US1359398A - Toy animal - Google Patents

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J. LEvlNl: TOY ANIMAL.

APPLICATION FILED N0V.'I4I 1919.

Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

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. JACOB LEVINE, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TOY ANIMAL.

To @ZZ lw from it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAooB LEVINE, a citizen of Russia, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county oi Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Toy Animal, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to toys, and more particularly to toy animals. The invention relates specifically to audible tone producing devices related with toy animals.

it is an object or my invention to produce an interesting and amusing toy animal for children, which isprovided with audible tone producing elements for adding to the pleasure and amusement of its use by children. It is a further purpose to provide a toy animal having a tone producing device such as a whistle incorporated in the hand, paw, or arm of the top animal so the toy will respond whentaken by the hand, or when the toy animalshand is grasped by the child in playing with same.

It is a further object to provide a simple, and inexpensive form of audible tone producing device which may be effectively combined with a toy animal such as a Teddy Bear, for making the toy more amusing to users, and for making the toy more profitable and salable in the market.

With the above principal objects and others in view, the invention has relation to the toy animal disclosure presented in this specification, set forth in the appended claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 illustrates a perspective view of a Teddy Bear, showing the bear with hands or paws in each of which is placed an audible tone producing device such as a whistle. Fig. 2 illustrates a cross sectional view of the Teddy Bears hand or paw, said section being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig.y 3 illustrates a plan view of a whistle, the same having been removed from the paw of the toy animal, and Fig. 4, illustrates a side elevation of the whistle device shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 shows a cross sectional longitudinal view of a whistling reed employed' as an element of the whistle shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

A toyT constructed in accordance with the principles ot my invention makes use of any miniature toy animal design such as a Teddy Bear, or dog. A whistling device or any Specification of Letters atent. Patented NOV, 16, 1920,

Application led November 14, 1919. 'y

Serial No. 338,034.

practical form of audible tone producing element is incorporated in the structure of the toy animal, and preferably inclosed in the hand or paw oi' the toy animal in order that the toy7 animal may emit joyful, re-

sponsive tones when playfully approached and his hand shaken by a child.

ln presenting a more detailed description of my invention I refer to the ldrawings and form and stutled with any suitable packing material 9. .The hand or paw is inished leather, piece 10 at the end of the paw by sewing or otherwise joining the leather piece 10 to the fabric arm material 8. The endv portion of the arm 7 is left open or not stuied with packing material 9 in order to form a receptacle in which the audible tone producing device is inserted.

A whistling device is constructed of a pair oi opposed disk members 14 and 15. A resilient spring 16, preferably coil spring, is confined between the disk members 14 and 15 and acts to keep the disk members in outwardly expanded and spaced relation one from the other. Each end of the spring 16 may be fixed to each disk 14 and 15.

A whistling reed 17 is iixed in one ot the disks. This reed is preferably beveled olli'k on each end as shown in the detail structure Fig. 5, and one end of the reed 17 is fitted with a vibrating vane 18. The vane 18 is inserted in a small slot or pushed down into the reed material with the upper free end thereof, bent over the reed opening and adapted to rapidly vibrate when air passes through the reed. In order toeiectively protect the outer end of the delicate reed 17, a protective casing 19 is fixed to the outer face of the disk 15 by gluing it ythereto or otherwise securing same. The casing 19 is fixed over the outer end of the reed 17 and prevents the sharp end of the reed from contacting or rubbing against the arm material or fabric portion 8 of the toy animals arm.

The disks 14 and 15 comprising the whistle are covered with a suitable flexible retaining material such as cloth or paper 20. The

voii' by inserting a vfabric, or preferably flexible material 20 must necessarily be air- A lto form a closed air space or air diaphragmY The material` within the whistling device. 2O is lapped over the outer edges of the' perimeter ot' the disks 14 and 15 and cemented or otherwise securely fixed thereto.

hand or paw of the Teddy Bear. 1n Fig. 1 the whistle 15 is shown in dotted Alinesin one of the animals paws, while the other paw thereof is shown to be installed with the whistle, said paw being' broken away to eX- pose a portion ofthe whistlein `full lines. The whistle 15 is placed in the paw and the leather cover 10 securely sewed to the fabric material 8,

By pressing the paw of the animal the closed airdiaphragm comprising the whistle parts is compressed. VThis action on the part ofthe whistle sets up an air pressure within the closed drum which Vforces a stream of air at high velocity through the reed passage 17, and the consequent action .is a rapid vibration of the vane 18. This vibration produces Va whistling sound similar to any ordinary forml of; whistle. `The device repeats the whistling action upon each compression and release'ofthe whistling device Vor air drum.

The invention is substantial in structure, comparatively inexpensive to produce, and adds to theattractiveness, utility andsalability of toy animals. y

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and ldesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

Vln a toy animal having paws provided y" with a `flexible covering, the combination with The whistle as described is inserted in the part o1 the covering onjsaid paws, of a whistling device held in place by the covering of Veach paw, and operable by a manipulation of the covering over the respective paws, each o said whistling-devices comprising a pair of disks arranged substantially parallel to the covering thereo'l, a flexible substantially annular connecting member connecting the edges of said disks so as to producewan airtight inclosure, a spring :tor normally holding said disks separated, a tubular member extending through one of said disks, a sounding reed carried by said tubular memberV adjacent one end, and a looped member forming a guard over the end of the tubular member extending from said disk, said looped member being positioned to A be engaged by part or". the covering of the respective paws when saidr Ycovering is compressed for causing the disks to move together, said movement causing` an impulse of the air through said disks 'through the tubular member past the reed and thereby resulting in a sound proportioned in length to the degree of movement of the disk.

JACOB Levine.-

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