US1230575A - Toy. - Google Patents

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A. J. GIBBS.

TOY. APPUCATION FILED MAR. 22. I916.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 22. 1916.

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ALVIN J'. GIBBS, OF CANTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE GIBBS MANUFACTURING COM- PANY, OF CANTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 22, 1916. Serial No. 85,858.

'1 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN J. GIBBS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in wheel toys adapted to be pushed or drawn by a child over a floor or other surface; and the objects of the invention are to mount a toy animal or like object within a cage formed by the spokes and rims of the wheel, and to provide a slight frictional engagement between the parts for imparting a rocking movement to the animal when the wheel is rotated to and fro; and to make the toy with a simple, rigid and durable construction which can be readily knocked down and reassembled.

These objects are attained in the present instance, by using a pair of spaced rims for the wheel, each rim having a hub plate centrally secured therein by suitable spokes, and being joined together by transverse connecting bars; the wheel being operated by a forked handle having inturned pintles on its ends, ournaled in the hub plates; and a toy animal or the like being mounted within the wheel by means of a bracket pivoted on the inturned pintles contiguous to the hub plates upon a transverse axis near above the center of gravity of the animal.

This embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the wheel toy, showing part of the handle broken away;

Fig. 2, a plan view of the same;

Fig. 3, a fragmentary plan view of the axial parts broken away in places to show details of construction;

Fig. 4:, a disassociated detached perspective view of the axial parts of the wheel, showing details of construction thereof;

Fi 5, a. detached view of one of the wheel-rim connecting bars; and

Fig. 6, a fragmentary section showing the method of securing the spokes to the rims by means of the connecting bar.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the drawings.

The toy comprises a wheel 1 mounted on the end of a handle 2, and having the toy.

animal 8 mounted therein. The wheel 1 consists of a pair of spaced rims 1 preferably made of wood, a pair of hub plates 5, preferably made of stamped sheet metal disks, a series of looped spokes6, preferably made of wire, and a series of connecting bars 7 preferably made of stamped'metal strips.

The connecting bars 7 are provided with tongues 8 on their ends, and struck up tongues 9 adjacent thereto with a transverse groove 10 stamped between the tongues adapted to receive the looped portion of a spoke; by means of which the rims and the spokes are secured together by clamping the tongues of the connecting bars around the same, as shown in Fig. 6. j j

The hub plates 5 are provided near the periphery with the series of apertures 11 for receiving the h'ooked ends 12 of the spokes; and the hub plates are also provided with axial apertures 13 for receiving the inturned axial pintles 1 4-formed on the forked ends of the handle; thus completing the construction of the wheel.

The toy animal 3 is preferably formed of a thin wooden block body 15 with flat sides having its periphery cut to the contour of the animal and provided'with labels on its sides, having pictured thereon the natural appearance and dress of the animal. Sheet metal legs 16 may also be pivoted to the animal, and a rider 1? may be secured thereon in the form of a boy made of stamped sheet metal.

For the purpose of positioning the animal squarely in the median line of the wheel, that is to say. in the parallel plane midway between its ribs, the bearing bracket 18 is preferably secured to the sides of the back or upper edge of the animal of the saddle 19 and the tacks 20, which bracket is provided with the laterally extending arms 21 having the bearing plates 22 on their ends provided with axial apertures 23 which are journalcd on the inturnedpintles of the forked handle contiguous to the hub plates, when the parts are assembled.

The parts are so arranged that the pivots of the bearing bracket are in an axis near above the center of gravity of the animal; and preferably the inward springing of the forked ends of the handle serves to slightly Patented une 19, 1917. I

press the hub plates against the bearing plates of the bracket, thereby assisting in oscillating or rocking the animal when the wheel is operated as described below.

By this construction and arrangement it is evident that the animal will swing somewhat freely upon the pintles of the handle, and that when the wheel is moved forward, the inertia of the animal will cause it to swing rearward with reference to the wheel, before it moves forward with the wheel, after which the weight of the animal will cause it to swing forward, and its momentum will carry it slightly beyond its normal upright position. and vice versa; and also that when the forward movement of the wheel is stopped or reversed, the momentum of the animal will cause it to swing forward and then rearward as above described, so that in the movement of the wheel to and fro, the animal will oscillate upon the pintles of the handle in the natural rocking movement of a galloping horse.

It is also evident that the frictional engagei'nent of the bearing plates of the bear ing bracket against the hub plates of the wheel will also tend to set up and maintain an oscillating movement or rocking of the horse upon its pivotal bearings, independent of the effect of the alternately acting inertia and momentum of the animal; for the reason that when the hub plates of the wheel are rotated forward, they will tend to rotate the bearing plates in the same direction to swing the animal rearward, until the frictional contact of the hub and bearing plates is overcome by the weight of the animal, after which the animal will swing forward and tl en rearward as a pendulum, as described above. 'ly these means it is evident that an oscillating or rocking movement of the animal is started and maintained by the movements of the wheel to or fro, even though the same shall be started, stopped and reversed so gradually that the inertia and momentum of the animal does not serve to set up the oscillating movement.

I claim:

1. The combination of a wheel having spaced hub plates, spokes and spaced axle pintles, a toy animal or the like having a saddle bracket secured to its back, with bearing plates journaled directly on the axle pintles adjacent to the hub plates upon an axis near above the center of gravity of the toy animal.

2. The combination of a wheel having spaced hub plates, spokes and axle pintles, a toy animal or the like having a saddle bracket secured to its back, with bearing plates journaled on the axle pintles adjacent to the hub plates upon an axis near above the center of gravity of the toy animal, and means for yieldingly pressing the hub plates against the bearing plates.

3. The combination of a wheel having spaced rims, spokes and hub plates, with connecting bars between the rims, a toy animal or the like having a saddle bracket secured to its back, and bearing plates on each side, and a handle with forks having pintles on their ends forming pivot-s for the hub and bearing plates.

4-. The combination of a wheel having spaced rims, spokes and hub plates, with connecting bars between the rims. a toy animal or the like having a saddle bracket secured to its back, and bearing plates on each side, and a handle with forks having pintles on their ends forming pivots for the hub and bearing plates, said forks yieldingly pressing the hub plates against the bearing plates.

The combination of a wheel having spaced hub plates, spokes and spaced axle pintles, atoy animal or the like having bearings journaled directly on the axle pintles adjacent to the hub plates upon an axis near above the center of gravity of the toy animal.

ALVIN J. GIBBS.

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

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