Claims
- 1. In a toy flying saucer comprising a substantially circular dome-shaped body and a downwardly extending rim formed at the periphery of said body, said body being made of lower and upper separable wall portions joined proximate said rim, at least one of said wall portions being made of a resiliently deformable material, an aperture provided in one of said wall portions, and an air flow actuated noise-making element disposed in said aperture for emitting a sound when said wall portions are allowed to be resiliently displaced relative to each other thus causing air to circulate through said noise-making element, the improvement comprising biasing means disposed between said lower and upper wall portions and operatively connected to said wall portions for displacing said wall portions relative to each other for causing air to circulate through said noise-making element.
- 2. The improvement of claim 1 wherein said upper and lower wall portions are normally urged in close proximity with each other by said biasing means and further comprising means for manually separating said lower and upper wall portions for forming therebetween a chamber filled with air introduced therein.
- 3. The improvement of claim 2 wherein said biasing means is a coil spring.
- 4. The improvement of claim 1 wherein said upper and lower wall portions are normally urged away from each other by said biasing means.
- 5. The improvement of claim 4 wherein said biasing means is a coil spring.
- 6. The improvement of claim 4 wherein said biasing means is a hollow sphere made of relatively thin resilient material having meridian slits.
- 7. The improvement of claim 4 wherein said biasing means is a spider-shaped flat spring element having a base member engaged with one of said wall portions and at least a pair of spring legs projecting from said base member at an angle and each having a free end in engagement with the other of said wall portions.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 739,653, filed Nov. 8, 1976, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 4,117,626 of Oct. 3, 1978, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 653,786, filed Jan. 30, 1976, now abandoned.
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