US2996833A

US2996833A - Amusement device

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Publication number: US2996833A
Application number: US856820A
Authority: US
Inventors: Giuliano Angelo
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1959-12-02
Filing date: 1959-12-02
Publication date: 1961-08-22
Anticipated expiration: 1978-08-22

Description

1961 A. GIULIANO 2,996,833

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HIS ATTORNEY.

United States Patent 2,996,838 AMUSEMENT DEVICE Angelo Ginliano, 754 Mace Ave, Bronx, NY. Filed Dec. 2, 1959, Ser. No. 856,820 2 Claims. (CI. 46-22) The invention relates to amusement devices, and relates more particularly to musical amusement devices.

It is among the principal objects of the invention to provide an amusement device which includes a support on which there is placed a knock-down figure in assembled state that may be displaced off the support by an actuator, to crash to the ground. I prefer to use as the figure a knock-down egg, of the type known as Humpty Dumpty, though the invention is not limited thereto.

It is another object of the invention to provide with the actuator of my amusement device means to produce a sound sequence, such as a tune, so that the actuator will displace the figure off the support at a certain point in the sequence.

With the above and other objects of the invention in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of various devices, elements and parts, as set forth in the claims hereof, one embodiment of the same being illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described in the specification.

The foregoing and other objects of the invention will be best understood from the following description of an exemplification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a. perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the invention, shown in an assembled position wherein the figure rests on the support;

FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view, similar to FIG. 2, but showing the figure ready to be tossed off the support; and

FIG. 5 is an extended view of the figure in a knockeddown state.

In carrying the invention into effect in the single embodiment which has been selected for illustration in the accompanying drawings and for description in this specification, and referring now particularly to FIG. 1, a knock-down figure, such as a Humpty Dumpty egg is displayed on a support 12 such as a wall 14 that has a base 16. The figure need not be a Humpty Dumpty egg but may instead be any suitable knock-down toy that may easily be put together again.

Referring to FIG. 2, the embodiment of my invention shows, within the support 12, an actuating means such as an endless movable belt 18 on which there is supported an enlarged finger 20 that is capable to engage momentarily a tiltable two-armed lever 22, and a hand crank 24 that may be driven by a child to move the belt. The actuating means need not be a hand operated belt, but may instead be a suitable power-driven mechanism.

The belt 18 is suspended over a pair of

pulleys

26 and 28, traveling in the direction as shown by an arrow 30, when the hand crank 24 is rotated. The

pulleys

26 and 28 are supported on

shafts

32 and 34, which in turn are supported by the support 12. The hand crank 24 is also axially supported by the support 12.

The belt 18 includes on its outside surface a series of fingers 36. The fingers 36 engage a series of tuned tongues 38 which are mounted on the internal surface of the support 12 to produce a sequence of signals or sounds, for example the nursery tune Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall The belt 18, the series of fingers ice 36 and the tuned tongues 38 together form means operable to produce the sequence of signals or sounds.

The enlarged finger 20 which is located on the surface of the belt 18 during each complete cycle of the belt 18 once makes contact with one arm 23 of the lever 22 which is adjacent the belt 18. The lever 22 pivots about a point 40, and its other arm 25 disposed adjacent the position of the Humpty Dumpty egg 10. The arm 25 normally is flush (FIG. 2) with the top wall of the support 12 on which the egg 10 rests. When the finger 20 actuates the arm 23 of the lever 22 (FIG. 4), the arm 25 of the tilting lever 40 will engage the egg 10 and will thereby initiate the displacement of the egg 10 off the support 12, so that the egg 10 will then crash to the ground 41 and will break apart into a number of

pieces

42, 44 and 46 as shown in FIG. 5.

The egg 10 may have a flat bottom surface 27 for easy resting on the top wall of the support 12.

When the egg 10 falls to the ground it is knocked apart, but may thereafter easily be assembled and be placed again onto the support 12, to play the game over.

In addition, in order to enhance the value of the amusement device, the egg may receive on its interior a pair of dice. When the egg falls and breaks apart, the dice will fall out and each will expose a number. The sum of these numbers can be used in playing any social game.

The operation of the invention is as follows: The Humpty Dumpty egg 10 is made up of a predetermined number of

pieces

42, 44 and 46, that a child may very easily put together to make one unit. This egg 10 is then placed with its bottom surface 27 on the support 12 as shown in FIG. 1. The child will then turn the hand crank 24; by the cranking there will be moved the belt 18 in the direction shown by the arrow 30, and the fingers 36 will produce with the tongues 38 a sequence of sounds, for instance the well-known Humpty Dumpty nursery tune. At a predetermined point of the tune, which may be at the point at which Humpty Dumpty has a great fall, the over-size finger 20 trips the lever 22 which in turn pushes the egg 10, which is operative upon a slight predetermined displacement, to tumble olf the support 12. On the base 16 of the support 12, which houses the crank 22, there may be painted or molded figures of the kings horses and of the kings men 48.

It may be noted that while in the nursery rhyme all the kings horses and all the kings men couldnt put Humpty Dumpty" together again, the child can put the three

broken pieces

42, 44 and 46 of the egg 1!) easily back together again, and place it sitting on the wall (the support 12) to play the game again.

I wish it to be understood that I do not desire to be limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, for obvious modifications will occur to a person skilled in the art.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to be secured by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. In an amusement device, the combination of a support disposed above the ground, a knock-down figure normally positioned in assembled state on said support, a two-armed lever tiltable on said support, one arm of said lever supporting a portion of said figure from below and normally being weighted down by the weight of said portion, a second arm of said lever projecting at an angle to said one arm, actuating means connected to said support and including an endless movable member having a finger, said second arm protruding into the path of said finger, said finger being operable when the endless movable member is moved to engage said second arm thereby to tilt said one arm raising it against the weight of said figure for displacing said figure off said support so that the figure will crash to the ground to be knocked 3 apart, and means actuatable for operating said actuating means.

2. In an amusement device, the combination of a support having a surface disposed above the ground, a knockdown figure normally positioned in assembled state on said surface, a two-armed lever tiltably'connected to said support and having one arm normally flush with said surface and retained in that position by the weight of at least a portion of said figure and by its own Weight and having a second arm at an angle to said surface, actuating means connected to said support and including an endless movable member having a finger, said second arm protruding into the path of said finger, said finger 4 being operable when the endless movable member is moved to engage said second arm thereby to tilt said one arm raising it against the Weight of said figure for displacing said figure off said surface so that the figure will crash to the ground to be knocked apart, and means actuatable for operating said actuating means.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,433,540 Wright Dec. 30, 1947 2,574,158 Sullivan Nov. 6, 1951 2,705,387 Handler et al Apr. 5, 1955