US 11,980,827 B2
Telescopic item and mechanism therefor
Yair Shilo, Kibbutz Shefayim (IL); and Amitai David Fried, Givat Shmuel (IL)
Filed by Hasbro, Inc., Pawtucket, RI (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/539,525.
Application 17/539,525 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IB2020/055255, filed on Jun. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/856,763, filed on Jun. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0088498 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A63H 33/00 (2006.01); A63H 33/22 (2006.01); F16B 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC A63H 33/009 (2013.01) [A63H 33/22 (2013.01)] 36 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A telescopic mechanism for a toy sword, the mechanism comprising:
a plurality of hollow telescopic blade segments, comprising at least a proximal blade segment and a distal blade segment;
a threaded spindle having spindle threads and being disposed within the telescopic blade segments;
a plurality of nuts configured to correspond to and interface with the spindle; and
a power mechanism configured to spin the spindle,
wherein each of the nuts respectively interfaces at the proximal portion of each of the hollow blade segments and the nuts have nut threads corresponding to the spindle threads with the nut threads being suitably sturdy to allow the nuts to move back and forth over the spindle threads when the spindle is rotated, wherein the nut threads are resilient whereby the nut threads will slide over the spindle threads while the distal telescopic blade segment is pushed above a given threshold force.