Abstract:
A trapeze apparatus and doll wherein the doll may be played with independently of the trapeze apparatus and it then has a natural appearance and poseable arms. The trapeze has a rotatably mounted bar with a pair of holes for receiving thumbs of the doll hands so that the slightly cupped hands of the dolls can partially encircle and hold onto the bar, the doll hands having a natural appearance when the doll is played with independently of the trapeze. The doll arms have connectors joining them to the doll body, which can be snapped between a first position for free swinging of the arms on a trapeze and a second position for resisting swinging to enable posing of the arms. Each connector includes a shaft with an enlarged end that can be held in a swivel joint on the body wherein the arm bears against part of the body to prevent swinging, or that can be unsnapped outwardly to another position wherein the inner end of the arms do not contact the body and therefore are free to swing.
Abstract:
A toy top having a housing with a gyroscopic-type rotor mounted on a freely rotatable shaft that extends below the housing and terminates at a spinning tip which supports the top in spinning engagement with a playing surface, the toy including pyrophoric means such as flints mounted on a shaft-encircling casing which has axial freedom but which is keyed to the housing, the flints slidably resting upon abradant means such as a sandpaper disc mounted on top of the top''s rotor so that sparks are created by the rotation of the shaft with respect to the housing which are visible to its user through a transparent portion of the top''s housing.
Abstract:
A toy top having a housing with a gyroscopic-type rotor mounted on a freely rotatable shaft that extends below the housing and terminates at a spinning tip which supports the top in spinning engagement with a playing surface, the top including impeller structure rotating with the rotor within the housing, and the latter including intake and exhaust apertures for allowing the impeller to draw air into the housing and expel the air in a flow interrupted at an audible frequency.
Abstract:
A twirling structure having a pair of oppositely disposed spinning toy-top-holding portions is supported at its centrally located axis of rotation by an upstanding pedestal portion of a stand or base. The holding portions may be in the form of cups and centrally disposed holes are located at the bottom of the cups in order to center the tops and to allow the tops'' rotating starting tip to come into contact with the cup structure and thereby impart thereto a mechanical couple and cause the structure to twirl about its rotational axis.