Abstract: A prefabricated tuned top and a launcher for launching the tuned top, manufactured in a small size with five components of a knob, a rim, beads, a body and a spinning spindle. The tuned top can be readily assembled by sequentially inserting and then tightening the components. The tuned top implements a changeable spinning form based on induction of a change in difference between the centripetal force and centrifugal force, generated during spinning, since the center of gravity can be eccentrically disposed freely according to the user's selection. The tuned top is prevented from being reversely loosened so it can be safely, semi-permanently, and easily enjoyable at any location. The tuned top enables accurate and stable mounting when a launcher is used, such that the top is not easily separated therefrom but is quickly launched without a launch failure, thereby providing accurate launching without the loss of spinning power.

Abstract: Edible spinning tops for domesticated animals are presented including: a spindle formed along a central axis; a body formed symmetrically and radially about the central axis and forming an annular cavity about the spindle; a protrusion positioned along the central axis and disposed along the body opposite the spindle; and retaining structures positioned separately along the spindle each forming a raised barrier and a retention valley therebetween, where the spindle protrudes above the body, and where the spindle, the body, and the protrusion include an edible, desiccated, and brittle composition. In some embodiments, an edible ring captured along the retention valley between the retaining structures about the spindle.

Abstract: A spinning top toy used for battle games in which the spinning top toy collides with an opponent spinning top toy includes a shaft part, a body, and first and second gripping members. The body is configured on the shaft part. The first and second gripping members are configured on at least a part of an outer periphery of the body. One of the first and second gripping members is urged to the other of the first and second gripping members to have a first distance therebetween. The first and second gripping members are separated to have a second distance therebetween when the shaft part is rotated. The first distance is smaller than the second distance.

Abstract: A top launcher includes at least one track segment having a guiding path for translating a rotatable top thereon. Also included is a launching member moveable between a first position and a second position, the launching member resiliently biased toward the first position. Further included is an engagement portion of the launching member for engaging the rotatable top and launching the rotatable top as the launching member moves toward the first position.

Abstract: The “MOMENTUM IN PRECESSION LEVERAGE UNIT” assumes certain characteristics of a “spinner”, yet contains elements that involve momentum beyond simple rotation. This leverage unit is manually effected, and will distribute energy into a profound visual, as well as real, compelled correction (direction) of flux. The dimensional constraint of this leverage unit element will also allow for a “pulsation” effect due to a precession of energy fields created through the Exacted Degree Center Cone Body, and accompanying “confluence” of components comprising the leverage unit. In purpose, this leverage unit shall indicate whether a surface forum plane is level, and shall as well identify any forum shift or irregularity.

Abstract: A device for transforming a non-gyro object into a gyro object includes a body having an upper surface and a bottom surface. The upper surface defines a combining portion adapted to be connected with an object and the bottom surface formed with a downward protrusion. The protrusion is located on a common axis of gravity of a combination of the body and the object. The combination of the body and the object spins when the user applies a torque thereto.

Abstract: A toy vehicle which may have the capability to raise and lower a spin mechanism within the vehicle to lift the vehicle up off of a surface and spin the vehicle in a top-like manner when the spin mechanism is charged. The vehicle may further include a chassis with a cavity to house the spin mechanism and a release mechanism to direct the spin mechanism to lower a spin shaft below wheels on the vehicle. Energy may be generated in a power drive system and transferred to the vehicle via a transfer gear in the spin mechanism. Another embodiment of the vehicle may also transforms between multiple configurations, including a spinning top, and utilizes a launch mechanism to spin the vehicle in a top-like manner. This embodiment may further include a sliding front segment, a sliding rear segment, two sliding side segments and a receiving cavity. When the sliding front segment and rear segment move toward one another, the two side segments are pushed outward and direct a spin shaft downward to extend below the vehicle.

Abstract: A transforming vehicle and launch system where the vehicle transforms between multiple configurations including a spinning top. The vehicle includes sliding front and rear segments, two sliding side segments and a receiving cavity. The launch mechanism includes a rotating launch shaft in communication with a power system and a release button. The power system includes the capability to generate and store energy. When the front and rear segments move toward one another, the two side segments are pushed outward directing a central shaft downward below the vehicle. The receiving cavity receives the launch shaft and transfers energy from the power system to the vehicle when it rotates. Energy generated and stored in the power system is transferred to the second configuration via the rotation of the launch shaft when a release button is triggered such that the vehicle separates and spins on the central shaft.

