US1355612A - Phonograph friction toy - Google Patents

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F. MAIER. PHON OGRAPH FRICTION TOY. APPLICATION FILED APR. H. 1918.

Patented ()0t.12,1920.

FERDINAND MAIER, on EW YORK, N. Y. I

PHONOGRAPH FRICTION 'I'OY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1920.

Application filed April 11, 1918. Serial No. 228,046.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERDINAND Marian, a citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Phonograph Friction Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates in general to an attachment for phonographs of the fiat disk type and specifically relates to an organization of a phonograph and an attachment to constitute a toy designed to be actuated simultaneously with the playing of an appropriate record on the phonograph.

One of the primary objects of the inven tion is to utilize the movement of a phono graph turn-table for the purpose of actuating a toy. The physical embodiment of the invention as herein illustrated contemplates the actuation of the toy through a frictional driving connection with the turntable, but this disclosure is only suggestive of two ways for utilizing the'power system of the phonograph, and a different physical embodiment of the invention is disclosed in my co-pending application, entitled Phonograph centrifugal toy, filed under even date.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will be in part obvious from an inspection of the accompanying drawings and in part will be more fully set forth in the following particular description of one form of mechanism embodying my invention, and the invention also consists in certain new and novel features of construc tion and combination of. parts hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of the top of a phonograph showing the turntable in a vertical sectional view taken axially through the same and showing one embodiment of my invention; and

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing a second form of the invention.

In both figures, there is shown a phonograph 10, including the motor driven shaft 11, upon which is positioned a flat disk form of turn-table 12. The turn-table is provided with a felt top 18, for carrying the playing disk record it in operative relation with the reproducer 15, all as is usual in well known forms of such devices.

sion element shown in Fig.

invention illustrated in Fig. l, the toy ismerely shown diagrammatically, it being understood that the driven belt 16 may lead to any of the toys or machines now known and which are usually driven by an electric or some other motor. The transmis- 1, and which may symbolically represent the toy includes a stand 17 fastened to the frame 18 of the phonograph to which stand is pivoted a horizontally extending journal sleeve 19 free to move about the horizontal axis pro vided by the pivot pin 20. The sleeve 19 constitutes a bearing for a shaft 21, to one end of which shaft is affixed a friction Wheel 22, held in light bearing frictional engagement with the playing disk record 14 adjacent its periphery by means of a coil spring 23. The spring has one end fixed to the sleeve and the other end fixed to the relatively stationary stand 17. A pulley 24: is fixed to the outer end of the shaft 21 and constitutes the driving member for the belt 16. I

In the form of the invention illustrated in F ig. 2, the toy is in the form of a horsedrawn wagon 25, provided with wheels 26, held by means of the weight thereon in frictional driving engagement either with the turn-table, with the outer edge of the disk as shown in Fig. l, or in engagement with a track 27 revolved by the turn-table.

The wagon may be. of any form and in the device illustrated may be considered as a fire apparatus, preferably of that type of such devices, in which the rotation of the wheels will cause some parts of the driver and the horses to move and thus to simulate the act of driving. The toy is held from rotation with the turn-table by means of a flexible arm 28. One end of the arm is attached to the wagon, and opposite end is attached to the heavy base 29' held to the frame 18 by its weight, or by fastening means as shown in Fig. 1.

The track 27 may obviously extend beyond the periphery of the turn-table and in Fig. 2 is shown positionedto coincide with the turn-table leaving space at its center for the positioning of a small playing disk. 14. In order to give a scenic effect to the track the inner edge thereof may be outlined by an upstanding circular wal l 30,

7 upon which may be painted scenes designed to combine with the representation of the track portion 27 to represent a race track,

street or other desired scene.

In operation, and with the desired toy in operative engagement, with the turn-table or parts actuated thereby, a suitable playing disk is'positioned to be revolved by the turntable and the reproducer positioned as is usual in setting a phonograph in its playing operation. The turn-table is rotated,

the playing disk sounds and the toy is actuated. In the modification shown in Fig. 2

and supposing that the wagon represents a fire engine, the playing disk could be arranged to sound' fire bells, cheers, and other noises incident to an apparatus of the fire de artment responding to an alarm.

n this way not only may the power mechanism of the phonographbe utilized for the actuation of mechanical toys but by toy I having relative movement when the turn-table is revolved during the playing of the disk.

2. An attachment for the turn-table of a phonograph comprising a track provided with a player-disk-opening and adapted to constitute one element of a friction drive,

and toy provided with arevoluble member constituting an element coacting with the first named element to complete the friction drive and mechanism actuated by said'friction drive.

3. Anattachment for the turn-tableof a phonograph comprising a track adapted to constitute one element of a friction drive, and a toy provided with a revoluble member constituting an element coacting with .the first named element to complete the friction drive and mechanism actuated by said friction drive, said attachment provided with an upstanding wall.

4. In a device of the class described, the combination with a phonograph turn-table provided with a space to accommodate a playing record, of an attachment for said turn-table for engaging the same exteriorly of said record-accommodating space, and

revolving therewith, and a toy relatively fixed in place and provided with a revolving wheel in frictional engagement with said revolving attachment and driven thereby.

5. An attachment for the turn-table of a phonograph comprising a track having a relatively large opening in the center-thereof to accommodate a player record, the under side ofsald track provided with a turn-- table'engaging surfaceadapted to engage the turn-table frictionallyso as to be rotated thereby, a toy provided with means for holding the same substantially in fixed position, said toy including a wheel adapted to be disposed iii-bearing engagement with the top of the track whereby the wheel is revolved by the rotating track.

' 6'. An attachment for the turntable of a phonograph comprising a track having a relatively large opening 'in'th'e center thereof to accommodate a player record, the under side of said track provided with a turntable engaging: surface adapted to engage the turn-table frictionally so as tobe rotated thereby and the upper side of said track provided with a toyeengagi-ng surface adapted to engage a rotating element ofa toy to actuate the same. 1 V

fSi ned at New YorkCity in the county 0 15th day of March, A. D. 1918.

FERDINAND MAIER.

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