US1146333A - Toy. - Google Patents

Description

J. A. KING.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED APR-8, I915- Patented July 13, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 8, 1915. Serial No. 20,015.

- vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the art of toys, and particularly to an improved aerial projectile or propeller and means for operating the same, and an object of the invention is to provide an improved holder for operating the projectile or propeller.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holder for the operating means comprising a housing having a suitable handle, and in which housing a twine or cord propelled shaft is mounted in a thrust bearing, so as to revolve with a minimum amount of friction, there being two pieces of cord or twine, so that as one is pulled to revolve the shaft in one direction, in order to impart a revoluble movement to the aerial projectile or propeller, the other cord or twine is wound upon the shaft, so as to obviate the necessity of previously winding the shaft before replacing the projectile, and after each time the projectile is proj ected from the shaft.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a view showing improved holder and the twine or cord propelled shaft including the projectile constructed in accordance with the invention, showing one piece of cord wound about the shaft. Fig. 2 1s a vertical sectional view showing the other piece of cord wound uponthe shaft. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank, from which the housing is constructed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 designates the housing, which is constructed from a single sheet metal blank as shown in Fig. 3. This blank is bent to form the three longitudinal sides of the holder designated res ectively by the numerals 2, 3 and 4. The lank is further bent to form the ends 4 and 5, which are provided with tongues 6, bent to pass through the slot 7 of the sides 2 and 4, and further bent as shown at 8 to engage the inner faces of said ends, in the manner shown. However, before the end 5 is bent the same is fastened to one end of the handle 9, by means of suitable screws 10. The end 5 is provided with thrust bearings 11, in which the lower tapered end 12 of the shaft 13 is mounted. The shaft adjacent the tapered end is provided with a collar 15, between which and the cross bar; 16, a coil spring 17 is inter-- posed, acting to bear yieldably on the collar, to hold the tapered end of the shaft yieldably in its thrust bearing, whereby the shaft will revolve easily. The upper portion of the shaft is mounted in suitable bearing 18 of the upper end 4 of the housing, and beyond the upper end 4, the shaft is provided with a collar 19, and beyond the collar, with.

a rectangular. end 20, to engage a correspondingly'shaped opening 21 in the revoluble projectile or propeller 22. The projectile or propeller is of the usual shape comprising the four blades 23 and 24, two of which are long, whereas the other two are short. These blades are deflected or twisted suitably, to cause the projectile, when leaving the upper rectangular end of the shaft to ascend. The longitudinal sides of the housing are provided with apertures 25 and 26, and passing through the aperture 25 is apiece of cord or twine 27, which, as shown in Fig. 1 is wound upon the shaft and attach ed thereto. Passing through the aperture 26 is a second piece of cord or twine 28, which is attached to the shaft, but unwound. It is to be observed that when the twine 2 7 is pulled the shaft will revolve, and thereby impart movement to the projectile, which with such force as to cause the same to leave the upper end of the shaft and ascend into the atmosphere. .When the shaft revolves in this manner the second piece of cord 28 is wound upon the shaft, in which case the shaft is ready to be operated in the other direction when the propeller or projectile is replaced thereon. The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is In a device asset forth, a housing having a handle, a twine propelled shaft, the upper portion of which is mounted in a bearing of the upper end of the housing, the lower end of the shaft having a thrust bearing in 1 the -1oWer end of the housing, means for Wound on the shaft as the other cord un- 1o yieldably holding the shaft in said thrust winds and vice versa.

bearing, a self-detachable projectile detach- In testimony whereof Ihave signed my ably mounted on the upper end of said shaft, name to this specification in the presence of a cord wound upon said shaft and extending two subscribing Witnesses.

through a guide of the housing for'rotating JAMES A. KING. the shaft in one direction, a second cord ex- Witnesses: tending through a guide of the housing and GEORGE H. NUssEL,

connected to said shaft and adapted to be WM. F. WHITE.

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