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US2591469A
US2591469A US182196A US18219650A US2591469A US 2591469 A US2591469 A US 2591469A US 182196 A US182196 A US 182196A US 18219650 A US18219650 A US 18219650A US 2591469 A US2591469 A US 2591469A
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Saito Haruhiro
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  • This invention relates to new and useful improvements in animated toys; and, more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable mechanical toy which, representative of a four footed animal, and having four movably mounted legs and a movably mounted head, includes a mechanism, preferably of the clockwork kind including a spring functioning as the source of power drive incidental to unwinding of said spring after it has been wound, whereby the animal walks forward a predetermined distance, then stops walking for a predetermined space of time, then resumes its walking as before, then again stops walking as before, and so on.
  • a mechanism preferably of the clockwork kind including a spring functioning as the source of power drive incidental to unwinding of said spring after it has been wound, whereby the animal walks forward a predetermined distance, then stops walking for a predetermined space of time, then resumes its walking as before, then again stops walking as before, and so on.
  • the head of the animal is swung first in one direction and then in the other, as from side to side, at regular intervals; this head swinging being maintained all the while the animal is intermittently and alternately walking forward and standing halted as above.
  • FIG. 1 side elevationally shows a toy pursuant to the invention, as completed up to the point where there next would be added as the final step of manufacture a skin for enveloping the body and head structure shown in this view.
  • Fig. 2 is, fragmentarily, a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing said skin as so added; with said skin shown in full lines over the head structure and over a small forward part of the body structure, and with said skin extended further over said body structure as indicated in dot and dash.
  • Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the parts of Fig. 1, partially broken away and partially in section.
  • Fig. 4 is a bottom plan View of the parts of Fig. 1.
  • Fig. 5 is an enlarged side elevational view of a casing inside the shell constituting said body structure, with a part of said shell, and also a part of the head structure, indicated in dot and dash; said casing for containing the mechanism aforesaid and said mechanism for mounting the four legs and for carrying an operative consection between an element of the mechanism and said head structure.
  • Fig. 6 shows the full line parts of Fig. 5 in top plan.
  • a body structure I5 which comprises a pair of substantially identical cuplike shells I 5 and Il, set with their concavities facing and secured together by tongues and slots at. suitably spaced points.
  • the shells I6 and I! are locked together by having tongues l8. and I9 formed thereon sent upward through and then bent over relative to slots 20 in a thin metal strip 2
  • Said shells are further interconnected, at the tail end of the animal, as by further tongue and slot means such as indicated at 22.
  • Said shells ar further interconnected by top and bottom strap pieces 23 and 24; the strap piece 23 having tongues sent downward through and bent in below slots 25 and 26 respectively in the shells l6 and I1, and the strap piece 24 having tongues sent upward through and bent in above slots 21 and 28 respectively in said shells I6 and ll.
  • said shells l6 and H are also looked together by four tongues 30 (compare Figs. 4 and 5) two of said tongues being downwardly sent through a pair of slots 3
  • Said tongues 30 are integral with the casing aforesaid for the clockwork mechanism and associated parts; which casing is shown as incorporating a frame 33 U-shaped in top plan, closed in across its rear end by a weight 34 held in place by a rivet pin, 35.
  • the shell 16 is shaped so as to present a substantially semicircular opening 36 at its forward end, and the shell I! is similarly shaped, that it to present a substantially semicircular opening 31 at its forward end.
  • the head structure shown is also comprised of a pair of substantially identical cuplike shells 39 and 40, set with their concavities facing and secured togeth er by tongue and slot means at suitable points as indicated at 4
  • the shell 39 is open at its rear end, there to establish a semicircular opening 43
  • the shell 40 is open at its rear end, there to establish a semicircular opening 44.
  • Said head structure 38 is also shown as having a pair of apertures 45, each of these for use in securing a wire of the known kind as carried by .and a lower aperture.
