Room-environment string-pull construction toy

Details Room-environment string-pull construction toy Room-environment string-pull construction toy

1999-01-28

2000-08-29

Rimell, Sam

Amusement devices: toys

Including flaccid element or portion

446103, 434302, A63H 3300

Patent

active

061100048

ABSTRACT:
A room-environment string-pull construction toy consisting of a string, multiple wall-mountable pulleys, and a variety of colorful, eye-catching and/or whimsical cardboard or paper cutouts which can be mounted on the pulley wheels. Each wall-mountable pulley has a base with a non-permanent adhesive affixed to a back surface thereof, and an axle extending from a front surface thereof on which a pulley wheel is rotatably mounted. The configuration of the toy is constructed by attaching the pulleys to the walls and possibly the ceiling of a room, running the string over the pulleys, and attaching cutouts to the pulleys and string. Planar cutouts attached to the pulley wheels may be shaped as propellers, arrows, cams, disks and the like. Preferably, the cutouts are bright colors and/or are decorated with designs which have a striking appearance when in motion. Mechanical mechanisms assembled from cutouts may be affixed to the pulley wheels to provide visually interesting displays or perform useful mechanical functions such as the manipulation of room objects. The mechanical mechanisms may convert the circular motion of the pulley wheels to linear reciprocating motion, circular motion or chaotic motion. In one possible alternate embodiment the cutouts have fanciful shapes resembling the features of a human face, and are animated by mechanisms to perform fanciful and/or comical motions.

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