US1403949A

US1403949A - Toy

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Publication number: US1403949A
Application number: US404970A
Authority: US
Inventors: Walter C Hadley
Original assignee: CENTRAL TALKING MACHINE SHOP I
Current assignee: CENTRAL TALKING MACHINE SHOP I; CENTRAL TALKING MACHINE SHOP Inc
Priority date: 1920-08-20
Filing date: 1920-08-20
Publication date: 1922-01-17
Anticipated expiration: 1939-01-17

Description

W. C..HADLEY.

TOY. APPLICATION FILED AUG.20| I920.

Patented Jan.17,1922.'

F 1 7 WW 1 q. :5 4M, J A 7 71 WITNESSES A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER C. HADLEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGN OR TO CENTRAL TALKING MACHINE SHOP, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TOY.

Application filed August 20, 1820. Serial No. 404,970.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER G. HADLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York city, borough of lllanhattan, county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toys, more particularly a dancing toy designed to be operated by the keys of an automatic or self-playing piano, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to produce a toy which may be positioned over the white keys of a piano and as the keys move up and down, the toy will be operated to simulate a dancing figure.

T o the above ends the present invention consists of a support, a lever carried thereby adapted to engage and be operated by a key of a piano, and carrying a suspended toy; and it further consists of the devices and combinations of devices which will be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which- Fig. 1 shows a vertical cross-section of a piano with the toy in position on the keys thereof, the toy being shown in elevation with the support therefor in cross-section.

Fi 2 shows a top plan view.

Similar reference characters will be employed to designate corresponding parts.

The device comprises a suitable support 1 which may be made of any suitable material, such as a piece of wood, and may be of indefinite length within the range of the keyboard of a piano and determined by the number of figures which it is desired shall be associated therewith. In the drawing the support as shown in Fig. :2 is of suliicient length to carry three such figures.

The support 1 is provided with notches 2 along its rear edge, there being as many notches as there are figures. Pivotally supported in the notches 2 are the two arm levers 3, such levers being mounted to freely turn about a rod 4 secured to the base 1. The lower or short arm 5 of the lever' 3 rests upon the forward end of a white key 6 of the piano and the upper longer arm 7 of the lever 3 extends upwardly and forwardly, preferably infa curved line, so as to overhang the extreme forward ends of the white keys 6.

The Figure 8 is suspended, preferably by means of a spring 9, to the extreme upper end 10 of the upper arm 7 of the lever 3, so

be pivotally connected or jointed to the body as shown at 14, whereby they may have movement independent of the figure, to simulate dancing.

Where a plurality of figures are employed the construction just described will be embodied in each figure. With the device supported upon the black keys 15 of a piano in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, as the white keys which engage the short arms 5 of the levers 3 rise and fall, a rocking movement will be imparted to the levers 3, causing the figures to jump up and down as though dancing to the music.

It is of courseunderstood that the keys of the piano are automatically moved by the operating mechanism of the piano and that whenever that key with which the lever is engaged is moved, movement will be imparted through the lever to the figure suspended thereon.

Having described my invention I claim:

1. A toy, comprising a base or support, a rocking lever pivotally connected thereto and having two arms disposed at an angle to each other, one arm of the lever extending beneath the base or support, to be engaged by a white key of a piano, the other arm of the lever extending upwardly and forwardly over the base, and a figure connected to the upper end of the upwardly and forwardly extending arm.

2. A toy, comprising a base or support, a standard rising therefrom and movably connected therewith, and projecting forwardly over the base or support, a figure suspended from the standard, the lower end of the standard projecting below the base and adapted to be engaged by a white key of a piano to impart movement .thereto, and to the suspended figure.

3. A toy, comprising a support or base, a rocking lever pivotally connected thereto, one arm of the lever projecting beneath the base to be engaged by a white key of a piano, the other arm of the lever extending upwardly and forwardly over the base, a short elastic flexible element connected to the upper end of the lever and a figure suspended by such flexible element.

LTER o. HADLEY.