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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4748366 | Novel uses of piezoelectric materials for creating optical effects An optical effect is produced in cooperation with the normal use of an article of manufacture, e.g., a toy such as a frisbee or a ball, or an article of clothing, such as a shoe, by mounting on the article a piezoelectric element for generating electrical... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4747798 | Flying dish A flying dish having a convex center portion surrounded by a concave ring portion. The convex center portion has the form of the pistils of a flower. The concave ring portion supports petals of a flower. The concave ring portion contains respective pivot ... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4563160 | Lighting system for rotatable toy A circuit for controlling lamp flash interval and duration which comprises an NE555 integrated circuit in combination with resistances and capacitances. In the circuit, a resistor and a capacitive switch in series therewith govern flash interval. The capa... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4515570 | Accessory kit for flying disc toy A dome light and stabilizer fin accessory kit is provided for use with toy flying discs. A socket is attached to the top center portion of the flying disc and a plug is inserted therein. The plug contains either the dome light with battery or a stabilizer... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4435917 | Lighting system for rotatable toy There is disclosed an illuminated flying saucer toy is which incandescent lamps are pulsed on and off by an astable multivibrator circuit. The circuit is arranged to pulse at a relatively slow rate when the toy is at rest and at a relatively increased rat... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4320593 | Flying amusement device A disc of the type adapted for manual toss and glide having weighted members added to enhance flight characteristics is also disclosed.... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4307538 | Lighting system for disc toys A lighting system for toys such as floating disc toys wherein a plurality of point light sources are spaced apart in the plane of movement and are energized intermittently by a battery through a circuit which utilizes a single multi-NAND gate chip and fin... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4301616 | Illuminated frisbee toy A toy of the flying saucer type, to be thrown through the air from one player to another, the toy having battery-powered light emitting diodes located relatively close to the center and thus protected from abrasion or impact shock when the flying saucer h... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4255895 | Lighting unit for flight toy or the like An improved double-ended lighting unit detachably mountable upon a disc shaped flight toy or other object. An elongate tubular metal housing adapted to receive two (or some other even number) flashlight batteries has an opening at each of its opposite end... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4248010 | Illuminated disc-type throwing toy A disc-type throwing toy generally in the form of a flying saucer which is constructed and illuminated in such a manner to facilitate use of the device at night with the illumination features including peripheral light emitting devices as well as aperture... | 02/03/1981 |
| 4246720 | Attachment for flying disk toy An attachment for a flying disk toy has a plurality of cantilevered radial vanes for extending over the upper surface of the disk toy and flexing toward and away from the upper surface in fluttering movements during flight to produce a distinctive sound, ... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4204357 | Flying disc A molded flying disc with most of the weight concentrated in an outer annular ring. The central opening in the ring is covered by a thin sheet of material, such as plastic or cloth, stronger than a sheet of the molded material of the same thickness and di... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4145839 | Illuminated flight toy Disclosed herein is a disc-shaped directional-flight toy having at least one centrifugally actuated lighting assembly mounted thereon for energizing a lamp during flight. The lighting assembly is disposed in a molded cavity adjacent the rim of the toy and... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4143483 | Sound-emitting toy flying saucer An improvement relating to a toy flying saucer having a double skinned body defining lower and upper wall portions joined proximate the rim of the toy flying saucer body. The upper and lower walls, in one embodiment, are normally urged in close proximity ... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4135324 | Illuminated disc airfoil toy A rotatable, transparent plastic, disc-shaped aerial toy having a gull wing shape in diametrical cross-section and being equipped with a rechargeable L. E. D. lighting system which illuminates the entire toy so as to produce a giant lens effect.... | 01/23/1979 |
| 4134229 | Illuminated flying saucer toy The invention is a flying saucer toy of the hand-tossed variety utilizing an illumination plant mounted beneath the central portion of the saucer body and having a light transmitting dome covering the light element beneath the saucer body so that the sauc... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4132031 | Aerodynamic toy with radial elevations on its convex side An aerodynamic toy is provided for use in throwing games. The toy is shaped somewhat like a saucer and its body is provided on its convex sides with radial elevations. These provide discontinuities to the flow of air so that in use the air flow over the c... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4117626 | Sound-emitting toy flying saucer A toy flying saucer having a double skinned body, substantially circular and dome-shaped, and defining lower and upper wall portions joined proximate the rim of the dome-shaped body. An embodiment of the invention contemplates that the upper and lower wal... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4086723 | Chemi-luminescent flying saucer toy A saucer shaped throwing toy adapted to mount a self-contained chemi-luminescent light source thereto. The saucer includes a pair of dual-arm gripping members on the concave side thereof for mounting the light source therein. The central light source is n... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4080753 | Signal generating flying saucer with thin central vibratile portion Sturdy spinning and flying toy with audible sound producing means reliably and automatically performing at full volume only when the toy is operatively airborne and being simple and safe and self-contained for operation by a child. The toy comprises an ou... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4031655 | Aerodynamic sound-emitting amusement device An aerodynamic amusement device adapted to be thrown and sail through the air, emitting a sound while so sailing. The device is provided with a shallow, circular saucer-like body symmetrically located about a central axis. The body is provided a number of... | 06/28/1977 |
| 3959916 | Whistling scaling toy An improvement to a circular toy intended to be scaled which provides a whistling sound. The whistling sound is produced by a plurality of generally Y-shaped passageways having flexible reeds disposed therein and which are exposed to air currents when the... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3948523 | Lighted rotating flying body A rotating flying body having three dish-like body members connected together to form a hollow cavity between two of the body members, the third body member extending radially outwardly from the periphery of the two members forming the cavity. Two dry cel... | 04/06/1976 |
