US1482475A

US1482475A - Sounding device for dolls and other toys

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Publication number: US1482475A
Application number: US556940A
Authority: US
Inventors: Marcus Samuel
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1922-04-27
Filing date: 1922-04-27
Publication date: 1924-02-05
Anticipated expiration: 1941-02-05

Description

Feb. 5', 1924.

S. MARCUS SOUNDING DEVICE FOR DOLLS AND OTHER TOYS File d April 27 ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 5, i924.

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SAMUEL MARCUS, OI? BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SOUNDING DEVICE FOR DOLLS AND OTHER TOYS.

Application. filed April 27, 1922. Serial No. 556,940.

To all whom it may concem Be it known that I, SAMUEL citizen of the United States, and of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sounding Devices for Dolls and Other Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The invention pertains to sounding or talkin devices, so-called, for use in connec- 'tion with dolls and other toys, and it resides in the novel soundin'g or talking device hereinafter described and claimed to be positioned within the body of the doll or other toy and which device will remain inactive when the doll is in one position and operate to emit a sound, as talking or crying, when the doll is placed in another position. Preferably the sounding device of my invention will be of duplex character so as to emit a sound when the doll containing it is turned to a reclined position and also while the doll is being restored to initial or vertical position, although my invention is not limited, in every instance. to the duplex character referred to.

ne purpose of the invention is to provide a durable, simple and highly eiiicient sounding or talkin device to be placed within the body of a do 1 and which will by preference be capable of giving one sound as Ma-ma, when the doll is reclined, and a variant sound as Pa-pa, when the doll is restored from its inclined position to a vertical position.

The device of my invention, in its preferred construction, comprises a cylindrical body portion, a plunger movable vertically therein and adapted when moved in one direction to expand a bellows and when moved in the reverse direction to collapse said bellows, a sound box and reed mounted upon the said body portion and in communication therewith and equipped with an operating valve or damper, a second sound box and reed connected by atube with the lower end of said body portion and with the interior of said bellows, said second sound box having an operating valve or damper, and a rod connected with said plunger and movable therewith and equipped at its outer exposed end with means for operating the valve or damper of one of said sound boxes when said rod is moved outwardly by the plunger from within the said cylindrical body and with additional means for operating the valve or M'AnoUs, a a. resident damper of the other sound box upon the retreating motion of said rod, with said plunger, to the lower end of said cylindrical body. this arrangement permitting, when a doll carrying it is reclined, the operation of one reed and one sound box and when the doll is restored to normal position. the oper ation of the other reed and sound box. The device is thus of duplex character equipped in its preferred construction with two reeds, one to be operated when the plunger within the body moves in one direction and the other to be operated when said plunger moves in the reverse direction.

My invention comprises a number of novel details as Well as novel features considered in a broader scope, and said invention will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a, central vertical section through a sounding device embodying my invention. the section being taken on the dotted line 1-1 of Fig. 3 and all of the parts of the device being shown in normal position, as when a doll containing the same is in normal vertical position;

Fig. 2 is a like view of the same showing the device as having been inverted and as having had one of its reeds operated;

Fig. 3 is a top view of the same, and

Fig. 4 is a detailed horizontal section. taken on the line H of 1.

In the drawings, designates a cylindrical shell or the body portion of the device, and 11 a plunger or piston closely fitting the walls oi. said shell 10 and carrying on one side an operating rod 12 and being connected with the closed end of a yielding cylindrical bellows 13 which normally is below the plunger. 14. 15, respectively, designatethe sound boxes, 16, 17, respectively, the valves or dampers therefor, and 18, 19, respectively, the reeds for said sound boxes. The valve or damper 1-6 is formed of a plate hinged at one edge and connected with a spring for holding the valve or damper l6 normally closed over an opening 21 formed in the top of the sound box 14. Preferably a packing material, as thin sheet rubber 22, will be applied to the lower surface of the valve or damper 16 so as to aid the same in efiecting the closure of the opening 21 in the sound box. The valve or damper 16 also has, by preference, a venting opening 23,

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and the right hand edge, looking at Figs. 1 and 3, of the valve or damper 16 projects laterally beyond the adjacent side of the sound box 14 so as to form a projecting lip 24 to be engaged first by the wire rod 25 and thereafter by the wire rod 26 carried by the plunger rod 12.

