USSR  № 1347961                    USSR   № 645661            USSR № 1349762

In the first invention the a freight-ball can roll between two spirals. And inside these hollow spirals an extra weight is  pouring – it’s usual sand. When both the ball and all the sand come to the Webbles’s head (Do you think how it can be accomplished?), then the toy can be put on the head and rocked. It seems to me such an unusual toy can amaze both a child and an adult.

In the second invention the things which help the Webbles stand on its head are ... an ordinary screw and a nut (female screw). The nut used here as a freight can "screw” down the axis which is made in the form of a spiral.

And in the last invention the task of putting the Webbles on its head requires still less efforts. Inside of this Webbles’s base there are rises and hollows – this is done to constantly change the vector of the freight-ball’s movements at the time the toy rocks. There are holes of different diameters in the plate – the ball can fall through some of them but it sticks in the others. So, these hollows ("mere vacuum”) make our Webbles act "the other way round”.

Creative task No 10

Apply principle 13c to the Webbles which stands on its head and think up of other interesting things it can do!

Make a picture or a scheme of technical decision to your every variant of answer

(on the right page of "My inventions” notebook)

But nobody has ever tried to turn the Webble inside out. Before you would do it. Strange, isn’t it? Though we’ve learnt how to sew clothes inside out and the shelves of toy stores are full of robots-transformers...

Creative task No 11

Apply principle 13c and turn the Webbles inside out!

Make a picture or a scheme of technical decision to your every variant of answer

 (on the right page of "My inventions” notebook)

The old-fashioned Webbless were solid and their lead bases served as a freight. Modern inventors apply principle 13b (to make the moving part of an object or environment get motionless and make motionless part get moving) when they transform the motionless freight into moving one.       

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USA  № 2499743                      USSR  № 1417905

In one of them balls’ motions  are absolutely free (USA patent No 2499743), in another one they are connected with each other.

In the following inventions the freight is free but limitted.

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Motions of the freight from "outside” are limitted by spires of a spiral in the inventions according to USSR patent No 1347961 and France patent No 2242123.

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USSR    № 645661                              USSR  №1227232

And only "inner” limits are inherent in the two Soviet inventions according to USSR patents No 645661 and 1227232.

The authors limit motions of the freight from "inside” by axes. It should be noted that axes in these inventions are hard, they don’t let any step to the left or to the right. But there no axes that can prevent these Russian Webbless from standing up on their heads!

Other inventors make the motionless head and a part of the body rock about the base.

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Germany № 51694, 1931г.            GB № 480564, 1938г.       Germany № 666034, 1938г.

And though the first of these inventions was made in 1931 (Germany patent No 516943), British and German inventors went on developing this idea in 1938 using various technical methods (GB patent No 480564 and Germany patent No 666034).

 And even more then fifty years later (in 1986 and in 1991) Soviet inventors return to the problem of rocking the head about the body.

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USSR  № 1210868                           USSR  № 1650177

In No 16501177 ball joint which is hung on elastic threads lets the Webbles’s head rise, fall and turn.

Creative task No 12

Apply principle 13b and make still motionless parts of the Webble get moving.

Or, vice versa, make moving parts of the toy get motionless!

Make a picture or a scheme of technical decision to your every variant of answer (on the right page of "My inventions” notebook)- the exact way you’re going to realize such an action or a movement.

But the environment (a floor, a carpet, a table, a bed, the bathroom, the ground, a packing, the players...) around  the toy remained motionless. For the time being...

Creative task No 13

Apply principle 13b and try and change the environment of the Webbles, its characteristics!

Make a picture or a scheme of technical decision to your every variant of answer

(on the right page of "My inventions” notebook)

Principle 13a - to accomplish the opposite action instead of an action provided for in a task – is used in the Soviet invention.

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USSR  № 1519726

What can you do with the Webbles? Usually you should push the toy and it starts to rock. When it stops you push it again... You can drag it along the table and watch how it stands up. And now a Webbles-lazybones has appeared in this family of active toys. (No 1519726)

In its "normal” position it likes most of all to lie on its side. And it’ll "sleep on its side” for a very long time – until you push it, and then it’ll jump joyfully because you’ve waken it up! The inventor reached such an effect by applying to the toy original geometry of side surface.

This "lazy-bones” is the only representative of Webbless which demonstrates some not very good human qualities in a funny way. But it’s the only one for the time being...

Creative task No 14

Apply principle 13a and invent "opposite” actions in a new Webbles!

Make a picture or a scheme of technical decision to your every variant of answer (on the right page of "My inventions” notebook) - the exact way you’re going to realize such an action or a movement.

We have touched upon many inventions, in which the authors applied the principle of Inversia to different parts of the toy. Mark these parts on the structure chart. It looks like that: Head – Body – Arms – Base - Freight.

Those parts of the toy that won’t be marked are waiting for you to apply your creative power!

Technical details:

From the centre of the toy’s gravity you make a circle. The straight line drawn through the protruding dots of the head and the side surface must be perpendicular to the radius of this circle. The side surface of the to is leveled to this straight line, so the toy can lie.