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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6604978 | Top toy A top toy comprises a hand-held paddle with a contact portion and a handle portion, designed to manipulate, catch and throw a spinning top. The toy has two or more sides configured with substantially flat contact surfaces meeting at a periphery juncture t... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6220918 | Tossable ring airfoil projectile Tossable ring airfoil projectiles configured to adopt and maintain a flying orientation that generates lift. The tossable ring airfoil projectiles generally include (i) a ring airfoil having a trailing end, an aperture, and a longitudinal symmetry axis ru... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6162110 | Diabolo accessory An accessory for diabolo juggling may take the form of hand held unit or a free standing unit. In each case, at least one stretchable, flexible, resilient and elastic member is supported by a frame. The elastic member, preferably a bungee cord, is free of... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5984759 | Yo-yos and an improved automatically returning yo-yo Improvements in automatically returning yo-yos in which an effective centripetal/centrifugal movement, vector, signal and/or urge of one or more parts of the yo-yo is translated or allowed to be translated into an effectively reciprocating movement, vecto... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5195916 | Dual disc flying toy with flat lower member A toy flying saucer comprising a smaller top disc attached to a large base disc at the top. The top disc has a cylindrical connecting end projecting from the bottom edge thereof, which cylindrical connecting end has an annular projection around the outer ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5092807 | Helical flow optically decorated baton This invention relates to an optically decorated elongated member comprising a transparent tube sealed at both ends including one or more brightly colored thin elongated members disposed in a helical configuration therein and containing a fluid medium sus... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4452007 | Horizontal axis rotatory frustum flying toy The Horizontal Axis Rotatory Frustum Toy is a catapulted cylinderlike flying-wing glider that rotates horizontally to produce lift and quite slow flight, suitable indoors or out. A rubber band or string can be used to launch it. Unique shape provides good... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4202133 | Spinning top A spinning top comprises a casing in which is located a gear including a vertical shaft extending downwardly from the casing, the uppermost portion of the said shaft being a Z-profiled bar, the sidewardly extending arms of which are in frictional contact ... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4194316 | Self balancing diabolo top with attachment for vertical spinning A diabolo top comprises bowl-shaped halves of molded plastic, each half having a central hub formed with an axial opening and coacting aligning pin means. A threaded bolt, extending through the axial openings, mounts a nut and retains the hubs in face-to-... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4183168 | Flying disk toy A circular disk, having opposing flat surfaces, is provided with a spiral groove in one of the flat surfaces for receiving one end of a crank handle and horizontally rotating the disk about its axis and subsequent release of the disk by centrifugal force.... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4016854 | Spring type bottle cap pistol A pistol to propel and spin ring-like projectiles such as bottle caps. An impeller is released by a trigger and an off-center mounted hammer strikes and propels the bottle caps with a spin. As the bottle cap exits from the barrel of the gun, a wall mounte... | 04/12/1977 |
| 4003574 | Game ball A football-like game ball which is manually thrown through the air. The ball has a generally truncated ellipsoid outer contour with a Venturi-like nozzle passage extending coincident with a major axis of the ball. A plurality of weighted elements are loca... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3961792 | Apertured paddle and resilient projectile There is disclosed a toy comprising a resilient member having radially extending cuts therein, said cut defining a substantially spherical solid central core. There is further disclosed a paddle having a handle at one end thereof and a circular, apertured... | 06/08/1976 |
