US383442A

US383442A - Charles m

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Publication number: US383442A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-05-29
Anticipated expiration: 1905-05-29

Description

(No Model.)

@RANDALL TOY.

Patented May. 29, 188.8.'v

INV-EDITOR I WITNESSESI T RNEY,

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SPIPICATN forming pari; of Letters Patent No. 383,442, dated May 29, 188:8.

Application led February 6, 1888. Serial No. 263,010. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GHAELEs M. CEANDALL, of Waverly, Tioga county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toys, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip tion, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an irnprovenient in toys; and the invention consists of a toy constructed and combined in the manner hereinafter shown, described, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig ure 1 is a front view of my toy; Fig. 2, a perspective view ofthe base; Fig. 3, a side view of the body of one ofthe figures, partly in section; Fig. 4, an edge view of same, partly in section. Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively sections ofthe legs and arms; Figs. 7 and 8, edge and side views, respectively, of the springs hereinafter described.

Similar letters of reference i ndicate like parts in the several views.

My invention relates particularly to an im provenient in the toy representations of men and animals formed by tongued and grooved sections heretofore patented by me. The figures of such sectional toys, by reason of their construction, could be made to assume a variety of attitudes; but, as they lacked motion, the attitudes, however ingenious, were lifeless and not particularly interesting. To give motion and a semblance of life to these sectional figures, I combine with them one or more fiat or coiled springs, A. To these springs are fixed sections B, which are tongued and grooved, as at o, so that they may tit into corresponding tongues and grooves formed in any of the other sections of the figures. Now, when any particular section, or, asin the drawings, an entire ligure, is supported by one of the springs A, the elasticity of the spring will cause the part or iigure so attached to vibrate, and this vibration will impart a pleasing lite like appearance to the entire toy.

Of course, as is obvious, the various positions and points of attachment of the springs to the other sections are almost without number.

I am aware that a patent, No. 278,461, for a toy bird was issued to Parkman R. Screven on the 29th day of May, 1883, which patent shows a figure supported by a spring; but I am not aware that the construction which I claim Was ever known prior to the date of its invention by me.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In combination, tongned and grooved sec tional toys, and springs with tongued and grooved sections ixed thereto, whereby two or more sections or figures may be united by said springs and be caused to vibrate, as and for the purpose shown and described.

CHARLES M. CRANDALL.

In presence of H. H. KINNEY, T. E. Enos.