The U.F.O. Pop consists of a sucker-type candy with a candy stick inserted into an aperture at the top of a clear plastic upper housing. The clear plastic upper housing is connected to the plastic lower housing with a toy creature inside. The top of the plastic lower housing contains a circuit board, LEG bulbs, contact switch and a battery operated power supply. The outside of the plastic lower housing has a launch button on one side and a contact switch on the opposite side. The inside of the plastic lower housing contains a launch button, pin, push block with an anchored pivot point, release mechanism and a spring anchor containing a windup spring and a spinner shaft. The buttom of the plastic lower housing has winding locks and a spinner end. The flying disk is connected to the spinner end by placing the winding lock teeth over the winding locks at the bottom of the plastic lower housing. The flying disk is turned to windup for flight. It is now ready to launch. To launch the flying disk press the launch button. This causes the push block to engage the release mechanism. The release mechanism is pressed downward on the top of the spinner shaft to push the spinner and outward releasing the flying disk into the air.

This invention is directed to a candy pop holding device which includes 
flashing lights with a candy pop secured to one end of the housing and a 
mechanism for launching a spinning disk at the opposite end. 
PRIOR ART AND OBJECTS 
Heretofore devices have been made to which a candy pop is secured at one 
end and other devices have been made which function to launch a spinning 
object. Such patents include Des 221,453; 202,118; 202,742; 404,042; 
1,405,075; 2,624,153; 2,921,404; 3,082,572; 3,430,620; 4,030,472; 
4,399,803; 4,538,999; 4,867,728, 5,080,624; 5,125,862; 5,209,692 and 
5,261,851. 
This invention is a novelty toy and candy pop holding device. The device 
includes a housing in which a main portion of the device is a toy with 
flashing lights that presents an effect of a space ship. A candy pop is 
held by an upper end of the housing and the upper end of the housing 
contains a toy creature such as a space alien. A lower end of the housing 
includes an electrical circuitry for the lights, and controls for the 
electrical circuitry and the spring loaded device for launching a spinning 
object or space ship. 
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a novelty toy and 
candy pop holding device which can be amusing for a child or adult and 
which can be used as a candy pop holder and/or a spinning device launcher. 
Another object is to provide a novelty toy and candy pop holder which has a 
lighting display which can be used during consumption of a candy pop or 
used during launching a spinning device. 
Still another object is to provide a novelty toy which can amuse a person 
and also has a use as a candy pop holder.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
As shown in the drawings, there is a two part housing 10, 12 made of a 
plastic material or any other suitable material. The upper housing part 
has a axial opening 14 at the upper end by which a stick 16 to which the 
candy pop 18 is secured to the housing. A circuit board 20 is secured 
within the upper end of the bottom housing. The circuit board includes the 
LED bulbs 22, a power supply 24 for the LED bulbs, a control switch 26, a 
power supply 28 for an integrated circuit (IC) which controls the LED 
bulbs to provide flashing lights, a 220 kohm resistors 30 is connected in 
the IC and the circuit is grounded at 32. A toy creature 34 is secured to 
the circuit board and extends upwardly into the upper housing. 
A control for operation of the spinning object or flying disk 36 is 
contained within the bottom housing and provided with a launch button 38 
that extends from the housing and which is connected to a push block 40 by 
a pin 42. The push block 40 is pivotable about a pivot means 44 in order 
to press against a release mechanism 46 which will be explained later. The 
launch mechanism includes a spinner shaft 48 which connects at one end of 
the release mechanism in which the opposite end 50 extends from the bottom 
end of the lower housing. The spinner shaft 48 is surrounded by a coil 
spring 52 which is secured at one end 54 to the spinner shaft. The 
opposite end of the coil spring 52 is secured within the lower housing 
portion so that as the shaft is rotated the spring will tighten to produce 
a rotating force when the launch button is pressed to release the spinner 
shaft. 
FIG. 4 illustrates a bottom of the flying object or flying disk 36. The 
flying disk includes an outer ring 60 to which air foil blades 62 are 
attached at one end. The inner ends of the air foil blades extend from a 
central hub 64 which includes winding lock teeth 66 on the upper side and 
a central portion 68 that mates with ridges 70 on the spinner end 50 that 
extends from the lower end of the housing. 
In operation, the flying disk is fitted over the end of the spinner shaft 
48 that extends from the lower housing. When the flying disk is pressed 
onto the spinner shaft end the spinner shaft will move upwardly so that 
the winding lock teeth 66 will slide by the winding locks as the spinner 
shaft is rotated to wind the spring in order to load the spring. Once the 
spring has been wound, the spinner shaft is permitted to rotate slightly 
in the opposite direction. As the spinner shaft rotates in the opposite 
direction the flying disk is held up against the winding locks so that the 
winding lock teeth on the flying disk catch onto the winding locks 72 
secured to the bottom of the lower housing. The winding lock teeth do not 
engage the winding locks as the spinner shaft is rotated to load the 
spring, however, when the winding lock teeth engage the winding locks the 
spinner shaft will not unwind. Once the spring has been tightened or 
loaded and the winding lock teeth engage the winding locks, the device is 
ready to release the flying disk. 
The contact switch can be pressed in in order to close the electrical 
circuit to the I.C. and bulbs 22. Thus the light bulbs will begin to flash 
as controlled by the I.C.. The device can be held in an upright position 
with the flying disk up, then the launch button can be pressed in which 
pivots the push block against the release mechanism on the upper end of 
the spinner shaft. As the release button is pressed, the spinner shaft 
will be forced outwardly of the lower end of the housing which releases 
the winding lock teeth from engagement with the winding locks. As the 
flying disk is released from the winding locks, the spring causes the 
spinner shaft to rotate very fast and as the spinner shaft rotates very 
fast the flying disk will rotate with the spinner shaft and due to the air 
foil blades, the flying disk will be released from the spinner shaft and 
will fly in the air. 
Since a candy pop or sucker can be secured to the upper end, the device can 
be used as a holder during consumption of the candy pop. The I.C. circuit 
can be operated to make the lights flash during consumption of the candy 
pop as well as during loading and releasing the flying disk. 
It is therefore obvious to one skilled in the art that the UFO pop can be 
used as a holder for a candy pop during consumption with the flashing 
lights shining onto the face of chin of the consumer. Furthermore the 
device can be used to launch a flying disk, also while the lights are 
flashing. 
It would be obvious to one skilled in the art that upper housing 10 could 
include candy instead of the toy 34. The upper end of the housing to which 
the candy pop stick 16 is secured could be made removable in order to add 
and remove candy to the upper housing area. Also it would appear to one 
skilled in the art that the flying object can be released toward the 
ground or some other smooth surface so that the flying object will rotate 
on the surface. The flying object has a downwardly extending end as shown 
in FIG. 1 so that the flying object will spin on the sharp end.