SPINNING DISC NOVELTY APPARATUS

• US 20090088043A1
• Filed: 01/09/2008
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Daniel Otoo Djan
• Original Assignee: Daniel Otoo Djan
• Inventors: Djan, Daniel Otoo
• Application Number:
  US11/971,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20090088043A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 446/236
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 1/00 Tops diabolos or similar thrown and caught spinning tops or throwing and catching devices therefor A63B67/16; flying tops A63H27/12

Abstract

A novelty apparatus which includes .a rotationally symmetrical hollow body having an axis; a shaft having an axis and first and second axial extremities, the axis of the shaft being disposed in the rotationally symmetrical hollow body with the axis thereof disposed substantially coincident with the axis of the rotationally symmetrical body; first and second bearings disposed at axially spaced portions of the shaft and supporting the shaft for rotational movement about the axis thereof; a disc fixed to the shaft; and a motor for driving the shaft. Some forms of the novelty apparatus include a switch and battery for connection in series to the motor. Some forms include a housing having first and second discrete sections that are dimensioned and configured to be selectively coupled together to permit selective access to the interior of the housing for installation of a battery. The selectively coupled housing sections may include mating lips. The mating lips may include a lip on the first section overlapping a lip on the second section for selectively coupling the sections together to permit selective access to the interior of the housing for installation of a battery.

Claims

1. A novelty apparatus which comprises:

a rotationally symmetrical hollow body having an axis;

a shaft having an axis and first and second axial extremities, said axis of said shaft being disposed in said rotationally symmetrical hollow body with the axis thereof disposed substantially coincident with the axis of said rotationally symmetrical body;

first and second bearings disposed at axially spaced portions of said shaft and supporting said shaft for rotational movement about the axis thereof;

a disc fixed to said shaft; and

a motor for driving the shaft.

2. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 1 further including a switch and battery for connected in series to said motor.

3. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 1 further including a housing having first and second discrete sections that are dimensioned and configured to be selectively coupled together to permit selective access to the interior of said housing for installation of a battery.

4. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 1 further including a housing having first and second discrete sections that are dimensioned and configured with mating lips to be selectively coupled together to permit selective access to the interior of said housing for installation of a battery.

5. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 1 further including a housing having first and second discrete sections that are dimensioned and configured with a lip on said first section overlapping a lip on said second section for selectively coupling said sections together to permit selective access to the interior of said housing for installation of a battery.

6. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 1 wherein said disk is fixed to said shaft at a point closer to the axial extremity of said shaft that is lowest during normal operation of said apparatus.

7. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 1 wherein said motor is attached to said shaft at a point closer to the axial extremity of said shaft that is lowest during normal operation of said apparatus.

8. A novelty apparatus as described in claim 2 wherein said battery is disposed closer to the axial extremity of said shaft that is lowest during normal operation of said apparatus than to the axial extremity of said shaft that is highest during normal operation of said apparatus.