Patent Application
20140073444
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Not Applicable.
The present invention relates to novelty tails that are worn by an operator. More particularity to those novelty tails having a resilient member that may facilitate an impartment of movement into the tail.
Novelty tails (which may include toy, costume, and other types of artificial tails that may be worn) have been used in a variety of manner. Children may use such tails that attach to their person to exercise their imagination and creativity to pretend to be different types of animals and other creatures during play. Adults may wear such devices as costumes for entertainment or as novelties for amusement of themselves or others. Such novelty tails generally comprise a body affecting an appearance and form of real or imaginary tail, the body may have at least one end that attaches the tail to operator. The one end could further comprise a belt or like securing to the waist of the person; or a clip, pin or like device for attaching the tail to clothing worn by the person; and the like. The bodies could be further made from or be filled with one or more stuffing materials that could generally absorb some of the force exerted by the operator walking around with it. As a result, the novelty tail in such situations generally does not have a wagging motion and may instead hang downward in a limp posture.
What may be needed therefor could be a novelty tail that could affect a wagging motion as propelled by forces created as the operator moves its hips. Such a novelty tail could have a resilient member in its body that can repeatedly deform when absorbing energy from the general side-to-side hip movement of the operator's body and subsequently generally release that energy when the resilient member repeatedly un-deforms to generally impart a wagging motion to the novelty tail.
Advantages of One or More Embodiments of the Present Invention
The various embodiments of the present invention may, but do not necessarily, achieve one or more of the following advantages:
to provide a novelty tail with resilient member that imparts a wagging motioning as propelled by the side-to-side hip movement of the operator; and
the ability to impart a enhanced wagging motion to a novelty tail when worn by a walking operator; and
to provide enhanced playing enjoyment of a novelty tail by utilizing an operator's movement to generally impart lifelike wagging movement to the novelty tail;
These and other advantages may be realized by reference to the remaining portions of the specification, claims, and abstract.
One possible embodiment could be a novelty tail comprising an attachment apparatus that attaches to an operator; an resilient member of a definite length that terminates at two ends with at least one end that affixes the resilient member to the attachment apparatus; an outer covering that at least partially encapsulates the resilient member: wherein a movement of an operator is transmitted from the attachment apparatus to the resilient member to move the novelty tail in a reciprocal manner.
A process for operating a novelty tail comprising the following steps but not necessarily in the order shown; providing a novelty tail having an attachment apparatus that attaches the novelty tail to an operator and further attaches to the resilient member, the resilient member being further encapsulated within an outer covering. the outer covering constructed to provide a form of a tail, wherein the movement of a operator imparts a force to the resilient member that creates a wagging motion for the novelty tail; attaching the attachment apparatus to the operator; and creating movement by the operator in a manner that imparts a reciprocating motion to the resilient member.
The above description sets forth. rather broadly, a summary of one embodiment of the present invention so that the detailed description that follows may be better understood and contributions of the present invention to the art may be better appreciated. Some of the embodiments of the present invention may not include all of the features or characteristics listed to in the above summary. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described below and will form the subject matter of claims. In this respect, before explaining at least one preferred embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of the construction and to the arrangement of the components set forth in the following description or as illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
In the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application. The drawings show, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. It is to be understood that other embodiments may be utilized and structural changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
The present invention 10 could comprise of novelty wagging tail 20 and a method for its use 100. As substantially shown in
The attachment apparatus generally attaches to the operator 12 between the hips 16 and proximate the backside of the waist 14. The attachment apparatus 30 for attaching the invention 10 to the operator 12 could be designed to attach generally to the operator 12 or to the operator's clothing 18. As substantially shown in
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The resilient member 50 could be designed and constructed to generally use the operator's hip motion to substantially impart a wagging motion to the invention 10. In one possible embodiment, as substantially shown in
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In step 104. imparting hip motion/wagging the invention, the operator may commence a physical motion through its hips which will ultimately generate wagging motion by the invention 10. The operator's hip motion can be generated through a standard gait process (e.g., walking or running) or though more stationary motion process of swiveling hips (e.g., dancing or the like.). Generally the operator moves its hips/legs to swivel one side of the hip to lead in one direction (towards one side of the front of the body) and then reverses the motion to swivel the other side of the hip to lead in the opposite direction (towards the other side of the front body.) This set of motions then could be repeated for a desired period of time to cause the desired wagging effect.
As the hips of the operator swivel in one direction, the motion of the hips could sway the unattached end of the resilient member from the first position (pointing direct back and away from the back of the operator's waist) towards the direction of the movement of the hips to a second position (e.g., towards a first side of the waist) distal from the first position. As the hips then counter sway into an opposite motion, the unattached end could move from the second position, past the first position to a third position (distal from both the first and second positions and towards the second side of the waist) that may be in a mirror position from the second position. As this hip motion is repeated (e.g., through walking, running, or swiveling hips), the resilient member may translate the hip action into wagging motion of the invention. It could be possible due to resilient nature of the resilient member for that member to accentuate the hip movement into a very fast paced wagging motion wherein the invention is wagging faster than the hips are moving. If the operator wishes to terminate the process 100, the operator generally reverses the process 100.
Although the description above contains many specifications, these should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention but as merely providing illustrations of some of the presently preferred embodiments of this invention. Thus, the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their legal equivalents rather than by the examples given.
As substantially shown and described here within the invention provides a novelty tail which translate the operator's hip motion into a wagging motion for the invention.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61700796 | Sep 2012 | US |
