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Multi-configuration ball
| Details |
Inventors: Camp, Richard S.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Hafer; Robert A.
Assistant Examiner: Fossum; Laura
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fenwick & West LLP
A multi-configuration amusement device in the shape of a ball includes a variety of mass components with axially-extending cylindrical bores, a lock fastener unit having a hollow cylindrical shaft, and an hollow cylindrical extension tube, with the lock fastener unit and the extension tube operably insertable into the cylindrical bores of the mass components, for locking the mass components together in a unitary configuration. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides a novel multi-configuration amusement device.
Composed of interchangeable parts, the present invention can be reconfigured in several respects, including size, form, and color, allowing the owner to use creativity and imagination in creating new configurations of the present invention.
Thus, a multi-configuration ball in accordance with the present invention is actually multiple balls in one.
In one aspect of the invention, a multi-configuration amusement device includes a first mass component having one or more projecting members, a second mass component having one or more receptacles for receiving the one or more projecting members of the first mass component, and a lock fastener for joining the first and second mass components.
In another aspect of the invention, the projecting member has a T-shaped profile, and the receptacle has a first width at a first portion and a second width at a second portion, the first width being greater than the second width.
This facilitates locking whereby the first and second mass components may be locked together by inserting the projecting member into the first portion of the receiving and applying oppositely directed rotational motion on the mass components to move the projecting member towards the second portion.
In still another aspect of the invention, first and second mass components are provided having first and second cylindrical bores.
In accordance with the invention, a first lock fastener is provided, which includes an end portion coupled to an end of a hollow cylindrical sleeve having a greater length and a smaller diameter than the first cylindrical bore.
The hollow cylindrical sleeve is inserted into a first side of the first mass component to pass through the first cylindrical bore.
Also in accordance with the invention, a second lock fastener is provided, which includes an end portion coupled to an end of a cylindrical shaft having a diameter smaller than the hollow cylindrical sleeve and a length greater than the second cylindrical bore
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