Amusement devices: toys – Infant's toy and means for retaining – attaching – or...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-12-10
2001-02-06
Ackun, Jacob K. (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Infant's toy and means for retaining, attaching, or...
C446S487000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06183335
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of moveable decorative displays in general, and in particular to a suspended article amusement device for children riding in a vehicle.
2. Description of Related Art
As can be seen by reference to the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,698,573; 5,178,542; 5,533,902; 5,820,383; and 4,403,000, the prior art is replete with myriad and diverse display arrangements having selectively positionable elements.
While all of the aforementioned prior art constructions are more than adequate for the basic purpose and function for which they have been specifically designed, they are uniformly deficient with respect to their failure to provide a simple, efficient, and practical display device having a plurality of suspended articles that move in an arcuate path within the display device to amuse children during trips in a vehicle.
As anyone who has spent time traveling with infants and young children is all too well aware, their young minds require almost constant stimulation in order to prevent them from becoming cranky, irritable, or generally out of sorts.
As a consequence of the foregoing situation, there has existed a longstanding need for a new and improved type of suspended display arrangement for vehicles wherein the vehicle motion will impart a variable swinging motion to a plurality of decorative articles contained within the display arrangement, and the provision of such a construction is a stated objective of the present invention.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Briefly stated, the display arrangement for vehicles that forms the basis of the present invention comprises in general, a housing unit adapted to be suspended from the seat of a vehicle. The housing unit contains a plurality of decorative units which are suspended within the housing unit and influenced by the motion of the vehicle.
As will be explained in greater detail further on in the specification, the housing unit comprises a generally U-shaped housing member having an opaque rear panel and a transparent front panel connected together by a flexible hinge element which is suspended from a vehicle seat by an elongated looped tether member.
In addition, the opaque rear panel is provided with a decorative background design and selected portions of the transparent front panel may be provided with foreground images to give visual depth to the scene depicted on the housing unit.
Furthermore, the plurality of decorative units comprise a plurality of decorative articles having a thematic appearance compatible to the scene depicted on the housing unit. Each of the decorative articles are releasably suspended within the housing unit from individual tether elements.
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Ackun Jacob K.
Cegielnik Urszula M
Henderson & Sturm LLP
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