Abstract: A fidget toy comprises a rolling magnet inside a case designed to be hand held. The case holds a fixed magnet therein defining a rolling seat for the rolling member, which may comprise a magnet, the rolling magnet allowed to roll within a track defined inside said case while rolling against the peripheral face of the fixed magnet. Viewing openings are defined in the case for allowing a user to observe and interact with the rolling magnet as it moves.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for making bubbles. In use, an elongated member is provided having a first end and a second end. Additionally, a housing attached to the first end of the elongated member is provided, wherein one or more magnets are disposed in or on the housing.

Abstract: An egg incubator system to house a toy egg thereinside, the egg incubator system including a base, including a surface, a turntable disposed on a center of the surface to hold the egg within a divot on the turntable, a motor to cause the turntable to turn or shake, a dome disposed over the base to encase the egg therein, and a toy monster disposed within the egg.

Abstract: One embodiment may take the form of a flexible creation animated by magnets or electromagnets brought near the flexible creation. Iron particles blended with a flexible material of the flexible creation may interact with the magnetic fields generated by the magnets, causing the object or portions of the object to move toward or away from the controlling magnets, thereby animating the object.

Abstract: The replacement bottle cap according has a circular lid. An annular skirt extends downward from the lid to provide an opening for receipt of a threaded neck of a bottle. The skirt has internal threads to engage corresponding threads on an external portion of the neck of a bottle. The lid is permeable to a magnetic field. A magnet is located in the cylindrical opening adjacent the lid. A decorative object extends upwardly from the lid. A decorative object is attracted to the magnet so the object is securely held to the lid. The decorative object is detachable from the lid by pulling on the object sufficiently to overcome the force exerted by the magnet on the object. At least a first connector extends from the outside of the skirt for receipt of a mating connector.

Abstract: The invention provides a simple, yet flexible mechanism for affixing items to a magnetic board such that they are accurately aligned to the board and to one another. Such mechanism allows positioning and repositioning of the items as desired by the user, including stacked configurations. Contact between the items and the board is aesthetically pleasing, and provides a bearing surface that allows for repositioning of items using a sliding motion. Further, aligning the items is convenient for the user and does not distract from the primary task at hand.

Abstract: One particular implementation of the present invention may involve a flexible material infused with fine iron particles to form at least a portion of a flexible character or object. The flexible creation may be animated by one or more magnets or electromagnets brought near the flexible creation such that the iron particles blended with the flexible material may interact with the magnetic fields generated by the magnets. The infused iron particles may be attracted to the magnets, causing the object or portions of the object to move toward or away from the controlling magnets, thereby animating the object or portions of the object. Another implementation may use a magnetic field of a magnet to create an iron-infused flexible plant-like object that may be animated by a magnet. The object may be constructed of a flexible iron-infused material that is introduced into the magnetic field while the material is in a liquid or semi-liquid state.

Abstract: A toy top which encases a plurality of repelled magnets and a magnetic controller which encases a controlling magnet. The repelled magnets in the top direct a magnetic field away from their embodiment with an opposing polarity to the magnetic field directed by the magnetic controller and away from its embodiment. Contact of the two opposing magnetic fields results in a magnetic force which repels the top away from the magnetic controller while the top is spinning. The top is put into a rotational spin by pulling a rip cord through a handle and turning a spinning gear fit into the top's gear fitting.

Abstract: A magnetically actuated amusement device includes a supporting structure having a fulcrum which pivotally supports rigid suspending elements each having a permanent magnet at its outer end. The magnetic swinging elements are arranged in an arc, sharing a common fulcrum, such that they will repel neighboring swinging elements in the arc, the motion of the swinging elements being constricted to swinging in the plane containing the arc.

Abstract: An amusement device concerned generally with a construction type educational toy. The amusement device provides unique functionality via board design and piece structure allowing relative motion between coupled playing pieces. The construction apparatus is of the type having rotary path-forming pieces that can be located in numerous positions on the base board. The pieces are removably interfitting and allow the construction of variable paths and patterns. The amusement device incorporates magnetism to perform relative rotary motion. A circular pattern of permanent magnets are included in construction pieces to allow numerous magnetically coupled rotary pieces to undergo relative rotation analogous to a gear train. In addition to toy or game amusement device, the present invention also embodies an education and demonstration device whereby the assembly of magnetically coupled rotary pieces provides the interactive demonstration of a gear train machine mechanism.

Abstract: A magnetic toy assembly includes a plurality of magnetic shapes and a support having hinged sections, each section having a magnetic array surface to which each of the magnetic shapes can be positioned thereon and held thereto with magnetic attraction. The magnetic array surface comprises an array of magnets wherein the magnets of the array are disposed or formed in a continuous side-by-side relationship so as to form a single unitary body. Each of the magnetic shapes and the magnetic array surface are formed of material that has magnetism.

