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US4708686:
Eccentrically weighted rolling device returns uphill
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Smith, Samuel C.; Newton Centre, MA 02159
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None
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| Published / Filed: |
1987-11-24
/ 1983-10-17
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| Application Number: |
US1983000542681
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| IPC Code: |
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A63H 3/00;
A63H 15/06;
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A63H 15/00;
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IPC-7:
A63H 29/10;
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446/166;
446/167;
446/267;
446/458;
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446/166;
446/167;
446/267;
446/458;
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446/166,167,171,174,168,267,396,431,443,444,442,458,465,491,273,325,324
272/8 R,8 N
236/052
434/300,302,446
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A sealed container with a movable weight therein is eccentrically mounted within a light rollable object on a guideway. Liquid mercury, powered metal, or metal pellets or spheres would move within the container to shift the center of gravity. Maintaining the center of gravity of the weight to the uphill side of a vertical extension of the tangent between the rolling object and the guideway will enable the rolling object to return uphill after rolling down within a limit, thereby seeming to defy the law of gravity.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Meeker, Donald W. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Yu, Mickey;
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 06/351,114, filed 02/22/82 (U.S. Pat. No. 4,411,096 to issue on 10/25/83).
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Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. A gravity actuated return motion rolling device comprising:
- a rollable object generally curved convexly on an exterior rolling surface, which rollable object is of light weight;
- eccentrically positioned relative to the center of gravity within the rollable object, a relatively heavyweight secured adjacent to an edge of the rolling surface;
a guideway exterior to the rolling object, along which guideway the rolling object is free to roll within a controlled limit;
- wherein the rolling object is positioned at rest with the eccentric weight oriented so that when the object is rolled along the guideway within the limit, the eccentric weight will produce a torque in the rolling object to return the rolling object back over the guideway to its original rest position wherein the weight comprises an enclosed container with a movable heavy mass of material contained therein, wherein the container is secured in close proximity to the rolling surface with the center of gravity of the mass within the container located away from the center of gravity of the rollable object, and wherein the weight protrudes beyond the rolling surface and the guideway further comprises an opening therein to receive the protruding weight in the at rest position.
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