US1394096A - Toy - Google Patents

Description

E. LACEY.

TOY.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. I920.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

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EDYTH LACEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

Application filed May 20, 1920. Serial No. 382,719.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDYTH LACEY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, having a post-office address at No. 1139 Madison avenue, New York city, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in toys and my object is to provioe a toy for the amusement of children, which is simple in construction, of low cost and of substantial durability, and which I have found from experience provides a very real source of entertainment to the child.

My invention comprises a suitable image of a turtle, bear, seal or any other animated object provided with two feet upon which the object rests upright, and having an opening near the top of the object through which extends a stretched string maintained horizontally, whereby, it the object is allowed to incline slightly forward, the string may be oscillated from side to side, causing the object to progress slowly in a very amusing and lumbering fashion toward the point of support of the string. By connecting two or more of these strings to a bedpost, bureau-knob or some other. object in the nursery or elsewhere, young children may obtain a great deal of amusement and excitement by racing their respective objects.

In order that the invention may be better understood, attention is directed to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a side view. showing the mounting of the object on a horizontal string;

Fig. 2, a plan view of the same showing in dotted lines the object in its extreme positions of oscillations which permit its forward advancement toward the pivot 01"- the string, the object illustrated in this view being a turtle; and

Figs. 8 and 4, elevations illustrating a bear and a sealrespeetively.

In all of the above views corresponding parts are represented by the same numerals of reference.

The image 1 represents any desired animated object, such as a turtle, bear or seal. It may be made of stiff cardboard or thin wood or veneer, suitably ornamented and colored to represent the object desired. It 13 provided with two feet 2, 2, near its lower end and with a hole 8 through which extends a. taut string 4. This string is secured to a suitable support 5, such as a bedpost. The height of the string is so adjusted that the object will occupy a generally inclined position, as shown in Fig. 1. By now oscillating the string sidewise, as shown to an exaggerated extent in Fig. 2, the object will be causedto progress or waddle in a lumbering way, that is very amusing to the child, toward the end of the string. Of course, by reversing the inclination of the object and repeating these operations there will be a movement in the opposite direction toward the childs hand. Obviously by providing two or more of the toys children can amuse themselves by racing the objects.

Having now described my invention, what I claim new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

In a toy, the combination with a supporting string extending parallel to the floor, of a figure resting upon the floor and supported at its upper end by the string, said figure eing maintained in an inclined position, whereby the figure will be cause to progress longitudinally of the string by vibrating the same horizontally, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 11th day of May, 1920.

EDYTI-I LACEY.

lVitnesses GATHARINE S. JORDAN, CHARLES C. MARSHALL.

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