This invention relates to hand-portable wand devices, and more specifically to novelty wands which are intended to realistically simulate those sparkling, shimmering, magic-wand devices made popular in various childrens fairytales, such as in Walt Disney's cinema fantasy Fantasia (the Sourcer's Apprentice), and `PeterPan`, etc..
Additionally, this invention relates to specialt uses of fiberoptics for novelty items such as is conveyed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,727,044 for a decorative Xmas-tree ornament, and in U.S. Pat. No. 4,186,425 for a type of illuminated jewelry apparel. Plus, this invention employs the optional use of either a battery powered lighting means somewhat akin to that employed by the `StarWars` simulated ray-sword of U.S. Pat. No. 4,208,701, or the luminous-kite toy of U.S. Pat. No. 4,715,564, which employs the use of chemiluminescense `light-sticks` such as are described in the reactant lighting compositions made popular by the Amer. Cyanamide Corp. such as in U.S. Pat. No. 4,698,183 (specifically a hi-output/short-duration formula) which also lists many of their prior (some now of public domain) chemiluminescent based patents.
However, none of the above, nor other patents reviewed by this inventor, show anticipation of a device which could rather realistically if in fact fascinatingly simulate the appearance of a `magic-wand` device with which children will particularly enjoy wandering about their neighborhoods holding on Halloween-nite(October -31), and on Independence-nite(July-4) when children often enjoy holding hotly burning `Sparklers`, which although exciting to youth, can be dangerous by inadvertantly setting afire their clothing.
Accordingly, the invention as is now to be set forth, is presently being prepared for production by my San Diego, Calif. based `LightUp Products Co., Ltd*.` under the appropriate tradename of "MagicWand"-a type of safety-sparkler product.