Amusement devices: games – Puzzles – Balancing ovoids
Patent
1983-09-09
1984-12-25
Oechsle, Anton O.
Amusement devices: games
Puzzles
Balancing ovoids
A63F 908
Patent
active
044899440
ABSTRACT:
An amusement device consisting of a manipulative egg-shaped puzzle having top and bottom housings rotatably connected by an internal mechanism. The top housing has a movable slide and a transparent window therein. The internal mechanism comprises a color marking thereon; a shaft fixedly connected to the bottom housing and extending from the bottom housing to the top housing; and a biased lever extending into the shaft for normally holding a movable weight at the top thereof, and an internal housing for supporting a plurality of rotation rings, each of which has a color marking thereon and a lever receptacle therein. When the bottom housing is rotated relative to the top housing the plurality of color markings may be aligned at the transparent window. Properly aligning the color markings necessarily aligns the rings and lever receptacles to allow the lever to move into the lever receptacles and out of the shaft. The weight is accordingly released and falls into the bottom housing, thus shifting the center of gravity from the top housing to the bottom housing and allowing the egg to stand upright on the curved bottom housing on a flat surface.
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patent: 479158 (1892-07-01), Smallwood
patent: 1235306 (1917-07-01), Fredrick
patent: 3759420 (1973-09-01), Karkanen
Hatakeyama Morichika
Minami Koichi
Oechsle Anton O.
Tomy Kogyo Co. Inc.
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