Flying saucer projecting and catching device

• US 5,362,065 A
• Filed: 02/16/1994
• Issued: 11/08/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Rich Tiger Toys Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Rich Tiger Toys Company Limited
• Inventors: Su, Frank F. S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US08/197,782
• Time in Patent Office: 265 Days
• Field of Search: 273/318, 273/424, 273/425, 273/324, 273/327, 273/412, 124/6, 124/7, 124/8, 124/26, 124/42, 124/81, 124/16
• US Class Current: 473/511
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 27/12 Helicopters A63H27/04 takes precedence; Flying tops
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 27/14 Starting or launching devices for toy aircraft; Arrangements on toy aircraft for starting or launching for launching objects from an aircraft A63H27/004

Abstract

A flying saucer projecting and catching device includes a holder consisted of two symmetrical shells, a propeller shaft assembly fastened to the holder and turned by a traction cable, a driving shaft driven by the propeller shaft assembly to send a flying saucer into the air, wherein the holder is made of hornlike shape gradually smaller toward the bottom, having a hand guard for protecting the hand, and a retainer ring through which the traction cable passes; the driving shaft is made gradually smaller toward the top, having a plurality of elongated, raised portions spaced around the periphery thereof near the bottom for holding the flying saucer on the driving shaft.

Claims

1. A flying saucer projecting and catching device comprising a holder for holding by hand, a propeller shaft assembly fastened to said holder and consisting of a propeller disk, a connector, a reel, a locating member, a spacer, a spring, and an elongated shaft, a driving shaft driven by said propeller disk to turn a flying saucer causing it to fly into the air, and a traction cable having one end fastened to said reel and an opposite end extended out of said holder and coupled with a handle, said traction cable being pulled to turn said propeller disk through said reel causing said driving shaft to send the flying saucer into the air, wherein said holder is made of horn-like shape gradually smaller toward the bottom, having a hand guard for protecting the hand, a retainer ring through which said traction cable passes, said holder being formed of two symmetrical shells fastened together by screws;

said driving shaft is made gradually smaller toward the top, having a plurality of elongated, raised portions spaced around the periphery thereof near the bottom for holding the flying saucer on said driving shaft.