US2387507A - Trundle toy - Google Patents

Description

Oct. 23, 1945;

Filed March 30, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Pa'ulji'uld Patented Oct. 23, 1945 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TRUNDLE TOY Paul A. Fuld, Glen Burnie, Md.

Application March.30, 1945, Serial No. 585,624

4 Claims.

The invention relates to toys and has as an object the provision of a childs toy having an attractive changeable appearance combined with means for producing sounds.

It is an object of the invention to provide a V trundle toy having ground wheels producing a changeable appearance when pushed along a floor and having means operated by the floor engaging wheels to produce sounds.

Further objects will appear from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings showing an illustrative embodiment of the invention and wherein:

Figure 1 is a side elevation.

Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 33 of Figure 1. p

4 is a, vertical section on line 44 of. Fig. 2 showing operative positions of a part in dotted lines.

Fig. 5 is a vertical section similar to Fig. 4

I partly broken away and showing a different position of parts. 7

As shown the device comprises a pair of floor engaging wheels in and II each shown as formed with annular grooves l2, l3 respectively with pins ll extending across the grooves near the periphcry of the floor engaging wheel. Loosely mountdistance depending upon the speed of movement.

The wheels l0 and II are desirably fixed upon theaxle l6 for keeping the device in assembly and to preserve their circumferential relationship. To provide for motion of the device as a trundle toy, a block I1 is mounted loosely on the axle l6 and a tongue i 8 is shown as inserted in an opening in the block I! in the manner shown inFlg. '5. To produce sound a pair of similar blocks I9, 20 are shown loosely mounted upon the axle l6. washers being placed upon each side of each blocl; I9, 20 to insure free movement thereof upon the axle uninfluenced by friction with the wheels l0 and H or the block I1.

Carried by the wheels i0 and ii are a pair of pins 2|. 2! preferably at an angle of 180 each to the location of the other. The blocks l9 and i .20 are shown as eccentric with the shaft l6 so as to provide a heavier and lighter end of each. The

long ends of the blocks stand in the path of the pins 2|, 22 respectively and as the ground wheels l0 and II revolve to bring the respective pins against the long ends of the blocks l9 and 20, the blocks will be forced to revolve with the wheels until they are carried above a position of a vertical line through the axis, whereupon they will fall by gravity away from the pin to the position of the block l9 shown in Fig. 3. The pins 2|, 22, as they pass above the blocks I9, 20, when the latter are in the position of block IS in Fig. 3 will pass over the shorter end of the block. The result will be repeatedly recurring clicking sounds as the pins contact the block I9, 20 successively.

The device is made more attractive by coloring the different parts with different colors. The ring I 5 may be made each of a different color and the blocks I9, 20 colored still further difierently and the ground wheels l0 and ii may be ornamented on their outer surfaces. The combined result of the movable parts, the color, and the sound producing means provide a toy very attractive to small children.

Minor changes may be made in the physical embodiment of the invention within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I claim:

1. A trundle toy comprising, in combination: a trundle wheel; a pin carried by said wheel adjacent its periphery and extending parallel with the axis of rotation of the wheel; an annular ring member loosely supported on said pin, the radial thickness thereof being less than the spacing of its pin support from the tread of the wheel;

whereby the ring may be thrown to positions radially outward of the tread of the wheel [by centrifugal force and to a position radially inward of the tread by contact with the ground; and means to retain the ring on its supporting pin.

2. A trundle toyv comprising, in combination: a trundle wheel formed with an annular, peripheral groove; a plurality of pins extending across the groove and spaced from the periphery of the wheel; an annular ring with a relatively large opening supported on each pin within said groove; the radial thickness of each ring being less than the spacing of its pin from the periphery of the wheel.

3.A trundle toy comprising, in combination: an axle; 'a tongue projecting therefrom; a peripherally grooved wheel carried by each end of the axle for revolution upon a supporting surface; a plurality of pins traversing the groove of each wheel at locations spaced from theperiphery of the wheel; an annular ring loosely mounted on each pin for motion between positions wherein the rings project from the peripheries of the Wheels and positions of complete enclosure in the grooves.

4. The combination of claim 3 with a rod projecting from a face of one of the wheels, and a member freely revoluble on the axle, said mem tacted by said rod as the wheel revolves and the shorter end clearing the rod as the member revolves, whereby to provide a combined visual and sound efiect. I

PAUL A. FULD;

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