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[jim in paris]

hi all
I was wondering:  what does this top do ?

it's yet another one from Cyril's collection but I don't think we have reviewed it, have we ?


thanx

[ta0]

"Scrambolo"! Great name! 

Magnetic race? Two eggs? I first assumed it worked like the (like the rabbit and eggmagnetic push/pull top), but maybe not. 
Perhaps it's missing a couple of "pushers" to race the eggs?
Or perhaps the eggs go around the spinner driven by friction?

[jim in paris]

salut Jorge
here is another photo : the top is placed on the stand, then spun , then the egg will spin around
perhaps you could find the patent ?

jim

[jim in paris]

cool effect!

jim

[ta0]

Thanks for the video.
Does it have a magnet or is it actually all mechanical.
The effect reminds me the Mary-Whirl by Gibbs, which is mechanical.

I might have seen a patent of it. I'll search later.

[ta0]

Found the patent in my archives. The inventor was Jesse K. Hamilton, from Chicago and it was patented February 11, 1913:



As I suspected, it is all mechanical in spite of the "magnetic" adjective. The egg has a weight on the larger side, but no magnet. It remains touching the top just by the dynamics of the movement.

[Jeremy McCreary]

As I suspected, it is all mechanical in spite of the "magnetic" adjective. The egg has a weight on the larger side, but no magnet. It remains touching the top just by the dynamics of the movement.

Which in my book is even cooler.

[Pepe]

I love this!!!!

So great!!!