Mobile kit that revolves from a ceiling fan
11192044 ยท 2021-12-07
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Abstract
A mobile kit that revolves from the airflow of a ceiling fan. The mobile kit comprises a display structure that is attached to a balancing platform by one or more bridles, which permits balancing and rebalancing of the mobile when ornaments are added, removed or relocated. The balancing platform is attached to the lower end of a fan attachment device, which is a swivel chain with attachment means, or a similar device with one or more swivel attachment means that permits continuous rotation of the display structure in the airflow. A wide variety of designs for ornaments, display structures, and balancing platforms permit limitless design themes for home, office, or any place where ceiling fans are used.
Claims
1. A mobile with adjustable balance that suspends from a ceiling fan, the mobile revolving 360 degrees repeatedly in a consistent direction in airflow from the ceiling fan, the mobile comprising: a fan attachment device, being an elongated support structure having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end of the fan attachment device co-operatively attaching to the ceiling fan, and the lower end of the fan attachment device co-operatively attaching to a balancing platform, the mobile including the balancing platform, the balancing platform being a supportive structure with an attachment element for co-operatively attaching to the lower end of the fan attachment device, the attachment element comprising the balancing point of the mobile, the balancing platform having two or more spaced-apart threading elements, one or more swivel elements, a swivel element of the one or more swivel elements being a supportive structure that revolves 360 degrees, the swivel element co-operatively attaching to the fan attachment device or to the balancing platform or a combination thereof, enabling the mobile to revolve 360 degrees repeatedly in the same direction in the airflow from the ceiling fan, one or more bridles, a bridle of the one or more bridles being a flexible elongated support structure supported by the balancing platform, a portion of the length of the bridle extending across an outer surface area of the balancing platform and threading through the two or more spaced-apart threading elements of the balancing platform, the bridle extending across opposite sides of the balancing point on the balancing platform, the bridle having two end portions extending downward from the balancing platform, one or more display structures, a display structure of the one or more display structures being a supportive structure suspended below the balancing platform by the bridle, the display structure having two or more bridle attachment points that are spaced-apart, the two end portions of the bridle co-operatively attaching to the display structure at two bridle attachment points of the two or more bridle attachments on the display structure, thus the two bridle attachment points that are spaced-apart give the display structure general stability in the airflow from the ceiling fan, the bridle being adjustable such that the relative lengths of the bridle that are on opposite sides of the balancing point and that extend downwards to the display structure determine the orientation of the display structure, one or more ornaments, an ornament of the one or more ornaments being a decorative structure co-operatively attaching to a structure of the mobile at one or more of a plurality of ornament attachment points on the mobile, the structure of the mobile being either the fan attachment device or the balancing platform or the swivel element or the bridle or the display structure or another ornament or a combination thereof, the bridle suspending the display structure and determining the orientation of the display structure, wherein the orientation of the display structure is capable of being easily changed in the event that the ornament of the one or more ornaments is added or removed or relocated or a combination thereof, and one or more securing elements, a securing element of the one or more securing elements co-operatively attaching the bridle to the balancing platform, thereby preventing slippage of the bridle and maintaining a generally stable orientation of the display structure relative to an axis of rotation of the mobile, wherein the airflow from the ceiling fan generates aerodynamic forces on the co-operatively attached mobile, enabling the mobile to revolve 360 degrees repeatedly in a consistent direction in the airflow, the relative lengths of the bridle on opposite sides of the balancing point and that extend downwards to the display structure determining the orientation of the display structure independent of the weight or placement or a combination of the weight and placement of the ornament of the one or more ornaments on the structure of the mobile, the orientation of the display structure being maintained by the securing element.
2. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the attachment element of the balancing platform is a screw eye that co-operatively attaches to the fan attachment device.
3. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the two or more threading elements of the balancing platform comprise two or more perforations, a perforation of the two or more perforations having two openings, a first opening being on an upper surface area of the balancing platform, the perforation extending downward through the interior of the balancing platform to a second opening on a lower surface area of the balancing platform, the interior sides of the perforation that extend between the first opening and the second opening being completely surrounded by the balancing platform, the bridle extending across the outer surface area of the balancing platform and the two end portions of the bridle threading downward through two perforations of the two or more perforations, the two end portions of the bridle extending downward from the two perforations.
4. The mobile of claim 1 wherein a sequencing mobile comprises the display structure of the mobile cooperatively attaching to an attachment element of a balancing platform of another mobile.
5. The mobile of claim 4 wherein an attachment device for sequencing is an elongated support element having an upper end and a lower end, the upper end co-operatively attaching to the display structure and the lower end cooperatively attached to the swivel element of the one or more swivel elements comprising a swivel that revolves 360 degrees with one or more attachment eyes and a cooperatively attached hooking device for co-operatively attaching to an attachment element of a suspended balancing platform of another mobile.
