US 5,348,507 AGranted

Bicycle bubble toy

AssigneeDreams Come True Enterprises International, Inc.

InventorsJohn R. McGhie, Kole D. Johnson

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Abstract

A toy for mounting onto a handle bar of a bicycle, tricycle or the like, that, when the bicycle is moved to pass an air flow therethrough creates a stream of soap bubbles. The toy includes a double clamp mount for fitting to the bicycle handle bar and whereto a mounting rod end for mounting the toy off-set from the side of a bicycle operator is maintained, with the opposite mounting rod end for mounting to a bubble generation assembly that includes a reservoir housing for containing a water and soap solution. The reservoir housing incorporates an upright standard whereto a propeller or rotor that has a plurality of spaced blades secured at equidistant intervals around a spindle is mounted to turn in the air stream in front of a slot that has been formed along a reservoir housing top edge. A bar is secured to extend from a trailing edge of each of the propeller or rotor blades that in turn, individually mount a bubble ring across an the end thereof. Each bubble ring travels as the propeller or rotor turns, into and through the reservoir interior that contains a water and soap solution, applying a soap film across the ring that, with continued propeller or rotor turning, travels into the air stream. The exposure of the soap film covered ring to the air stream produces a soap bubble or series of bubbles flowing from each bubble ring.

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Dependent claims

A bicycle bubble toy comprising, a reservoir housing formed from opposing arcuate front and rear sections that are joined together along a common lower edge and are open between upper edges providing an open slot, said reservoir housing further including a straight upright standard that is secured at a lower end to said rear arcuate section, with a point on a forward face of a standard upper end at a center of arc of the joined arcuate sections, and a post is secured to said standard upper end at said center of arc that extends outwardly at approximately a right angle therefrom and is open longitudinally to receive a pin means fitted therein;

a propeller means that includes a plurality of blades that extend at equally spaced intervals from around a hub, that is a cylinder that is open therethrough for axial mounting onto said post, and each said blade is canted at a like blade angle from a right angle plane across said hub, and each said blade includes an edge that, when said blade is turned, travels above approximately the longitudinal center of said slot;
a pin means that includes a cylindrical body for fitting into said post longitudinal opening and has a broad flat head whose edge extends above a hub end for maintaining said hub onto said post;
a bar means is mounted to each said blade edge to extend outwardly therefrom and travel along said slot as said propeller means turns, and each said bar means mounts a bubble ring across an outer end thereof to travel through said reservoir housing interior as said bar means is moved along said slot;
and means for mounting said reservoir housing to extend outwardly from a handle bar of a bicycle, tricycle, or the like.

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