US1364881A - Figure toy - Google Patents

Description

F. A. KOCH.

FIGURE TOY.

- APPLICATION FILED OCT 8. 1919.

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' WITNESSES UNITED STATES FRANK A. KOCH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FIGURE TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

Application filed October 8, 1919. Serial No. 329,282.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK A. Koon, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and Improved Figure Toys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in figure toys.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be made to secure grotesque positions.

With the above and other objects in view, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the toy;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the toy in inverted position;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the body portion of the toy;

Fig. 1 is a detail sectional view showing the manner in which the extremities are secured to the arms and legs of the toy.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the device comprises a rigid body portion 5, formed of wood or other suitable ma terial. The upper end of this rigid body portion 5 is carved or otherwise formed in simulation of a head, as indicated by the reference character 6. The reference character 7 designates the arms of the figure toy, and 8 represents the legs. These arms and legs are formed from suitable pliable mate rial, which will retain any form to which it may be bent. For this purpose, I preferably employ a heavily insulated electric conductor, although I wish it understood that any other flexible material capable of the abovementioned operation may be used, if desired.

As shown in Fig. 3, the arms of the figure comprise a single length of flexible insulated wire, and said length of wire is passed through an opening 9 extending transversely of the body portion. This length of wire is not secured in the passage 9 against movement relative thereto, thus permitting of the arms to be turned in unison or bent independently of each other, as desired.

On the free ends of the length of wire forming the arms are placed rigid hand members 10, which may be formed from wood or other suitable material so long as the same is of a rigid nature.

Each of the legs consists of a single length of wire suitably secured in a rigid manner to the lower end of the body portion 5, and secured to the free end of each of the legs 8 is a rigid member 12 in simulation of a foot. Asshown in Fig. 4, each of the foot members 12 is provided with a passage 13, in which the wire engages and in which it a is rigidly secured, the insulation being stripped from a portion of the wire, as indicated by the reference character 14, in order that the wire may be received within the opening or passage 13. This method of attachrnent also applies to the hand members 10, they being secured in the same manner as described for the securing of the foot members 12.

I am aware that it is not new toform the arms and legs of a figure toy from flexible material, nor is it new to use electric conductors which are insulated, for this purpose. Dolls and other figure toys have been heretofore constructed, but to my knowledge in none of these devices are rigid hand and foot members employed whereby the toy is capable of being stood alone and caused to assume grotesque positions in which it may be balanced.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

In a figure toy, a solid body portion formed with an integral head, pliable limb members rigidly secured to said body portion and projecting therefrom, and rigid members in simulation of hands and feet and secured to the ends of said limb members whereby through the medium of the pliable FRANK A. KOCH.

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