| US 7,481,691 B2 | ||
| Flying toy for propeller launching | ||
| Chau King Sze, 2/F, 101 Fuk Wing Street, Shamshuipo, Kowloon (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, The); Mark Chernick, 5728 NE. 71st St., Seattle, Wash. 98115 (US); Simeon Tiefel, 3027 SE. 131st Ave., Portland, Oreg. 97236 (US); and Webb Nelson, 9716 Lakeshore NE., Seattle, Wash. 98115 (US) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 14, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/353,404. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/653888, filed on Feb. 15, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0183399 A1, Aug. 17, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. A63H 27/127 (2006.01); A63H 27/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 446—45 [446/63; 124/26] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A flying toy comprising:
a handle;
a propeller assembly;
a landing platform disposed on one side of the handle, wherein the landing platform comprises a receptacle for accommodating
the propeller assembly, wherein the receptacle has a funnel-shape wall and a plurality of fins distributed around the wall,
and wherein the funnel-shaped wall has a narrower end and an opposing wider end, and each of the fins comprises an elongated
body, extending from the narrower end toward the wider end;
in a first mode to launch the propeller assembly off the landing platform while the propeller assembly is located in the receptacle,
and
in a second mode to receive the propeller assembly into the receptacle while the propeller assembly is in flight with a spinning
motion, and wherein the fins are made of a shock absorbent material so that when the flying toy is operated in the second
mode, the fins hamper a force associated with the spinning motion while the propeller assembly is received into the receptacle.
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