Whirl toy

• US 4,044,499 A
• Filed: 03/31/1976
• Issued: 08/30/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jacob A. Toler
• Original Assignee: Jacob A. Toler
• Inventors: Toler, Jacob A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Louis G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cutting, Robert F.
• Application Number:
  US05/672,418
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 46/47, 46/51, 46/52, 46/228, 240/6 R, 240/31
• US Class Current: 446/242
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/00 Other toys
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/40 Windmills; Other toys actuated by air currents driving mechanisms for toy figures or vehicles A63H29/16

Abstract

The whirl toy is formed of an elongated flat body member having a portion cut away substantially equi-distant from its lateral edges into which is mounted a battery operated light assembly having means for lighting the light when the toy is whirled about in a circular path and to extinguish the light when the whirling ceases.

Claims

1. An improved whirl toy including an elongated, thin, substantially flat body member having circular side surfaces and parallel edges and means at one end thereof for attaching a thong thereto for whirling the body member in a circular path, the improvement comprising:

a. said body member having an opening extending therethrough adjacent the center;

b. a light assembly fitted centrally of said opening including a casing of such dimensions as to house a battery and a light element;

c. said casing being hingedly supported within the opening at a point adjacent the rear end of the casing, the center of the casing being in a plane with the elongated axis of the body;

d. means at the opposite ends of the casing for releasably securing the casing to the opposite end of said opening;

d. a battery having means for electrically connecting the light element with the battery when the toy is put in a whirling circular path.

2. A whirl toy as claimed in claim 1 wherein there is provided a bead adjacent each elongated circular side edge, one of said beads being positioned along one side surface of the body member and the other bead member being positioned along the opposite surface of the said body member.

3. A whirl toy as claimed in claim 1 wherein the casing is provided with means within the said casing for connecting the battery with the light element when the toy is whirled about a circular path by the thong, and disconnecting the battery from the light element when the whirling action has ceased.

4. A whirl toy as claimed in claim 3 wherein the means for connecting and disconnecting the light element with the battery is in the form of one or more spring elements of predetermined resistance.