Toy designed to spin in a user's hand
AssigneeMd Intellectual Holdings LLC
InventorMichael Scott McCoskery
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A device designed to spin in a user's hands may include a body with a centrally mounted ball bearing positioned within a center orifice of the body, wherein an outer race of the ball bearing is attached to the frame; a button made of a pair of bearing caps attached to one another through the ball bearing and clamped against an inner race of the ball bearing, such that when the button is held between a user's thumb and finger, the body freely rotates about the ball bearing; and a plurality of weights distributed at opposite ends of the body, creating at least a bipolar weight distribution.
Claims14
A device designed to spin in a user's hands, the device comprising:
- a planar body with a centrally mounted ball bearing positioned within a center orifice of the planar body, wherein an outer race of the ball bearing is attached to the planar body;
- a button comprising a pair of bearing caps attached to one another through the ball bearing and clamped against an inner race of the ball bearing, such that when the button is held between a user's thumb and finger, the planar body freely rotates about the ball bearing;
- and
- a plurality of weights distributed at opposite ends of the planar body, creating at least a bipolar weight distribution.
A device designed to spin in a user's hands, the device comprising:
- a body with a centrally mounted ball bearing positioned within a center orifice of the body, wherein an outer race of the ball bearing is attached to the body;
- a button comprising a pair of bearing caps attached to one another through the ball bearing and clamped against an inner race of the ball bearing, such that when the button is held between a user's thumb and finger, the body freely rotates about the ball bearing;
- and
- a plurality of weights distributed at opposite ends of the body, creating at least a bipolar weight distribution,
- wherein:
- the body is hub-and-spoke shaped.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.