Signal generating flying saucer with thin central vibratile portion

• US 4,080,753 A
• Filed: 03/28/1977
• Issued: 03/28/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jimmy E. Hughes, Tommy J. Slaughter, William D. Hiner
• Original Assignee: Jimmy E. Hughes, Tommy J. Slaughter, William D. Hiner
• Inventors: Hiner, William D., Slaughter, Tommy J., Hughes, Jimmy E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shay, F. Barry
• Application Number:
  US05/781,858
• Time in Patent Office: 365 Days
• Field of Search: 46/74 D, 46/74 R, 46/75, 46/232, 46/227, 46/228, 273/106 X D
• US Class Current: 446/47
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/18 Throwing or slinging toys, e.g. flying disc toys discs used in athletics A63B65/10as part of a game A63F9/02; sling weapons F41B3/00; spring toy guns F41B7/08

Abstract

Sturdy spinning and flying toy with audible sound producing means reliably and automatically performing at full volume only when the toy is operatively airborne and being simple and safe and self-contained for operation by a child. The toy comprises an outer shell assembly and a sound producing assembly; the outer shell assembly in turn comprises a thin central vibratile portion and a peripheral downwardly projecting skirt; a downwardly open shell chamber is enclosed within the outer shell assembly; the sound producing assembly is attached to the top central portion of the shell assembly and the central portion of the shell assembly provides for enhancing the audible sound characteristics of the sound producing assembly.

Claims

1. A flying toy with audible sound producing means comprising a circular outer shell assembly and a sound producing assembly,

the outer shell assembly comprising a thin central vibratile portion and a peripheral skirt, said central portion being attached to the top end of said peripheral skirt, said skirt being thicker than said central portion of said shell and said skirt terminating at a lower edge thereof in a circular rim and a shell chamber being enclosed within said outer shell assembly and said outer shell assembly being axially symmetrical about a common central vertical axis,

the sound producing assembly comprising, in operative combination a central case assembly, a buzzer, a battery, and a centrifugal motion sensor means sensitive to the rotational speed of said outer shell, and said buzzer, said battery and said sensor being located in said central case assembly, said central case assembly comprising a casing located in said shell chamber between the top of said central portion and said rim at the lower edge of said skirt and above said rim, said casing being fixed to said outer shell and said casing being axially symmetrical about said axis,

said shell chamber being closed at its top by said shell assembly and having a bottom opening bounded by said circular rim and said outer shell assembly extending over and peripherally of said central case assembly equally in all directions, said central portion providing means for enhancing the audible sound characteristics of the sound producing assembly.

2. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the sound producing assembly comprises a fixed switch arm with an electrical contact on a free end of that arm and a resiliently mounted movable switch arm is provided with a contact point near to the free end of that movable switch arm and the contacts form a normally open switch at rest position of said apparatus and the free end of the movable arm is resiliently movable transverse to said common central vertical axis.

3. Apparatus as in claim 2 wherein the central case assembly has a floor, a side wall and a shoulder, said floor joined to said shoulder by said side wall, said shoulder joined to said central portion of said outer shell assembly, and said buzzer and battery and sensor are fixedly attached to said case floor.

4. Apparatus as in claim 2 wherein the central case assembly has a floor and a side wall and said side wall is joined to a shoulder and said shoulder is joined to said central portion of said outer shell assembly and said buzzer and battery and sensor are fixedly attached to said central portion of said outer shell assembly.

5. Apparatus as in claim 2 wherein said buzzer is located at the common central vertical axis and said battery and sensor are located at a position transversely spaced therefrom.

6. Apparatus as in claim 5 wherein said thin central portion of the outer shell assembly is in the shape of a sector of an upwardly convex dome, and said outer shell assembly also comprises a peripheral ring portion in the shape of an axially symmetrical upwardly convex portion of a hollow torus,

said peripheral ring portion being joined at its central portion to the periphery of said thin central portion, and said peripheral ring portion is attached to the top end of said peripheral skirt.