US1769450A

US1769450A - Toy

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Publication number: US1769450A
Application number: US385323A
Authority: US
Inventors: Richard E Morgan
Original assignee: JAMES O MCNAIR
Current assignee: JAMES O MCNAIR
Priority date: 1929-08-12
Filing date: 1929-08-12
Publication date: 1930-07-01
Anticipated expiration: 1947-07-01

Description

Patented July 1, 1930 STATES 'A'ra RICHARD E. MORGAN, OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA, ASSIGI IOR OF ONE-HAL MCNAIR, OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA Application filed August 12, 1929. Serial No. 385,323.

The object of this invention is to provide a toy in the form of a whirling figure, so mounted that, with natural air pressure, a figure representing a child, or any other form of figure desired,wi1l rise and fall, the figure being mounted in the novel manner disclosed below.

A further object is to provide, in connection with a rotatable device adapted to mount a figure, means for guiding the figure during vertical movement permitted by the mounting means.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of elements disclosed, it being understood that modifications may be made within the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming part of this application:

Figure 1 is a View of the device in front elevation.

Figure 2 is a view in vertical section. F igure 3 is a horizontal section thru the housing, the propeller, etc., being in bottom plan.

employed, and in the present instance I have shown the box-like structure including a back 10, a top 11, a bottom 12 and side members such as 13. Means for introducing air are employed, and a tube 14, passes thru one wall 13 and connected therewith is a flexible tube, a fragment of which is illustrated and is designated 15. Air under pres sure may be provided by mechanical means,

or in the event that the toy is a small one,

suflicient air pressure will be afforded if the child or other individual making use of the device simply applies natural lung pressure to the element assumed to be connected with tube 15.

A flared end portion 16 may be formed on tube 14:, or may be detachable therefrom,and

the air current or jet is to be directed toward the propeller 17. This propeller includes a disk member and vanes or blades,

and may be of conventional type. The disk portion designated 17 will be or may be Any suitable housing or thelike may be r TO JAMES o.

opposite the end portion 16, so that a portion of the air will be directed toward the blades 17, and a portion directed upwardly along the inclined or tapered side portion 18 of a base or the like 19.

This element 19 is rigid with reference to stem or spindle 20 having its lower end rotatably mounted in a bracket 21, and having its upper end provided with a pin 22 which is rotatable in the socket 28 in the top 11 of;

the housing.

The base 19 includes an upper central element 25 preferably having flat sides as shown at 26, and a figure in this instance representing a child is mounted for rotation on the element 12', and the foot portions 27 of the figure rest upon the base 19, under normal conditions. An air current whether created by rotation, orby discharge directly from the end portion 16 of the tube 14, will tend to carry the figure whichis of very light weight upwardly,'and the movement. thereof will be in a sense guided or determined by the element 25 along side of which the foot and leg portions of the figure are movable.

The element 12 passes thru the upper portion of the figure, or the head thereof, and the fi ure which is designated as a whole by reference number 30 is of celluloid or other light material, permitting of the action indicated.

Variation in the air pressure will produce the rising and falling movement of the figure, and if rotation only is desired, the flared end, or portion 16, need not be used, and the air will then act chiefly upon the propeller and impart the rotary movement mentioned.

Having described the inventlon, what 1s claimed is I 1. In a toy, a spindle, a figure slidable thereon, combined figure guiding and airdeflecting means determining the movement of the figure, a propeller for imparting rotation to the spindle, and means for directing an air current toward the propeller and at a point below the figure, the defiectlng means being rotatable with the propeller 1n the path of the current and being posltioned below the figure.

2. In 5 toy, a spihdle, a figure slidable thereon, a base carried by the spindleand guiding and supporting the figure, a propellet carried'by. the base and im arting r0- tationto the latter and toithe gure, and meansior directing an air eurrenttoward thepropeller andedge of the base. e In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

RICHARD E; MORGAN,