US 5,351,967 AGranted

Aerial amusement system with vacuum mounts

OwnerTsung-Pin Yanginventor

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Abstract

A flying toy consisted of rotary disk having vacuum mounts, a base shaped like a flying saucer type and revolvably mounted on the rotary disk, a top cover covered on the base, a score board supported on a swivel bar and received in between the base and the top cover, whereby throwing the flying toy into the air toward the smooth surface of an upstanding object causes the vacuum mounts to stick to the smooth surface, and the score board is carried by the swivel bar to rotate on its center axis and then stopped to show either of a series of numbers or patterns through a convex lens on the top cover.

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An aerial amusement system comprising:

(a) a concentrically contoured base member having a top surface and a bottom surface on opposing sides thereof and a circularly contoured central opening for insert of an axle member therethrough, a ring shaped top annular groove concentrically formed about said axis of said central opening within said top surface, a plurality of projections extending in an arcuate and radial direction extending in an upward direction with respect to said top surface, each of said projections having a width dimension defined in the direction normal to said radially outward direction, said width dimension of each said projections decreasing toward a respective projection radial extremity, each said projection having a bead-like formation formed thereon at a respective outer radial extremity, said central opening extending through said base member substantially perpendicular to said top and bottom surfaces;
(b) a longitudinally extended swivel bar member having a top face and a bottom face on opposing sides thereof, said swivel bar having an inner end and an outer end defining opposing longitudinal extremities of said swivel bar, a circularly contoured axle opening adjacent said inner end formed by a passage extending therethrough, a counter weight mounted to said bottom face adjacent said outer end, said axle opening bounded by a tubular protrusion in alignment therewith, an outer wall of said tubular protrusion having a predetermined diameter;
(c) a disk-shaped scoreboard member having indicia formed thereon, said scoreboard having a center through hole for press fitting of said scoreboard member onto said tubular protrusion of said swivel bar member;
(d) a top cover member having a center opening for insert of said axle member, said top cover member having a convex lens formed thereon for viewing therethrough of said indicia of said scoreboard member:
(e) fastening means for concentrically capturing in constrained relation said base member, said swivel member, said scoreboard member, and said top cover member;
and,
(f) vacuum mounting means for adherence of said throwable amusement system to an external surface, said vacuum mounting means secured to said bottom surface of said base member.

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Abstract

An aerial amusement system comprising:

(a) a concentrically contoured base member having a top surface and a bottom surface on opposing sides thereof and a circularly contoured central opening for insert of an axle member therethrough, a ring shaped top annular groove concentrically formed about said axis of said central opening within said top surface, a plurality of projections extending in an arcuate and radial direction extending in an upward direction with respect to said top surface, each of said projections having a width dimension defined in the direction normal to said radially outward direction, said width dimension of each said projections decreasing toward a respective projection radial extremity, each said projection having a bead-like formation formed thereon at a respective outer radial extremity, said central opening extending through said base member substantially perpendicular to said top and bottom surfaces;
(b) a longitudinally extended swivel bar member having a top face and a bottom face on opposing sides thereof, said swivel bar having an inner end and an outer end defining opposing longitudinal extremities of said swivel bar, a circularly contoured axle opening adjacent said inner end formed by a passage extending therethrough, a counter weight mounted to said bottom face adjacent said outer end, said axle opening bounded by a tubular protrusion in alignment therewith, an outer wall of said tubular protrusion having a predetermined diameter;
(c) a disk-shaped scoreboard member having indicia formed thereon, said scoreboard having a center through hole for press fitting of said scoreboard member onto said tubular protrusion of said swivel bar member;
(d) a top cover member having a center opening for insert of said axle member, said top cover member having a convex lens formed thereon for viewing therethrough of said indicia of said scoreboard member:
(e) fastening means for concentrically capturing in constrained relation said base member, said swivel member, said scoreboard member, and said top cover member;
and,
(f) vacuum mounting means for adherence of said throwable amusement system to an external surface, said vacuum mounting means secured to said bottom surface of said base member.

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