6. The mobile of claim 4 wherein an attachment device for sequencing is a flexible elongated material for co-operatively attaching the attachment element of the balancing platform to a display structure of another mobile.
7. The mobile of claim 4 wherein an attachment device for sequencing is a hooking device on the display structure that co-operatively attaches to an attachment element of a balancing platform of another mobile or co-operatively attaches to a fan attachment device of another mobile.
8. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the securing element is a type of releasable pressure sensitive adhesive element or a clamp or a structural element of the balancing platform that the bridle wraps around or a combination thereof.
9. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the balancing platform is three dimensional.
10. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the display structure is planar and the bridle of the balancing platform supports the orientation of the display structure.
11. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the bridle of the balancing platform supports the display structure in a generally horizontal orientation.
12. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament is co-operatively attached to and suspended from a tethering line, the tethering line being a flexible elongated support filament that co-operatively attaches to the structure of the mobile, and the ornament randomly spins or randomly moves or a combination thereof in the airflow.
13. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the object is co-operatively attached to one or more ornament bridles, an ornament bridle being a flexible elongated support structure cooperatively attaching to the ornament at two or more ornament bridle attachment points for suspending and preventing the ornament from randomly spinning and thus maintaining the ornament in a generally stable orientation relative to the structure of the mobile to which the ornament bridle is co-operatively attached.
14. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament is three dimensional.
15. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament is co-operatively attached to two or more tethering lines, the two or more tethering lines being flexible elongated support structures for suspending and preventing the ornament from randomly spinning thus maintaining the ornament in a generally stable orientation relative to the structure of the mobile to which the tethering lines are co-operatively attached.
16. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament is co-operatively attached to another ornament.
17. The mobile of claim 1 wherein an object is co-operatively attached to a tethering line, being a flexible elongated support filament, or attached to an ornament bridle, or both to stop slippage from the structure of the mobile to which the ornament is co-operatively attached.
18. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the structure of the mobile has one or more incisions to co-operatively attach the ornament.
19. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament is co-operatively attached to one or more wires, the ornament being supported in mid-air by the one or more wires, the one or more wires having a predetermined length and prevent the ornament from randomly spinning thus the ornament maintains a generally stable orientation relative to the structure of the mobile to which the one or more wires is/are co-operatively attached.
20. The mobile of claim 19 wherein the one or more wires is/are three-dimensional.
21. The mobile of claim 19 wherein the one or more wires supporting the ornament in mid-air has/have a co-operatively attached clipping device for co-operatively attaching to the structure of the mobile.
22. The mobile of claim 19 wherein the one or more wires supporting the ornament in mid-air has/have a co-operatively attached clipping device for co-operatively attaching the one or more wires to the structure of the mobile.
23. The mobile of claim 19 wherein the one or more wires cooperatively attach to the display structure and support the ornament in mid-air above or below the display structure or a combination thereof.
24. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the fan attachment device consists of a swivel chain with a co-operatively attached clasp at the lower end for co-operatively attaching to the swivel element comprising a swivel that revolves 360 degrees with one or more attachment eyes and a cooperatively attached hooking device that co-operatively attaches to the attachment element of the balancing platform, and at the upper end of the swivel chain is a removable clasp for removably attaching to the swivel chain of the fan attachment device and a swivel pull chain of the ceiling fan.
25. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the fan attachment device consists of a swivel chain with a co-operatively attached clasp at the lower end to co-operatively attach the swivel element of the one or more swivel elements comprising a swivel that revolves 360 degrees with one or more attachment eyes and a cooperatively attached hooking device which co-operatively attaches to the attachment element of the balancing platform, and the upper end of the swivel chain having two interchangeable mechanisms for removably attaching to the ceiling fan, one mechanism being a removable attachment clasp that removably attaches to a swivel chain of the ceiling fan or the removable attachment clasp removably attaches to a lower end of a second swivel chain with a co-operatively attached clasp at the upper end which is co-operatively attached to a second swivel element of the one or more swivel elements comprising a swivel that revolves 360 degrees with one or more attachment eyes and a cooperatively attached hooking device for removably attaching to the ceiling fan with no swivel pull chain.
26. The mobile of claim 1 wherein an adhesive band, being adhesive on one side, cooperatively attaches to a portion of the ceiling fan below fan blades of the ceiling fan, the adhesive band cooperatively attaching to the upper end of the fan attachment device.
27. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the elongated support structure of the fan attachment device is made of flexible material.
28. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the attachment element of the balancing platform is a swivel eye that revolves 360 degrees and co-operatively attaches to the lower end of the fan attachment device.
29. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the display structure being top heavy has one or more balancing structures being in contact with the bridle so as to maintain the generally vertical orientation of the display structure.
30. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the display structure is three dimensional.
31. The mobile of claim 30 wherein the display structure is oval or round, or having three or more connected, generally vertical sides.
