US1254573A - Toy. - Google Patents

Description

E. BURKART'.

TOY.

APPLICATION men APR. 11. 1911.

Patented Jan. 22, 1911s -ATTORN EY tit EUGENE BURKART, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. Ifatented dan. 22, 119i.

Application filed April 11, 1917. Serial No. 161,2 t3.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, EUGENE BURKART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Torresdale, Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a speciing impressionwill be created by the move ments of said "figures, and rotatable means responsive to atmospheric fluctuations being carried by the toy to impart motion to said figure.

Other objects of the invention reside in a toy of the above character, wherein the several elements thereof may be quickly assembled and set up in operative positions or, when the toy is being shipped or transported, said toy maybe dismantled and collapsed to assume a compact condition, in order that the same will occupy but a minimum of packing space.

With these and other objects in view, as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination of elementsand arrangement of parts, herein more fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the toy comprising the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken along the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a similar view, the plane being disclosed by the line H of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an elevation showing the method of packing certain movable elements of the toy, so that their proper locations will be readily understood when the toy is about to be assembled.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of one of the concorresponding parts throughout the several views of the drawing.

In the preferred embodiment of the invcntion, use is made of a toy 1, consisting of a base 2 and a wall or panel 3, the latter members being pivotally connected by means of hooks or their equivalents 4:, so that when the toy is being transported, the base and the wall may lie flat so as to economize in the amount of space consumed by the toy. In practice, however, the wall extends perpendicularly to the base, and is retained in this position through the agency of a hook 5, the latter being pivotally connected with the wall, and is adapted to engage with an eye provided on the base 2.

The outer surface 6 of the wall has impressed or otherwise designated thereon a suitable pictorial scene, such as'the one suggested in Fig. 1 of the drawing, and in order to animate the picture, so as to furnish a source of amusement and pleasure, use is i made of a plurality of automatons figures 7, 8 and 9, which are adapted to oscillate over the surface 6 so as to impart lifelike movements to the characters or elements depicted thereon. In this instance, the figure 7 represents the head and arm of a man, a pipe being held by the hand of the arm, the figure 8 designates the head of a woman, and the figure 9 the tail of a cat, and these figures are adapted to be oscillated in a manner to be hereinafter fully described.

Mounted in a bearing 10, formed in the base 2, for rotary movement and supported by a bracket 11 extending from the wall 3, is a crank shaft 12, which is adapted when in an operative position, to extend parallel to said wall, substantially in the manner shown in Fig. 4:. A propeller 13 operable in a horizontal plane is fixed upon the upper extremity of the crank shaft 12 and is provided with obliquely disposed radial vanes 14, whereby when the toy is placed over a radiator, or when subjected to other atmospheric disturbances, the propeller will be forced to revolve, and at the same time turn the shaft 12. Owing to the method of mounting the shaft 12, and to the general construction of the propeller 13, said shaft will be forced to revolve when the toy is subjected to the slightest degree of radiated heat, or similar disturbances, as will be clearly understood.

In order that the rotary movement of the crank shaft may be transferred to the figures 7 and 8 so as to oscillate the latter use is made of a plurality of connecting links 15," which are provided with eyes 16 and engage with the crank portions of the shaft 12. The general construction of the eyes 16 permit the links to be easily connected or disconnected with said shaft. The free extremities 17 of the links 15 are similarly connected with the depending ends of crank arms 18, the latter being formed to provide ofi'set journaliug portions 19, which are positioned in bearings 20 provided in the wall 3. The outer ends of the portions 19 are suitably secured to the figures 7 and 8, so that the movement of the crank arms will be synchronously transmitted to said figures. Thus it will be obvious that the rotation of the crank shaft 12 will, through themedium of the links 15, impart a rocking movement to the crank arms 18, which movement is directly imparted to the figures 7 and 8, and in a clearly obvious manner.

In order to transmit movement to the figure 9. the crank arm associated with the figure 8 is extended beyond its point of connection with a link 15 to provide an eye 21, in which is detachably positioned a link element 22, which extends from the said crank arm to a similar arm 23 secured to the figure 9, and journaled in the wall 3, in a similar manner as the crank arms 18, whereby upon the rotation of the shaft 12, the said figures 7, 8 and 9 will be forced to wag or nod in a peculiarly amusing manner, so as to render the toy amusing and interesting.

Erom the foregoing it will be seen that there is provided a toy wherein all of the objects of the invention are present, and one which may be economically and easily manufactured. It will be noted that the elements of the toy are of a detachable nature, so that when the toy is not in use the same may be dismantled and stored away in a comparatively small amount of space. Also if any part of the toy becomes broken or damaged, said offending part may be readily removed from the toy, and a new part inserted in lieuthereof. In order that no confusion will be encountered when initially assembling the toy, the elements comprising the same are pasted upon a figure representing the wall or panel 3, as shown in Fig. 5, said figure being preferably printed, or otherwise designated upon-the box in which the toy is packed for commercial purposes. To accomplish this object, the connecting links and crank arms are secured in position by means of paper strips 24, which are pasted upon the said figure so as to retain the elements of the toy in their proper positions, and to notify the one assembling the toy, as to the respective positions of the elements upon the latter. It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made in the construction of the wall 3, and the figures -7, 8 and 9, as it is not mandatory that the scene represented upon the surface 6 be employed in every form of the invention, as other scenes may be designated, without departing from the scope or the intent of the invention.

Having described the invention what is claimed as new and patentable is:

1. A toy of the class described, the combination with a base and a Wall pivotally connected therewith, oscillating figures mounted upon the said wall, cranks extending from said figures and journaled in said wall, connecting links detachably connected with the free ends of said cranks, a crank shaft journaled for rotation upon said base and operable to rock said crank arms through the agency of said links, and a propeller carried by the upper end of said crank shaft for rotating the latter when subjected to atmospheric disturbances.

2. A toy of the class described, the combination with a base and a wall pivotally connected therewith, of an oscillating figure movable over a face of said wall, a crank journaled within said wall, and having said figure mounted upon one extremity thereof, a crank shaft disposed in parallel relation with said wall, and'having the lower end thereof mounted for rotation in a bearing formed with said base, a detachable link connecting said crank shaft with said crank, whereby upon the rotation of said shaft, motion will be imparted to said figure, and a propeller carried by the upper end of said shaft for effecting the rotation of the latter.

3. A toy of the class described, comprising a wall having a pictorial surface designated thereon, movable figures cotiperating with said surface to impart an attractive appearance thereto, cranks connected with said figures and journaled for movement within said wall, links extending from the free ends of said cranks to a crank shaft, bearings for said crank shaft, and a propeller carried by said shaft and responsive to atmospheric disturbances, to effect the rotation of the crank shaft and the cooperating movable figures.

4. A toy of the class described comprising EUGENE BURKART.

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