Helical tube with lamps or electric bells and sliding ball

• US 4,078,330 A
• Filed: 09/27/1976
• Issued: 03/14/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leo Roth
• Original Assignee: Leo Roth
• Inventors: Roth, Leo
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Louis G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cutting, Robert F.
• Application Number:
  US05/726,522
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• Field of Search: 46/45, 46/47, 46/227, 46/228
• US Class Current: 446/26
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2494 Battery, e.g. dry cell
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/495 Hand, arm or wrist
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 7/3622 Specially shaped rolling boards for the balls, e.g. ball tracks
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/26 Magnetic or electric toys electric drives A63H29/22 ; indoor games played with small balls using magnetic power A63F7/0088, A63F7/068
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/30 Imitations of miscellaneous apparatus not otherwise provided for, e.g. telephones, weighing-machines, cash-registers savings boxes A45C1/12; toy ticket punches G07B9/02

Abstract

An elongated length of flexible hollow tubing is wound into a helix. First and second battery powered lamps are detachably inserted into the first and second opposite open ends of the tubing. Each lamp has a pair of normally open flexible contacts in the tube. The lamp is dark when its contacts are open and is lit when its contacts are closed. A member is slidable in the tubing and has sufficient weight to close either pair of contacts when engageable therewith. The lamps can be replaced by electric bells.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

an elongated length of flexible hollow tubing wound into the shape of a helix having opposite open ends;

first and second battery powered means, each means being secured removably to a corresponding end of the tubing, each means being deenergized and quiescent when its contacts are open and being energized and active when its contacts are closed, said contacts being normally open, said means producing either light or rings when energized; and

a member easily movable in the tubing, said member having sufficient weight to close either pair of contacts when moved into engagement therewith, whereby movement of the tubing can cause sufficient movement of the member in the tube to engage a selected contact pair and cause the corresponding means to be energized.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein each means has an open threaded end containing the contact pair and each end of the tubing is threaded whereby each means can threadedly engage the corresponding end of the tubing.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein the tubing is transparent and the member is a sphere which slides in the tubing when the tubing is moved.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein said means are light producing, being dark when deenergized and being light when energized.

5. The device of claim 3 wherein said means produce rings, being quiet when deenergized and producing rings when energized.