide the dough sheet into a plurality of dough pieces retained in the openings. The initial compressor roll is driven at a peripheral rate of speed that exceeds an instantaneous liner rate of speed of the cutting unit. The terminal compressor roll is frictionally driven via contact with the cutting plates such that a peripheral rate of speed of the terminal compressor matches the linear rate of speed of the cutting unit. A packing mechanism transfers the dough pieces from the cutting unit to the containers as the containers are moved relative to the packing mechanism by a plurality of flighted augers.

4580994, Apr 8, 1986

Dec 15, 1983

6/561786

Fritz Fauser - Arlington Heights IL
Wayne A. Kuna - Oak Park IL
Steven P. Hanson - Winnetka IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

A63H 1700

446465

A toy vehicle with a two-part, telescoping, chassis is driven by a battery powered motor. The child manipulates a control lever to energize the motor and produce engine revving sounds and then engage the rear wheels to start the vehicle doing a wheelie. One part of the chassis carries the front axle and wheels along with the motor and batteries plus an elongated resonating tube with a bellows and striking rib at one end adjacent the motor and an angular, open, sound producing end. Beaters driven by the motor strike the rib to produce the engine revving sound. Rear wheels mounted on an axle carried by the other part of the chassis are drivingly engaged with the motor when the two parts are telescoped together. The shift control lever is mounted for pivotal movement into an initial electrical circuit completing contact to energize the motor and later mechanical shifting to telescope the rear axle carrying part towards the motor to engage the motor and rear axle. Positioning of the batteries and motor over the rear axle plus the initial thrust of power causes the front end of the vehicle to lift and do a wheelie.

4540377, Sep 10, 1985

Feb 1, 1984

6/575790

Steven F. Rehkemper - Chicago IL
Steven P. Hanson - Winnetka IL
Harry Disko - S. Barrington IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

A63H 2900
A63H 1705

446430

A 4. times. 4 conversion accessory for vehicles including a pair of spaced apart axles secured to an elongated transverse central frame member. Relatively large lugged wheels are attached to the ends of each axle for rotation with respect to the frame member. Mounting wells for releasably receiving the wheels of the vehicle are carried by the axles adjacent each lugged wheel to support the vehicle on the conversion accessory. Each well has a substantially solid outer circular wall and a spaced apart inner circular wall with a generally vertical slot extending down below the center of the inner wall. A telescoping frame member and mounting wells carried for sliding movement along the transverse axles accommodate vehicles having different wheel bases. In another version, the elongated frame member includes a compressible spring and releasable actuator for propelling a combined vehicle and 4. times. 4 converter accessory.

4496510, Jan 29, 1985

Nov 10, 1983

6/550576

Steven P. Hanson - Winnetka IL
Burton C. Meyer - Downers Grove IL

Marvin Glass & Associates - Chicago IL

B29C 2100
B29D 3100
B29F 300

264176R

An activity toy with which a child may create needle craft like textured designs using plastic or amorphous solid substances. In order to simulate the strands or nubs that create the textured design in neddle crafts a stand supported on a surface holds a screen having mesh spaces extending between the opposed sides of the screen. The stands hold the screen spaced from the surface with one side of the screen facing the child. An extruder for the plastic substance is positioned adjacent the side of the screen away from the child and moved under the screen to force the substance through the mesh spaces to create the needle craft like texture. The extrusion opening is a larger than the mesh spaces so that a mat or backing retains the textured design on the screen. To facilitate the creation of aesthetically pleasing designs, preprinted patterns or outlines are provided on the screen.