  • Said shells 39 and 46 of the head structure 38 are further provided with tongue and slot interconnecting means by way of top and bottom strap pieces 50 and the strap piece 56 having a pair of tongues sent downward through and bent in below slots 52 and 53 respectively in the shells 39 and 40, and the strap piece 5I having a pair of tongues sent upward through and bent in above slots 54 and 55 respectively in said shells 39' and 48.
  • Central extensions from the top strap pieces 23 and 50 are shaped for overlap, and central extensions from'the strap pieces 24 and 5I also are shaped for overlap; all four of these extensions having apertures which are aligned when the head structure 38 is pivotally mounted to have a prevised axis of swing relative to the body structure I5; and this pivotal mounting is provided by a wire pivot member 56 sent through all said apertures and given offset bends as shown at its upper and lower ends.
  • the left fore leg is as a whole marked 51
  • the right fore leg is as a whole marked 58
  • the left hind leg is as a whole marked 59
  • the right hind leg is as a whole marked 66.
  • These legs, at their feet and feet-adjacent portions, are of increased width, as shown, relative to their upper 'slenderized more or less plate-like portions; said legs being desirably of hollow construction, for lightness of weight, as by being made of suitably interconnected shell members of thin metal or plastic.
  • openings as shown best in Fig. 4 are provided in the bottoms of the shells I6 and I1.
  • the two fore legs 51 and 58 are exactly alike in construction; each of these legs having a bifurcated upper end to provide a slot and also having an aperture at a point below and in line with said slot.
  • said slot is designated 6I and said aperture 62.
  • Engaged in the slot BI is .a, pin 63 rigidly offset from the casing 33, and
  • crank-arm end, 64 journalled in the aperture 62 is one crank-arm end, 64, of a cross shaft 65.
  • the mounting of the right fore leg 58 is, as shown at the upper part of Fig. 6, exactly like that of the left fore leg 51, except that there is journalled in the aperture of the leg 58 corresponding to the aperture 62 a crank-arm end, 66, of the cross shaft 65 which is offset 180 from said crank-arm end 64 of said shaft.
  • a pin 61 rigidly offset from the side of the casing 33 adjacent to the leg 58 corresponds to the pin 63 for coaction with said leg 58 as the pin 63 coacts with the leg 51.
  • the two hind legs 59 and 60 also, are exactly alike in construction; each of these legs having therethrough at its upper end an upper aperture In Figs. 5 and 6, in the case of the left hind leg 59, said upper aperture is designated 68 and said lower aperture 69.
  • a cross pivot pin 10 carrying beyond each of the opposite sides of said casing a spacing sleeve 1i; one end of saidpin, beyond a sleeve 1I, extending through saidaperture 69. and the opposite end of said pin, beyond the other sleeve 1I, extending through the lower aperture of the leg 60.
  • Mounted in the aperture 68 is a pivot'pin 12; and connecting the crank-arm end 64 and said pin 12 is a link 13.
  • the mounting of the right hind leg 66 is, as
  • the cross pivot pin 10 mounts the said leg as well as the leg 59; while, on said leg 60, there is mounted a pivot pin'14 which in placement and function corresponds to the pivot pin 12; and connecting this pivot pin 14 "and the crank-arm end 66 is a link 15.
  • Unwinding of said spring 19, in addition to being effective as already described, and particularly by way of rotation of the gear segment IT, for causing the animal to walk forward a predetermined distance, then to stop walking for a predetermined interval of time, then to resume its walking as before, then again to stop walking as before, and so on, is further effective to cause swinging of the head of the animal from side to side, first in one direction and then in the other, at regular intervals, while the animal has stopped walking temporarily and also while it is walking; while the clockwork mechanism also incorporates a collection of parts to retard the rate of unwinding of the spring to an ideal extent, all as will be clear from what now follows.
  • a spur gear 82 meshing with a pinion 83 fixed on a shaft 84.
  • a spur gear 85 is fixed on said shaft 84; this gear meshing with a pinion 86 fixed on a shaft 81.
  • a spur gear 88 meshing with a pinion 89 fixed on a shaft 90.
