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US 4,721,489 AGranted
Illuminable figurine
OwnerDavid Galoobinventor
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Abstract
An opaque representation of an animate object has a chest, a chest cavity, a back with a hole formed therethrough, and a section of translucent material in the chest. An intermittent source of illumination is mounted in the hole in the back and produces intermittent flame-like internal illumination in the chest cavity. The illumination is especially pronounced at the translucent section and causes such section to appear to be aflame.
Claims2
An illuminable figurine, comprising
- a substantially opaque representation of one of a human, human-type, animal and animal-type creature having a torso having a chest having a section of substantially translucent material, a chest cavity, a closed back of a determined area and a hole formed through said back and covering less than one third of the area of said back;
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- an intermittent source of illumination mounted in said cavity and having a rotatable wheel extending through said hole through said back, said source of illumination producing sparks creating intermittent flame-like illumination in said chest cavity under manual rotation of said wheel, said flame-like illumination being visible from outside said figurine at said translucent section, whereby said translucent section appears to be aflame upon internal illumination of said chest cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.