WO1990010483A1 - Ring-like flying toy - Google Patents
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- WO1990010483A1 WO1990010483A1 PCT/US1989/003765 US8903765W WO9010483A1 WO 1990010483 A1 WO1990010483 A1 WO 1990010483A1 US 8903765 W US8903765 W US 8903765W WO 9010483 A1 WO9010483 A1 WO 9010483A1
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
- A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
- A63H33/00—Other toys
- A63H33/18—Throwing or slinging toys, e.g. flying disc toys
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- the present invention relates to flying toys.
- Examples of flying toys include the Frisbee® flying disc, described in U.S. Patent No. 3,359,678, and the AerobieTM flying ring, described in U.S. Patent No. 4,560,358.
- the Frisbee® flying disc is a saucer-shaped device that can be thrown over relatively long distances. A player throws such a disc by grasping its edge and flexing the wrist, while holding the forearm in a neutral position. Next, the player extends the wrist and releases the disc, i.e. the player "flings" from the wrist, imparting spin to the disc, resulting in its being propelled through the air.
- Such a disc will fly over relatively long distances because of its relatively high mass, peripheral mass distribution, and solid/rigid construction and aerodynamic structure.
- the AerobieTM flying ring has a relatively large mass, but, unlike the Frisbee® flying disc, has a mass which is distributed peripherally about a central void and a special air-foil shape, supposedly offering a unique flying capability.
- a stick-propelled disc which features an annular disc with a circular rim defining an inner opening.
- the disc also includes a relatively thin central portion and relatively thick inner and outer circumferential edges.
- the De Martino disc's rim has an inner circumferential edge that is three times the thickness of the rim's central portion, and has an outer circumferential edge that is approximately one and one half times as thick as the rim's central portion.
- a disc-shape "joke” toy including an elastic member with a synthetic film stretched over it.
- the toy folds into several overlapping portions, and stays in that shape until disturbed.
- the toy is intended to be thrown in its folded condition, and then, upon impact with an object, is designed to unfold "immediately and explosively", in a joking/ snapping way, to its original shape.
- TE SHEET flying disc or ring is capable of providing at all satisfactorily for single-player use. To play comfortably with prior-art flying toys, more than one player is required because of the toys' typical long flight distances, rigid, non-memory-deformable constructions, and "die"-upon-impact, flight characteristics.
- a further object is to provide such a toy whose air frame and flight surface, while biased to certain nominal conditions are significantly impact-changeable to alter flight characteristics.
- Yet another object is to provide a flying toy of the type outlined for safe playing indoors.
- the present invention achieves the foregoing objects by providing a novel ring-like flying toy including lightweight outer and inner, ring-like boundary structures defining an annular space that is spanned (at least partially) by an air-foil web joined to and tensed between the structures.
- the web is preferably formed of a multidirectionally stretchable, air-flow permeable fabric material that has elastomeric-memory characteristics.
- the toy's boundary structures are readily, appreciably, impact deformable to cooperate with the tensed web in a way leading to unique and surprising flight performance.
- This key feature of the toy of present invention results from the fact that the outer boundary structure, in particular, collaboratively cooperates, telegraphically, with the air-foil web during flight to reshape itself in infinitely varying ways after a deformity-producing impact with any external object, such as a players hand, a wall, a floor, etc.
- the toy reshapes itself it effects infinitely springy-changing, and substantial, air-foil-varying configurations which create surprising, aerobatic, rebound flight characteristics.
- Fig. 1 is a plan view of a ring-like flying toy constructed in accordance with the present invention.
- Figs. 2A-2D are nominally cross-sectional views of the toy, taken generally along the line 2-2 in Fig. 1. These figures show four alternative ways of forming the inner air-frame, boundary structure of the invention.
- Fig. 3 is an enlarged, fragmentary view of a part of the flying toy shown in Fig. 1 with a portion of the toy broken away to reveal details of construction.