Abstract: A low cost toy top having a simple structure and capable of changing its operating characteristics upon collision with an opponent toy top. The toy top which is spun on a playing board to play a match with an opponent toy top by being collided with the latter includes a main body including collisional portions adapted to come into contact with the opponent toy top, wherein at least some of the collisional portions are provided with a friction member for converting a rotational force of the opponent toy top into a rotational force of the toy top at the time of collision.

Abstract: A toy top capable of continuing to spin without its spinning being abruptly stopped by contacting a playing surface when the toy top wobbles with a reduction in rotational speed so as to spin longer than an opponent toy top. A toy top includes a shaft portion having a circular shape in cross-section and adapted to come into contact with a playing surface of the playing board for serving as a center of rotation when the toy top spins; a rotating plate having an insertion hole of an inner diameter greater than an outer diameter of the shaft portion, the rotating plate being attached to the shaft portion so as to freely rotate around the shaft portion while the shaft portion is inserted through the insertion hole; and an engagement for permitting the rotating plate to freely rotate and preventing the rotating plate from detaching from the shaft portion when the rotating plate is attached to the shaft portion.

Abstract: A novel toy top capable of changing the operation mode in the course of spinning without replacing a component member constituting the toy top and having a simple structure and a low cost is provided. A toy top to be spun on a playing board with a playing surface curved in a concave mirror shape includes a shaft portion adapted to contact the playing surface, wherein the shaft portion has a circumferential surface provided with a friction portion that exhibits a coefficient of friction larger than the shaft portion at the time of contacting the playing surface, and the shaft portion has a tip protruding lower than the friction portion.

Abstract: A dreidel has a flasher that visually enhances the experience of play. The dreidel can include a rotatable body having four sides, the rotatable body including at least one flashing device; each of the four sides having a transparent or translucent window, each window being marked with a Hebrew letter selected from ?(Nun), ?(Gimel), ?(Hei), ?(Shin) or ?(Pei); and a handle protruding from the rotatable body, the handle being configured to turn the flashing device on and off.

Abstract: A top includes a hollow body, a lighting received disposed in the hollow body, a conductor moved received in the hollow body and a cover mounted to a top of the hollow body for closing the hollow body. The conductor is moved to operate the lighting device due to a centrifugal force of rotating top.

Abstract: A safety spinning top is formed by stamping on a rigid and flexible round card to produce two diametrically opposite strips that could be upward bent at inner ends and then engaged with each other to provide a revolving shaft, and a conic member located between and perpendicular to the two strips and adapted to downward bent to provide a supporting and revolving center below the round card. A player may pinch at the revolving shaft and apply a twisting force to eject the spinning top, so that the spinning top spins about the pointed end of the conic member. The spinning top does not include any separate small parts that tend to be wrongly swallowed by small children, and is therefore safe for play.

Abstract: A rotor (1) is of a substantially spherical shape with one complete half of the sphere (2) still remaining. The rotor (1) effective takes the shape of the head of a "mushroom." The other half of the sphere has had its material removed or omitted forming the stem (3). The depth of the cut "D" and the length "L," the radius of the sphere, will determine the ratio of the respective weights of the complete half sphere (2) and the stem portion (3). Suitably the weight of the one half to the other half of the spherical body is between about 0.75 and 0.85 and more preferably 0.8. When an external force is applied to the rotor (1), it rotates simultaneously about a pair of orthogonal axes one of which is defined by the edge (6) of the spherical body between the two halves.

Abstract: An illuminating and sound generating string rotatable toy comprising a sponge disk affixed near one end of a shaft penetrating a sphere. This disk may be rotated by pulling a string that extends perpendicularly from the shaft through a hole in the diameter of the sphere. The free end of that string is furnished with a ring through which a finger of the user of the toy may be inserted. The toy also include a variable illuminating and sound generating device inside the sphere. Upon rotation this illuminates and releases sound. Colorful designs upon the disk create a profusion of color or optical illusion during rotation.

