Toy for dabbling

• US 4,778,429 A
• Filed: 12/28/1987
• Issued: 10/18/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Staff
• Original Assignee: Staff
• Inventors: Todokoro, Masatoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Application Number:
  US07/138,333
• Time in Patent Office: 295 Days
• Field of Search: 446/153, 446/154, 446/198, 446/197, 446/180, 446/219, 446/217, 446/267, 446/431, 446/227, 446/166, 273/58 K, 273/58 F
• US Class Current: 446/153
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 23/00 Toy boats; Floating toys; Other aquatic toy devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 33/00 Other toys

Abstract

A toy for dabbling, having a toy body; a cylinder extending from one side portion of the toy body to the opposite portion thereof and supported fixedly therein; a fish bowl in which a smaller imitation fish is to swim, an imitation windmill, a larger imitation fish connected to a thread, a pump, and an ejection nozzle joined to the pump, all of which are fitted in different portions of the wall of the toy body; a reel which is urged so that the thread is constantly taken up therearound, and which is secured to the portion of the wall of the toy body in which the larger imitation fish is fitted; a lens or a transparent plate fitted in one end of the cylinder; and a cover having a plurality of air vents and fixed to the other end of the cylinder.

Claims

1. A toy for dabbling, comprising a toy body having an outer wall;

a cylinder extending from one side portion of said toy body to an opposite portion thereof and supported fixedly therein;

a fish bowl in which a small imitation fish is to swim, an imitation windmill, a larger imitation fish connected to a thread, a pump, and an ejection nozzle joined to said pump, all of which are fitted in different portions of the wall of said toy body;

a reel which is urged so that said thread is constantly taken up therearound, and which is rotatably secured to the portion of the wall of said toy body in which said larger imitation fish is fitted;

a lens or a transparent plate fitted in one end of said cylinder; and

a cover having a plurality of air vents and fixed to the other end of said cylinder.

2. A toy for dabbling according to claim 1, wherein said toy body is molded spherically.

3. A toy for dabbling according to claim 1, wherein said fish bowl consists of a transparent plate forming an outer portion of the wall of said toy body, an air passage provided on a wall of said fish bowl and communicated with air holes provided in said wall of said fish bowl, bellows provided in said fish bowl and communicated with one of said air holes, a knob joined to said bellows so as to project outward from said transparent plate and having a port communicataed with the interior of said bellows, a water inlet provided in a predetermined portion of said transparent plate, and a suitable number of imitation fishes placed in said fish bowl and having a buoyancy high enough to float them in a position of an arbitrary depth of water therein.

4. A toy for dabbling according to claim 1, wherein said imitation windmill is placed in a recess opening made circularly in the wall of said toy body forming opposing inner surfaces and a bottom surface, said imitation windmill being provided at the central portion thereof with a shaft which is fitted rotatably around a shaft projecting from the central portion of the bottom surface of said recess, an umbrella type cover enclosing the whole of the opening of said recess a screw being driven from the central portion of said umbrella type cover into the free end portion of said shaft which extend from said recess, water channels being provided, which are made so as to extend from the opposite portions of the inner surface of said recess to the outer surface of said toy body.

5. A toy for dabbling according to claim 1, wherein a cover having a plurality of air vents are fixed to an end of said cylinder so that said cover can be opened and closed.