Patent ID: 6079954
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: A63H,F01B,F04B

Abstract:
An air pumping station for a pneumatic toy vehicle powered by a re-fillable compressed air bottle or canister, the pumping station comprising:(a) a stabilizing base having a flat ground-engaging lateral bottom including projecting elements proportioned for placement under the feet of a user of the station;(b) a fluid-tight longitudinal pump housing secured, at a distal end thereof, perpendicularly to said stabilizing base, said housing including an air intake valve;(c) within said pump housing, piston means having a distal end in fluid tight relationship to interior walls of said housing and having a proximal end defining hand-grippable means for reciprocal movement of said piston means within said housing, said hand-grippable means having a lateral projecting dimension approximately equal to that of said projecting elements of said lateral bottom of said base, in which each of said dimensions comprises about one-half of an axial length of said pump housing;(d) an air exhaust conduit having a proximal end in fluid communication with an exhaust aperture of said housing and having a distal end comprising an air inlet valve defining a compressed air input to said air bottle of the toy vehicle; and(e) means for selectable clamping and unclamping of said toy vehicle, inclusive of compressed air bottle within said vehicle, to a surface of said housing, said clamping means offset from said housing by a sufficient distant to avoid said reciprocal movement of said piston means when use is made of the station by a user.