- Figs. 4A-4D illustrate two examples of impact- deforming flight performance.
- Figs. 5A,5B show the toy of Fig. 1 being folded for convenient carrying.
- Figures l, 2A-2C, and 3 show a ring-like flying toy 10, also referred to herein as a rebound-active- confounding, ring-like throwable flying toy, that is constructed in accordance with the present invention.
- the toy includes outer and inner boundary structures 12,14, also referred to herein as air-frame structures. Boundary structures 12,14 are generally concentric relative to one another, defining an annular space between them. The boundary structures are made in a manner, soon to be described, to be springy.
- an air-foil web 16 Joined to and tensed between the boundary structures in the annular space therebetween, is an air-foil web 16, also referred to herein as a fabric means or fabric web.
- Web 16 extends preferably as an annulus within the perimetral confines of boundary structures 12,14. Modifications are possible where the web takes the form of spaced, angularly distributed, fabric segments.
- the boundary structures, either or both of them may be formed as distinct-sided polygons.
- the term “nominally circular” used herein is intended to encompass such a construction.
- the terms “annular” and “annular space” are intended to define the space between such one or more, non- circular boundary structures. Concentricity, as applied to the two boundary structures, means that their geometric centers are substantially coincident.
- the web is made preferably from a multidirectionally stretchable, infinitely-memory-deformable, air-flow permeable material, such as the synthetic material sold under the Lycra® trademark. As will be described shortly, it is the novel combination of such a web, including these important features, tensed relative to the inner and outer boundary structures that forms a central aspect of the present invention.
- the peripheral cover may be colored with a fluorescent dye or a design may be printed on it using, for example, a silk screening process.
- outer boundary structure 12 is fabricated from a circular stay, or stay means (armature) , 18, and a peripheral cover 20.
- Stay 18 must be made from a material that is capable of tensioning web 16, thus to provide an appropriate deformable air foil during flight.
- stay 18 must be of a sufficiently low-mass, or lightweight, material to ensure that toy 10 will have a relatively high surface-area-to-mass ratio. Also, it is important that stay 18 be readily and appreciably impact deformable.
- stay 18 is fabricated by shaping into a circle a fifty-inch length of Nylaflow brand.
- Type H hollow plastic tubing, having an inside diameter of .110-inches and an outside diameter of 3/16-inches.
- stay 18 is closed into a circle by inserting into its ends an elongate coupler 19.
- coupler 19 is fixedly attached, as by adhesive, to the inside of only one end of stay 18, thus allowing the stay's other end to freely rotate around coupler 19.
- Peripheral cover 20 employed in each of the three disclosed embodiments, is a relatively thin, elongate section of lightweight, durable material, such a nylon material. It is folded lengthwise and positioned around stay 18, holding the stay in its fold, and fastened to top and bottom surfaces 22,24 of web 16 as by folding its lengthwise edges over and sewing through all of the lengthwise folds and the web.
- the peripheral cover may be colored with a fluorescent dye or a design may be printed on it using, for example, a silk screening process.
- inner boundary structure 14 here is made in the form of an inner cover 26 that includes an elongate section of material folded lengthwise and fastened to the web's top and bottom surfaces, as described earlier in connection with cover 20.
- Inner cover 26 is preferably made from nylon.
- Acting as an armature within cover 26 is a suitable tensed elastomer 27.
- a reinforcer 28 such as a .010-inches stainless steel wire is placed lengthwise inside cover 26 after the same is folded and fastened to the web.
- cover 26 may be integral with web 16 and formed by folding and sewing as shown to top surface 22.
- Fig. 2D shows an inner boundary structure formed solely by cover 26. the wrist and releases the toy, i.e. the player "flings" from the wrist, imparting spin to the toy, resulting in its being propelled through the air.
- FIGs. 4A-4D illustrate two examples of the unique, impact-deforming flight characteristics that are obtained in toy 10 due to the cooperation of the boundary structures and web 16.
