US PATENT SUBCLASS 472 / 95
ROCKABLE ANIMAL SIMULATION HAVING RIDER SEAT MEANS (E.G., ROCKING HORSE, ETC.)

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95ROCKABLE ANIMAL SIMULATION HAVING RIDER SEAT MEANS (E.G., ROCKING HORSE, ETC.) {7}
96  DF  .~> With power or externally operated rocking means {1}
98  DF  .~> Having animal sound simulation
99  DF  .~> Having relatively movable animal part
100  DF  .~> Having safety feature
101  DF  .~> Combined with disparate device
102  DF  .~> Having arcuate rocking base
103  DF  .~> Having spring support {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 472/95

ROCKABLE ANIMAL SIMULATION HAVING RIDER SEAT MEANS (E.G.,

ROCKING HORSE, ETC.):

(under the class definition) Amusement device in which the device is an imitative representation of an animate being other than a human being (i.e., a lower animal) or is an imitative representation of a part of such an animate being; which animal representation includes means to receive a person in a sitting position thereon (e.g., a seat); and wherein the device further includes means to cause or to permit rocking, bouncing, or oscillatory movement of the animal representation, a part thereof, or at least the seat means thereof; whereby the rocking, bouncing, or oscillatory motion of the animal representation is intended to be similar to the natural motion that the person would experience in riding the actual animal that is represented.

(1) Note. A seat which is detached from the simulated animal, as in the simulation of a horse-drawn cart, is included here.

(2) Note. A device which can move or translate over the ground or a floor surface is excluded from these subclasses and, in fact, is excluded from this class. Such a device which can move or translate over the land or a floor is provided for in the vehicle classes as, for example, in Class 280, Land Vehicles.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

135, for an occupant operated rocking, oscillating, or bouncing amusement device which does not simulate an animal.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

104, Railways, 61, for an amusement railway device which simulates horseback riding.

280, Land Vehicles, particularly

1.13+, and 1.22+ for a land vehicle which simulates a figure as, for example, a horse, etc.

297, Chairs and Seats, particularly

181, for a seat device which simulates a horse, other animal, vehicle, plant, or the like; subclasses 195.1+ for a straddle type seat device (e.g., a saddle) which may rock, bounce, or oscillate; subclasses 258.1+ for a seat device provided with rockers; and subclasses 285+ for a seat device (e.g., a baby jumper) in which the back is resilient or is resiliently mounted or the back is mounted to another seat component, as a bottom, which component is resiliently mounted, whereby the movement of the seat or the back is in response to the movement of the occupant of the seat, especially subclass 299 wherein the seat comprises a fabric one-piece resiliently

supported bottom and back. The devices in subclass 181 have merely simulation and the devices in subclasses 195.1+, 258+, and 285+ have merely rocking, bouncing, or oscillatory motion, with no other amusement feature.