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Inventors: Goldfarb, Adolph E.; Everitt, Delmar K.;
Assignee: Goldfarb; Adolph E. (Westlake Village, CA)
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
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This track, particularly for use with electrically self-propelled vehicles, has various elements for interfering with vehicle passage. Different effects are obtained--amusing, fascinating, or enhanced competitive play with two or more vehicles. Most of the interfering elements are detachable, and usable in different combinations and arbitrarily selectable positions. Three element types are (1) bumps that redirect the vehicles, tending to make them go around curves in the track without moving to the sides; (2) small flooring sections operated (by levers) vertically through holes in the track floor, to variably influence the vehicles' passage along the track; and (3) a gate, with a releasable catch, for starting cars along the track simultaneously in a race.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Now with reference to FIG.
1, the single track segment 11 has a floor 15, walls 16 (the more remote wall being partly broken away at 19 for a clearer view of components behind that wall), and holes 17 defined in the floor.
Visible between the walls 16 are auxiliary flooring means 23, 25, 26 and 27.
Attached at the near side of the track segment 11 are control-lever handles 21 for three of these auxiliary flooring means (designated 23 and 25 in FIG.
1) and attached at the far side of the track segment 11 are control-lever handles 22 for three others (which are designated 26 and 27).
Interconnected with the ends of the first track segment 11 are other track segments 12, which as shown may be of the type having no floor.
Some of these segments 12 do, however, have optional cross braces 31 for holding the floorless walls 12 generally vertical and generally an appropriate distance apart.
Each cross brace has an upstanding clip 32 at each end for holding the respective walls.
Also interconnected with or among the track segments already described there may be additional segments 13 which do have floors, and these may include curved segments such as 14.
Any of the floored sections may include vehicle-redirecting bumps 71 such as those shown on segment 14 in FIG.
1.
If installed on a curved segment 14 as illustrated, the bumps 71 tend to cause the vehicles 81 traversing the track to pass around the curve of segment 14 without striking the side walls of that segment.
If installed on a straight segment such as 11, the same bumps similarly will tend to bring the vehicles into alignment with the straight side walls 16 of that segment.
Various floored segments 11, 13 and 14 if linked together may be vertically angled relative to one another, to form arch-like structures, if the user so wishes.
Such structures may pass over other segments if desired, to create figure-eight or other complex track layouts.
As shown in FIG.
2, the single segment 11 of FIG



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