Curiosity revealing or animating a shaped cavity
OwnerJoel Allen Schulzinventor
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Abstract
The present invention comprises two or more rotatable three-dimensional bodies and a linkage between the bodies. By means of the linkage, the rotation of a first body causes a second body to rotate. In at least one of the rotational positions of the two or more bodies, the shapes of the bodies are designed to create a shaped cavity between a first body and a second body. The shaped cavity may be a tunnel, or the shaped cavity may be a recess or niche. As the at least two bodies are rotated, the shaped cavity may appear or disappear or may change shape, position, or orientation as the bodies are rotated.
Claims31
An apparatus for revealing or animating a shaped cavity comprising:
- two or more bodies, each of which are three-dimensional and rotatable, wherein each body has a rotation axis and each of the bodies can be rotated to a multiplicity of rotational positions;
- a linkage between the bodies, wherein a rotation of one body causes a rotation of another body;
- a framework for confining the rotation axes of the two or more bodies in fixed relationship to each other
- wherein at least a first body and a second body are adjacent, the first body and second body are shaped to produce the shaped cavity in at least one rotational position of the first body and second body, and the shaped cavity is produced as a union of a first void of the first body and a second void of the second body.
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