Patent Publication Number: US-4650192-A

Title: Scooping game toy

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates to a scooping game toy, and specifically to a toy which makes it possible to enjoy a game of scooping any one of a plurality of model pieces of a goldfish or the like put in a vessel. 
     2. Prior Art 
     Prior-art toys of this kind are so constructed that a model piece of a goldfish or the like is scooped by a scooper formed in imitation of a net or the like. 
     The model piece lies only in a stationary state on the scooper in a process of being put into a receptacle at hand after it is scooped up, in the aforesaid prior-art toys, and therefore it can not bring about conditions similar to those caused when a living goldfish actually scooped jumps lively on the scooper. This limitation results in a problem that the fun of the game is reduced thereby. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     A first object of the present invention is to furnish a scooping game toy which requires a technique to take a model piece onto a scooping member of a scooper and which increases a fun deriving from a difference in skill in the scooping technique. 
     A second object of the present invention is to furnish a scooping game toy which brings about conditions with an increased fun that the model piece continues jumping on the scooping member of the scooper in a process of being put into a receptacle at hand after it it scooped up, which are similar to actual conditions in which a living goldfish, when scooped, jumps lively on the scooper. 
     The above-stated and other objects and characteristics of the present invention will be seen more particularly with reference to attached drawings of illustration and in consideration of the following descriptions. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the whole of a toy of the present device; 
     FIG. 2 is a front view of a scooper partly shown as a section; 
     FIG. 3 is an end view on the eccentric weight side of a vibrator; and 
     FIG. 4 shows a switching element of the vibrator. 
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     In FIG. 1, numeral 1 denotes a model piece, 2 a vessel with model pieces put therein, and 3 a scooper in which a scooping member 4 for scooping the model piece 1 is connected by a rod 7 to a grip 6 with a vibrator 5 incorporated therein. 
     As for the model piece 1, various model pieces may be selected appropriately to be employed other than the goldfish model or a goldfish model having a tail and a fin devised to swing. 
     As for the vessel 2, any one of vessels having a part in which the model piece 1 is put and which is formed in a rectangular or any other shape may be employed other than the vessel having a round-shaped part in which the model piece is put. The bottom surface of the vessel may be designed to have indentation like ripples or any one of other various forms. Moreover, an article provided not only with the part in which the model piece 1 is put, but also with a rotary board which rotates with the model piece 1 put thereon, may be employed as the vessel 2. 
     As for the scooping member 4, an article whose upper side is formed to be somewhat indented, as well as an article which is provided with many through holes in imitation of meshes of a net, and others, may be employed. 
     The grip 6 is composed, as shown in FIG. 2, of a fixed cylinder 8, a cap 9 joined to the front end of the fixed cylinder 8 and connected with the rod 7, and a rotary cylinder 10 joined rotatably to the rear end of the fixed cylinder 8. 
     The vibrator 5 is composed, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, of a small-sized motor 12 fitted and fixed in the fixed cylinder 8 so that a rotary shaft 11 is directed toward the front end of the grip 6, an eccentric weight 13 fixed to the rotary shaft 11, a battery 16 inserted into the rotary cylinder 10 so that the positive pole 14 thereof contacts with one electrification terminal 15 of the motor 12, and a switch 20 which is connected to the negative pole 17 of the battery 16 through the intermediary of a conductive spring 18 and is put in contact with and separated from the other electrification terminal 19 of the motor 12 with the rotation of the rotary cylinder 10. 
     Next, a description will be made on the operation of the scooping game toy constructed as described above. A number of model pieces 1 are put in the vessel 2, each competitor for the model pieces 1 holds the scooper 3 in hand, and the vibrator 5 is started by rotating the rotary cylinder 10 to a position at which the switch 20 contacts with the electrification terminal 19. Then the motor 12 is electrified and thereby the rotary shaft 11 is rotated. Simultaneously the eccentric weight 13 is rotated eccentrically to generate minute vibrations, and these minute vibrations of the vibrator 5 are propagated to the scooping member 4. The scooping member 4 is made to approach the model piece 1 under the condition, and when it is put in contact with the model piece 1, the latter is flipped due to the minute vibrations of the former, moving as if it sailed about for escape. The model piece 1 thus moving is taken with skill on the scooping member 4 and brought into a receptacle or the like provided at hand beforehand. In this process, the model piece 1 continues to move, due to the minute vibrations of the scooping member 4, as if a living goldfish continued jumping lively. Therefore, it can not always be brought successfully into the receptacle every time when it is scooped up, but often drops down midway from the scooping member 4. 
     Thus, a game of competing for catching the model piece 1 can be enjoyed by the repetition of the abovedescribed operation.