US1795946A - Toy parachute - Google Patents

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E. GRIMM TOY PARACHUTE rch 10,1931. I 7

Filed .no'v. 192a ATTORNEY. 1

connecting 'rods between the fabric and the base which may represent a weight in condition for proper e Patented Mar. I 10, 1 931 Gm, U1 CLEVELAND, OHIOQASSIGNOR JAMES CLEVELAND, OHIO O. EVANS, OI

TOY rmdnn'm x o Application filed November 15, 1928. Serial No. 319,519.

The invention relates to toy parachutes, and the objects of the invention are to provide a parachute having a thin floating body of soft fabric such as silk and seml-iigid of any kind, thus making it possible for the fabric body to be propelled or pushed from an air tube or gun and remain at alltimes ansion in the air 'whichcould not be accomp ished practically, if the connecting members, were cords or flexible, since, when blown from a tube the parachute body would; become wrapped in the cords and would not open as it descends. Also in the present device every alternate rod is made shorter than the adjacent rod thus holding the edges of the fabric body open so as to quickly admit the air thereto.

The semi-rigid rods are flexibly connected with the weight, and fabric body. To obtain these and other objects the device comprises the combination and arrangement of parts and construction of the various details,

hereinafter described, illustratedin the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the claims.-

In these drawings; Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the parachute expanded; Fig. 2 is so an enlarged vertical section of the base; Fig.

' '3 is a longitudinal section of the air tube or gun from which the parachute is propolled; Fig. 4 is a perspective illustrating the action of the long and short connecting rods to partially open the fabric body of the parachute when it has been discharged from the gun; Fig. 5 illustrates a crossstitch binding for the fabric body to prevent the edge from raveling; Fig. 6 illustrates f a crimped finish for the edge for the same purpose; Fig. 7 is an elevation showing a different method of connecting the rods with v the weight.

.In these views which the parachute vis blown after folding for insertion therein; B represents the depending base or weight which maintains the parachute in a vertical position when in the air. Since the parachute is small, the weight is made of wood or other light materialand A represents atube frombeing composed of semi-rigid material.

preferably .hollow on the underside thus presenting a cavity in which the pressure of the breath accumulates before the weight is expelled, thus causing it to rise quickly to considerable height and is cylindrical in OFFICE shape to serve as a piston for propelling the a'rachute out of the ody of the parachute and it is composed of light silk or other light and closely woven fabric, at D as shown in Fig. 5, or crimped as shown at F, in Fig. 6, or may be protected in any desired manner from ravellng.

Semi-rigid rods E,'E, connect the weight or base B with the body C. These rods may be made of any suitable light fibrous substances, and serve the double purpose of push rods to thrust the fabric from the tube when the base is blown upon and also serve to suspend the weight therefrom when the parachute is in the air and also serve to introduce the fabric body into the tube. Thes'e rods are made alternately short and long which has the effect of holding some of the edges of the flotation body open when the parachute begins to fall, thus more quickly and the edges may be cross stitched tube; C is the flotation admitting air to open andsustain the body.

Flexible the extremities of the rods parts of the fabric body and base. The flexible attaching means permit folding the parts in the tube. These members may comprise cords, G attached by means of adhesive tape I as shown in Fig. 2 or may be wholly con1- posed of bits of adhesive tape Has shown in Fig. 7.

In this manner a practical and economi cal-method of construction for a toy parachute is provided.

Having described the invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In an aerial toy, the combination of a blow tube and a therefrom, said parachute comprising a flotation body and a weight connected by shrouds, the diameter of said weight being approximately the same as the internal diameter'of said blow tube, and said shrouds members are employed to secure K to the adjacent parachute to be projected 2. In an aerial toy, the combination of a blow tube and a parachute to be projected therefrom, said parachute comprising a flotation body and a Weight connected by v 5 shrouds, the diameter of said Weight being approximately the same as the internal diameter of said blow tube, and said shrouds being composedbf"semi-rigid material and flexible means connecting said shrouds to b 10 said flotation body and to said weight.

' In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

EDWARD GRIMM.

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