US1555112A

US1555112A - Knockdown toy vehicle

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Publication number: US1555112A
Application number: US690510A
Authority: US
Inventors: Forse Harry Donald
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1924-02-04
Filing date: 1924-02-04
Publication date: 1925-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 1942-09-29

Description

Sept. 29-, 1925.

H. D. FORSE v KNOCKDOWN TOY VEHICLE Filed Fab. 4, 1924 F j INVENTOR.

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KNOCKDOWIN Application filed February To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY DONALD Fonsn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of iinderson, county of N adison, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Knockdown Toy Vehicle; and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full. clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

This invention relates to a knockdown toy vehicle, and particularly to the construction of the several parts whereby they may be readily assembled by the distributor to whom they have been shipped.

The chief object of the invention is to construct a toy vehicle in such a manner that the parts thereof may be shipped in knockdown relationship and thereafter very readily assembled by the distributor with a minimum of effort.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the construction of the several parts whereby the same cannot be assembled in any other than a predetermined relationship from a. knockdown condition.

Other features of the invention while incorporated in a knockdown vehicle likewise are applicable to other toy vehicles not constructed in knockdown form.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims:

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is'a side elevational view of a knockdown toy vehicle showing the same in assembled relation. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevational View of the several parts of the knockdown toy vehicle when in knockdown relationship. Fig. 4: is a sectional view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2 and in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 5 is a rear elevational view of a modified form of the invention upon a smaller scale. Fig. 6 is a side elevational view of several of the parts shown in Fig. 5 in the knockdown or' collapsed posit-ion.

In the drawings 10 indicates a seat which may be of any desired outline, and herein said seat is supported by three wheels, two of which are of the ordinary traction type and the third one of which is in addition thereto a steering wheel. The vehicle very much resembles the tricycle. Hingedly supported at or ANDERSON, INDIANA.

TQY VEHICLE.

4, 1924. Serial No. 690,510.

one end of the seat by a pair of hinges 11 is a bolster 12, whiclr is, as shown in Fig. 3, adapted to lie adjar-rrnt and parallel to the seat when in knoc down relation and is adapted to be posit caed transversely of and support said seat- 10 when in assemble-d relation, as shown in Fig. 1. A brace 13 is also provided, and herein said brace is adapted to rigidly conne :t the seat 10 and bolster 12 and prevents collapsing movement of the bolster upon its pivotal support. Herein the bolster 12 is shown provided with a T-shaped slot 14 of wedge outline. The brace 13 carries a complementary tongue 15 receivable by the medianly positioned slot The opposite end of the brace 13 is suitably secured to the seat 10 and thus serves to prevent collapsing movement of said seat and bolster. Herein the seat 10 is provided with a slight depression 16 which is in alignniientwith a recess 17 when the'brace is positioned in bracing relation. The opening 17 is herein shown enlarged at 18 to receive the head if) of the screw bolt 20 which passes through the opening 17 and registers with the depression 16 and thereafter screws .into the seat 10 to prevent sliding movement of the brace with respect to the seat and thus firmly anchors said brace to said scat, which in turn firmly supports the bolster in assembled relation.

Reference will now be had to the steering construction. Herein the seat 10 is provided with a suitable opening 20 upon the longitudinal axis of the seat. Said hole or aperture 20 is defined by a bearing plate or plates 21 suitably secured to the seat. If desired. this. bearing plate or plates may be omitted and thus reduce the cost of production. Rotatably supported in said aperture 20 is a post 22, which post includes a bifurcated or forked port-ion 23 upon which is pivotally supported, by means of the bolt and nut means 24 and 25 respectively, or other suitable pivoting member, a handle 26 having the tongue portion 27 receivable by the fork portion 23 of the post. The handle 26 carries a pair of gripping members 28 which maybe of any suitable or preferred design and maybe suitably secured to said handle as by passing the same through an opening 30 and securing the same against lateral movement in said opening by the screw or nail 31. If desired, however. the opening 30 may be of just sufficient size to receive the intermediate or connecting portion 29 of the handle 28 and frictionally retain said handle in the opening 30.

When this construction is utilized, the cost of production is less than when the screw 31 is added. The foregoing construction permits the handle 26 to be positioned in any one of the several positions, and herein see Fig. 1 the full line position denotes arsteering position when the occupants of the vehicle steers the same; while the dotted line position of the handle indicates the position the handl may assume when the vehicle is to be steered by someone pulling the same. In addition to the foregoing adjustment possibilities, it will be noted that if the handle 26 is rigidly secured to the post 22 in such as the adjusted position illustrated by the full lines in Fig. 1, rotating said post 180 degrees will position the handle in the pulling position from what may be termed the full line or pushing position.

A fork 32 having the spaced sides 31 is adapted to rotatably support upon the pivot 33 a steering wheel The fork 32 includes a socket 35 adapted to receive the lower and projecting end 36 of the post 22. A able pin or other locking connection 37 is aoapted to rigidly connect the post and the fork together, so that they will move as a unit and likewise be secured in assembled relation. The fork 32 is adapted to support the seat 10.

