Crystal ball with displaceable spout

A crystal ball pumping means for pumping a colored liquid through a spout located in a crystal ball, said pumping means comprising

• a stationary frame which has an interior chamber and includes a top lid having a top with a central bore therethrough and a plurality of peripheral orifices therethrough, and having depending walls with axial projections depending therefrom, said projections having bottom edges which define an undulating surface;
• a bottom lid coupled with said top lid and having upstanding walls with flanges mounted thereon and a bottom with a central bore, said flanges mating with, but spaced apart from said projections so as to form an undulating guide rail therebetween;
• a hollow pump casing having a hollow neck portion extending through said top central bore and rotatably mounted on said top lid, said pump casing having a wall defining an interior cavity;
• a pump shaft having a side periphery, said pump shaft extending through said pump casing neck portion at an end of said neck portion and axially movably mounted in said neck portion, said pump shaft having a top axial bore therein which extends from an upper end of said pump shaft to a point therebelow, having a radial bore extending between said axial bore and an opening in said side periphery of said pump shaft, having a radially extending arm rigidly mounted at a bottom portion of said pump shaft, an end of said arm engaging said guide rail, having rotational locking means for rotationally locking said pump shaft to said pump casing, yet also for permitting relative axial movement between said pump shaft and said pump casing, and having a bottom bore through a bottom end of said pump shaft;
• a pump piston means rigidly mounted around said pump shaft below said point and having a diameter so as to engage the interior cavity walls of said pump casing;
• and
• means for rotating said pump piston while permitting relative axial movement therebetween, said rotating means comprising a disk rotatably mounted on said frame bottom, and comprised of
• a plurality of upstanding columns mounted spaced apart on either side of said pump shaft arm so as to rotate said arm and hence said pump shaft, yet having a height so as to permit a maximum axial relative movement between said disk and said pump shaft,
• an upstanding central post which engages said pump shaft bottom bore, said central post and said bottom portion of said pump shaft having lengths so as to permit said maximum axial relative movement between said disk and said pump shaft, and
• a depending central shaft extending through said bottom lid central bore.

A fountain assembly comprising:

• a base;
• a spout having an exterior surface and an interior hollow and at least one nozzle through said exterior surface in communication with said hollow;
• and
• pumping means mounted to said base for pumping a fluid out through said spout nozzle, said pumping means comprising
• a stationary frame which has an interior chamber and includes
• a top having an upper surface, a top bore and a plurality of orifices through said upper surface, and
• a bottom coupled together with said top to form said chamber, said bottom having a bottom bore, and
• a pump casing rotatably mounted at said frame top inside said chamber and having an interior wall which defines an interior cavity,
• a pump shaft extending through said pump casing and rotatably and axially slidably mounted in said frame, said pump shaft having an axial bore therein in fluid communication with said pump casing cavity and said spout hollow,
• moving means for rotating and axially reciprocating said pump shaft, and
• pump piston means mounted on said pump shaft and located inside said pump casing cavity for forcing a fluid in said pump casing cavity out said pump shaft bore and out said spout.