US3029557A - Delayed action toys - Google Patents

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3,029,557 DELAYED ACTION TOYS Jerome H. Lemelson, 8B Garfield Apts., Metuchen, NJ. Original application Nov. 13, 1953, Ser. No. 392,186, now Patent No. 2,885,824, dated May 12, 1959. Divided and this application Oct. 22, 1958, Ser. No. 768,896

1 Claim. (Cl. 46-196) This invention relates to improved noisemaking devices for use in the construction of novelties, games and toys. This is a division of my copending patent application entitled, Sounding Jumping Toy, Serial No. 392,- 186, now Patent No. 2,885,824, filed on November, 13, 1953.

It is a primary object of this invention to provide a new and improved noisemaking device for use as a novelty or a component of a toy or game which is simple in construction, easy to operate and low in cost.

Another object is to provide an improved noisemaking device which will create a sudden noise a delayed period after being set without the need for direct action on the part of an operator to cause said device to trigger to create said noise.

Still another object is to provide a new and improved delayed action noisemaking device in the form of a percussion cap firing mechanism which is quite simple in structure and relatively easy to operate and which may be applied to a variety of toys and novelties.

The above description as well as further objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be best appreciated by reference to the following detailed description which makes reference to the drawing, wherein FIG. 1 shows in partial cross-section a delayed action percussion cap-firing device embodying features of the present invention with a delay mechanism thereof in a cocked position;

FIG. 2 is the same as FIG. 1 with said delay mechanism in a released position.

In FIG. 1 are shown constructional details of a delayed action noise producing toy which is adapted to fire a percussion cap a delayed period of time after said toy has been set or cocked. The time delay toy consists of a housing 12 having side walls 14 and 16 held together by and end wall 18 and a bottom 20. A shelf 22 projects obliquely from the side wall 14 and is adapted to receive and position a percussion cap C in the path of striker or hammer 26 which is secured to the end of a cantilever mounted spring 24. The notation 22" refers to a projecting lip at the bottom of 22 which overhangs the surface 22' and acts as a step or shelf on which the lower edge of the cap C may rest and be positioned relative the hammer 26. The other end of spring 24 is held against the side wall 16 near the bottom of the housing by a fastener F or other means.

The hammer 26 consists of a striker head 27 and a handle 28 projecting rearward of 27 and preferably normally protruding from the housing '12 so that it-may be gripped between the thumb and forefinger of the hand and pulled rearward to the position illustrated in FIG. 1. A suction cup 30 is secured to the rear of the hammer head 27 and is adapted to engage the inside surface '16 of the wall 16 of the housing 12 when the handle 28 is pulled States Patent ice and urged into the position illustrated in FIG. 1. The spring 24 is biased to normally urge the hammer 26 with the face 27' of head 27 positioned flat against the surface 22' of 22. Thus said spring 24 acts to remove the suction cup from the cocked position whereby it engages the surface 16' and to suddenly urge said hammer to strike the surface 22 upon release from said surface. FIG. 2

shows the hammer 26 after said release which has caused 7 cap C to explode by percussion means.

The device of FIG. 1 may be utilized as an amusement, noise producing device per se or as a device for creating a noise in a variety of toys and games. The housing may be subject to a variety of shape variations without departing from the spirit of the invention as may the spring which may be a rod, wire or coil spring. The housing, for example, may be shaped to simulate a bomb, firecracker, or other mock toy which simulates a device which makes the noise.

As an alternate form of the invention it is noted that a gong, bell or the like may be secured to the shelf portion 22 of the housing 12 in the path of the hammer 26 to create a ringing noise upon release of the latter from its cocked position when it strikes said hell.

I claim:

A delayed action noise-making device comprising in combination an open ended enclosure having a base memher and at least three side walls extending upwardly from said base member so as to form said open ended enclosure, a striker surface on one of said side walls adjacent an opening in said enclosure, a spring biased hammer means located on one of said side walls at a spaced distance from said striker surface so that said hammer means is normally held against said striker surface by means of said biasing spring, delayed action release means mounted on said spring biased hammer means for maintaining said hammer means in a cocked position against one of said enclosing walls for a delayed period of time after being placed in said cocked position, said delayed action release means thereafter releasing said hammer means from said cocked position to cause the hammer means to strike said striker surface, a handle extension on said hammer means, said handle extension being readily accessible to the human hand and adaptable to being grasped so that the hammer means can be urged off said striker surface and into said cocked position, and a slotted opening in one of said enclosing walls through which said handle means extends exteriorly of said container at all times.

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