US1100180A - Amusement device. - Google Patents

Description

S. GOLDINI.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 1330.3, 1913.

1 1 O0, 1 80, Patented June 16, 1914.

COLUMBIA FLANOORAPH C0.,WASHINGTON. D. c.

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STEPHEN GOLDINI, 01? NEW YORK, N. Y.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, STEPHEN GOLDINI, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Amusement Device, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an amusement device, and the object of the invention is to provide a spectacular and novel amusement with the adaption of a simple, yet highly efficient mechanical device.

In one of its practical forms the invention embodies a supporting member adapted to engage with a portion of the anatomy of an associate performer, and said supporting member is revolubly mounted upon a stem which is adapted to be operated by the artist.

Further objects and conditions will be apparent from the following specification taken in conjunction with the drawing.

In the accompanying drawing have illustrated one practical embodiment of the invention, but the construction shown therein is to be understood as illustrative, only, and not as defining the limits of the invention.

Figure 1, is an elevation of the device of the present invention. Fig. 2 illustrates the manner in which it is employed, and Fig. 3, is a vertical section, partly an elevation, showing the manner in which the supporting member, is revolubly mounted on the stem thereof.

Referring to the drawings, 4:, designates a supporting member, shown as a band substantially semicircular in shape. This supporting member is mounted on a stem, 5, by means of a swivel joint, 3, to allow of rotation thereon.

The joint, 3, is formed by providing the supporting member with a pair of depending tubular sections, 1 and 2, arranged coaxially with one another and being of such respective diameters that a space is provided between the inner circumference of the section, 2, and the outer circumference of the section, 1. The end of the stem, 5, which engages with the supporting member, is tubular in section, and of such dimensions as to readily pass between the interior of sec tion, 2, and the exterior of the spindle, 1. The members, 1 and 2, are preferably made somewhat long so as to engage the stem, 5, to such extent as will adequately preclude excessive lost motion, or wabbling of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 3, 1913.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Serial No. 804,388.

supporting member, when rotated on its stem.

When employed as an amusement device, the supporting member, 4, is fitted about the anatomy of the associate performer, preferably under the arm pits, and may, if desired, be secured in place by means of straps and other fastening devices. This having been done, the artist grasps the stem, 5, near the end thereof, opposite to that connected with the supporting member and, with the other hand grasps the stem intermediate its end. He then lifts said stem into substantially vertical position, the associate performer traveling in a helical path, until the stem is almost upright. The artist now imparts to the stem, 5, such mot-ion as will. cause it to travel in a path similar to the surface of an inverted cone. It being understood that, in view of the fact that the associate performer is resting on the supporting member, off center, such movement of the stem, by reason of the centrifugal force which it develops, will cause the associate performer to be revolved about the axis of said stem. Manifestly, an increasing speed in the swinging of the stem, 5, will proportionately increase the speed of rotation of the associate performer about the axis of said stem.

In carrying out the aforesaid amusement, the participants are preferably arrayed in gorgeous colors, and a most interesting and pleasing effect is produced.

Fig. 2 of the drawings shows the position of the associate performer just as she has been elevated to the desired height above the artist. A continued swinging of the stem by the latter, develops centrifugal force which acts on the lower limbs of the associate performer to cause her to travel in a wide circle, her feet extending outwardly.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In an amusement device, the combination of a substantially straight pole. one end of which is adapted to be grasped in the hands of an artist and manipulated to travel in a conical path, and a supporting member, mounted on the opposite end of said pole, and adapted to engage with the person of an associate performer, said supporting member being adapted for rotation relative to that portion of the pole which is grasped by the artist whereby, upon the manipulation of the pole, the associate performer is rotated about the axis of movement of said pole.

2. In an amusement device, the combination of an elongated bar adapted to be manipulated in the hands of an artist to travel in a path about a cone shaped area, and a supporting member rotatably mounted on the free end of said bar and adapted to engage with the person of an associate performer, whereby, upon the movement of said bar in a conical path, said associate performer is rotated above the head of the artist.

3. In an amusement device, the combination of an elongated bar adapted to he wheeled about avertical axis by an artist in such manner that said bar will describe an inverted conical path, and a supporting member rotatably mounted on the free end of the bar, said supporting member being adapted to engage the body of an associate performer at a point exterior of the line of direction of weight thereof, whereby, the movement of the bar in its conical path causes centrifugal force to operate 0n the associate performer for the purpose of revolving said associate performer about said bar simultaneously with the swinging of the associate performer in a circular path.

4. In an amusement device, the combination of a supporting member, a spindle rigidly attached thereto, a sleeve of consid erably larger diameter than said spindle and rigidly attached to the supporting member coaxial with the spindle, and a bar tubular at one end and adapted to cooperate with the spindle and sleeve so as to engage to the same exterior of the spindle and interior of the sleeve, whereby, the supporting member is adapted for rotary motion relative to the bar.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

STEPHEN GOLDINI.

Witnesses CORNELIUS ZABRISKIE, F. S. FrrzsIMoNs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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