US1120470A - Wheeled toy. - Google Patents

Description

R. FOX.

WHEEL-ED TOY. APPLICATION FILED mm: 18, 1914:

1 1 20,470. Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

%y 1 l6 1o 1? H 9 i I? if I7 2 INVENTOR Pra Fox ATTOFINEV THE NORRIS PETERS 50., F'HOTO-LITHQ. WASHINGTON, n, C.

UNITED srA'r s PATENT ornicn.

- RIcHABi) Fox, or McK-EES RoGKsQ-ENNSYLVANI J WHii-E EDTTOY.

To all whom it may concern l Be it known thatiI, RICHARD Fox, a citizenof: the United States of America," residing at McKees Rocks, in the county of Allegheny andState of-Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful :Imprbvements in Wheeled Toys, of which the followingis a specification,- reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention --relates towwheeledn toys,

and has for its object to provide a toy of such class, with means in a manner as hereinafter set forth, which will afford considerable amusement to a child when ling the toy. I v

A further object of the invention is to propelprovide a wheeled toy having a plurality of rotatable elements capable of operating in opposite directions with respect to each other when the toy is propelled or pushed or pulled along the ground.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a wheeled toy, which is simple in its construction and arrangement, strong, durable, highly amusing, inexpensive, and conveniently operated.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists of the novel con- I struction, combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter more specifically described and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, wherein is shown an embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that changes, variations and modifications can be resorted to which come within the scope of the claims hereunto appended.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views:Figure 1 is an elevation of a wheeled toy in accordance with this invention, Fig. 2 is a vertical sec tional view on line aia:, F1g.:-1. Fig. 3 is I a section on line i i 1', with portion in elevation, and Fig. l'is a top plan viewof the platform with the drum and posts in section.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 denotes a platform provided at each end with a spindle 2, upon which is mounted a wheel 3. The wheels 3 are retained upon the spindles 2 by cotterpins hand said wheels 3 are in the form of friction disks having broad peripheries.

Fixedlysecured to the platform 1, in proximity to each of the spindles 2, is a post 5 and each of said posts at the center there- Specification 6t Letters Patent.

upperend is: formed with a:-slot Behaving the 'top thereof terminating in an inclined Patented Dec. 8, 1914. Application f lledvJune is, 1914. seri ino. 845,958.

opening 9.-e; Thee-slotsof'the, posts-5=aline1 with eachother and mounted insaid, slots 8 are the reduced portions 10 of a shaft 11 which is disposed parallel to the platform 1, and the said reduced-portions project outwardly from the said posts 5 and con-- nected to the outer ends of said reduced portions 10, are frictionrollers 12.

The slots 6 of. the posts 5 aline with each other and mounted in said slots 6 are the reduced portions 18 of a shaft 14:. The reduced portions 13 of the shaft 14 project outwardly from the post 5 and connected to the ends of said reduced portions '13 are friction rollers 15. The openings 9 and 7 provide means to permit of themounting of the reduced portions 10 and 13 in theslots 8 and 6.

Loosely mounted upon each of the posts 5 and interposed between a wheel 3 and a roller 15is a drum 16, and loosely mounted upon each of the posts 5 and interposed between a roller 12 and 15 is a drum 17 The shaft 11 has secured thereto a series of. radially disposed blades or wings l8 and the shaft 14 has fixedly secured thereto two sets of radially disposed blades or wings 19. The blades or wings 18 extend between the sets of blades or wings 19 and theshaft 1 1 is disposed laterally'of thesh'aft 11.

Connected to the platform 1 is a handle 20.

i The drums16 are adapted to be revolved bythe wheels 3, and said drums engaging "with the friction rollers 15 will rotate theshaft 14 and said rollers 15', engaging with the drum 17 will revolve said drums and 1 these latter engaging with the rollers 12 will rotate the shaft 11. The drums 16 a'nd 17 will revolve in an opposite direction'with respect to eachother, and the shafts 1 1 and 14; will also revolve in an opposite direction with respect to each other.

naled in said post and provided with fric-v tion rollers interposed between T said drums and frictionally engaged by and revolved by the lower of said drums and frictionally engaging with and revolving the upper of said,

drums, and a shaft journaled in said "posts and provided with friction rollersengaged by the upper of'said drums whereby said shaft is rotated simultaneously with the first mentioned shaft and with the revolving of the'drums. 1 t

V 2. Afwheeled toyfleomprising a platform, wheels carried thereby, posts projecting from the platform, a plurality of superposed drums carried byeaoh-of said posts, the lower drums frictionally engaging with'said "wheels andirevolvedthereby, shaft jour- (levies ofthls patent may be obtained for na led in said post and'providedwith frietion rollers'interposed between said drums- -and frictionallylengaged by and revolved by the lower of said drums and frictionally engaging with and revolving the upper of said drums,'a.shaft journaled in said'posts landprovid'ed with friction rollers engaged by the upper of said drums whereby'said shaft is rotated: simultaneously with the first mentioned shaft and with the revolving of the drum's,-and radially idisposedt wings fixed to said shafts.

ilnqtestimony h f I affix my signature in the presence'of two witnesses. l

I l i a RICHARD FOX.

- \Vitnessesrv v I WILLIAM Fox, yMAx H. SROLOVITZ. v

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