Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Terry O Sandin

Lanny Starkes Smoot

Quinn Smithwick

Michael Richard Honeck

Eli Joseph Romaire

Peter Anastasios Chevako

David J McCall

Adam B Forster

A special effects device for providing an energy sword effect. The device includes two long plastic semi-cylinders, and these two blade body members are rolled perpendicular to their length, which creates compact cylinders of material of small volume that can be provided on a pair of spools in a hilt. To extend the blade, a motor provided in the hilt unrolls the blade body members from the spools. Each blade body member passes through a blade forming guideway that nests the semi-cylindrical blade body members together as they leave the hilt. To retract the blade, the process is reversed. The lighting of the blade is achieved with a flexible strip of light sources. The light source strip is attached to a blade end cap and positioned in the center of the two blade body members such that it is pulled up along with the blade body members during their extension.

Sword device with retractable, internally illuminated blade

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La Crescenta, CA, United States of America

Terry O Sandin