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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2018
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Michael R. Honeck, Glendale, CA (US);
Lanny S. Smoot, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Quinn Y. Smithwick, Pasadena, CA (US);
Eli Joseph Romaire, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David J. McCall, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Terry O. Sandin, La Crescenta, CA (US);
Adam B. Forster, North Hollywood, CA (US);
Peter Anastasios Chevako, Los Angeles, CA (US);
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
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.