US3439446A - Children's streamer toy - Google Patents

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• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F7/00—Indoor games using small moving playing bodies, e.g. balls, discs or blocks
  • A63F7/22—Accessories; Details
  • A63F7/36—Constructional details not covered by groups A63F7/24 - A63F7/34, i.e. constructional details of rolling boards, rims or play tables, e.g. frame, game boards, guide tracks
  • A63F7/38—Playing surfaces movable during play, i.e. games played on a non-stationary surface, e.g. the ball intended to be in permanent motion
  • A63F7/382—Playing surfaces movable during play, i.e. games played on a non-stationary surface, e.g. the ball intended to be in permanent motion held by the user, e.g. spinning hoops, whirling amusement devices, orbiting toys
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F2250/00—Miscellaneous game characteristics
  • A63F2250/48—Miscellaneous game characteristics with special provisions for gripping by hand
  • A63F2250/485—Miscellaneous game characteristics with special provisions for gripping by hand using a handle

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• a primary object of the present invention is to provide a toy with streamers adapted to be swished by movement of the hand and which combines the features of skill and sound making.
• Another object is to provide a streamer toy wherein an elastic band is utilized as a launching device.
• Yet another object is to provide a streamer toy of this kind in which the sound effect is produced by the normal operation of the toy.
• Still another object of the invention is to provide a streamer toy that is amusing and entertaining, simple in construction and economical to manufacture.
• FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a streamer toy embodying one form of the invention.
• FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view taken on the plane of the line 2-2 of FIG. 1.
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the toy in use.
• FIG. 4 is a disassembled detail perspective view showing modified forms of streamers.
• FIG. 5 is a fragmentary view similar to FIG. 2 showing the streams of FIG. 4 anchored to the ball element.
• FIG. 6 is a perspective view of a streamer toy embodying a modified form of the invention partly raveled.
• FIG. 7 is a top plan view thereof shown partly turned in dash lines.
• FIG. 8 is a front elevational view showing the streamers in dash lines.
• FIG. 9 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 99 of FIG. 8.
• FIG. 10 is a perspective view of the streamer toy of FIG. 6 with the streams wound therearound in inoperative stored position.
• FIG. 11 is a top perspective view of a fragment of streamers embodying another modified form of the invention.
• the toy 10 comprises a plurality of narrow, elongated, thin, flexible streamers 12 formed of suitable plastic material such as polyethylene, polystyrene, cellophane and the like and may be colored.
• the streamers are preferably squarecornered at one end 13 and pointed at the other end 14.
• the streamers are gathered together in juxtaposition at the square-cornered end 13 and inserted through a slot 16 in a rubber ball 18 and anchored inside the ball by means of an elongated nail 20 driven into the material of the ball and through the ends 13 of the streamers at right angles thereto as seen in FIG. 2.
• the ball 18 is preferably colored red.
• An endless elastic band 24 has one end looped around a round wooden bar 26 and its other end inserted through a slot 28 in the opposite side of the ball 18 and anchored therein by a nail 30 driven into the material of the ball and through the inner end of the elastic band.
• the bar 26 serves as a handle for manipulating the toy.
• FIGS. 4 and 5 modified forms of streamers are shown anchored to the ball 18'.
• Four streamers indicated at 36, 38, 40, 42 are shown which are similar in construction and shape to the streamers 12 of FIG. 1 but one end thereof, the square cornered end, of each is perforated.
• the outside streamers 36 and 42 are outstruck near the extreme end edges forming a barb 44 extending in one direction, and are instruck at a point slightly inwardly of barb 44 forming a barb 46 extending in the opposite direction.
• the inner streamers 38 and 40 are formed with round holes 48 remote from the extreme end edge thereof in line with the instruck barbs 46.
• the streamers are placed side by side in juxtaposition With the perforated ends overlapped and the instruck barbs 46 inserted through the holes 48 in the adjacent inner streamers 38 and 40. With the streamers in this joined condition, the joined ends are inserted through the slot 16 in the ball 18, the projecting barbs 44 becoming embedded in the material of the ball as shown in FIG. 5, thereby anchoring the streamers to the ball.
• FIGS. 6 to 10, inclusive a modified form of streamer toy 10" is shown.
• the toy 10 consists of a pair of elongated streamers 12" similar to streamers 12 of FIG. 1 but with curved ends 13 and 14".
• a rectangular wooden block 50 pivotally supports one end, the end 13", in a slit 52 formed centrally of the block, intersecting the sides and one end thereof, by means of a double headed pivot pin 54 extending through transverse aligned holes 56 in the block centrally thereof and loosely through the slit 52 and material of the ends 13" of the streamers.
• An elongated round handle 58 is secured at one end to the solid end of the block 50 centrally thereof by means of a wood screw 60 extending loosely through a central bore 62 in the handle and threaded into the solid end of the block at the center thereof.
• a wood screw 60 extending loosely through a central bore 62 in the handle and threaded into the solid end of the block at the center thereof.
• the handle In use, the handle is grasped by the fingers of the user and the toy given an up and down jerky movement whereby the block 50 swivels and the streamers assume snakelike formations or loops as shown in FIG. 3.
• the streamers 12" are wound around the block 50 transversely thereof as shown in FIG. 10 and may be held against enravelment by an elastic band or the like.
• the modified form of streamers 12x are formed with holes 64 adjacent the ends 14" thereof and with outstruck barbs 66 inwardly of the holes 64 and adapted to be inserted through the aligned holes 64 and bent over the edges thereof to hold the streamers against ravelment, when not in use.
• a streamer toy comprising a shaped body having a sloted portion and a plurality of juxtaposed elongated flexible plastic streamers having one of their ends secured in the sloted portion of the body and the other of their ends free, and means associated with the body for manipulating said streamers, the shaped body is in the form of a rectangular wooden block with the slot therein intersecting one end and the sides thereof, the streamers pivotally anchored in said slot, and wherein said manipulating means includes an elongated handle swivelly Secured at one end to the solid end of the block whereby upon manual movement of the block up and down, the block swivels and the streamers assume snake-like formations and loops.

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• 1966
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