US2193282A - Amusement device - Google Patents

Description

March 12, 1940. s. HANSEN 2,193,282

AMUSEMENT DEVICE Filed July 19, 1938 FIG. 1.

FIG. 4.

Patented Mar. 12, 1940 tr er AMUSEMENT DEVICE Samuel Hansen, San Francisco, Calif. Application July 19, 1938,'Serial No. 220,012

3 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in.

15 provide a toy that is positive in operation, economical in construction and highly entertaining.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part 3 of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Fig. l is a plan view of the frame and panel member of the toy with the chemically treated :15 paper removed from the frame;

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating one of the chemically treated papers utilized in conjunction with the toy;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the assembled Fig. 4 is a plan view of the chemically treated paper illustrating to advantage the effect realized after the chemical has been fired; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective View of an igniting de- 35 vice employed in conjunction with the toy.

I an aware of the fact that the ignition of chemically treated papers is well known in the trade, but to my knowledge, I am the first to associate with said chemically treated paper a dis- 40 tinctive frame and panel arrangement, and likewise a means for retaining the paper in position on the frame, which means also serves as a guide for the line of direction of the ignition, and for thus combining the associated parts of the inven- 45 tion to produce a novel and distinctive to-y.

In the accompanying drawing wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 6 desig nates the base of the toy that is suitably re- 5 cessed and has secured thereto an apertured frame I, which frame has hingedly connected thereto a solid panel 8 that not only functions to retain the frame in an upright position when the panel is lowered, as disclosed to advantage in 55 Fig. 3, but the panel also serves to cover the aperture to thus act as a background on which a strip of paper A can be quickly treated with the pre-determined design.

In the further conception of my invention, the aperture of the frame serves to emphasize the transparency of the chemically treated papers so that the object being destroyed, or whenever being made, will be more readily visible.

It might also be mentioned that the lowering of the panel affords the proper ventilationso that the spark may quickly travel from the ignited portion to the object to be contacted.

As disclosed to advantage in Figs. 1 and 3, the numeral 9 designates an article simulating a toy cannon, while the numeral Ill refers to the igniting device that is suitably heated to start the spark of the chemically treated paper.

In practice, the chemical utilized for treating the paper comprises an admixture of potassium chlorate, sulphur, sodium bicarbonate and lead nitrate which elementsare mixed with water to produce a semi-plastic consistency. In the operation of the device a sheet of thin paper is first placed on the frame with the cardboard cannon Si adapted to retain in proper position the lower end of said paper. The margin of said paper A is illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 3. I

The panel 8 that covers the opening serves as a background on which the paper can be chemieally treated to produce either the design of an airplane, as indicated in Fig. 3, or any suitable design such as a heart and arrow, the words Hello, or Adieu, and in fact, any variety of design of letters that has a pleasing effect. After the paper has been treated, the panel 8 is lowered so that the frame will then be in an upright position and proper ventilation will be afforded to the paper when the spark is ignited through the medium of the sparking implement Hi. Accordingly, as the spark is started at the mouth of the cannon and at the point designated by the reference character C in Figs. 2 and 4, a direct line of fire will be effected from the mouth of the cannon to an airplane B that is to be destroyed by the firing of the chemical, and thereafter the said paper will assume the appearance shown in Fig. 4 with the realistic burning of the airplane and the falling of the destroyed airplane toward the bottom of the paper.

If desired, a number of papers can be chemically treated before being placed on the frame. When the prior treatment of the papers has been made, the same can be readily placed on the frame and the panel can be lowered to its frame supporting position, as disclosed in Fig. 3.

formed therein, a sheet of paper treated with a combustible material and positiorted adjacent said frame, means simulating a cannon formed on one end of said frame and bearing against one face of said sheet, and a closure member arranged on the rear side of said frame and adapted to bear against the opposite face of the sheet to hold the same in said frame.

2. A device of the character described comprising an apertured frame, a strip of paper treated with a combustible material and bearing a designated design, and an object simulating a cannon positioned adjacent one end of said frame to hold said paper against said frame, the mouth of the cannon pointing toward the design of said paper.

3. A device of the class described including a recessed base and frame carried thereby, a sheet of paper treated with a combustible material and positioned adjacent said frame and having various objects formed thereon and a chemically treated path leading to the objects, whereby when one end of the path is ignited said path leading to the object and the said object will be burned from the material to create fantastic figures in the material, and an object simulating a cannon positioned in the recessed base and adapted to retain the said paper in a fixed position relative to the apertured frame, said cannon having its mouth encompassing the lower end of the chemically treated path.

SAMUEL HANSEN.

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