The valve or damper 17 is secured by means of a spring hinge 27 upon the top of the sound box 15 and is adapted to close or open an aperture 28 in the top of said box 15. The valve or damper 17 has an arm 29 projecting laterally or toward the left, looking at Fig. 1, from the sprin hinge 27, and this arm 29 is adapted, alter the valve or damper 16 has been operated and while the rod 12 and plunger 11 are returning to normal position, to be acted on to open the valve or damper 17, first by a w re spring rod 30 and then by a longer Wll'e spring rod'31, the valve 17 being permitted to temporarily close after the rod 30 has engaged the arm 29 and opened said valve or damper and before the end of the sprmg rod 31 engages said arm 29 and again opens the valve or damper 17 The primary opening of the valve or damper 17 by the rod 30 and then the reopening of said valve or damper by the rod 31, results in the reed 19 giving, in connection with the sound box 15, a two syllable sound as Ma-ma or Pa-pa.

. 'When the device is reversed in position, the

rod 25 first opens the valve or damper 16 and said valve or damper is permitted to close after the outer end ofthe rod 25 passes its lip 24:, and thereupon the end of the red 26 will engage said lip and again open the valve or'damper 16, holding the same open.-

in the manner shown in Fig. 2, the successive opening, closing and reopening of the valve or damper 16 causing the reed 18 in connection with the sound box 1 1 to emit a two syllable sound as Pa-pa or Ma-ma. The

wire rods

25, 26, 30, 31 are connected at their 1 inner ends with a collar 82 which is secured upon the exposed and of the rod 12 by means of a set-screw 33. The collar 32 may be adjusted on the rod 12 so as to correctly posi tion the spring rods 25, 2-6, 30, 31 carried by it with respect to the valves or

dampers

16, 17 should an occasion for such adjustment arise.

The sound box 11 at its lower end is formed with a reduced neck portion 31- which communicates at its lower end through a ort 35 with the interior of the cylindrical liody 10, and said. neck portion 341 is formed with a flange 36 which is secured within the opening 35 in the top of the body 10, said sound box 14 being in this manner secured to said body 10. At the upper end of the neck-portion 31., the reed 18 is secured by shellac 37 or other material, and said reed 18 projects downwardly into the chamber of the neck 31.

r ea-are The sound box 15 is mounted upon the top of the body 10 and it also has a reduced lower neck portion 38 into which the reed 19 projects, and said reed 19 is held in position by shellac or other suitable substance 39. The neck 38 communicates with the bottom of the cylindrical body 10 by means of a piece of tubing 40 which extends from the bottom 4:1 of the body 10 up around the Side of said body and enters the neck 38.

The plunger or piston 11 is formed of metal so as to be of considerable weight, and upon the plunger or piston 11 is hung a rubher bag shown extended in Fig. 2 which constitutes the body of the bellows 13. Over the closed end of the rubber bag constituting the bellows is provided a cap 12 which closely binds the closed end of the bellows against the plunger or piston 11 and in addition affords a smooth surface for engagement with the inner walls of the cylindrical body portion 10. The free edges of the rubber bag constituting the bellows 13 are turned outwardly from under the lower edges of the body 10 and up around the sides of said body, and firmly secured by the bottom cap 11 constituting the bottom of the body 10, said cap 11 being forced upwardly against the outwardly turned portions of the free end of the rubber bag and squeezing the same tightly against said body 10, thereby forming an air tight joint around the bottom ca 41-1.

hen the device is in normal position, as shown in Fig. 1, the plunger or piston 11 will be at the lower end of the body 10 and the bellows will be in a collapsed condition, as indicated at 13, and at this time both the valves or

dampers

16, 17 willbe' in closed position. When the device is inverted, as shown in Fig. 2, the plunger or piston 11 will move from the lower end or the body 10 to the inverted upper end of the same, and at this time the rod 12 will be thrust outwardly and the rubber bag constituting the bellows 13 will be extended, as shown in Fig. 2. lhe movement of the plunger or piston 11 toward the top of the body 10 when said body is reversed, results in the outer end of the spring rod 25 first moving against 4 and opening the valve or damper 16 and then releasing said valve or damper to close under the action of the spring 20, and then in the outer end of the spring rod 26 moving against said valve or damper 16 and opening" the same in opposition to the spring 20, said spring rod 26 holding the valve or damper 16 open, as shown in Fig. 2. When the device is inverted or turned to the 0 tion shown in Fig. 2, the air which was a ove the plunger or piston 11 is forced out through the neck 34 and reed 18 into the sound box 1 1. and said reed is caused to 0p erate in a well known manner, the sound of the reed being modified by the opening and means closing and opening movements of the valve or damper 16.