Abstract: The present invention provides a miniature live-action surfing attraction and associated surf game specifically adapted for use with one or more surf toy action figures. The surf toy action figures are mountable to a surf board appropriately sized and weighted to provide relatively stable or semi-stable surf-riding action upon a sheet flow of water flowing up an inclined ride surface of the reduced scale attraction. Various surf action figures may be set free upon the ride surface, or they may be constrained or partially constrained by wires, strings, magnets or the like, as desired. Alternatively, or in addition, they may be controlled via a remote control, or radio control transmitter, as desired. Thus, a fun and entertaining game is created that provides realistic live-action surfing within a relatively small or confined area.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a toy assembly system comprising a central compartment configured to house a plurality of toy bodies, each toy body having magnetic hubs arranged in an outer region of the body. The system can include outer compartments that house ferromagnetic outer components (e.g., ferromagnetic spheres) separate from the toy bodies and a release mechanism configured to release during a single operation a single toy body and a set of outer components, wherein the single toy body and the set of outer components self-assemble and automatically align. Another aspect provides a toy track system comprising a launch portion configured to magnetically retain the magnetic vehicle in a launch position, a release configured to release the vehicle from the launch position, and a track portion coupled to the launch portion and configured to guide the released vehicle along a predetermined path.

Abstract: A lighting device (10) has an elongated light tube (12) to be used in combination with a holster (80) in a manner which will enable the holster (80) to hold the lighting device (10) as may be necessary and also enable the holster (80) to adjust the extent of illumination of the light tube (12) of the lighting device by light received from a light source (24) disposed within the lighting device (10) using magnets (66, 96).

Abstract: A toy is provided comprising a figure with a hole disposed therein and having at least one ferrous portion; a manipulator having a magnet for interacting with the at least one ferrous portion to animate the figure; and a stage for receiving the figure on one side thereof and for receiving the manipulator in the other side thereof, for animating the figure.

Abstract: An amusement device is disclosed having an animal body portion and a remote control portion. The animal body portion may be a lizard having horns and a tail. A user may use the remote control to cause the animal to move. The animal body has at least one motor operably connected to the animal's head, legs, and tail. The motor causes the animal to walk forward, walk backward, or dance in place at the selection of the user, and causes the tail to move and the mouth of the animal's head to move. An extendable tongue protrudes from the mouth. The tongue may have a magnetic tip for connecting with a magnetic or metallic object. The device may also contain a speaker that plays music and/or words as selected by the user through the remote control. In one embodiment, the lizard dances while playing music.

Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention there is provided a toy figure having a circuit board to store pre-recorded sounds, a speaker to emit the pre-recorded sounds, and a means to activate the playback of said pre-recorded sounds. The figure also includes a plurality of sensors separately positioned about the figure at specific locations; each sensor when triggered activates the playback of pre-recorded sounds indicative of the location. A first arm having a hand attached thereto includes a magnet that when in proximity to one of the sensors triggers said sensor, whereby a user moving the hand with the magnet to a location on the figure containing a sensor, the figure plays pre-recorded sounds indicative of the location.

Abstract: The invention relates to the provision of a toy which comprises at least one article which is movable with respect to a play base and objects on the playbase. The article can have at least one part which is movable with respect to the remainder of the article and the movement is achieved via a magnetic arrangement which involves at least one magnet in the movable part of the article and at least one magnet in a movement means such that as the movement means and/or article move in sufficient proximity, the magnetic forces and field created cause movement of the said part of the article to provide an animated feature to the article.

Abstract: A magnetically activated disc has a flat bipolar ring magnet mounted concentrically on the upper surface of the disc. The bottom surface of the disc has a protruding center point which provides an axis around which the disc can spin. The disc has a sidewall on the upper surface extending upwardly around the circumference of the disc to form an open cavity for holding a removable disc having a design imprinted on its upper surface. An external permanent magnet is manipulated so that its magnetic field acts upon the bipolar ring magnet, thereby causing the disc to spin around the protruding center point so that the disc with the imprinted design produces a desired visual effect.

Abstract: An animated display for use with magnetically-attractable, movable figurines includes a display surface and a magnet for attracting one of the figurines across the display surface. A drive mechanism is provided for intermittently moving the magnet in a closed path below the display surface. The figurines can pivot to simulate motion as they move across the display surface.

