Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1979-07-25
1981-02-17
Mancene, Gene
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273 1M, A63H 3326
Patent
active
042506590
ABSTRACT:
A magnetically actuated toy is disclosed in the toy class including a supporting structure, a magnet disposed in the base of said supporting structure, an object (preferably a figurine) having a coacting magnet attached thereto, and means for pendulously suspending the object from the base structure in a position to swing with the respective magnets opposed. In this structure, an improvement includes in the pendulous support a rigid (or rod) segment and a torsion segment (or member). The magnet in the object and base are placed with poles opposed. The center of gravity of the suspended object lies off-axis to the forces between the opposed magnets on the object and the base. The torsion member, forming the second part of the pendulous support, is typically a short nylon string. Kinetic energy of the object exists in two arcuate forms; pendulous motion and rotational pendulous motion. Potential energy of the object exists in two forms; the vertical elevation of the object above the platform as result of the twisting of the torsional segment and the vertical elevation of the object above the platform as a result of the arcuate pendulous motion. Successive unpredictable discharges and transformations of the above four types of potential and kinetic energy in the swinging, twirling object provides lifelike motions to such object. Various objects are disclosed, including a figurine on a skateboard, a ballerina and paired disco dancers.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2107672 (1938-02-01), Lang
patent: 2220049 (1940-10-01), Dunmore
patent: 3707290 (1972-12-01), Birnkrant
patent: 3908307 (1975-09-01), Jacobson
Mancene Gene
Otagiri Mercantile Company, Inc.
Yu Mickey
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