US362397A

US362397A - Samuel pinnell

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Publication number: US362397A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-05-03
Anticipated expiration: 1904-05-03

Description

S. PINNELL.

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TOY.

Patented May 3, 1887.A

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UNITED STATESl PATENT OFFICEo SAMUEL PINNELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEl/V YORK.

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SPECIPCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,397, dated May 3, 1887.

Applica tion filed February 10, 1887.

.To all whom it iityconcerm l Be it known that I, SAMUEL PINNELL, of l Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of I New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has especially for its object to provide an effective miniature representation of a toy railway with simple and convenient' means for operating the same; and the invention consists ina -novel construction and combination of parts constituting the toy railway and its operating devices, as hereinafter clearly described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be y'had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure l is a perspective view illustrating myinvention. Fig. 2 is aplan viewillustrating a modification, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same.

In Fig. l, A is a circular track-bed, on and near the periphery of which runs alocon'lotive, B, car, carriage, or other suitable figure mounted on wheels,which may be provided on the outer or both sides of the gure, as usual.

The Wheeled `igure is guided in its path by means of a radially-projecting arm, C, secured at its outer end in any suitable manner to the body of the ligure and loosely pivoted at its inner end to the center of the track-bed A by means of a screw, D. The arm O rotates on Serial No. 227.126. (No model.)

a rounded button-bearing, E, to reduce the friction.

For operating the railway I provide in Fig. l a handle, F, which is rigidly secured to the under side of the Atrack-bed at its center by screws or other suitable means. By slightly oscillating the track-bed by means of the attached handle, the figure is caused by its weight to run rapidly in its path around the periphery of the track-bed.

For large toys'the track-bed is preferably made in the form of an open frame, A, around the circular rim of which the figure runs, the oscillating motion being given to t-he trackbed by means of a semi-cylindrical bearing,

F, secured to the underside of the frame A at u its center, on which the same is as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secu re by Letters Patent* The combinatiomwith the oscillating trackbed and its central support secured to the under side thereof, of a rounded upper bearing gently rocked,

secured to the center of the track-bed, a radial arm having its inner end resting on said bearing, a screw passed loosely through the arm into the bearing, and a traveling figure Xed to the ou ter end of the radial arm, substantially as shown and described.

' SAMUEL PINNELL.

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CLARENCE L. BUEGE, C. SEDGWICK.