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US 5,393,578 AGranted
Christmas motion ornament
OwnerSteve Yanginventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is a Christmas motion ornament which includes an AC motor set received inside a hollow, semi-spherical shell, a cover covered on the AC motor set, a rotary table decorated with animate toy ornaments and disposed above the cover and having a bottom gear meshed with a pinion on the output shaft of the AC motor set, and a fixed table decorated with inanimate toy ornaments and fixed to a pin dowel being protruded over the rotary table through a hole thereof.
Claims3
A Christmas motion ornament comprising:
- a shell and an electric wire said shell having two spaced mounting posts, each post having a screw hole at the top, and wire hole through the center receiving said electric wire said wire being adapted to be coupled to a source of alternating current;
- an AC motor coupled to said wire having two mounting tabs with through holes respectively supported on the mounting posts of said shell and an output shaft extending vertically upwardly at the top thereof;
- a motor set cover mounted on said AC motor set at the top thereof, said motor set cover comprising two mounting tabs with through holes respectively connected to the mounting tabs on said AC motor set and the mounting posts on said shell by screws, two hooks aligned at two opposite locations and equiangularly spaced from either mounting tab and hooked on the peripheral edge of said AC motor set to hold said motor in place, a center pin dowel extending vertically upwardly at the top, and an axle hole receiving the output shaft of said AC motor set said dowel and output shaft being mutually spaced and extending upwardly from said cover;
- a pinion coupled to the output shaft of said AC motor set and disposed above said motor set cover;
- a rotary table supported above said motor set cover, said rotary table comprising an integral driving gear on the lower surface thereof meshed with said pinion, and a center hole through which the center pin dowel passes;
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- a table fixed to the center pin dowel of said motor set cover and disposed above said rotary table, said fixed table being relatively smaller in diameter than said rotary table and comprising a cap into which the pin dowel of said motor set cover fits tightly;
- whereby when coupled to a source of alternating current said AC motor set causes its output shaft to drive said pinion and rotate said rotary table relative to said fixed table via said driving gear.
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A Christmas motion ornament comprising:
- a shell and an electric wire, said shell having two spaced mounting posts, each post having a screw hole at the top, and wire hole through the center receiving said electric wire said wire being adapted to be coupled to a source of alternating current;
- an AC motor set coupled to said wire and having two mounting tabs with through holes respectively supported on the mounting posts of said shell and an output shaft vertically disposed at the top and driven to turn an ornament;
- a motor set cover mounted on said AC motor set at the top thereof, said motor set cover comprising two mounting tabs with through holes respectively connected to the mounting tabs on said AC motor set and the mounting posts on said shell by screws, two hooks aligned at two opposite locations and equiangularly spaced from either mounting tab and hooked on the peripheral edge of said AC motor set to hold said motor in place, a center pin dowel extending vertically upwardly at the top, and an axle hole receiving the output shaft of said AC motor set said dowel and shaft being mutually spaced and extending upwardly from said cover;
- a plate top cover supported above said motor set cover, said plate top cover having an axle hole at an eccentric location through which said output shaft of said AC motor set projects, and a center hole through which the center pin dowel of said motor set cover passes;
- a table fixed to the center pin dowel of said motor set cover and disposed above said plate top cover, said fixed table being relatively smaller than said plate top cover and comprising a cap mounted on the pin dowel of said motor set cover;
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- an ornament being smaller than said plate top cover mounted above said top cover on the end of the output shaft of said AC motor extending through the eccentric axle hole therein;
- whereby when coupled to a source of alternating current said AC set causes its output shaft to rotate said ornament.
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