Patent ID: 6203394
Filing Date: 2001-03-20
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
An ornamental liquid color box comprising an upper part and a lower part, said upper part including an outer decorative part and a display part, said lower part including a cover tightly closing a seat below said cover;said display part of said upper part being fixedly mounted on said cover of said lower part and composed of at least two overlaid but slightly spaced containers into which predetermined volumes of different liquid colors are contained, each of said containers including an upper storing zone, a lower storing zone, and a relatively thin middle display zone which is relatively thin as compared to said upper and said lower storing zones, such that liquid colors in said containers flow from said upper storing zones to said lower storing zones via said middle display zones to form flattened and irregular drips; each of said lower storing zones being provided with a bottom hole aligned with an inlet provided on said cover of said lower part, so that liquid colors in said containers may flow from said containers to said seat via said bottom holes and said inlets; and at least two independent liquid passages being separately provided outside said containers, such that upper ends of said at least two liquid passages are separately connected to said upper storing zones of said at least two containers and lower ends thereof to two outlets formed on said cover of said lower part; andsaid seat being formed of at least two keyhole-shaped liquid-supply zones, each of which including a round portion below one of said inlets on said cover and an elongate portion extended outward from the round portion to locate an outer end thereof below one of said outlets on said cover, and at least two disk propellers each having multiple blades being separately rotatably fixed in said round portions of said liquid-supply zones;whereby when said disk propellers are driven to rotate by suitable driving means provided to said liquid color box, liquid colors flowing into said liquid-supply zones on said seat are propelled toward said elongate portions and sent upward into said liquid passages via said outlets on said cover to flow back into said upper storing zones of said containers and complete one cycle of movement of said liquid colors in said liquid color box.