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US 5,503,587 AGranted
Multi-ball drop toy
OwnerWalter R. Melleninventor
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Abstract
A multi-ball drop toy assembly comprising a flexible harness for holding elastically deformable balls in a vertical, spaced-apart array, which when dropped, permits the uppermost ball of the array, to escape the harness after collision with its adjacent ball.
Claims13
A multi ball drop toy assembly comprising:
- a plurality of elastically deformable balls, each ball having a horizontal equator and a center, at least two said balls of different mass, (the) each center(s) of each (equator) of said balls being held in a vertically aligned linear arrangement;
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- a flexible harness (for) of threads holding said plurality of elastically deformable balls in said vertically aligned (array) arrangement so that when said toy is dropped upon an underlying rigid surface, that ball which is uppermost is accelerated from said harness between said threads by multiple collisions within said arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.