ROLLING VEHICULAR TOY

• US 3,806,156 A
• Filed: 06/27/1972
• Issued: 04/23/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Felix Tidwell
• Original Assignee: Felix Tidwell
• Inventors: Tidwell, Felix
• Primary Examiner(s): Spar, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Weaver, Ross
• Application Number:
  US05/266,717
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• Field of Search: 280/206,26X 115/20 272/1B
• US Class Current: 280/206
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 19/02 Freely-movable rolling hoops, e.g. gyrowheels or spheres or cylinders, carrying the user inside resisting devices overcoming gyroscopic forces of rotating bodies A63B21/22; standing on it for equilibrium exercises A63B26/003
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/62 Inflatable

Abstract

A spherical inflated device to be used as a rolling toy, with an internal spherical seating section connected to the exterior of the device by one or more cylindrical passage holes. Handholds are fitted in the internal seating section to enable the occupant to shift his weight and thus provide motion and direction control to the device. The device may be fabricated by means of combining a series of independently formed inflated shaped sections.

Claims

1. A spherical shaped device adaptable for use as a rolling and tumbling toy which consists of an external spherical surface joined to an internal concentric spherical surface by open radially oriented cylindrical tubes with the space between the internal surface and the external surface sealed and inflated with air to maintain the spherical shape of the device, said device being formed by the joining together of eight identical inflated shapes with each of said inflated shapes being in the general form of a quarter segment of a concave hemisphere, with two of the walls of the inflated shape being in the form of concentric spherical contours, and with each of three other side walls of the inflatable shape lying on mutually perpendicular planes to each other with each of said side walls being formed as a flat sheet, and with the intersection between each pair of adjacent side walls being formed in a concave circular shape so that when eight of said inflatable shapes are joined together by adhesive coated along their flat joined side walls, the concave shape of the intersection of each pair of adjacent side walls of each set of four adjacent shapes is in the form of a radical tube leading from the exterior to the interior cavity of the formed sphere, with the interior surface of the formed sphere being in the shape of a hollow concentric sphere, where the walls of each of the inflatable shapes are formed of plastic sheeting.