  • meshing with a pinion 92 fixed on a shaft 93; and also fixed on said shaft 92 is an air-friction speed retarder member 94.
  • One end of the shaft 84 is formed to include a crank arm 95, and to this crank the rear end of a link 96 is connected.
  • the forward end of said link is also connected, rockably, to a side of the head structure 38; such connection as herein shown being by way of the aforesaid slot 49 at a side of the shell 39.
  • the forward end portion of the link 96 is extended through said slot, and then bent and oppositely crimped to establish such a coupling formation as indicated at 91 in Fig. 5.
  • the animals head is wagged or swung slowly from side to side; this head movement continuing as well during the times that the animal is not walking.
  • the head of the animal is enveloped in a suitable skin, such as that shown at 98 Fig. 2 and there having the muzzle and snout or nose markings 99 and I00.
  • This skin may be of any suitable material, as plush or the like, to represent a coat of fur. It may be a single enveloping skin for the head and the body, as indicated in dot and dash in Fig. 2; with sufficient fullness at the animals neck to permit the described wagging of the animals head. Or there may be an elastically stretchable insert in said envelope at and around, or at opposite sides of, the neck location. r there may be an enveloping skin for the animal's head, and another enveloping skin for the animal's body, with one of these skins overlapping the other at the neck location.
  • a walking toy simulating a four-legged animal comprising a figure shaped to represent the body of said animal, individually movable fore legs and hind legs depending from said body and representative of the animals legs, a motor driving a segmental gear, means for simultaneously oppositely moving each pair of hind legs and fore legs relative to a supporting surface on which the animal is placed thereby to cause the toy to walk by a tractive backward swing first of one fore leg and then of the other fore leg relative to said surface, a mounting means for each of said fore legs near its upper end, said mounting 'means in the case of each of said fore legs including a slot at the upper portion of said leg extended generally longitudinally thereof, a fixed pin engaging said slot, a crank arm revolubly connected to said upper leg portion at a point below the lower end of said slot, a crank shaft from which said crank arms are offset one from another to cause one fore leg to move forward while the other moves rearward and vice versa, and a pinion on said crank shaft meshing
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US3163960A (en) * 1962-02-28 1965-01-05 Marx & Co Louis Walking toy figure
US20180256992A1 (en) * 2015-09-04 2018-09-13 Gymworld Inc. Connecting member for self-assembly toy

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US1248072A (en) * 1917-05-09 1917-11-27 Frank R Cardinal Figure wheeled toy.
US1538140A (en) * 1923-11-27 1925-05-19 Spelling John Walking animal
GB231178A (en) * 1924-03-22 1925-09-17 Vittorio Gobbato Improvements in mechanism for reproducing all the movements of the steps of quadrupeds
US1695205A (en) * 1927-09-06 1928-12-11 Price Herbert Edward Animated toy
DE706354C (de) * 1938-01-04 1941-05-24 Lineol Akt Ges Fahrspielzeug mit vorgespannter Zugtierfigur

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US1248072A (en) * 1917-05-09 1917-11-27 Frank R Cardinal Figure wheeled toy.
US1538140A (en) * 1923-11-27 1925-05-19 Spelling John Walking animal
GB231178A (en) * 1924-03-22 1925-09-17 Vittorio Gobbato Improvements in mechanism for reproducing all the movements of the steps of quadrupeds
US1695205A (en) * 1927-09-06 1928-12-11 Price Herbert Edward Animated toy
DE706354C (de) * 1938-01-04 1941-05-24 Lineol Akt Ges Fahrspielzeug mit vorgespannter Zugtierfigur

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US3163960A (en) * 1962-02-28 1965-01-05 Marx & Co Louis Walking toy figure
US20180256992A1 (en) * 2015-09-04 2018-09-13 Gymworld Inc. Connecting member for self-assembly toy
US10391415B2 (en) * 2015-09-04 2019-08-27 Gymworld Inc. Connecting member for self-assembly toy

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