Patent ID: 6749323
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: G09F,Y10S

Abstract:
A portable light-reflective apparatus for simulating falling snowflakes on a remote wall, comprising:a housing having a light ray passing opening, an axle supported in the housing; a rotating body secured to the axle for rotating about a horizontal axis; said rotating body having an outer surface; a plurality of light-reflecting surfaces carried on the outer surface of the rotating body in a generally globular arrangement, the light-reflecting surfaces on the rotating body comprising a plurality of adjacent, similarly-shaped, light-reflecting elements, each of said elements having a flat reflective surface disposed in a plane, the plane of each of said elements being at an angle from the planes of the adjacent light-reflecting elements; a light source for transmitting light rays; a mirror disposed in the path of the light rays emitted from the light source; and the mirror having a reflective surface facing the light reflecting surfaces carried on the rotating body, to reflect the light rays from the light source toward the light reflective surfaces at such an angle that the light rays are reflected out the light ray passing opening from individual light reflective surfaces to form a plurality of slowly descending spaced light images on a surface remote from the housing.