US1216590A - Toy. - Google Patents

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

Original application filed June 26, 1916, Serial No. 105,858. Divided and this application filed October 2,

1916. Serial No.123,254.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, WALTER MEYNER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Toy, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to trundle toys and is as to the broad features of the invention a division from my prior application Serial No. 105,858, filed June 26, 1916.

The general objects of the invention are to provide a simple and inexpensive form of toy which will be interesting, amusing, and entertaining and which will be stimulative of healthful. exercise.

Special objects are to secure certain lifelike movements in. a figure forming a part of the toy.

The invention accordingly consists of a hoop, a movable figure of characteristic or ornamental. appearance within the hoop, and rollers riding on the hoop and connected to operate the movable figure, said parts bearing an eccentric relation to each other whereby to impart the desired movements to the figure.

Details of the invention will appear as the specification proceeds; attention being directed to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and wherein I have illustrated the invention embodied in several practical and preferred forms.

In said drawings:

Figures 1 and 2, are perspective views of a form wherein the movable figure is in the nature of a manikin.

Figs. 3 and 4, are similar views, illustrating in successive positions another form of manikin.

Figs. 5 and 6, are like views of another form of the invention, embodying a horse and rider.

In several views, 5, designates the trundle or hoop of a convenient size and weight, to be easily trundled.

In the first form shown, the Fig. 6, is in the form of a grotesque manikin having bowed legs 7, in which are journaled rollers 8, on eccentric pivots 9, said rollers having a bearing on the track 10, forming the in nor periphery of the hoop, said hoop being in the nature of a disk and the track being formed eccentrically in said disk. third eccentric roller 11, is shown pivoted at 12,

and arranged to bear on the upper portion of the eccentric track.

From this it will be seen that as the hoop is rolled along over a supporting surface the rollers will be rotated by their engagement with the inner periphery of the hoop and will by the connections described, impart a peculiar rising and falling and rocking movement in the disk or hoop and the effect is enhanced by placing a rotating disk 13, supported on the rollers S-11.

A handle 14, is usually provided for han dling the toy, this handle being shown connected'at 15, with the figure and inclined upwardly and rearwardly to afiord a convenient handhold for pushing the toy.

A convenient and practical method of constructing the toy is to make it in counterpart sections 16, spaced apart a distance slightly greater than thethickness of the hoop and with portions 17, overlapping the sides of the hoop so as to confine the figure to the hoop, the supporting rollers when journaled between these sections, as indicated, being then disposed in the plane of the track 10, which forms the inner periphery of the hoop.

The rollers and the confining portions are usually arranged in somewhat triangular relation, as shown, so as to hold the parts as sembled, without binding.

The form of the invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4c, comprises a manikin 18, supported eccentrically on the hoop, as before, but provided in this case with an additional element 19, represented as a hat, riding on the outer periphery of the hoop and connected to the figure by its arms 20. These arm members are shown pivoted to the figure at 21, and pivoted eccentrically to the rolling hat element at 22. This device produces the grotesque effect of a man, running or jumping along and throwing his hat up and down and at the same time rolling it in his hands.

The device shown in Figs. 5 and 6, is similar to the one just described, in that one figure element is supported on an eccentric trackway within the hoop and a second figure element rides on the outer periphery of the hoop. Here the first figure 23, is shown as a horse supported on rollers on the inner eccentric trackway 10, and the other figure element 24:, is shown as a manikin supported by an eccentrically )ivoted roller 25 ridin on the outer rim of the hoop and connected with the horses head by pivoted arm elements 26. The leg portions 27, of the manikin straddle the horses back and the effect in operation is that of a running horse with a manib'ouncing up and down on his back.

The invention makes an exceedingly attractive and interesting toy and it will be seen that it can be made up very simply and inexpensively. 7

What I claim is l. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track on the inner periphery thereof, rollers bearing on said track and a figure supported by said rollers.

2. A trundle toy comprising a hoop havingv an eccentric track on the inner periphery thereof, eccentrically journaled rollers bearing on said track and a figure supported by said rollers.

' 3. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentrictrack, a roller riding on said track anda figure supported by said roller.

4." A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track, a roller riding on said track, a figure supportedby said roller and a handle connected with said figure.

I 5. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having, an eccentric track on the inner periphery thereof, a figure device supported I on said eccentric inner track and a figure device supported on the outer periphery of the .hoop.

(3. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track on the inner pcriphery thereof, a figure device supported on said eccentric inner track, a figure device supported on the outer periphery of the hoop and a pivoted connection between said, two figure devices.

7. A trundle toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric track on the inner periphery thereof, rollers riding on said track, a figure device supported by said rollers, a roller riding on the outer periphery of the hoop, a figure device supported by said roller and a pivoted connection between said two figure devices.

8. A toy comprising a hoop having an eccentric inner track, a figure device sup ported on said eccentric inner track, and a second figure device connected with the first figure. device and supported on the outer periphery of the hoop, said second figure device having guiding portions engaging over the first figure device.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 28th day of Sept. A. D. 1916.

WALTER MEYNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0.

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