Powered toy hand drawing device
Assignee4Kidz, Inc.
InventorJames Diresta
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Abstract
A powered hand drawing device in which a pen is mounted in a barrel casing and operably connected through an eccentric to an electrc motor which rotates a writing tip to describe a related figure on a writing surface. The pen is removably mounted in a tubular holder carried by a fulcrum formed by a swivel joint comprising a ball having a diametrical, pen holder receiving bore and a pair of rings secured together entrapping the ball in swivelling relation between them. The barrel wall has two, opposed longitudinal slots and fingerpieces extend from one of the rings through respective slots thereby mounting the the fulcrum for manual sliding adjustment along the barrel (and pen holder) to alter an amplitude of the orbital movement of the writing tip and the figures described.
Claims7
A powered toy hand drawing device of a type comprising an elongate, manually grippable, pen-receiving casing or barrel having an open, writing end;
- rotary drive means mounted to an opposite end;
- and means for movably supporting a pen within the barrel with a writing tip of the pen protruding from the writing end and an opposite end of the pen eccentrically driven by the rotary drive means and, fulcrum means encircling the pen at a location between the opposite end and the writing end so that operation of the rotary drive means produces orbital movement of the writing tip to describe a related figure on a writing surface,
- wherein the barrel has an external wall portion formed with a slot extending longitudinally away from the writing end and the fulcrum means includes a fingerpiece extending through the slot thereby mounting the fulcrum means for manual positional adjustment along the slot toward and away from the writing end to alter an amplitude of the orbital movement of the writing tip and sizes of figures described.
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