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US 2012/0234258 A1Published application
Twitch toy
AssigneeLucky Litter LLC
InventorsAlan J. Cook, Kevin Augustyniak, Gerard Fubershaw, Jeff Smith
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Abstract
A motorized cat toy having a suspended teaser toy at the end of a detachable stretchable string connected to a flexible swing arm biased against a waveguide within a housing having a programmable electronic control, a gearbox with meshing gears including one spur gear on the rotor of the motor to provide control of the teaser toy movement to include a twitch and other erratic movements pleasing to a cat.
Claims1
A cat toy, comprising:
- A generally cylindrical two piece housing having an upper and lower portion in which one portion rotates and the other is stationary;
- A power source connected within the housing;
- An electronic circuit for programming movement of the one rotating portion of the housing;
- A motor having a shaft controlled by the programming of the electronic circuit for controlling the movement of the one rotating portion of the housing;
- A flexible swing arm moving in an up and down motion as the one rotating portion of the housing rotates;
- A generally stretchable line connected to a distal end of the swing arm;
- A teaser toy suspended from the end of the line connected to the distal end of the swing arm;
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- whereby the teaser toy twitches and the arm moves in both a horizontal plane and a vertical plane in an erratic pattern in response to predetermined programmable patterns and a wave guide mounted within the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.