US1756555A - Toy animal - Google Patents

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April 29, 1930. H. s. HITCHCOCK TOY ANIMAL Original Filed Aug. 28, 1925 I mv T l I A A TORNY I Patented Apr. 29, 1930 UNITED STATES TOY ANIMAL Original application filed August 28, 1925, Serial No. 53,066. Patent No. 1,681,537, dated August 21,

1928. Divided and this application filed July 31, 1928. Serial No. 296,441.

This invention relates to toys, and more particularly to representations of animals, birds and fishes, as playthings for small children. An object thereof is to produce a form in wood, metal or other suitable material,

m pending application for Letters-Patent for toy animals, filed August 28, 1925, Serial No. 53,066, which parent application has matured into Letters Patent No. 1,681,537, dated August 21, 1928, and the present application re- 7-: lates more particularly to birds, and birds of the aquatic or swimming variety, while the other application refers more specifically to animals, as elephants and the like.

In the annexed drawing illustrating my ino vention 5 Like characters of reference denote like arts.

p In the drawing the graceful lines of a swan, as familiarly recognized floating upon the surface of a lake or other body of water, may in large part be depicted by employing the fiat pieces of boards or other materials of which my animal toys are preferably constructed.

In the case of a swan the base 10, which is a flat thin piece of material, is used on which the toy is mounted so as to be upright. The front part of my toy bird consists of a substantially upright or vertically inclined flat thin member 1, whichiis fashioned to simulate the head and long neck and neatly rounded breast or main body of the swan. At the lower end of the body portion of the front member 1, is a tongue 2 which enters groove or slot 3 in the front end of base 10, the tongue bein pivotally united with the base by means 0 a pin 4, thereby permitting front member 1 to be changed in its upright or inclined position, so as to assume the arching or backwardly reclining attitude characteristic of many of the aquatic birds.

in front and narrow or'pointed at the rear end and having angular lower corners that rest on the base 10.near the rear end. The attachment of wings 9 to the body is a hinged or pivoted one and consisting of a tongue and groove joint having tongues 5 on the body member pivoted in groove 6 in the front ends of wings 9 by means of pins 11.

Moreover, to the rear end of base 10, a tail 7 is articulated by pin 8, so that it can be lifted or lowered, the joint being similar to the front wing joints and the bottom breast oint. 7

It is quite obvious that the articulation of these few parts in the way I have pointed out produces a remarkably lifelike and attractive toybeing at once economical and easy to manufacture. Of course, the parts may vary in size, shape, style, and specific relation and thus may be changed to appear in many similar'forms as different aquatic birds or animals or reptilian prototypes having the same essential frame structure, but varying within the scope of my claims.

What I claim, is:

1. A toy swan, comprising a flat horizontal support, a front vertically-inclined member of fiat thin material and shaped as the head, long neck, and breast and body of the swan, said front member being pivoted at its lower end to the base support, and lateral curved wing members pivoted to the front member, and being widest at the front and narrower at the rear, besides having an angular edge to rest on the base.

2. A toy bird, of the aquatic class, comprising a flat base on which the members of the bird may be mounted, a front verticallyinolined member of fiat thin material and shaped to represent the head, long neck and breast or body of the bird, said front member having a tongue at its lower end which is pivoted in a slot in said flat base, lateral curved wing members slotted at their front edges to receive tongues on the breast portion of the front member, which tongues are pivdown.

In tesbimony wheref I hereunto aflix my slgnature.

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N SARGENT HITCHCOCK.

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