Abstract: A cooking utensil is disclosed having a handle, a cooking implement extending from the handle, at least one electric light attached to the handle for illuminating at least a portion of the cooking implement, and power means for providing electric power to the light. In addition, the cooking utensil has either or both an attitude-sensitive switch connecting the light and the power means for turning the light on and off in response to the attitude of the utensil, and an ambient light-sensitive switch connecting the light and the power means for turning the light on and off in response to the level of the ambient light.

Abstract: An automatic musical instrument includes a tine, a rotor, an actuatable arm, and a rotatable cam. The tine emits an audible sound when vibrated. The rotor has plural picks extending radially outwardly therefrom, and the actuatable arm is disposed to displace the rotor when the actuator arm is pivoted between a normal position and an actuated position. The rotatable cam has at least one protrusion extending outwardly from a surface thereof, and is disposed to contact a pick on the rotor when the rotor is displaced by the actuatable arm. The contact of the rotating cam with the pick of the rotor further displaces the rotor, causing a pick on the rotor to vibrate the tine, emitting the audible sound.

Abstract: A candle structure comprises a fan, wherein the heated air generated by a candle may propel the fan. The candle is housed in a container having a bottom wall and a side wall. The side wall is formed with vents located above the candle so that adequate air needed to permit the candle to combust can be drawn through the vent, thereby to enhance propulsion of the fan. The fan serves to impart a new functional and aesthetically pleasing characteristic to the basic candle structure by distributing the heat and the scent generated by the candle, while concurrently rotating decorative elements.

Abstract: An image projector includes a film assembly, motor, light source and lens. The film assembly includes a periscope having a first aperture, the film assembly being configured so as to mount a film to scroll in front of the first aperture of the periscope. The motor scrolls the film in front of the first aperture. The light source projects light through the periscope and portions of the film positioned in front of the first aperture of the periscope. The lens focuses the light projected through the film and the periscope.

Abstract: An animated display device includes a vertical main shaft, a body rotatably secured to the main shaft, and a drive device for driving the body to oscillate about the main shaft. In one embodiment, the display device also includes a rotatable appendage secured to the main body and a linkage for converting oscillating movement of the body about the main shaft into oscillating movement of the appendage. In another embodiment, the body is secured to a horizontal shaft which oscillates about the vertical shaft, and the body is also oscillatable about the horizontal shaft. The linkage converts the oscillating movement of the horizontal shaft about the main shaft into oscillating movement of the body about the horizontal shaft.

Abstract: A flexible thermoplastic sheath for a string of Christmas tree electric lights which is generally tubular and formed with a set cross sectional shape corresponding to the spiral of Archimedes so that when the ends of the section of the spiral are forced apart and then released the memory of the set sheath will come into play and the cross section will once again resume the shape of the spiral.

Abstract: A machine for making artificial limbs as for a Christmas tree where twisted wires having simulated needles attached are fed by a reciprocating transverse action to a pair of cutters which cut the wires to predetermined lengths while at the same time a pair of wires and a strand of decorative material are fed between a pair of pulleys where the cut lengths are attached perpendicularly to the pair of wires and decorative strand being twisted.

Abstract: A folding umbrella which erects and folds with a through-the-roof motion and has a frame of flexible booms, two of which are pivoted at the top end of the handle and two of which are hinged to the pivoted booms, with a canopy of non-stretch material.

Abstract: This invention relates to a disposable umbrella and more particularly to a foldable umbrella fabricated of relatively rigid sheet material.