When the device is turned from the position shown in Fig. 2 to its former normal vertical position shown in Fig. 1, the plunger or piston 11 moves back toward the bottom 41 of the body 10 and collapses the bellows 13 and drives the air from within the same out through the tube 10 and into the neck 38 of the sound box 15, said air acting on the reed 19 and the sound of the reed being modified by the Successive opening, closing, reopening or reclosing of the valve or damper 17 by spring rods 30., 31 and spring hinge 27.

The device is thus double acting or luplex in character, the reed 18 sounding when. the device is inverted and the reed 19 sounding when the device is restored to normal position. lit 1 should desire to have a single acting device, which will be preferable for small dolls and toys, I may omit either one of the

sound boxes

14, 15 with its connections. lit 1 should omit the sound box 15 I would also omit the tube 40 and bellows 1; as well as the

spring rods

30, 31, and if I should refer to retam the sound box 15 to the exe usion of the other sound box, I would simply remove the sound box 14 and the

spring wire rods

25, 26, retaining the bellows and merely leaving the opening 35 in the top of the body 10 and as a vent opening.

. The

rods

25, 26, 30, 31 will be referred to in the claims as arms, to distinguish them from the rod 12'. The vent opening 23 admits air to, the sound box 1 1 when the plunger is moving in a direction therefrom, and a vent opening 43 in the sound box 15 admits air to said box when the plunger is moving in a direction to expand the bellows 13.

l have shown and described the most complete and satisfactory form of the invention Known to me, but l do not wish to be limited to all of the details of form and construction shown, since l am aware that many of these details may within the spirit and scope of mg invention as claimed he variously modi ed.

What ll claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-box communicating with said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a sell-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with an outward- 1y projecting member and an operating rod connected with said plunger and projecting through the end of said body and provided with an arm adapted to move aeainst said projecting member and open said valve or damper on the movement of said plunger.

rm Lil) 2. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-boa communicating" with said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor provided with an outwardly projecting member, and an operating rod connected with said plunger and projecting through the end of said body and pro vided with means adapted on the move ment of said plunger to move against said projecting member and open said valve or damper and then pass by the same and per mit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also bein provided with means to on the continue movement of the plunger move against said projecting member and reopen said valve or dam r.

3. A. sounding device oi: the character described comprising a hollow body shell, weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-box communicating with said body and containing a reed and having an opening in its outer end and a self-closing valve or damper therefor, said valve or damper having a part projecting beyond the side of said box, and an operating rod connected with said plunger and projectlnp' through the end of said body and provided with arms adapted on the movement of said plunger to engage the projecting" part of said valve or damper and successively open said valve or damper, permit the same to close and reopen the same.

A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger hitting and movable therein, a sound box having a reduced neck portion containing a reed and communicating with said body, said box also having an outlet opening and a sell-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with an outwardly projecting member and an operating rod connected with said plungerand projecting through the end of said body and provided with means adapted on the movement of said plunger to move against said projecting member and open said valve or damper and then pass by the same and permit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also being; provided with means to on the continued movement of the plunger move against said projecting member and reopen said valve or damper.

5. ll. sounding device eat the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a flexible bellows-bag fastened at its inner end to said plunger edge to one end of said body. said bag extending when the plunger moves in one di' rection and collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, a soundboi: communicating with said body within the and at its outer or free 1 lltl outer end of said ba and containing a reed and an outlet opening and having a selfclosing valve or damper therefor, provided with an outwardly projecting member and an operating rod connected with said pluner and rojecting through the end of said ody and provided with means adapted on the movement of said plunger to move against said projecting member and open said valve or damper and then pass by the same and permit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also being provided with means to on the continued movement of the plunger move against said projecting member and reopen said valve or damper.

6. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a flexible bellows-bag fastened at its innor end to said plunger and at its outer or free end being folded outwardly around one end of the sides of said body, said body having at said end a cap fitting thereon and securing said outer end of said bag in an air-tight manner to said body, and said bag extending when the lunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, a sound-boa communicating with said body within the outer end of said bag and containing a reed and an outlet opening and having a selfclosing valve or damper therefor, proyided with an outwardly projecting member and an operating rod connected with said plunger and pro ecting through the end of said ody and provided with means adapted on the movement of said plunger to move against said projecting member and open said valve or damper and then pass by the same and permit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also being provided with means to on the continued movement of the plunger move against said pro'ecting memher and reopen said valve or amper.

'7. A sounding device of the character described comprim'ng a hollow body shell. or weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a tlerible bellows-bag having a closed inner end fitted over said plunger and secured thereon and at its outer or open end being tolded outwardly around one and out the sides of said body, said body having at said end a cap fitting thereon and securing said outer end 0t said bag in an air-tight manner to said body, and said bag extending when the lunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, a sound-boa communicating with said body within the outer end of said bag and containing a reed and an outlet opening and having a salt-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with a projecting member and an operating rod connected with said plunger and projecting through the end of said body and provided with means adapted on the movement of said plunger to move against said projectin member and open said valve or damper an then pass by the same and permit said valve or damper to close, and said rod also being provided with means to on the continued movement of the plunger move against said projecting member and reopen said valve or damper.

8. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a sound-box communicating with one end of said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper t erefor, provided with a projecting member, a sound-box communicating with the other end of said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with a projecting memher and an operating rod connected with said plunger and projecting through one end of said body and provided with means adapted to move against the projecting member of one of said valves or dampers and actuate said one of said valves when said plunger moves in one direction and with means to move against the projecting member of and actuate the other of said valves when the plunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound boxes bein mounted on the end of said body through which said rod projects and in operative relation to said rod.

9. A sounding device or the character described comprisin a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger tting and movable therein, a sound-box communicating with one end of said body and containing a reed and havin an outlet opening and a self-closing va ve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member, a sound-box communieating with the other end of said body and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor, provided with a projecting memher and means operable from said plunger adapted to engage the projecting member of and actuate one of said valves when said plunger moves in one direction and to engage the projecting member of and actuate the other of said valves when the plunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound boxes being mounted on said body and in operative relation to said means operated by said plunger.

10. A sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow'body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein, a flexible bellows fastened at its inner end to said plunger and at its-outer or free end to one end of said body, said bellows extending when the plunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, a sound box communicating with said body outside of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member, a sound box communieating with said body at the interior of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-010s ing valve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member, and an operating rod connected with said plunger and projecting through one end of said body and provided with means adapted to engage the projecting member of and actuate one of said valves when said plunger moves in one diroction and with means adapted to engage the projecting member of and actuate the other of said valves when the plunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound boxes being mounted on the end of said body through which said rod projects and in operative relation to said rod.

11. A. sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, a weighty plunger fitting and movable therein. a flexible bellows fastened at its inner end to said plunger and at its outer or free end to one end of said body, said bellows extending when the plunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, a sound box communicating with said body outside of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor provided with a projectin member, a sound box communieating with said body at the interior of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-closing valve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member and means operable from said plunger adapted to engage the pro'ecting member 0t and actuate one of sai valves when said plunger moves one direotion and to engage the projecting member of and actuate the other or" said valves when the plunger moves in the reverse direction, said sound bore being mounted on said body and in operative relation to said means operated by said plunger.

12. it. sounding device of the character described comprising a hollow body shell, weighty plunger fitting and movable thcre= in, a flexible bellows fastened at its inner end to said plunger and at its outer or tree end to one end of said body, said bel lows extending when the plunger moves in one direction and collapsing when the plunger moves in a reverse direction, a sound box communicating with said body outside of said bellows and containing a reed and having an outlet 0 ening and a self-closing valve or damper t ereior provided with a projecting member, a sound-box communicatin with said body at the interior of said ellows and containing a reed and having an outlet opening and a self-clos ing valve or damper therefor provided with a projecting member, and an operating rod connected with said plunger and pro jectin through one end of said body and provi ed with two sets of arms, one set being adapted on one movement of the plunger to successively in timed relation engage the projecting member oi and impart two opening movements to one of said valves and the other set being adapted on the reverse movement of said plunger to successively engage the projecting member of and open in timed relation the other of said valves, said sound boxes being mounted on the end of said body through which said rod projects and in operative relation to said rod.

Signed at New York city, in the county of ew York and State of New Yorlr, this 26th day of April A. D. 1922.

SAMUEL MARCUS.