US298446A

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Publication number: US298446A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1884-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 1901-05-13

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No. 298,446. 1 Patented May 13, 1884f www N, PETERS. Pmmumngnpm. wmingum. n n

UNITED STATES ATENT EEICE.

FRANCIS W. CARPENTER, OF HARRISON, NEW YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,446, dated May 13, 1884.

Application filed February 1, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS W. CARPENTER, of Harrison, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented an Improve. ment in Toys, of Which the following is a speciiication.

In Letters Patent No. 274,270, heretofore granted to me, a toy horse is shown, and a re-, volving wheel with a crankpin acting to swing or move the horse as the toy is drawn along. In Letters Patent N o. 104,37 0, also granted to me, there is a toy cart of cast metal.

My present invention relates to a figure adapted to be used with a toy animal or vehicle, the figure having a base upon which it can be supported, there being a pin and opening for holding the figure when in place, and a removable rest with a notch is also used for receiving the toy gure, so that it may have -the appearance of being seated when placed against the rest. By this construction the same figure that is of a shape to stand up straight is also adapted to use with a representation of a seat.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view, partially insection, of a toy horse, the frame and Wheels for the same, and a toy figure actuated by the crank or pin that also moves the horse or animal. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, and Fig. 3 represents the toy figure as placed at the seat in a cart or other toy vehicle.

The frame A is supported upon the wheels B O, and it is adapted to be drawn along by a cord attached to the crosspiece d. At e are standards for the cross-bar or pivot f, upon which the horse G, or other toy animal, is placed, and between the Wheels B is the crank-pin h, preferably covered with a tube of indiarubber. This crank-pin, as it revolves with the wheels, comes into contact with the hind leg of the animal and gives to the same a rocking motion. The bar J is pivoted at t', and it rests at the back end upon the cross-bar K, and it is lifted by the crankpin h, as it is revolved with the wheels, as aforesaid. The toy figure L may be made to represent a child or person with one hand raised to the hat, so as to form a loop, around which the rein or cord m is passed; or any other form of igure may be used, such as one with the arm extended and an opening between the thumb and inger. There is a base, a, to the figure, and it is connected to the bar J, or other support, by a pin, p, entering an opening. Usually the pin will be upon the bar J and the opening in the base n; but the parts may be reversed. There is a support, o, representing a seat. This is notched, so as to allow the figure to be placed into said notch, so that when stood into its place the figure looks as if it were seated; but when removed from its place the gure will stand upright upon its base a. This arrangement admits of -using the same gure to represent a person seated when placed in the support or seat, or standing when the support or seat is removed. The support or seat o, Fig. 1, is represented as provided with a pin to enter a hole in the end of the lever-arm. When this iigure is stood upon the cart, as represented in Fig. 3, th'e same is supported in the manner before described. In cases where the base n of the figure can be placed with one edge against a support-such as the side ofthe toy cart-the opening in the base a for the pin p maybe a notch, so as to be cast more easily.

The notch or opening can be formed either in the iigure or in the rest or support for the figure.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with a wheeled toy having a rest, of a toy figure, the figure and rest being connected by one part having a notch to receive the other part, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a wheeled toy, of

a figure and a pin and socket, by means of which the parts are connected, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a toy figure, of a notched rest, a base, a pin, and anopening for receiving the pin, substantially as set forth.

4. A toy figure, in combination with the pivoted bar, a frame or support, the wheels, and the crank-pin or lifter, substantially as set forth.

5. A toy figure, in combination with a pivoted lever, a pivoted animal, the frame or support, the wheels, and the crank-pin or lifter, substantially as set forth.

6. In a wheeled toy, the combination, with a pivoted animal, of a wheel and a crank-pin or projection acting upon the animal to swing the same, and a figure connected with such toy,

Asubstantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 31st day of January, A. D. 1884.

Witnesses: FRANCIS W. CARPENTER.

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mori.

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