Swimming toy fish
OwnerShigeyuki Horiuchiinventor
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Abstract
A marine display is provided having a housing and a transparent vessel at least partially filled with liquid. A magnetic animated marine life such as a toy fish is freely suspended in the liquid and at least one rotating magnet in the housing generate magnetic fields which co-act with the magnetic toy fish to cause the fish to move in all directions to simulate the swimming action of a natural fish in a liquid habitat. A background plate in the housing behind the liquid vessel imparts aesthetic marine-like appearance to the display.
Claims18
A marine display comprising a housing and a transparent liquid vessel at least partially filled with liquid, said liquid vessel having a front surface, a rear surface, an opening for introduction of liquid in said vessel and a closure means for sealing said opening so that the liquid is completely enclosed within said vessel;
- a toy marine object suspended freely in said liquid, said toy marine object including a magnet and means to impart buoyancy to said marine object;
- two vertically spaced apart rotatable magnetic members, each disposed in said housing behind said rear surface and rotatable about a horizontal axis,
- means for rotating said rotatable magnetic members, to generate a driving magnetic field, whereby
- said magnet in said toy marine object and said rotating magnetic members co-act to cause said toy marine object to move freely in all directions in said liquid simulating the swimming action of a natural marine object in a liquid habitat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.