US1750991A - Picture toy - Google Patents

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March 18, 1930. c. BUSTAMANTE 1,750,991

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Patented Mar. 18, 1930 CESAR BUSTAMANTE, F NEW YORK, N. Y.

PICTURE TOY Application filedv May 2, 1928. Serial No. 274,436.

This invention relates generally to optical amusement devices, and its chief object is to provide a pocket-size picture toy or novelty for reproducing as a movie, a series of separate but continuous photographs of a moving object made on a sheet or disc, such as those taken by a photo-machine of a person sitting before it.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this kind which may be made of metal stampings and of such a low manufacturing cost that the device may be sold with the picture card for the price usually charged for the pictures alone.

A still further object of the invention 1s to rovide a device of this character which may be operated slowly to exhibit the separate pictures one at a time as a series of st1ll s, or rapidly to produce the illusion of motion due to the pro ressively changing position or expression o the subject as a real moving picture.

A typical form in which the idea can be embodied for accomplishing the objects of the invention will now be described by reference to the accompanying drawings, but the invention is limited in its forms only by the scope of the sub-joined claims. ln these drawings,

Fig. l is a plan, partly broken away and partly in section, of the article, and

Fig. 2 is a section, partly in elevation, along line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The device comprises a sturdy boX, or other enclosure 1, preferably small enough to be easily slipped into an ordinary pocket. This case may well be made of fairly thick aluminum covered with artificial leather like that of cameras, to enhance the appearance of the article, but of course any kind of metal will do equally well. The case has an aperture 7 in its front face, but is otherwise solid.

Through the center of the bottom face of the case 1 there is inserted a short shaft 13 having a head at its lower end as shown and extending about half-way up through the case. A driving member, such as a thin, fiat spur gear 4 of a relatively large radius, is attached to the shaft 13 within the case and adjacent its bottom face. Another shaft 14 is anchored in the bottom face of the case considerably od center and preferably in one corner thereof, and extends almost into contact with the front face. A very much smaller spur gear 8 is supported on this shaft 14, and is moved in contact with the case by a partial rotation of the larger gear 4, making about 25 revolutions to 1 of the larger gear, in the device illustrated in the drawings.

Mounted also on this same shaft 14, and in contact with the gear 8, is a disc 5, having a pin or peg 11 attached near its periphery, and forming with the disc 9, the driving member of a Geneva intermittent movement.

The driven member 3 ofthe intermittent gear is loosely mounted on the stud 13 for rotation independently of the stud. This member is of the usual form and comprises ten driving slots 10 cooperating with the pin 11 and ten locking faces 12 for engagement with the disc 9. The ratio of motion to rest is about 1 to 3.

The driving member 4 of the intermittent movement is operated by a disc 6 rigidly attached to the projecting head of the shaft 13 outside the case and can be easily rotated either way by one nger in a hole as shown.

The pictures to be exhibited are printed on a card or disc 2 attached to the driven member 3 in such position that the pictures register with the sight opening 7 when the member 3 is at rest.

As the disc 6 is rotated in the direction of the arrow the member 9 is rotated in the opposite direction at an increased speed and the disc 3 carrying the card is operated intermittently to bring the successive pictures into registration with the opening through which they are perceived and held there stationary while the locking face 12 is held by the disc 9.

As the period of rest is much greater than the time of movement, the impression of the n successive pictures on the eye will not be de stroyed by the intervening motion of the picture card and the illusion of motion will be produced as in a real, continuous movie. By moving the disc slowly around with the crank, a slot of the Geneva at a time,l however, one can roduce separatesti1ls,as well. As the num er of pictures which can be printed on a card Without making the card unduly large or the pictures too small, is limited, it is impractical to reproduce an extended movement of the subject photographed, but ver life .like affects can be produced where tie movement to be reproduced is a simple one, such as turning the head from side to side, changing the expression from serious to gay, speaking a word of greeting etc.

A coin operated camera may readily be adapted to take the successive views with suicient rapidity for a movement such as above described to be reproduced, and the viewing device will preferably vbe sold with the card of pictures. v

The pictures may be permanently fastened to disc 8 by the attendant when they are taken, and the margin of the cover of the case bent under as indicated at 70. The cover may however be removable and the card of pictures detachably secured to the disc 3 so that one viewing device may be used with different pictures. v

The device may be manufactured very cheaply, as it consists almost entirely of sheet metal stampings, and is well adapted to be given away as an advertising novelty, the face of the cover providing an extensive surface for the advertising matter.

I claim:

1. In a picture toy, a casing having a viewing-aperture therein, a stub-shaft fixed in one face thereof and projecting upwardly therefrom, a picture-disk on one end of said shaft, a gear attached to the under side of said disk, and means operatively associated with said gear for rotating the disk by the rotation of the shaft but independently of the rate of rotation thereof, said gear having slots and locking faces, the ratio of size of slots to locking-faces being such as to cause each picture on the disk when said disk is caused to rotate by operating said shaft, to rest in said a erturewhen at rest a period thrice that o the period of mot-ion of the picture when moving.

2. A moving picture toy, comprising the combination of a container, an opening in one side thereof, a rotatable member projecting inwardly from the opposite side, a picture-disk in said container loosely associated with said rotatable member, a driven member attached to one side of said disk independently of said rotatable member, a driving member around the lower end of said rotatable member, a second driven member supported in said container eccentric to said driving member, and a second driving member attached to said second driven member so as to engage said rst driven member, and a cranking member attached to one end of said rotatable member.

3. A moving picture toy, comprising in combination, a casing having a viewingv aperture therein, a main stub-shaft inserted through one face of the casing, a picture disk supported loosely on one end of the main stub-shaft, a Geneva-gear attached to the under side of said disk, a spur-gear attached to said shaft intermediate the Geneva-gear and the casing, another spur-gear fixed in the Casin eccentric to said first spur-gear, a pinandisk driver for the Geneva-gear attached to the second spur-gear, and a cranking disk attached tothe other end of said main stubshaft.

In testimony whereof I ax my signature.

CESAR BUSTAMANTE.

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