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US1174951A
US1174951A US84234514A US1914842345A US1174951A US 1174951 A US1174951 A US 1174951A US 84234514 A US84234514 A US 84234514A US 1914842345 A US1914842345 A US 1914842345A US 1174951 A US1174951 A US 1174951A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
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  • the invention relates to toys and particularly to one of the top type which will have a free flying movement in the .air.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a very simple device capable of being manipulated by a child and in which a spinning member may be rotated at a high rate of speed and with sucha conformation that it will rise to a considerable height when once brought up to speed.
  • Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device.
  • Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation.
  • Fig. 3 is a top plan new.
  • the device hereinafter described is com' posed essentially of two parts which are separable one with reference to the other and so arranged that as one of the members is held in stationary position and motion is imparted to the second member, said rotary member will, when it has received a certain speed of rotation, automatically rise in the air and maintain a balance which will give it a prescribed flight.
  • the numeral 1 denotes a handle or support which, at its upper end, has a projecting pin 2 which acts as a pivot and support for the top or flying member 3.
  • This top member has a central opening 4' formed through a winding drum 5 which is located centrally of the top member.
  • the central opening 4 is arranged to fit loosely upon the pin 2.
  • the top or flying member 3 is preferably formed from a single piece of material and has 'two blades 6, 7 angularly disposed with reference to a central portion 8.
  • the blades 6 and 7 are disposed at an angle with reference to each other and with the central portion 8 form, what is in effect, a propeller.
  • the blades may be of any desired shape and I type and may be made integral with the central portion and winding drum or may be made of separate parts attachable thereto;
  • the winding-drum 5 is of suflicient dimensions and has a conformation as illustrated so that a cord or string 9 may be wound about it.
  • the top member Whenever the cord 9 is placed under tension and pulled from the drum, the top member is very rapidly spun upon its pin or pivot 2 and as soon as the string is unwound from the drum, the top will rise owing to the shape of the blades 6 and 7.
  • the central portion is of considerable weight and of substantially elliptical form in cross section. This central portion gives a balancing weight to the blades so that the blades as of substantially rectangular form arranged transversely to each other and to a central joining portion which forms the balancing weight of ,the device.
  • a flying top having a standard or support and a rotary member having blades joined at an angle with a thickened beveled line of juncture and a bearing upon the support, a winding drum upon the blades and a cord for imparting rapid rotation to the blades.
  • a flying top comprising two separable members, one pivotally mounted upon the other, the pivoted member adapted to whirl and having blades angularly disposed with reference to each other and centrally joined with an enlarged weighted transverse member and having a centrally disposed winding drum and a cord wound upon said drum for spinning said blades.
  • a flying top comprising two separable members, one pivotally mounted upon.
  • the pivoted member adapted to whirl plane surfaces of the bladeswhereby the and having blades angularly disposed with blades are maintained in equilibrium with reference to each" other and having a cenreference to each other.

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F. A. TOWNSLEY.
1 FLYING TOP. I
Patented Max. 7, 1916.
win/E8858 FREDERICK A. TOWNSLEY, or MIDDLE-TOWN, NEW YORK.
FLYING-TOP.
Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Mar. '7, 1916.
Application filed June 2, 1914. Serial No. 842,345.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. TowNs- LEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Middletown, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flying-Tops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art may make and use the same.
The invention relates to toys and particularly to one of the top type which will have a free flying movement in the .air.
The object of the invention is to provide a very simple device capable of being manipulated by a child and in which a spinning member may be rotated at a high rate of speed and with sucha conformation that it will rise to a considerable height when once brought up to speed.
Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan new.
The device hereinafter described is com' posed essentially of two parts which are separable one with reference to the other and so arranged that as one of the members is held in stationary position and motion is imparted to the second member, said rotary member will, when it has received a certain speed of rotation, automatically rise in the air and maintain a balance which will give it a prescribed flight.
In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 denotes a handle or support which, at its upper end, has a projecting pin 2 which acts as a pivot and support for the top or flying member 3. This top member has a central opening 4' formed through a winding drum 5 which is located centrally of the top member. The central opening 4 is arranged to fit loosely upon the pin 2.
The top or flying member 3 is preferably formed from a single piece of material and has 'two blades 6, 7 angularly disposed with reference to a central portion 8. The blades 6 and 7 are disposed at an angle with reference to each other and with the central portion 8 form, what is in effect, a propeller.
The blades may be of any desired shape and I type and may be made integral with the central portion and winding drum or may be made of separate parts attachable thereto; The winding-drum 5 is of suflicient dimensions and has a conformation as illustrated so that a cord or string 9 may be wound about it.
Whenever the cord 9 is placed under tension and pulled from the drum, the top member is very rapidly spun upon its pin or pivot 2 and as soon as the string is unwound from the drum, the top will rise owing to the shape of the blades 6 and 7.
I The central portion is of considerable weight and of substantially elliptical form in cross section. This central portion gives a balancing weight to the blades so that the blades as of substantially rectangular form arranged transversely to each other and to a central joining portion which forms the balancing weight of ,the device.
What I claim as my invention and desir to secure by Letters Patent is: Y
1. A flying top having a standard or support and a rotary member having blades joined at an angle with a thickened beveled line of juncture and a bearing upon the support, a winding drum upon the blades and a cord for imparting rapid rotation to the blades.
2. A flying top comprising two separable members, one pivotally mounted upon the other, the pivoted member adapted to whirl and having blades angularly disposed with reference to each other and centrally joined with an enlarged weighted transverse member and having a centrally disposed winding drum and a cord wound upon said drum for spinning said blades.
3. A flying top comprising two separable members, one pivotally mounted upon. the
other, the pivoted member adapted to whirl plane surfaces of the bladeswhereby the and having blades angularly disposed with blades are maintained in equilibrium with reference to each" other and having a cenreference to each other.
trally disposed winding drum, a cordwound FREDERICK A. TOWN SLEY. upon said drum for spinning said blades, Witnesses:
and a weight transversely disposed between ELMER H. LEMON,
and equally disposed and merging into the E. N. GREEN.
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