US1782042A - Toy bird - Google Patents

Description

Nov. 18, 1930. v, v, KUNKEL 1,782,042

- TOY BIRD Filed Feb. 4, 192.9

- INVENTOR) X K A u xieZ ZTTORNEYS.

Patented Nov. 18, 1930 A UNITED STATES A NT OF I CIE VICTOR v. KUNKEL, oF'Los ANGELEs; CALIFORNIA TOY BIRD Application filed February 4,1929; Serial No. 337,335.

This invention relates to toys and more especially to'mechanical motion toys of hand bination will be made manifest in the ensuing description of the herewith illustrative embodiment; it being understood that modifications, variations and adaptations maybe resorted to within the spirit, scope and principle' of the invention as it is hereinafter claimed. v

Figure l isaside elevation of the toy (rep- 20. resentativelof a bird). c

Figure 2 is an edge or front View (looking toward the face of the head) a.

Figure 3 is a plan of the detached tail.

Figure 4: is a plan of the body blank. I

lVhile the toy is here depicted as simulative of a bird it will be obvious that this is but an arbitrary form of incorporation of the invention and that the structural features may be designed more or less in imitation of divers so animated creatures. V

ilhe toy has a body of bird form made'of a disc-like blank 2 having a reentrant-cut side presenting curved edge shoulders S merging to a central stop ledge 4L diametrically opposite to which the disc is nicked at 5 to form an abutment for a tail appendage 6.

The body is diametrically folded from the shoulder 4 to the nick 5 to form a narrow chamber in which one end of the tail 6 is pivoted on a )ivot'T which referabl is ane e- I let passing through and headed over the downturned sides of the body 2. V

A head-and-neck appendage 10 is mounted loosely between the sholders 3 on aneyelet 11.

Means are provided for separately or collectively actuating the head and the tail ap-" pendages in simulation of their natural animations, and preferably includes a single piece of resilient .wire bent to a U-shape and pivoted one'on the other. 7 2. A mechanical toy including a body, ap-

forming a two-shank handle 12, with or without a spring 0011 13 r I The shanks are pivotally. connected at 14 to the pieces 6 -10 in such relation'as to press each to an uppermost'position against 'r'espective stop ledges 4+5 at which position the pieces are in natural or normal pose.

It Wlll be seen that contractive pressure on both shanks 12w1ll cause the appendages 610 to swing down on their pivots in a very natural manner; each piece being ultimately stopped by reason of its innermost'corner impinging against the ridge or back of the body 2, as indicated by dotted lines, Fig. 1. a.

the shanks alone will Pressure on either of cause an actionof the related appendageat will.

j The. body, the head andthe tail pieces may all be made'of sheetinetal stampingsat a very low costof production.

It is understood that the exposed faces of the parts will be treatedor paintedin imitation of the natural character of the subject.

What is claimedis: I 1. An animated toy, simulative of-a natural creature, including a main body, appendages pivoted on the body, and arspri'n'g formin a oked handle and havin a lu- O b p rality of shanks having ends directly and operatively connected to respective append ages; the appendages and the shanks being pendages having pivoted ends in said body,v and a spring yoke handle having arms extending into said body and operatively pivoted on said appendages and thereby supporting the body and operating the appendages independently. r i 3. A mechanical toy including abody, appendages having pivoted ends operative in said body, and a spring yoke handle extending into said body and operatively connected to said appendages and thereby supporting the body, said body comprising. a folded sheet between which the connected portions ofthe, appendages and the handle are. covered. w

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