- toy 10 is shown flying while it spins in a counterclockwise direction.
- a player moves his or her hand, shown schematically at 30, in the direction of arrow 32 so that the hand strikes the toy tangentially relative to the toy's ring-like shape. Striking the toy propels it in the direction of arrow 34 and maintains its rotational movement about axis 36.
- Fig. 4B depicts the toy a short time after it has been struck by the hand.
- Fig. 4A severe distortion
- Fig. 4A severe distortion
- the elastomeric-memory characteristics of multidirectionally stretchable web 16 and the springy characteristic of the boundary structures result in both springing back when the hand's deforming force is gone. From the severe-distortion impacted condition, the toy recovers towards its original condition, passing through an infinite number of intermediate conditions, each of which imparts a unique and different flight characteristic.
- Figs. 4C and 4D illustrate another impact sequence where toy 10 deforms, and then springs back, or rebounds, through infinitely varying shapes toward its pre- deformation shape.
- the web is preferably air-flow permeable adds yet another dimension, namely stability, to the toy's beautiful flight behavior.
- FIGs. 5A and 5B toy 10 is shown being folded into a convenient storage/transport shape.
- the toy is twisted, in the direction of the arrows, into a "figure-8".
- the aforedescribed swivel joint between coupler 19 and stay 18 allows the toy to be twisted without "kinking”.
- Fig. 5B the toy is folded along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the "figure-8", so that both loops of the "8" overlay one another. The convenience of this capability has been mentioned earlier.
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AT89909995T ATE98501T1 (en) | 1989-03-15 | 1989-08-31 | CIRCULAR FLYING TOY. |
DE68911542T DE68911542T2 (en) | 1989-03-15 | 1989-08-31 | CIRCULAR FLYING TOY. |
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US32498689A | 1989-03-15 | 1989-03-15 | |
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FR2870462A1 (en) * | 2004-05-18 | 2005-11-25 | Emmanuelle Laine | Detachable frisbee for outdoor recreational activities, has elastic sheeting of large diameter, and ring with glass or carbon fiber segments, where ring is inserted in peripheral hem and segments are flexible and nestable |
FR2908320A1 (en) * | 2006-11-15 | 2008-05-16 | Francois Morin | Dice track for playing e.g. game board, has edge constituted of flexible and transparent tube i.e. circular section, assembled by male type connection i.e. pen, and supported on horizontal plate, where edge is fixed on plate |
WO2009123853A1 (en) * | 2008-03-31 | 2009-10-08 | Young Jesse Hom | Hand thrown flying toy |
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US4174834A (en) * | 1977-10-03 | 1979-11-20 | Aldo De Martino | Stick-propelled disk game |
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US4709928A (en) * | 1986-06-19 | 1987-12-01 | Willingham W Preston | Circular game board foldable into small volume |
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- 1989-08-31 AU AU41949/89A patent/AU4194989A/en not_active Abandoned
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US3254443A (en) * | 1963-10-21 | 1966-06-07 | Maynard D Olson | Hoop and guide stick |
US4174834A (en) * | 1977-10-03 | 1979-11-20 | Aldo De Martino | Stick-propelled disk game |
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FR2870462A1 (en) * | 2004-05-18 | 2005-11-25 | Emmanuelle Laine | Detachable frisbee for outdoor recreational activities, has elastic sheeting of large diameter, and ring with glass or carbon fiber segments, where ring is inserted in peripheral hem and segments are flexible and nestable |
FR2908320A1 (en) * | 2006-11-15 | 2008-05-16 | Francois Morin | Dice track for playing e.g. game board, has edge constituted of flexible and transparent tube i.e. circular section, assembled by male type connection i.e. pen, and supported on horizontal plate, where edge is fixed on plate |
WO2009123853A1 (en) * | 2008-03-31 | 2009-10-08 | Young Jesse Hom | Hand thrown flying toy |
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