US2398391A - Toy airplane - Google Patents

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April 16, 1946.

S ORKIN TOY AIRPLANE Filed March 1, 1945 IIIIIIIIIIII'IIIIII I," 1111,11,. III I,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TOY AIRPLANE Samuel Orkin, Los Angeles, Calif. Application March 1, 1945, Serial No. 580,367 4 Claims. (CI. 46-46) This invention has to do with a toy and has For purpose of example it may be considered articular reference to a toy airplane, it being a that the airplane A is formed or built up in the general object of the invention to provide a manner common to toy aircraft. I have shown operable to drive the plane to a height from the rear or tail end of the fuselage. In accordwhich the plane can glide. In accordance with ance with typical toy aircraft construction the my invention I provide a rocket propelled airfuselage Iii may be a hollow or shell-like strucplane operable to be driven by the rocket to a ture having parts corresponding to the parts considerable altitude from which point the plane commonly found in full size airplanes, for inis free to glide as it makes its descent to the stance, it may have a nose portion l4, cockpit ground. portion l5, etc.

Another object of my present invention is to The rocket B employed in carrying out my in rovide a toy airplane of the character described 16 vention is an expendible element and is preferwhich acts to free itself of the propelling rocket ably an ordinary powder-charged rocket such as vide a'toy airplane of the character hereinabove any suitable powder or combination of powders described involving means for ejecting an exso that when the fuse is ignited 1t ignites the pended rocket from the airplane proper to posipowder so that the products of combustion jet tively assure separation of the airplane and from the rear end of. the rocket and thus drive rocket when the rocket becomes expended. the rocket forward. r

The various objects and features of my inven- In accordance with the broader principles of tion will be fully understood from the followmy present invention I apply the rocket to the ing detailed description of a typical preferred airplane so that the rocket when ignited serves form and application of my invention, throughto driv the airplane. In accordance with my out which description reference is made to the preferred arrangement the rocket is engaged with accompanying drawing, in which: the fuselage 01' the airplane since that element Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the toy provided of the airplane is centrally located and is most by my invention, showing it in the position in convenient for the reception of the rocket. In which it starts .to fly. practice I prefer to provide a socket member 30 Fig. 2 is an enlarged detailed sectional view in the fuselage I 0 which socket is centrally lotaken substantially as indicated by line 2-2 on 4 cated within thefuselage and is longitudinally Fig. 1, showing the rocket in the position in which disposed therein and is arranged so that its rear it is shown in Fig. 1. end portion is at or projects slightly from the tail Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the end of the fuselage. The socket is preferably se rocket ejected from the airplane proper. cured to or related to the fuselage so that it serves Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view taken as indito reinforce or brace the airplane construction. cated by line 4-4 on Fig. 2. The particular socket element shown in the The construction that I have provided involves, drawing is a straight tubular part fixed within primarily, an airplane A, a rocket B, and ejectthe fuselage and open at its rear end, or at the ing means C for ejecting the rocket from the air tail of the fuselage, and closed at or near its forplane. ward end by a wall 3|. The socket 30 is provided In accordance with the broader principles of primarily as a slidable support or mounting for my invention the airplane A is a toy airplane, that the rocket, the parts being proportioned so that is, a miniature aircraft or a small-scale reproducthe rocket freely slides in the socket. The wall tion of a large airplane, and it may vary widely in 3| at the forward end of the socket is fixed and size, shape, proportion and construction. forms an abutment or reactionary part to communicate with forward driving force set up by ordinarily will happen suddenly. as the powder the rocket, it being understood. of come. that burns out, the electing means acting between the the socket is suitably anchored or fixed in the forward end of the rocket and the end SI of the fuselage so that the driving force from the rocket socket, having been put under compression due is communicated from the sockettothe airplane I to the forward thrust of the rocket, acts to todrlve the air-pane forward. elect the rocket from the socket. Since the It is also to be understood that the various rocket iits loosely or freely in the socket it is ts are arranged, proportioned, related and easily ejected therefrom and will fall from the balanced so that the airplane will be driven upsocket by gravity if the plane is in the proper wardiy at a suitable angle as the rocket burns, position. causing the airpane to be driven to a consider- Once the rocket has been ejected from the airable height. plane the airplane continues in flight, the parts The ejecting means C provided by my invenbeing balanced and proportioned so that the tion is preferably a simple helical spring, that is. airplane will naturally glide. The airplane hava compression spring arranged between the inner ing been driven to a substantial height by the end ll of the socket and the forward end of the rocket will glide a considerable distance, and its rocket. In practice I may employ a light wire performance in the air when the plane is propspring proportioned to effectively eject the rocket erly designed will afford an unusual degree of from the socket when the rocket has become examusement. pended. The spring may be a loose or floating Having described only a typical preferred form element simply arranged freely between the end and application of my invention, 1 do not 3| and the forward end of the socket, or it may to be limited or restricted to the specific details be attached to one of the parts, that is, either herein set forth, but wish to reserve to myself to the socket or to the rocket. In the particular any variations or modifications that may apcase illustrated I have shown the spring having pear to those skilled in the art and fall within its forward end attached to the and SI of the the scope of the following claims: socket by a suitable clip or fastener 40. Having described my invention, I claim:

In operating the structure of the present inl. A toy including an airplane having a holvention the rocket B is arranged in the socket low fuselage open at its tail end and wings carpreferably so that it has a small portion pro- 30 ried by the fuselage, a rocket inserted in the jecting from the rear end of the airplane toavoid fuselage through its open end and free to fall danger of any part of the airpane becoming therefrom when expended, and means for ejectignited by the products of combustion issuing ing the rocket from the fuselage. fromthe rocket. Where the ejecting means is 2. A toy including an airplane having a hollow to be employed as it preferably is, the spring as fuselage open at its tailend and wings carried forming the ejecting means is arranged in the by the fuselage, a rocket inserted inthe fuselage socket ahead of the rocket. To operate the toy through its open end and free to fall therefrom it is arranged at the proper angle for flight and when expended, and a compression spring for the fuse 20 is ignited. The combustion or operelecting the rocket from the fuselage. ation of the rocket drives the plane forward and, 3. A toy including an airplane having a fusedue to the manner in which it has been launched lage and wings, a socket in the fuselage open and the setting of the parts, such as the wings at the tail end thereof, a rocket engaged in the and tail parts, it advances forward and upward socket free to fall therefrom, and means for electto a considerable height. So long as the rocket ing the rocket from the socket. operates, that is, as long as the products of com- 4. In combination, two members, one a toy bustion are issuing from the rear end of the airplane the other a rocket, the airplane having rocket at a rate to drive the airplane the rocket an opening to loosely hold the rocket, a spring remains in the socket and its forward thrust is for electing the rocket from the airplane, and

communicated to the airplane to drive it formeans fastening the spring to one member.

ward.

when the rocket becomes expended, and this SAMUEL ORKIN.

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