US1721733A - Figure toy - Google Patents

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July 23, 1929. w. HINSEN 1,721,733

FIGURE TOY Filed Sept 1, 1927 INVENTOR,

. ATTORNEY.

Patented July 23, 1929.

UNITED STATES WILLIAM HINSEN, OF CAT SPRING, TEXAS.

FIGURE TOY.

Application filed September 1, 1927. Serial No. 2163955.

This invention relates to figure toys, and especially ,to a mechanical. toy which I choose to name revolving clowns. The main object of this invention is to provide a comparatively simple and inexpensive toy which is at the same time quite amusing and interesting.

Other objects and important features are pointed out or implied in the following details of description, in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a View partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section, showing an embodiment of this invention.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the device shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a part of the device shown in Figures 1 and 2, a part of this view being in section along the line 33 of Figure 1.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged vertical sectional View, the section being taken along line 4:l of Figure 1.

Referring to these drawings in detail, in which similar reference characters correspond to similar parts throughout the several views, the invention is described in detail as follows:

Broadly considered, the invention includes 'a supporting base 1 provided with a vertical pivot or rod 2, a rotary member 3 mounted to turn on the pivot, and figure toy members 4 and 5 supported on and rotatable with the member 3 by means of flexible connections 6. In practice, these flexible connections may be of any appropriate kind, or design, but as here illustrated, they comprise bearing members 7, springs 8, pintles 9, and supporting uprights or flanges 10, the latter being formed integrally with plates 11, preferably of sheet metal, and these members 1011 are united with the member 3 so as to rotate therewith, and may be considered as constituting parts of the member 3.

In the form here shown, the member 3 includes a bar or plate 12 which is centrally apertured, and through this central aperture extends a tube 13 having bearing members'14 and 15 therein, these bearing members receiving the vertical pivot 2. A handle or crank 'lfi is secured on the upper end of the tube 13.

The figure my members 4 and 5 maybe of an a propriate construction and shape, eit ier allow or solid, but preferably the aim ulations of living creatures of the erect type, for instance, those which are accustomed to stand upon two legs, such as kangaroos, fightlng cocks or human beings, the latter being chosen in the present illustrations, and being comically designed and decorated to represent clowns. The flexible supports 6 are designed and constructed tohold the figure toy members normally erect, as shown in full lines in Figure 1, and to permit them to swing outward, as indicated by dotted lines in. Figure 1, and also to swing inward, it being understood that the front parts of their feet will pass bet-ween the supporting flanges 10 when they swing forward or inward.

In operating this figure toy, the base member 1 is seated on a floor or table, and the handle 16 is rotated or oscillated, so the centrifugal force of the rotating member 3 forces the toy members 4: and 5 to swing outward, while the springs 8 tend to force them inward, so when the speed of rotation diminishes or ceases, the toy members 4 and 5 swing inward, the momentum carrying them towards one another from their normal vertical position, thereby giving'the effect or impression that they are striking at one another, and each dodging behind the intervening upright member 13.

This toy is not only quite amusing, but owing to the fact that the rotary, part 3 can be disconnected from the part 12, it is interesting for small children who have the propensity for dissecting their toys. When this toy is dissected by the removal ofthe part 3 from the part 12, it can easily be rebuilt by simply inserting the pivot 2 in the bearing 14, and when the handle 16 is turned, the upper end of the pivot 2 will automatically move into the bearing 15. I

As previously pointed out, this invention is susceptible of numerous changes of construction, arrangement and design, without any departure from the broad inventiveideas as implied and claimed herein, so I have no intention of limiting my patent protection to the details here shown.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A figure toy including a base 'providec with a vertical pivot, a rotary member mounted to be turned on said pivot, two figure toy members, and flexible connections on opposite sides of said pivot and secured to the feet or lower ends of said figure toy members, said connections including springs and adapted to hold said figure toy members normally erect and to permit them to swing outward inconsequence of centrifugal force.

2. A figure toy including a base provided with a vertical pivot, a rotary member including a bearing and a handle at its top part, said bearing being adapted to receive theupper end of said pivot and cooperate therewith for supporting said rotary member in the relation for being rotated by means of said handle, two figure toy members, and flexible connections on opposite sides of said pivot, said flexible connections including elastic means to hold the figure toy members substantially normally erect, but permitting the figure toy members to swing outward in consequence of the centrifugal force resulting from the turning of said'handle.

3. Ina figure toy, the combination of a rotary member including a central vertical part which has a crank on its top and a pivotbearing immediately under the crank, a base having'a vertical pivot extending up therefrom and pivoted in said pivot-bearing, horizontal pintles secured on the rotary member at opposite sides of the bottomof said vertical pivot, figure toy members having feet provided with bearing members which are pivotally mounted on said pintles, and springs cooperative with said pintles and feet to yieldingly hold said figure toy members in such vertical position that their heads are at opposite sides of the said pivot-bearing and below the level of said crank.

4. In a figure toy, the combination of a rotary member including a central vertical tube having a pivot-bearing in its upperend and a crank on its upper end, a base having a vertical pivot extending up into said tube and pivoted in said pivot-bearing, and two figure toymembers yieldingly supported at opposite sides of said tube and'having their heads at opposite sides of said pivot-bearing and below the level of said crank. 7

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM HINSEN.

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