Jim R Whittington

US Patent:

42353785, Nov 25, 1980

Filed:

Jul 16, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/058069

Inventors:

Arthur K. Melin - San Gabriel CA
Richard L. Gillespie - San Gabriel CA
Darle L. Kerkenbush - Diamond Bar CA
Jim L. Whittington - Diamond Bar CA
Douglas A. Geller - Monrovia CA

Assignee:

Wham-O Mfg. Co. - San Gabriel CA

International Classification:

B05B 300

US Classification:

239229

Abstract:

A water play toy shaped in the form of an animal or cartoon character in which the body is provided with an outlet section which has a plurality of flexible hollow tubes attached to water outlets spaced around the outlet section. A source of water under pressure is coupled to a conduit passing through the body and communicates with the outlet section for distributing water to the hollow tubes. When the water pressure is turned on, a plurality of individual jets of water are emitted by the individual tubes. Because the tubes are flexible they writhe and twist in a random motion pattern due to the action and reaction forces of the water acting on the tubes. In one embodiment a first enclosed chamber compresses the outlet section. A second enclosed chamber is built into the upper interior portion of the first chamber which communicates with a small pinhole-type outlet to provide a misting or fogging aspect to the overall water pattern emitted by the water play toy. As long as water pressure is uninterrupted water continues to flow through the flexible lines and the fogger creating a pattern of small waving streams of water within which a heavy mist pattern of water droplets is interspersed.