32. The mobile of claim 30 wherein the display structure is radial.
33. The mobile of claim 30 wherein the display structure is in the shape of a branch.
34. The mobile of claim 1, wherein the ornament does not randomly spin and thereby determines the direction of rotation of the display structure in the airflow.
35. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the display structure is rigid or flexible or a combination thereof.
36. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament cooperatively attaches to the bridle.
37. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the ornament is planar.
38. The mobile of claim 1 wherein a tethering line being a flexible elongated support filament co-operatively attaches to the structure of the mobile and also cooperatively attaches to and suspends an ornament bridle, an ornament bridle being a flexible elongated support structure that cooperatively attaches at two or more ornament bridle attachment points on the ornament, and the ornament thus being suspended randomly spins or randomly moves or a combination thereof in the airflow.
39. The mobile of claim 1 wherein a tethering line being a flexible elongated support filament that co-operatively attaches and suspends two or more ornaments of the one or more ornaments, the tethering line having a single ornament of the two or more ornaments at each end portion of the tethering line, the tethering line co-operatively attaches to the structure of the mobile, and the two or more ornaments randomly spin, or randomly move or a combination thereof in the airflow.
40. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the mobile is decorative.
41. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the fan attachment device has co-operatively attached the swivel element of the one or more swivel elements, the swivel element comprising a swivel that revolves 360 degrees with one or more attachment eyes and a co-operatively attached hooking device.
42. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the bridle co-operatively attaches to the display structure by tying or gluing or a combination thereof.
43. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the elongated support structure of the fan attachment device cooperatively attaches at the lower end to the swivel element that comprises a swivel that revolves 360 degrees comprising a swivel with one or more attachment eyes with a co-operatively attached hooking device and at the upper end of the fan attachment device a co-operatively attached hooking device.
44. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the balancing platform supports two or more bridles of the one or more bridles, the two or more bridles cooperatively attaching to and suspending the display structure of the one or more display structures.
45. The mobile of claim 1 wherein the two end portions of the bridle diverge outward away from the balancing platform and co-operatively attaching to the display structure, thus the bridle attachment points on the display structure are further apart than the threading elements on the balancing platform.
46. The mobile of claim 1 wherein at least one ornament of the one or more ornaments maintains a generally stable orientation relative to the display structure.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) Other features of my invention will become more evident from a consideration of the following brief descriptions of the patent drawings accompanying this specification:
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION
(24) The detailed description set forth herein with the appended drawings is intended as a description of an exemplary embodiment and is not intended to represent the only forms of the embodiment of the present invention.
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(26) The mobile kit 10 of this invention revolves 310 from the air flow 300 from the fan blades 18 of the ceiling fan 12. Preferably revolves 310 in the direction of the fan blades 18. Ceiling fans 12 can have different controllable speeds and the mobiles 10 of this invention revolve faster with a faster fan speeds and slower with a slower fan speeds. However, the revolving speed of the mobile is considerably slower than the revolving speed of the fan blades. The revolving speed of the mobile 10 can also be slowed down by lengthening the fan attachment device 110.
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(28) The exemplary display structure of the mobile kit 10 has ornaments, 41 and 42 and 43. Ornament 41 in the shape of the space shuttle is suspended by a bridle 20 from incisions 32 in the display structure 60. The bridle 20 attaches 30 to the space shuttle. The bridle 20 of ornament 40 has an object 34 in the shape of a star to prevent slippage through the incision 32. The ornament has another ornament 42 in the shape of an astronaut suspended in air by a wire 68 at attachment points 30.
(29) The display structure 60 has an ornament 42 in the shape of a star supported in mid-air by a wire 68 with beads. The ornament 42 shows attachment points 30 on the ornament 42 and on a structural element of the display structure 60 in the form of a star.
(30) The display structure 60 has an ornament 43 with a tether and bridle 22 and an object 34 in the shape of a star to prevent slippage of the tether and bridle 22 through the incisions 32 of the display structure 60. The ornament 43 in the shape of a shooting star suspends from a bridle and tether 22. Other ornaments 40 co-operatively attach 30 by a tether 26 to create a sequential effect. This ornament 43 with tether and bridle 22 can be a single ornament or have sequential ornaments 40 with tethers 26 cooperatively attached.
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(33) The display structure 61 has two, three dimensional ornaments 42 supported in mid-air by a wire 68. The first three-dimensional ornament 42 in the shape of a butterfly is removably attaches to the display structure 61 by means of a clip 67 and the wire 68 attaches to the butterfly at a plurality of attachment points 30. The second three-dimensional ornament 42 in the shape of a bee is removably attached to the display structure 61 by wrapping the wire 68 at the attachment point 30 around a structural element of the display structure 61. The wire 68 attaches to the bee ornament 42 at the attachment point 30.
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(54) While the foregoing description includes details and specificities, it is to be understood that these have been included for purposes of explanation only, and are not to be interpreted as limitations of the invention. Modifications to the embodiment described above can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, which is intended to be encompassed by the following claims and their legal equivalent.