Amusement devices: toys – Convertible from – or serving as diverse article
Patent
1989-11-30
1990-10-23
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Convertible from, or serving as diverse article
446131, 446135, 335285, A63H 3326, H01F 720
Patent
active
049648306
ABSTRACT:
A magnetic device that may be used for storing and dispensing paper clips, and the like, and which may also be used as an amusement or novelty product. A plastic housing houses a bar magnet with the poles arranged vertically. The bar magnet is positioned near but spaced from the upper surface of the housing by a spacer disc made of magnetizable material. The spacer disc has a central opening, above which opening, on the housing's upper surface, magnetic lines of induction are produced that tend to orient a paper clip, or the like, vertically on end and which also allow for prolonged gyratory motion of the paper clip about the end. A plastic, transparent casing may be provided housing iron powder or tiny magnet bits of different shape, which casing is slidably and rotatably mounted with respect to the upper surface of the housing, so that, as the casing is slid or rotated, different patterns are formed in kaleidoscope-fashion.
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Gerstein Milton S.
Yu Mickey
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