Claims
- 1. A toy for producing bubbles comprising:
a) a housing; b) a liquid dispensing port located in adjacency to a bubble forming opening located towards the forward end of the toy so that liquid for forming the bubble is dispensed from the port to a circumferentially located ring around the opening, the port, ring and opening being at or near the bubble outlet for the toy; c) a separable reservoir, not normally part of the toy housing, is connectable with the housing, the reservoir containing the bubble liquid capable of producing the bubbles; d) a pump in the housing, the pump being connected with the reservoir by a tube to supply the liquid to the dispensing port and in turn on exiting from the port to the opening and ring; e) a fan for blowing air in the housing through the space formed by the ring and in turn through the bubble forming liquid located across the opening of the ring; and f) a propeller mounted upstream of the ring and relatively axially of the ring and being freely rotatable to facilitate the spreading of the bubble liquid across the opening of the ring and thereby facilitate the location of the film across the opening, the propeller being spaced from the ring and the space and being rotatable under the action of an air stream developed in the chamber by the fan and directed to pass past the propeller and through the opening.
- 2. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the propeller does not engage the circumferential ring.
- 3. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the liquid flows under gravity from the dispensing port which is located above the ring.
- 4. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the liquid outlet is located above the ring.
- 5. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 including a fluid overflow port, the fluid overflow port being located below the ring and being connected to the reservoir.
- 6. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the fan in the housing is rotatable and causes the generation of air through the housing to cause the blades of the propeller to rotate, the propeller blades being free running and not engaging either the ring or the housing upstream the propeller.
- 7. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the propeller is mounted centrally in the air path.
- 8. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 including a fan in the housing, and a motor to operate the fan, the fan being to generate air to cause the fan to rotate and in turn create an air path to cause rotation of the propeller.
- 9. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 including a motor, the motor operating the pump, and the pump causing fluid to be pumped to the dispensing port, the dispensing port being located above the ring.
- 10. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 including a switch to operate a pump, the switch being to activate a motor and in turn to activate the pump.
- 11. A toy as claimed in Claim 10 wherein the switch is operated by a trigger, and the toy is in the form of a toy gun, and wherein trigger activation activates closure of the switch.
- 12. A toy as claimed in Claim 1 including a second reservoir for water, the second reservoir being connected through a manually operable pump to cause fluid from the secondary reservoir to be ejected from a secondary outlet, the fluid from the secondary outlet being directed in substantially the same direction as the bubbles from the bubble outlet.
- 13. A toy as claimed in Claim 12 wherein fluid in the secondary reservoir is water and the activation of the pump is through a trigger-like mechanism on a gun-like toy, the activation of the trigger causing the ejection of water from the reservoir through the secondary outlet in an effective water stream or jet.
- 14. A toy as claimed in Claim 13 including a switch for activation of the pump to operate the motor and in turn the pump to activate the liquid flow from the first reservoir and the rotation of the fan in the housing to create the air stream through the propeller and in turn outwardly from the device.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is related to provisional application No. 60/424,781, filed Nov. 7, 2002, the contents of which are incorporated herein in their entirety.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60424781 |
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