Reference will now be had particularly to Figs. 1, and 1, wherein the rear wheel construction is illustrated. Herein the same consists of a divided axle construction and each axle is shown including a wheel supporting portion 40 and a bolster supportable portion 11. The bolster supportable portion 41 is provided with a suitable head one form of which is herein illustrated. Said head 42 is receivable by a socket or axle receiving member 13 having the yielding tongues 1 1-, which tongues are moved outwardly by the axle head to permit its passage past the same, and thereafter permit-s said tongues to spring inwardly and engage the neck or reduced portion 4-5 of the axle and retain said axle in the socket. A suitable wheel 46 is carried by the axle. The aforesaid construction permits the wheel and axle to be simultaneously removed from the axle receiving socket by forcible movement and also permits said socket to receive and yieldingly retain said axle when said axle is positioned and projected into said socket upon the assembling of the ve hicle. It will likewise be observed that the sockets are duplicates and that the wheels and axles are duplicates.

In Figs. 5 and 6 there is illustrated a modified form of the invention which constitutes a reversal of the forms shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In this form of the invention the seat 110 is suitably supported by a bolster 112 secured thereto by suitably securing means such as the screws 120. The

bolster contains a central and transverse wedge-shaped groove or slot 114 which does not extend the entire height of the bolster. The seat 110 supports a brace 113 which is provided with a dovetailed locking member or tongue 115 receivable by the wedge or dovetail groove 11% of the bolster 112. Herein the brace 113 is secured to the seat 110 by a pair of hinges or suitable hinge means 111. From the foregoing, therefore, it will be noted that the motlitication illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 is substantially a reversal of that form of the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, with this advantage. The wedge-shaped slot or grooves begins at the seat and does not extend to the bottom of the bolster. llherefore, if the hinges become slightly loosened, the brace will not become detached from the bolster, but said bolster will nevcrtherless be retained in its substantially rectangular relation with respect to the seat.

While the invention has been described in great detail in the foregoing specifications, the same is to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive in character. lvlany modifications of the herein described invention have been referred to in the preceding, and these modifications as well as those which will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art to which this in vention applies are all considered to be within the broad purview of the invention, reference being had to the appended claims.

The invention claimed is:

1. In a knockdown juvenile vehicle, a-seat, a bolster adapted to lie parallel thereto when collapsed and transversely thereof when in operative relation, and a detachable brace rigidly connected to said seat at one end, said brace and said bolster having a complementary tongue and groove connection for rigidly securing the brace to the bolster and for rigidly securing said bolster in transverse position.

2. In a juvenile vehicle, the combination of a bolster, a pair of supporting wheels, an axle for each wheel, an axle receiving socket for each axle and supported by said bolster, said axle and said socket having complementary portions for yieldingly retaining the axle within the socket but permitting removal therefrom upon forcible movement.

3. In a juvenile vehicle, the combination of a bolster having a pair of openings therein, a pair of supporting wheels, an axle for each wheel, an axle receiving socket sup ported in each of said bolster openings, said axle and said socket having complementary portions for yieldingly retaining the axle within the socket but permitting removal therefrom upon forcible movement.

1. In a knock down juvenile vehicle, a bolster adapted to lie parallel thereto when collapsed and transversely thereof when in operative relation, and a. brace similarly positionable and connected to both the seat and bolster, a pair of wheels, an axle for each wheel, and an axle receiving member for each axle and supported by said bolster in alignment, said receiving member and said axle having a detachable connection for knockdown purposes.

5. In a knockdown juvenile vehicle, the combination of a seat, a steering post supported thereby, a wheel supporting member, said post and said wheel supporting member having complementary ends for detachable,

engagement, abolster supported by said seat, a pair of aligned axle receiving members supported by said bolster, an axle receivable by each of said axle receiving members, and a wheel carried by each axle and removable with the axle from said axle re ceiving member for shipment in the knockdown condition.

6. In a knockdown juvenile vehicle, the combination of a seat, an adjustably positionable jointed steering post supported thereby, a wheel supporting member, said post and said wheel supporting member having complementary ends for detachable engagement, a bolster supported by said seat, a pair of aligned axle receiving members supported by said bolster, an axle receivable by each of said axle receiving members, a wheel carried by each axle and removable with the axle from said axle receiving member for shipment in the knockdown condition, and a brace having one end detachably but rigidly secured to the bolster and the other similarly secured to the seat.

7. A device of the character described in the preceding claim, characterized by the bolster being supported by and permanently connected to the seat and adapted to lie parallel thereto when in knockdown position and tansversely thereof when in operative relation.

8. In a juvenile vehicle, the combination of a vehicle fran'iework, caster wheel means connected to one end of the framework for supporting the same, a pair of wheels associated with the other end of the framework, a pair of separable and independent axles for supporting said wheels, each axle being secured to a wheel and projecting laterally therefrom and being rotatable therewith, and a pair of aligned axle receiving members each adapted to detachably receive and rotatably support an independent axle and supported by said framework.

9. In a juvenile vehicle, the combination of a vehicle framework, caster wheel means connected to one end of the framework for supporting the same, a pair of wheels associated with the other end of the framework, a pair of separable and independent axles for supporting said wheels and secured thereto, whereby the same projects laterally therefrom, and a pair of aligned axle receiving members each adapted to detachably receive with a longitudinal sliding movement one of said independent axles and supported by said framework In witness whereof, I have hereunto at fixed my signature.

HARRY DONALD FORSE.