US1509956A - Sounding toy - Google Patents

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Sept. 30 1924.

L. F. KIPP SOUNDING. TOY

Filed April 29 Fz'g. 3.

amusement device Patented Sept. 30, 19242 UNITED STATES LEONARD F. KIPP, 0F COUNCIL ELIE IFS. IOWA.

SOUNDING- ZTDY.

Application filed April 29, 1922. Serial No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONARD F. KIPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Council Bluifs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sounding Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in amusement devices or toys of that type in which a loud sound or detonation is produced by the rapid movement of the device and an object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive article adapted to emit a loud report, for instance in imitation of a fire cracker, and which may repeat the sound indefinitely without causing undue wearing ofthe parts.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a device which may be readily grasped and easily operated and a device that may be packaged compactly for economical transportation and which will form an attractive article for use at banquets, dinner parties, Fourth of July celebrations, etc.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter and will be more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Fig. 1 is a side view of the improved Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the same in the open position; and

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the device closed.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the improved amusement device comprises a body portion composed in the instance shown of two strips 4 and 5 of flexible material, preferably a tough paper, the strips being relatively thin and elongated in the manner best shown in Fig. 1 having the ends thereof secured together as by gluing and preferably reinforced as by staples 6.

The end portions are shaped with curved indentations 7 entering the strips from above and below to provide constricted necks 8 convenient for the grasp of both hands of the operator. The extreme edges of the end portions are preferably rounded to further the operators grasp. The intermediate portions of the two strips'l and 5 are left unsecured so that they may bulge outwardly away from each other as indicated in Fig. 2 and the median portions are preferably crimped as indicated at 9 in opposite directions to give the device when closed an initial impetus to the two strips to move in opposite directions when the handles or secured end portions are brought together.

In Fig. 1 there is represented at 10 the grain of the paper the paper being selected and cut so that this grain 10 extends transversely of the length of the strip and the lines of the grain run parallel with the crimps 9 and with the direction of the lines of bending of the paper. This facilitates the opening and closing of the intermediate portions of the device, it also adds to the life of the article inasmuch as the body of k the paper will not be so apt to crack when bent upon the transverse lines of the grain, and in actual practice the report is found to be louder with the grain thus disposed.

In the use of the device, the operator grasps both of the handles or secured end portions and moves the handles toward and from one another. In bringing these handles together, the device is caused to as sume'the open or bulged condition shown in Fig. 2 and when the handles are subsequently drawn apart rapidly the intermediate unsecured portions are brought forcibly together and into contact and the movement is found to result in the emitting of a loud report in imitation of a fire cracker or other explosive.

As shown in Fig. 3, the devices may be packed very close together for transportation and the article is for this reason con venient to carry about in the pocket to weddings dinner parties, and the like celebrations where its use will be attended with the desired production of noise without how ever entailing any of the disastrous conse ouences which are known to follow the use of fire-works.

I do not wish to be restricted to the size, form, and proportions of the various parts and obviously changes could be made in the construction herein described without departing from the spirit of the invention, it being only necessary that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A sounding toy comprising a pair of strips of flexible material, said strips being relatively thin and long and secured together in superposed relation at their opposite ends, the intermediate portions of said strips being unattached and free of each other and the median portions thereof being criinped in opposite directions with the inner sides of the creases facing each other to produce a normal tendency for said intermediate portions to separate, said superposed strips being adapted to be drawn suddenly taut :tor slapping said intermediate Leoense portions of the strips together and producing the desired sound, the interifastened ends of the strips being relaxed for permitting return of the intermediate portions to open position. i

In testimony whereof, I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEONARD F. KIPP Witnesses ARTHUR H; Srunens, WILLIAM A; Srnnens.

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