Patent ID: 7946902
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. An articulated walking toy device configured for movement across a surface, the toy device comprising: a frame; a plurality of leg assemblies movably coupled with the frame so as to at least partially support the frame for movement across the surface, each leg assembly including a leg member configured to rotate with respect to the frame about a joint formed by a pin passed through an at least generally hour glass shaped aperture to provide rotational movement of the leg member with respect to the frame about at least first and second axes of rotation intersecting in the joint; and a drive mechanism operatively engaged with the plurality of leg assemblies so as to actuate each of the leg members of the plurality to rotate about the joint in a like, predetermined, repeatable cycle of movement, with at least some of the leg members of the plurality being out of phase with other leg members of the plurality to produce an anatomic-like gait of the toy device on the surface upon actuation of the drive mechanism.