US2480996A - Sound producing baby toy carriage - Google Patents

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fi w 9 4 G. A. soccwmo SOUND PRODUCING BABY TOY CARRIAGE Filed Oct. 19, 1946 Patented Sept. 6, i949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SOUND PRODUCING BABY TOY CARRIAGE George A. Bocchino, Clifton, N. J assignor to Ernest Bocchino, Clifton, N. J.

Application October 19, 1946, Serial No. 704,465

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates generall to mechanical devices of moveable type and has particular reference to a toy baby carriage.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of this nature which will absorb the interest of children or others, both visually and orally or acoustically.

Another object is to provide a toy of this kind which is of pleasing appearance, capable of being wheeled or moved, and which during movement may cause the generation of suitable sounds.

A feature of the invention is a toy carriage having wheels and including a moveable figure, which is, in the present instance, in the form of a doll.

Associated with a pair of the wheels is a crank, with flexible connections, which may be cords, as shown, or wires, or suitable light chains or linkage.

Still another object is to so generate the sound that it may resemble a two syllable word.

Yet another feature is to provide a construction which is capable of making a sound of medium length, such as mam or m-a-m, and a short sound substantially connected with the first sound, the second sound to represent ma, thereby to provide a device for making sounds to represent the word mamma.

Additional features and objects reside in causing the doll to move in association with the aforesaid specific word.

With the above indicated objects and advantages in View, as well as others which will hereinafter appear, the invention resides in certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, the essential features of which are herein fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a view in perspective of a toy baby carriage constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof.

Fig. 3 is a partial rear end view; and

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 44, Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of the baby talker used with this toy.

In said drawing is shown a carriage having a body II) with a doll II therein, on a seat l2, the latter having hinges l3 thereon, attaching the same to the bottom M of the carriage Ill, said bottom having a reinforcement Ilia.

The body In is supported on a yoke which includes a pair of bars l6, crossed at I! with a pair of bars l8, the latter having pivotal connections is with the body in, said bars I6 terminating at pivot means I9a in suitable connection studs adapted to fasten a handle or drive yoke 20 thereto. The lower ends of the bars 16 are connected with a bearing frame 2! on the axle 22 of the front wheels, as shown, and the lower ends of the bars I8 are connected with a bearing member 25 of the axle 24 of the rear wheels.

Turnable with the shaft 22 and its wheels is a crank 25 on which is a ring 2'1, relatively revolvable during turning movement of said crank.

A cord 28 is attached to a ring 2? on the crank 25. Said cord passes through an aperture 39, with a metallic lining, as shown in the base of the carriage Illa.

The cord 28 is then terminally attached to an eye member 32 on the seat I2, which latter is normally kept in a lowermost position by a spring 3|, held as at 3la. As the crank 25 passes to its lowermost position the seat [2 is drawn upwardly against the action of said spring, thereby also raising the figure or doll H. The doll i I is therefore raised and lowered on each revolution of said crank. Any light spring, not shown, may be used to take up slack of the cord, each time the crank 25 travels past its uppermost position.

Fast on the shaft 22 is a drive pulley 4|, with a belt or cord 40 thereon. 0n the base Illa is a bracket lla having fast thereon at 42 one end as of a stub shaft, on the opposite end of which is revolvable a housing 45, on which is a pulley :l-i of suitable diameter, so that as the shaft revolves said housing is also revolved to turn its top part 41 alternately downwardly and upwardly, the cord 50 also connecting with the pulley it.

The top disc 41 of said housing is perforated. Said housing contains a longitudinal tubular element closed at the top of said housing but by suitable perforations in air communication with the inside of the surrounding bellows. In the bottom disc of said housing a reed type sounding whistle 48 is inserted in a manner to project into said tubular element with the eiiect that with each intermittent gravitatory fail of a weight member 49, engaging said bellows, the same are intermittently compressed or expanded, causing air to fiow in respective direction through the perforations in the top disc and through the perforations in said tubular member into the same and from there through said reed type whistle, causing it to produce intermittently long and short sounds, imitating the cries of a baby doll.

Variation may be'resorted to within the scope of the invention and parts of the improvements may be used without others.

I claim:

In a carriage of the class described having as one axle a rotatable crank shaft with traction wheels fixed to the ends thereof engaging said shaft, a rockable seat in said carriage, said seat being at one end pivotally fixed to said carriage, a flexible member fixed to the free end of said seat connecting said seat to the crank on said crank shaft thus exerting a pulling force on said seat through every turn of said crank, a retraction spring between said seat and said carriage opposing the operation thereof by said flexible connecting member, said flexible member and said spring in combination effecting an intermittent up and down movement of said seat, the features which include sound means fixed suitably below said carriage, comprising a rotatable housing, a pulley on one side thereof, weighted bellows within said housing, a reed type whistle inside an opening in one end of said housing, 'a drive pulley on the crank shaft, a belt connecting said pulley with said pulley on the housing, so as to rotate said housing with every turn of said crank shaft causing said weighted bellows to expand and contract intermittently thereby forcing air through said reed type whistle.

GEORGE A. BOCCHINO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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