Bubbling amusement devices

Claim 1

AN AMUSEMENT CONTAINER DEVICE FOR SIMULATING REPEATED EMPTYING OF A COMPARTMENT HAVING LIGHT-TRANSMITTING EXTERIOR WALLS FOR OBSERVATION OF LIQUID CONTENTS COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, (A) A LIQUID-TIGHT AND ALTERNATELY INVERTIBLE, ELONGATED HOLLOW CONTAINER HAVING (B) OPPOSITE CLOSED ENDS AND (C) AN INTERVENING PAIR OF TANDEM SECTIONS WITH ONE OF THE LATTER CONSTITUTING A TOP END SECTION AND THE OTHER A LOWER SECTION THEREBENEATH IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION OF SAID CONTAINER, (D) TRANSVERSE PARTITION MEANS DEFINING AT LEAST A PART OF THE INTERIOR OF SAID CONTAINER INTO (E) A RECEIVING CHAMBER OCCUPYING THE TOP END SECTION AND (F) A SUPPLY CHAMBER OCCUPYING THE LOWER SECTION WITH THE SIDE WALLS OF THE LATTER BEING LIGHT-TRANSMITTING, (G) SAID LOWER SECTION HAVING AN INTERIOR SIDE WALL STRUCTURE SPACED INWARDLY FROM SAID LIGHT-TRANSMITTING SIDE WALLS TO DEFINE THEREWITH THE SUPPLY CHAMBER IN THE FORM OF A CIRCUMSCRIBING SPACE, THE CUBIC CAPACITY OF THE RECEIVING CHAMBER AT LEAST APPROACHING THAT OF THE CIRCUMSCRIBING SPACE SUPPLY CHAMBER, (H) A BODY OF LIQUID OF APPRECIABLE QUANTITY CONFINED IN THE LATTER WITH A HEAD OF AIR IN THE RECEIVING CHAMBER, (I) SAID TRANSVERSE PARTITION MEANS INCLUDING GRAVITYOPERATED VALVE MEANS WITH A VALVE PORT PAST SAID PARTITION MEANS OF APPRECIABLE FLOW AREA COMMUNICATING THE RECEIVING CHAMBER TO THE SUPPLY CHAMBER, SAID VALVE MEANS OPERABLE BY GRAVITY TO OPEN THE VALVE PORT IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION OF SAID CONTAINER FOR RAPID RETURN FLOW OF LIQUID FROM THE RECEIVING CHAMBER TO THE SUPPLY CHAMBER AND SAID VALVE MEANS FURTHER OPERABLE BY GRAVITY TO PORT CLOSING POSITION UPON INVERSION OF SAID CONTAINER, (J) SAID TRANSVERSE PARTITION MEANS PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF SMALL TRICKLE PASSAGES ECCENTRICALLY LOCATED WITH RESPECT TO THE CENTER THEREOF AT ANGULARLY SPACED POINTS COMMUNICATING THE SUPPLY CHAMBER WITH THE RECEIVING CHAMBER IN AN INVERTED POSITION OF SAID CONTAINER FOR TRICKLE OF THE LIQUID FROM THE FORMER THROUGH AT LEAST ONE OF THE TRICKLE PASSAGES WHEN THE LATTER IS AT AN ELEVATION LOWER THAN ANOTHER OF THE TRICKLE PASSAGES WITH SIMULTANEOUS BUBBLING TRANSFER OF AIR THROUGH THE LATTER FROM THE RECEIVING CHAMBER TO THE SUPPLY CHAMBER.