US1651273A - Aerial toy - Google Patents

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..I. HELLER AERIAL TOY Nov. 29, 1927.

Filed Jan. 10, 1927 $51 M mug Patented Nov. 29, 1927.

J N T D JOSEPH resv PATENT oFFrcE I HELLER, or NEW YORK, a. Y.

AERIAL TOY.

. Application flled'J' anuary 10,1927. Seria1.No. 160,023.

This invention relates to gamesand toys and especially such toys as are designed for not only amusement purposes for children, I

but also to impart to any persons a stimulus for inquiring into the principles of aero-" providea'eheaply constructed and attractive devicein the nature of a toyforaerial pura sky scraper building, a

poses which may be utilized, amongjot-her things, for the carrying of an advertisement and which maybe discharged froin anyelevated position, as from. the top or window of kite, or from an airship. v y

With theforegoing and other. objectsin view-the invention consists in the arrangement and. combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, andwhile the inven-v tion is not'restricted to theexact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the: purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawingsin which like reference characters designate, the. same parts in the several views, and 1n' wh1ch-'- Figure 1 is a face view of oneside-ofmy';

improved. toy.

Fig. 2 is asimilar View of the other side. Fig. '3 is a plan view of the blank for the formation of the binder and weight member.

Fig. 4 is aplan view of theblank or pat- V tern for the blade. 1

V Fig. 5 is, a plan View of theblank of the stiffener and with indication of the relation thereto of the blade.

Fig. 6 is a transversese'ction on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

h Fig. 7 is a similar view onthe line 7-7 of Fig. 1.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my device as comprising an assemblage'of three parts,a blade 10, a stifi'ener 11, and a combined weight. and binder 12. I

The blade is formed from a single ply of thin light sheet material such as onion skin or tissue paper and is providedwith a wide point portion 13 remote from the narrower shank portion 14.. i

The stifi'ener as shown in- Fig. 5 is cut'or companion member 19. One of the disks,

ward or advancing edge 18 of'the blade is 6 applied to one ofthe halves of the stiifener as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5while the shank portion 14 thereof overlaps one of the disks 16. The other half of the stiffener. then folded over, being superposed directly upon the first mentioned half,-and the blade and stiffener members are then secured firmly as by glue to one. another, constituting the .stifi'ener and blade as a unit.- The stiffener, as its name implies, stiflens and re-enforces the leading edge of the blade and holds such portion of the blade substantially flat. The stiffener and the blade constitute a wide smooth substantially fiat member upon either side of which may be printed or otherwise. placed advertising matter or thelike for publicity purposes. The device may be made so cheaply. that it is well adapted forfree distributionwi'th bread or other. commodity, thus insuring a wide range of publicity for the-message carriedthereby. The binder, is cut'or stamped from heavier material such as tin, aluminum, or other thinfiat metal andpreferably of the design shown in Fig. 3, the same comprising two disk portions '19 and19 unitedfto each other alonga foldable neck 20, and either of these disks bears preferably two spaced lugs '21 adapted to fold or "crimparound the other moreover, as for instance 19*, is provided 7 with a shank extension 22 which bears at its point a laterally projecting lug 23.

Withthelug 23 bent upward at an angle while the'disk portion 16 will be received 105 and fit directly between the two disks ofthe' binder; The other disk member 19 will then be brought down firmly upon the disks 16 V and thelugs 21 bent or crimped around as shown in Fig. 2. The union at the bending .1'10

to the plane of the shank 22, the combined line 20 and the lugs 21 serve to bind the disks oli'thc binder .tirmly together in flat form and this binding action together with the lug 23 serves to leek or bind the co1nbined stiffener and blade unit in the place indicated. The combined weight and binder, while of thin structure, has a substantial degree of weight as compared with the blade, and the shank 22 thereof carries a substantial degree of stitlness from the binder out along the backbone or leading edge :24 oi: the stitl' ener. The portion oi the stitiener outward theret'roin maintains a certain (le fIltQ ot stitlness, much more than the blade, especiallybeeanse of the fact that; it is formed of two parts gunnncd :tirinly together and embraced by a portion of the binder. The trailing and point portion of the blade. beinp ot asingle ply of thin stock. is free to flex in practice. 7

The operation of the toy is as Follows: \Vhen tossed into the air or dropped 'lrom any relatively high point or degree of elevation. for some reason, the seientitic explanation for which is not entirely elearto me, instead of the weighted or hinder end 12 ot the device gravitating direetlr and sharply to the ground, the toy almost inimi-aliately swings into a horizontal plane,

probably due to the lack of synnnetry thereof on opposite sides oi the axis of the blade. and theneetorth the toy gravitates slowly, maintaining its horizontal position. but; spins rapidly around a vertical axis some I where within the disk portion ot the weighted binder, the free edge ot the blade trailing. Since the device grayitates slowly and in a. substantially horizontal positioin it comes to rest with the least amount of likelihood of being damaged so that it may be projected into the air repeatedly with results as above stated.

I claim:

1.. The herein described aerial toy comprising; a combined stifl'ener and blade, the blade being made of thin stock and the stitfener being made of heavier stock, the blade and stiffener being united in flat form to form a unit having a relatively rigid leading edge and a thin pliable trailing edge, and a combined binder and weight member of disk formation connected to one end of the unit aitj'oresaid andbeing of flat construction and all in substantially the same plane.

A toy as set forth in claim 1 in which the stitl'ener is formed from two symmetrical parts folded one above the other and with the leading edge of the blade held firmly between them.

8. A device as set forth in claim 1 in which the combined weight and binder member comprises two flat portions mating with each other in the main and between which the shank portion of the blade and stitt'ener unit isgripped.

t. A construction as set forth in claim 1 in which the combined weight and binder member comprises a fiat disk having a relatively rigid extension leading along the leading edge of the stittener and having means to secnre the stiffener thereto. i q

5. The herein described aerialtoy coin prising a weight having two substantially symmetrical and concentric disks adapted to be superposed one over the other, one or the disks having lugs toerimp over the periphcry of the other for binding them together in flat form, a thin blade having one end projected from and between the disks, and stitt'ening means extending from the disks along the leading edge of the blade toimpart partial stitfness thereto. t

In testimony whereof I atlix in signature.

JOSEPHI ELLER.

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