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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1981
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1980
Ronald R Klawitter, Gasconade County, MO (US);
Steven Manufacturing Company, Hermann, MO (US);
Abstract
An illusion toy has an upper compartment in which a figure with sword or wand in hand appears to strike through a solid neck, and a lower compartment in which the mechanism for rotating the sword or wand is housed. The upper compartment has a cover on it with a hole to receive the neck. The neck has a head on its outer end, which, larger than the hole, remains on the outside of the cover. The neck can be withdrawn through the hole, and remounted at will. The mechanism includes a shaft that carries on its upper end the wand or sword, a pinion or the lower end of the shaft that is turned by an arcuate segment rack, and a spring biased overcenter mechanism to flip the sword or wand through more than 270.degree., in response to the manipulation of a handle, at such a rapid rate that the sword or wand appears to traverse an arc through the neck instead of moving in the opposite direction.