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Inactive Publication Date: 2005-12-22
LALLY ROBERT WILLIAM
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"The present invention is an adjustable, educational, structural model that incorporates a freely swinging, falling, bouncing, and vibrating object instrumented with spring-mass sensors resembling flexible lollipops. The structure consists of an object suspended in various ways with flexible line or elastic cord from a wire frame. When disturbed or manually energized, the structural model functions to transfer forces of nature and man into motion, and motion into visual deflection of sensor springs. The invention provides a unique way to demonstrate how forces of nature and man involved in energy transfers animate the world by moving things, powering events, and sensing information. It can also be used for behavior testing and health monitoring of things technology by manually disturbing an object and observing or sensing its motion. The invention helps people incidentally experience and enjoy the radiant, vibrant, communicant nature and behavior of energetically interacting people and things."
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All of a myriad of existing educational demonstrators embody and incidentally demonstrate energetic interaction, but not in a convincing way.
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[0021]FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, which are different views of the same object, illustrate an instrumented, adjustable, structural model comprising a cylindrical, test-object body 22 suspended with a flexible line 17 as a swing from two pivot bushings 16 spaced apart on support rod 12. Holes in the test object body 22 and pivot bushings 16 route and grip the suspension line 17 at multiple pivot points 18 and 27. FIG. 3 is a modified version of FIG. 1 showing weights 61 connected to the test object 22, instead of vertically flexing sensors in the direction of arrow 30.
[0022] The test-object body 22 coasts back and forth in the plane of the support rod 12 as a glider type swing with parallel suspension arms 17 when energized in the direction of an imaginary line between the two pivots. Perpendicular to the plane of the support rod 12, the body 22 swings and coasts as a simple swing or pendulum having essentially one composite suspension arm.
[0023] The frame 10 supporting the suspended test-o...
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Involving mysterious gravity and mystical energy, an adjustable, instrumented, structural model, incorporating an object suspended from a frame in various ways with flexible line, freely swings, falls, bounces, and vibrates when manually disturbed. Through transfers of energy, visual sensors resembling flexible lollipops both structurally sense and suppress motion, creating puzzling mysteries. Sensors don't always sense, an elastically suspended object doesn't bounce, and motion doesn't change as expected. Adding side weights doesn't change the coasting rate of a swing, confirming Newton's famous law of motion. Exhibiting the radiant, vibrant, communicant nature and behavior of energetically interacting people and things, these experiments sensibly demonstrate how forces of nature and man involved in transfers of energy animate the world, by moving objects, powering events, and sensing information.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] Not applicable. STATENMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSERED REASEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0002] Not applicable. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The present invention generally relates to the fields of toys, physics, education and demonstration, and measuring and testing. More specifically, it relates to an instrumented, educational, structural model that demonstrates how forces of nature and man involved in transfers of energy animate the world, by moving objects, powering events, and sensing information. [0004] Although mystical energy: physical, mental and spiritual, evidently exists, and a transfer of energy is involved in all that happens, a need still exists for a dramatic way of demonstrating how objects energetically interact. All of a myriad of existing educational demonstrators embody and incidentally demonstrate energetic interaction, but not in a convincing way. [0005] Needs also exist for a simple way to sensibly introduce and t...
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IPC IPC(8): G09B23/06G09B23/08G09B23/28
CPCG09B23/28
Inventor LALLY, ROBERT WILLIAM
Owner LALLY ROBERT WILLIAM