Amusement devices: toys – Rotating or having visible rotating portion – Top
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-20
2001-03-06
Muir, D. Neal (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Rotating or having visible rotating portion
Top
C493S355000, C493S373000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06196892
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to toys, particularly spinning tops and a kit for making such spinning tops.
2. Description of Related Art
Tops formed as kits, i.e., of separate parts that can be assembled and modified by the user are known; see, U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,755,608 and 4,954,116. However, such tops are complex and costly to an extent limiting the market for them, and also rendering them, on the one hand, unsuitable for young children, and on the other hand, lack the degree of variety and versatility necessary to adequately stimulate the young mind.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The primary object of the present invention is to make available a kit for spinning tops, with which children can easily make different kinds of spinning tops, and in which their creativity in terms of combinations of colors and shapes will be playfully stimulated, without being unduly complex or costly.
This object is achieved by a kit for spinning tops having an spindle, at least one element which has a hole roughly in the area of its center of gravity and which constitutes the body of the top, with a cross section which is essentially equal to the cross section ofthe spindle, a lower support and an upper support which can be placed on the spindle, at least one of the supports being made to be removed or pulled off from the top body as well as by a kit having a plate-shaped carrier with a pin-shaped recess in which a pin-shaped spindle is supported, and with at least one flat, punch-out top body supported in a punch-out hole of the same outline, the at least one top body having a center opening which is matched to the diameter of the pin-shaped spindle, exclusive of a pointed area thereof.
The invention is explained in detail below with reference to the accompanying figures which schematically shows two preferred embodiment of the invention.
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Muir D. Neal
Nixon & Peabody LLP
Safran David S.
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