Abstract: A spinning figurine toy has a weighted skirt or disc to provide angular momentum, a lower spindle, a spring attached to the lower spindle, a foot inserted into the lower end of the spring, and a rod fixed in the foot and able to move vertically within the lower spindle. When the toy is spun upon the foot, bouncing or jumping motion may be imparted to the toy by dropping it from a height because of the resilient nature of the spring. A pull-string operated hand launcher having a helical spindle on top fits into a corresponding helical aperture in the foot to provide a means of setting the toy in motion at high speed and of releasing it.

Abstract: A top spindle designed especially for use in connection with parts of a construction toy set, to enable the assembly of spinning tops having a wide variety of inertia members. The spindle includes a main stem provided with an integral support platform. A symmetrically arranged pair of drive lugs project upwardly from the support platform. The stem includes a locating and gripping hub adjacent to the platform and adapted to receive and tightly grip the central hub opening of a construction part from the construction toy set, such parts being in the form of wheels, pulleys, gears or connector elements. Such construction parts are pressed onto the retaining hub, after being positioned such that the upwardly projecting drive lugs engage drive openings in the construction part.

Abstract: A top is provided with a conical body having a soft porous parabolic point at the top's conical apex which simultaneously grips and tracks a writing surface over which the top travels. When the top is spun, the point at the apex grips the writing surface and allows the top to travel over the writing surface leaving an ink imprint in its path. During spinning, the top precesses with the rotating angular velocity characteristic of a top spinning down about a fixed point. However, the tip of the top at the conical apex does not remain fixed with respect to the writing surface; rather, the tip travels on its own course over the writing surface as a function both the angle of the tip with respect to the writing surface and the angular spin velocity of the top. As a consequence, the travel of the tip interacts with the forces of top precession to produce a group of characteristic traced spirals on the writing surface.

Abstract: A top is provided with a conical body having a soft porous parabolic point at the top's conical apex which simultaneously grips and tracks a writing surface over which the top travels. When the top is spun, the point at the apex grips the writing surface and allows the top to travel over the writing surface leaving an ink imprint in its path. During spinning, the top precesses with the rotating angular velocity characteristic of a top spinning down about a fixed point. However, the tip of the top at the conical apex does not remain fixed with respect to the writing surface; rather, the tip travels on its own course over the writing surface as a function both the angle of the tip with respect to the writing surface and the angular spin velocity of the top. As a consequence, the travel of the tip interacts with the forces of top precession to produce a group of characteristic traced spirals on the writing surface.

Abstract: A spinnable top comprises a flywheel component and a spindle component which are readily adapted to assembly and disassembly by reason of mutually threaded engagement to a shoulder stop. As a kit, these component parts and a wrench component, for use in torquing the assembly and/or disassembly, are retained in the base of a two-part thin cylindrical container; the other part of the container is a selectively removable cover which is configurated as a concave area by means of which each run of the top can be limited.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a top which may be used as a toy and/or as a marketing promotional tool. The top has a base member with a central aperture, at least two bendable arms, each having an aperture for receiving a stem member, and a stem member for holding the arms in position relative to the base member and for acting as a pivot.

Abstract: A driving device for initiating and maintaining a spinning top in a continuous movement of rotation and precession. The driving device is made of a shaft adapted to axially rotate in a tube on which is concentrically fixed a rim. A top is hingely connected by its central post to the end of the shaft adjacent the rim. The post is able to rotate around the rim through a ball-bearing joint and the friction between the post and the rim causes the top to spin around the rim. By momentarily braking or changing the direction of the shaft with a manual contact on the shaft, it is possible to create a precession movement to the spinning top which will raise above the rim.

Abstract: A top with a preferably tapered support foot (1), which has an opening (7) to receive the axle of the top (6) and is firmly connected with a spring ring (5) to the axle of the top (6), whereby the spring ring (5) has a hat-shaped cover (9). A protection against withdrawal in any direction is provided by the fact that the spring ring (5) is cast or injection-moulded as part of the support foot.

Abstract: A busy ball child's toy including a generally spheroid structure having a plurality of openings, at least some of the openings being configured for captive yet rotatable retention of a generally hollow ball therein. Some of the balls may be at least partially transparent and contain an amusement element therein such as rotatable figures, beads, reflecting elements, lenticular labels, or the like. The toy is symmetrical about its center and balanced to enable the toy to be spun as a top. An interconnecting post positioned centrally relative to the balls acts as a shock absorber in the event of dropping or striking of the toy on the balls.