Kaleidoscope assembly
OwnerAnn M. Kelderhouse, Charles D. Kelderhouseinventors
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Abstract
A kaleidoscope kit for assembly by the user into a personalized kaleidoscope having a hollow eye piece barrel in which a personalized photograph or a design sheet may be inserted, a mirror configuration for insertion into the hollow tubular barrel, a connector piece which is releasably secured by friction and by pressure tabs to the hollow tubular barrel, a view cup which is releasably secured to the connector piece, such that objects to be viewed can be chosen and substituted by the user within the view cup, the connector piece having a transparent interior wall preventing communication between the view cup and the hollow tubular barrel.
Claims14
A connector piece for use in assembling a kaleidoscope having an elongated tubular body having an eye opening therethrough, a mirror configuration therein, and a view cup for containing objects to be viewed, said connector piece comprising:
- (a) a generally cylindrical tubular body having a hollow interior, an interior surface and an exterior surface;
- (b) a collar extending radially outward from the circumference of said exterior surface of said tubular body, said collar dividing said exterior surface into a first frictional surface and a second frictional surface;
- (c) at least one pressure tab located on each of said first frictional surface and said second frictional surface;
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- (d) a wall extending across said hollow interior preventing communication of the objects to be viewed through said hollow interior of said connector piece.
A kaleidoscope assembly comprising:
- (a) an elongated tubular body having an inner surface, an outer surface, a generally closed proximal end having an eye opening therethrough and an open distal end;
- (b) a mirror configuration insertable within said elongated tubular body;
- (c) a generally cylindrical hollow view cup for containing objects to be viewed having an interior surface, an exterior surface, a closed distal end, and an open proximal end;
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- (d) a connector piece releasably securable to the distal end of said elongated tubular body, said connector piece comprising a first frictional surface having at least one first Pressure tab, a second frictional surface having at least one second pressure tab, a collar, and a transparent interior wall which prevents communication of the objects to be viewed between the interior of said elongated tubular body and the interior of said view cup, wherein said first frictional surface frictionally engages said inner surface of said elongated tubular body and said at least one first pressure tab frictionally engages said inner surface of said elongated tubular body and said collar prevents said connector piece from fully entering said elongated tubular body and said second frictional surface frictionally engages said interior surface of said view cup and said at least one second pressure tab frictionally engages said interior surface of said view cup and said collar prevents said connector piece from fully entering said view cup.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.