Amusement devices: toys – Changeable book – card – or picture – Movable picture portion
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-09
2001-06-12
Ackun, Jr., Jacob K. (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Changeable book, card, or picture
Movable picture portion
C446S358000, C040S423000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06244922
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention to an ornamental motion toy, and more particularly to such an ornamental motion toy, which comprises a book-shaped housing having a plurality of windows, and a plurality of movable ornaments suspended in the windows, a driving unit, and a transmission unit driven by the driving unit to move the movable ornaments in the windows
Regular commercially available book-shaped toys are commonly made for use as cabinet means for keeping accessories or small toy items. Because these book-shaped toys are immovable, they are less attractive.
FIGS. 9 and 10
show an ornamental motion toy according to the prior art. This structure of ornamental motion toy comprises a bottom shell A, the bottom shell A comprising a plurality of gear housings A
1
and a plurality of through holes A
2
, a top cover shell B covered on the bottom shell A, the top cover shell B comprising a plurality of axle holes B
1
and a plurality of bottom screw holes B
2
, a plurality of screws respectively inserted through the through holes A
2
on the bottoms hell A and threaded into the bottom screw holes B
2
on the top cover shell B to fix the top cover shell B and the bottom shell A together, a transmission mechanism C installed in the space between the bottom shell A and the top cover shell B, the transmission mechanism C comprising a drive gear C
1
, a plurality of transmission gears C
2
respectively meshed with the drive gear C
1
, and a plurality of output gears C
3
respectively meshed with the transmission gears C
2
, the output gears C
3
each having a gear shaft C
4
respectively extended out of the top cover shell B through the axle holes B
1
, a plurality of spindles CS, the spindles CS each having a bottom end C
51
respectively fixedly connected to the gear shafts C
4
of the output gears C
3
and a top end fixedly mounted with a driven gear C
52
, and a plurality of ornaments D respectively installed in the axle holes B
1
and suspended above the top cover shell B, the ornaments D each having a bottom gear D
1
meshed with the driven gear C
52
at one spindle C
5
. Further, a reversible motor (not shown) is controlled to turn the drive gear C
1
clockwise and counter-clockwise alternatively, causing the ornaments D to be rotated clockwise and counter-clockwise alternatively above the top cover shell B. This ornamental motion toy is complicated and bulky. Further, the ornaments D can only be driven to make a rotary motion.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is one object ob the present invention to provide an ornamental motion toy, which drives different ornaments to move back and forth in different directions along different paths. It is another object of the present invention to provide an ornamental motion toy, which produces sound and light effects. According to one aspect of the present invention, the ornamental motion toy comprises a housing formed of a front cover shell and a back cover shell, the front cover shell having a design and a plurality of windows in the design, a driving unit installed in the housing near a back side, the driving unit comprising a motor, a plurality of transmission gears, and a plurality of output gears respectively coupled to the motor through the transmission gears, the output gears each comprising an eccentric rod; a transmission unit installed in the housing in front of the driving unit, the transmission unit comprising a partition frame, the partition frame comprising a plurality of circular through holes, which receive the driving rod of each output gear of the driving unit for enabling the driving rod to be moved along the periphery of the corresponding circular through hole during operation of the driving unit, and a plurality of fixed guide blocks respectively disposed below the circular through holes, a plurality of transmission plates respectively coupled to the driving rods of the output gears of the driving unit and moved alternatively up and down during operation of the driving unit, the transmission plates each comprising a transverse sliding slot coupled to the driving rod of one output gear of the driving unit, a longitudinal sliding slot coupled to one fixed guide block at the partition frame, and a coupling hole in one corner thereof, and a plurality of holder frames formed integral with one another and disposed between the windows and the transmission plates, the holder frames each comprising a sliding slot; and a plurality of movable ornaments respectively coupled to the holder frames by a slip joint and driven to move in the windows by the driving unit, the movable ornaments each comprising a driving rod inserted through the sliding slot on the corresponding holder frame and coupled to the coupling hole on one transmission plate for enabling the respective movable ornamental to be moved along the first sliding slot on the corresponding holder frame during operation of the driving unit. According to another aspect of the present invention, sound producing means and light producing means are respectively installed in the housing, and controlled to produce light and sound respectively.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1723910 (1929-08-01), Aramburu
patent: 2544105 (1951-03-01), Quick
patent: 2926487 (1960-03-01), Stone
patent: 5142925 (1992-09-01), Fauvel
patent: 5988684 (1999-11-01), Blaustein et al.
Ackun Jr. Jacob K.
Carlson Jeffrey D.
Chain Fong Toys Co., Ltd.
Rabin & Champagne, P.C.
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