Head-mounted motor-driven unit

Claim 1

A heat-mountable, esthetic, attention-attracting unit having slow-moving, low-torque, easily stallable, safe, non-bruising, large rotary elements animated by a self-contained, compact, portable, lightweight source of motor power, said unit comprising a head-mounting means, an animated display, and a driving means for said display; said driving means including a low-voltage, low-wattage, low-torque, lightweight, small, easily stallable D.C. motor having an output shaft; said head-mounting means including a lightweight frame constituting three portions of which one is a central portion having opposite ends, and the remaining two are temple portions of said mounting means being resilient whereby said mounting means may be placed on a person's head with the central portion thereof atop the person's head and the temple portions lightly pressing against the sides of the person's head; said animated display comprising a lightweight object, lightweight structure supporting said object from said mounting means, said structure including a portion supported by and movable relative to said mounting means, said driving means moving said structure relative to said mounting means, said animated display being two lightweight, attention-getting objects located at the opposite ends of and held by an elongated member secured adjacent its center to the output shaft; means securing the motor to the central portion of the head-mounting means with the output shaft disposed vertically when the frame is on the person's head in the position previously described; said structure having a bore therein, said output shaft tightly fitting in said bore whereby to connect the structure to the motor, and a battery container adjacent the motor with a lightweight battery therein for energizing the motor, said battery container including a detachable cover to enable a person to replace a spent battery, internal resilient arms located within said battery container to prevent inadvertent displacement of the battery; the frame, the animated display and the driving means having a slight total weight and being totally self-contained, including its own source of power, a panel being secured on the head-mounting means and the display and driving means being secured to the top of the panel.