Abstract: A multimedia enhancement for an amusement device includes a sound synthesizer for creating a user perceptible signal, such as an audio signal, in response to selective actuation of the controls of the amusement device. The amusement device includes a screen for displaying a viewer perceptible image and a pair of rotary control knobs operatively associated with rotary switches and a selectably actuable on-off switch to provide amusing sounds and feedback indicative of the operator's use of the control knobs. The sound synthesizer is programmed to also create one of a series of sounds from a plurality of families of sounds in a predetermined sequence in response to actuation of the control elements by the user or randomly.

Abstract: A toy basketball game having a court floor, a stand attached to the floor for a backboard ring and net, an articulated player and a movable base for the player. The player contains a compressible spring in one leg which is held compressed by a lever on the player's leg, which lever releases the spring to cause the player to jump and to raise its arm having in its hand a releasable ball, which ball releases when the player's arm contacts the ring of the basketball basket. The base has a rotatable wedge-shaped plate for changing the angle of jump of the player so as to cause the player to be projected toward the ring from any location of its stand on the court. If desired, the ring and the arm of the player may be provided with adhering roughened surfaces so that the player can hang on the ring.

Abstract: Disclosure concerns a portable drawing toy comprising an openable rectangular box having manual rotatable knobs in the two lower opposite corners, which knobs move by strings and pulleys a horizontal and a vertical bar orthogonally with respect to each other. At the intersection of these bars is a socket for one of a plurality of different colored marking pens. A cover for the box comprises a framed window with flanges for holding a translucent paper on the underside of the window so that when the cover is closed the marker pen contacts the paper and rotation of the knobs causes the pen to draw lines on the paper, which lines can be viewed through the window. The translucent paper can be changed for retaining the drawing made thereon, and a magazine for different colored pens is provided in the base of the box.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a luminescent display by applying pressure to a transparent planar sheet containing a luminescent dye or pigment where such pressure is sufficient to cause one smooth surface of the transparent sheet to contact a facing smooth surface of an opaque planar sheet, the smooth surfaces of the transparent and opaque sheets tending to adhere together at the area of contact, thereby creating a luminescent image at the area of contact which can be selectively erased by separating the smooth surfaces of the transparent and opaque sheets at the area of contact, and for allowing copying of the image by positioning a sheet of carbon paper between the opaque sheet and a sheet of plain paper so that the application of pressure to the transparent sheet causes pressure to be applied through the carbon paper to the sheet of plain paper, thereby copying the image displayed on the transparent sheet onto the sheet of plain paper, the carbon paper being selectively movable to allow segments of

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for writing or drawing that is characterized by an enclosed case having a front side and a back side and in which the front side consists of a transparent screen. Disposed within a substantially rectangular case is a slightly adhesive powder which adheres to the undersurface of the transparent screen so as to render it opaque. A first and second stylus is mounted within the case for producing relatively thick and relatively thin lines by movement along the undersurface of the transparent screen in a manner for removing the adhesive powder and to thus produce lines. The first and second stylus are both moved in the X and Y coordinates through the use of external horizontal and vertical line control knobs which are internally coupled to the multiple stylus by first and second transverse rods, each being supported on and attached to a separate cable loop system.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a magnetic visual display in which a magnetic field is exposed to a dispersion medium sealed between two surfaces and having distributed therein randomly-oriented magnetically-active flakes, thereby causing alignment of a portion of the flakes and allowing transmission of light through the dispersion medium in the region of the aligned flakes to form an image by the contrast between the areas of aligned and randomly-oriented flakes. The contrast may be enhanced by a light source on the opposite side of the device from the viewer. The image may be colored by coloring either of the surfaces, the dispersion medium, the flakes or the light from the light source.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a magnetic display in which a magnetic field produces visual patterns upon exposure to the apparatus. The apparatus comprises an enclosure which contains magnetically active flakes held within a dispersion medium which holds the magnetically active flakes in suspension, yet allows alignment of the flakes along the flux lines of the magnetic field when the flakes are exposed to the locus of the magnetic field.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a magnetic display in which a magnetic field produces visual patterns upon exposure to the apparatus. The apparatus comprises an enclosure which contains magnetically active flakes held within a dispersion medium which holds the magnetically active flakes in suspension, yet allows alignment of the flakes along the flux lines of the magnetic field when the flakes are exposed to the locus of the magnetic field.

Abstract: An electronic sketching device. The electronic sketching device includes a display for providing a visual representation of a sketch on a display area. The electronic sketching device also including a cursor controller for moving a cursor on the display and a sketch controller for selectively storing the placement of the cursor on the display area as a pixel to create a sketch on the display area. A storage device, which is coupled to the sketch controller, stores a plurality of sketches. The electronic sketching device also contains a sketch memory for creating and storing a sequence of sketches which is coupled to the storage device. An animater, coupled to the storage device, sketch memory and the display, causes the stored sequence of sketches to be sequentially displayed on the display.

Abstract: An electronic sketching device. The electronic sketching device includes a display for providing a visual representation of a sketch on a display area. The electronic sketching device also including a cursor controller for moving a cursor on the display and a sketch controller for selectively storing the placement of the cursor on the display area as a pixel to create a sketch on the display area. A storage device, which is coupled to the sketch controller, stores a plurality of sketches. The electronic sketching device also contains a sketch memory for creating and storing a sequence of sketches which is coupled to the storage device. An animater, coupled to the storage device, sketch memory and the display, causes the stored sequence of sketches to be sequentially displayed on the display.

Abstract: A preschool knock-down portable indoor basketball set comprising a sponge-rubber ball and a weighted vertically adjustable stand for a basket with a removable bounce-board.The weighted base of the stand has an annular socket for one end of a pair of telescopic tubes, adjustable in length by a pin through diametric holes in the tubes. The upper end of the inner telescopic tube has a cap and net ring member, which cap has an annular reinforced socket for the upper tube end, which ring has hidden hooks for suspending a frusto-conical string basket, and intermediate of the cap and ring, has a wedging slot in a vertical plane into which a trapezoidal notch on the lower edge of a bounce-board removably fits.

Abstract: A plastic pistol shaped toy dart gun having a barrel with a non-circular muzzle opening for a suction cup ended dart shaft having a cooperating cross section with that opening; which barrel houses a helical compressible dart ejecting spring and has extending along the side of the barrel, the longer leg of an L-shaped trigger pivoted centrally of this leg. This trigger has a hook at the outer end of this longer leg for engaging a notch in the shaft of the dart for cocking the gun, and at the inner end of the longer leg a spring side engagable portion for insuring engagement of the hook when the proper dart is properly inserted into the gun. The barrel also contains opposite this spring engagable portion on the trigger, a spring deflector cam to urge the compressed spring against this engagable portion of the trigger for further insuring engagement of the hook into the notch in the dart's shaft for cocking the gun.