Abstract: A device for displaying the loose coupling between magnetic fields is provided, comprising a first disk having a plurality of magnetic elements attached to the first disk so that the magnetic field of said magnets extend radially from an outer edge of the first disk, a second disk having a plurality of magnetic elements attached to the second disk so that the magnetic field of said magnets extend radially from an outer edge of the second disk so that the magnets on the disks are loosely coupled to each other, the strength of the loose coupling depending on the orientation of the magnets with respect to each other, and a rotatable control member having a magnetic element attached to an end of the control member, the control member magnet being rotated to a first position such that a predetermined pole of the control member magnet is located adjacent to the magnets on said first disk causing a magnetic coupling of the magnet on said control member to the magnets on said first so that loose coupling and the chao

Abstract: A device for displaying the loose coupling between magnetic fields is provided, comprising a first disk having a plurality of magnetic elements attached to the first disk so that the magnetic field of the magnets extend radially from an outer edge of the first disk, a second disk having a plurality of magnetic elements attached to the second disk so that the magnetic field of the magnets extend radially from an outer edge of the second disk so that the magnets on the disks are loosely coupled to each other, the strength of the loose coupling depending on the orientation of the magnets with respect to each other, and a rotatable control member having a magnetic element attached to an end of the control member, the control member magnet being rotated to a first position such that a predetermined pole of the control member magnet is located adjacent to the magnets on the first disk causing a magnetic coupling of the magnet on the control member to the magnets on the first disk so that loose coupling and the chao

Abstract: Novel magnetic gel materials useful as toys, playthings and novelties and a method for making same. These materials should also prove useful in other fields where ferrofluids and other magnetic liquids have found use when the plastic mechanical properties of the gel are not a limitation. The novel invention produces a magnetic material that exhibits the soft, thixotropic properties of play gels. A gelatinous material such as a silicone gel has a fine magnetic powder dispersed throughout by kneading into a substantially uniform mixture at ambient/room temperature. The advantage of this method for producing magnetic gel over the alternative of adding a gelling agent to an existing ferrofluid are simplicity and the ability to choose the properties of the gelatinous material independently of the need for a carrier fluid. Various types of toy applications include resilient plastic covered forms, template action figure body forms, flowers, and volcanoes with various shaped openings.

Abstract: A magnetic pen for drawing lines on the main surface of a magnetic display sheet consisting of a plurality of microcapsules in which oily liquid having photoabsorptive ferromagnetic powder and photoreflective non-magnetic powder are mixed in sealed relationship, and wherein the magnetic pen includes a core member having a spherical crown shape, a magnet constituting part of a notched surface of the core member, the core member being supported by the pen such that the notched surface of the core member protrudes from the tip of the pen and a spherical contraposition is generated by a part of the spherical surface of the core member, and wherein the notched surface of the core member is brought into contact with the main surface of the magnetic display sheet by the force of a stroke drawing line.

Abstract: Novelty dishware for serving food to children and implements associated with the dishware which function not only as eating utensils but also as play pieces, so that the eating process becomes a play activity which encourages eating. The dishware, which may be in bowl, plate or any other receptacle form adapted to accommodate food, includes a rim constituted by an annular, transparent duct filled with liquid having glitter particles dispersed therein, as well as a permanent-magnet piston. The piston is slidable in the duct to force the liquid to circulate and thereby animate the particles to create a dynamic display. Each implement is provided with a transparent handle that is filled with liquid having glitter particles dispersed therein, the free end of the handle having a permanent magnet actuator attached thereto.

Abstract: The magnetic marble action toy includes a design member (12) which may take the form and the image of a variety of animals and/or vehicles, or other elements, such as numbers or letters. The design member (12) is typically made of flat plastic and includes one or more openings (18) therethrough. Two magnetic marbles (30, 32) are positioned on opposite sides of the design member, in physical contact with each other through the opening (18). The opening (18) is arranged relative to the magnetic marbles (30, 32) such that the magnetic marbles (30, 32) spin freely while supporting the design member in an upright position, so that the toy may be readily propelled in various directions by the user.

Abstract: A hand held magnetic track toy having a rolling permanent magnet or magnets that depend on another permanent magnet for orientation of their magnetic poles and support on a track surface. The magnetic poles of the rolling permanent magnets are aligned in a similar direction and in parallel axes with respect to each other due to the influence of the magnetic poles of the other permanent magnet whereby the rolling permanent magnets are provided with the ability to travel at a high rate of speed on the track surface and perform intriguing bumping movements.

Abstract: An opening and closing device for double doors for use in a toy, including: a base plate mounted with a housing formed with two openings and including two adjacent elongated holes; a pair of rotary plates receiving the lower ends of the doors; a spring normally biased the doors closed; a rotary lever engageable with edges of the rotary plates and provided with a magnet and an integral gear loosely fitted with and supported by a support shaft; and an operating lever, including a first end projecting from an opening formed at the side of the base plate, pivoted at its center portion and formed at a second end thereof with an arc-shaped edge including a rack engageable with the gear. When a separate doll including a magnetic substance is placed on the base plate over the rotary lever, the lever is moved upwardly and the gear engages the rack, whereupon the doors can be opened by the operating lever. When the doll is not so placed, the operating lever cannot operate the doors.

Abstract: A pneumatic construction game comprising a series of connected plastic tubes forming an endless conduit having an inlet opening, a source for delivering pressurized air into the conduit, a body movable in the conduit in response to introduction of the pressurized air, and control vents, upstream and downstream of the inlet opening, to control the motion of the body as it moves around the conduit.