Sidney V Bass

US Patent:

45795380, Apr 1, 1986

Filed:

Jan 16, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/562721

Inventors:

Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA
Yoshizo Seki - Tokyo, JP

Assignee:

Tomy Kogyo Co. Inc. - Toyko

International Classification:

A63H 3308

US Classification:

446107

Abstract:

A construction toy utilizes a plurality of tubular elements which are connectable to each other or are connectable to one or more hollow members. Each of the tubular elements has a first skirt on one end and a second skirt on its opposite end which are of the same size and are utilized to attach the elements to the hollow members. Further, attaching to one of the skirts on one of the ends is a smaller skirt which allows the smaller skirt to be attached to one of the skirts on a further of the tubular elements so as to connect two tubular elements together. The tubular elements have a plurality of convolutions which allow them to be expanded or contracted so as to lengthen or foreshorten the tubular elements as well as allowing the tubular elements to bend during the construction of structures with the components of the invention.

US Patent:

53284003, Jul 12, 1994

Filed:

Jul 20, 1993

Appl. No.:

8/095143

Inventors:

Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA

Assignee:

Universal Product Innovations, Inc. - Carson CA

International Classification:

A63H 300

US Classification:

446 98

Abstract:

A doll contains a fabric fastener, such as "Velcro", on the backside, simulating a backbone. A turntable holds the doll in upright position with arms uplifted. A consecutive series of garment sections, each depicting a separate article of clothing, is spooled onto a rotatable cylinder, spaced from the turntable, with the front end section of the spooled garment containing a complementary fabric fastener connected to the fabric fastener on the doll's backside. By rotating the doll about its vertical axis an article of clothing is dispensed from the cylinder and is wrapped about the doll's torso to dress the doll. The doll's clothing is effectively changed by rotating the doll further to dispense the next article of clothing and wrap the latter in overlying relationship with the first article of clothing about the doll's torso. This action may be continued for as many different articles of wrap around clothing as is contained on the cylinder.

US Patent:

41509030, Apr 24, 1979

Filed:

Jan 10, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/758206

Inventors:

Charles E. Bailey - Lawndale CA
Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA
Russell C. Edmisson - Manhattan Beach CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - Hawthorne CA

International Classification:

B41J 302

US Classification:

400 95

Abstract:

A toy simulating a typewriter for enabling a child to compose a large number of sentences from a limited number of words, the toy having a keyboard with a plurality of keys, each key having a word imprinted thereon. A carriage is provided with paper receiving imprints of the words from hinged type arms operable upon depression of the keys, depression of one of the keys performing the imprinting operation and release of the key actuating a spacer frame coacting with an indexing bar for incrementing the carriage under force of a spring a predetermined distance.

US Patent:

49939858, Feb 19, 1991

Filed:

Jan 29, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/471438

Inventors:

Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA
Harold E. Garner - Long Beach CA

Assignee:

Universal Product Innovations, Inc. - Carson CA

International Classification:

A63H 3326
A63H 1700

US Classification:

446133

Abstract:

A children's toy car playset contains at least two toy cars, suitably containing low friction wheel and axle structures. Each of the cars contains an anti-collision device that in normal play prevents collisions between the cars, irrespective of the angle of approach at which one of the cars moves toward an other. Suitably the anti-collision device is formed by a permanent magnet with the magnetic fields oriented so that the field lines extend downwardly at least about the periphery of the car.

US Patent:

40759555, Feb 28, 1978

Filed:

Jan 10, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/757870

Inventors:

Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA
Raymond Marie St. Pierre - Hawthorne CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - Hawthorne CA

International Classification:

D05C 1504

US Classification:

112 79R

Abstract:

A machine for performing needlepoint or the like wherein successive loops of a single strand of yarn or the like are inserted through fabric, the machine including a carriage mounted for slidable movement in a given direction, the carriage having an indexable open framework roller mounted thereon, the roller being adapted to support a fabric for receiving the yarn. First and second members are pivotally mounted about a common axis within the machine, each of the members having arm portions extending toward the roller and adapted for insertion through the fabric carried thereby. The arm of the first member is configured in the shape of a needle having an eye adapted to receive the yarn therethrough, the needle arm being channel-shaped in cross section for selectively receiving the arm of the other member in abutting sliding relation, the free end of the arm of the second member being notched. A double-faced cam disc is interposed between the first and second members, the disc being rotatable by a hand crank and having guideways formed in opposing surfaces for matingly coacting with cam follower projections on each of the first and second members. The cam guideways are configured so that upon rotation of the crank the needle with the yarn is inserted through the fabric, the notched portion of the other arm slidably engages the needle arm while so positioned to retain the loop within the fabric, the needle arm is withdrawn from the fabric, the other arm is moved laterally while engaging the fabric to increment the roller, the needle arm then inserts another loop of yarn, and the notched arm is then withdrawn to thereby continuously loop a single strand of yarn within the fabric.

US Patent:

42918847, Sep 29, 1981

Filed:

Dec 13, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/103140

Inventors:

Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA
Gary W. Pimentel - Fountain Valley CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - Hawthorne CA

International Classification:

A63F 300

US Classification:

273249

Abstract:

A game construction including a game board having a plurality of positions to be occupied by playing pieces belonging to different players, the positions during a path to be followed from a start to a finish. The game has a number of different identifiable playing pieces which are molded from a pliable material. Various ones of the positions are identified with the different ones of the playing pieces, and a piece landing on a position identified as that of another player is flattened by the owner of the space. The degree of flattening caused is measured to determine later movements of the piece on the game board.

US Patent:

40773396, Mar 7, 1978

Filed:

Jan 21, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/761380

Inventors:

Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA
Herbert May - Torrance CA
Hubert Allen Rich - Westminster CA

Assignee:

Mattel, Inc. - Hawthorne CA

International Classification:

D05B 2300

US Classification:

11212127

Abstract:

A sewing machine having a cartridge containing a spool of thread and a pre-threaded needle mounted inside of the head, the cartridge having the lower end thereof terminating in proximity to the fabric to be worked upon. The cartridge is provided with integral means for receiving a spool carrying ribbon-like material, the cartridge having a channel means integral therewith adjacent the aperture of the cartridge through which the needle passes, the spool of ribbon being so mounted, and the channel so configured, that the natural unwinding tendency of the ribbon automatically positions the ribbon on the fabric in the path of the needle.

US Patent:

46196250, Oct 28, 1986

Filed:

Jun 14, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/745406

Inventors:

Yoshizo Seki - Tokyo, JP
Sidney Bass - Los Angeles CA

Assignee:

Tomy Kogyo Co. Inc. - Tokyo

International Classification:

A63H 3304

US Classification:

446 89

Abstract:

A construction toy has a first module which includes a bellows and a bulb with a tube connecting the two. The bellows includes a connector on each of its ends. Second modules each having connectors which mate with the connectors on the bellows, attached to the respective ends of the bellows. Third modules, each having an axle having wheels located thereon, are connected to the second modules utilizing mating connectors. The wheels on the third module include a ratchet mechanism allowing for rotation in only one direction. Upon each compression of the bulb, fluid pressure is transmitted to the bellows to elongate it, and in so doing, one of the third modules is moved away from the other; and upon release of the bulb, the bellows shortens bringing the other of the third modules back toward the first. The ratchet mechanisms on the third modules allow for rotation of their wheels in only a single direction such that the construction toy is progressively moved forward upon each compression and subsequent release of pressure on the bulb.