US484180A

US484180A - Smoking toy

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Publication number: US484180A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-10-11
Anticipated expiration: 1909-10-11

Description

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SMOKING TOY.

Patented Oct. 11, `1892.

/NVENTOH W/TNESSES:

A TTOHNE YS in which similar letters of reference indicate 'Unirse Sums! PATENT @Ferca V JOSEPH T. GRAW, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SMOKING TOY.

-5PIER'JIFICAELION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,180, dated October 11, 1892.

l Application led December 1l, 1891. Seria-l No. 414,723. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. GRAW, of Jersey City, in the county ot Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Smoking Toy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention consists in a simple aud novel suction device for smoking a cigarette, and also includes in the preferred form the representation of a head having eyes arranged to be rocked and rotated by the vibrations incident to the operation or manipulation of the suction device.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure l is a perspective view of a toy embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 4 is a broken perspective view showing the manner of operating the suction device. In constructing atoy in accordance with my invention a box-like structure A is provided, preferably rectangular in shape and formed of pasteboard or like material of a nature to permit the structure to be partially collapsed to expel air therefrom, and which, further, will resume its normal shape and size when the collapsing-pressure is relieved, and thus cause a suction. In the front of theA box A an aperture a is produced for receiving the end of a cigarette, as B, snugly therein, the box being otherwise practically airtight. The back a. of the box is scored in curved lines near each side edge, as at c2, and as a result when pressure is applied at the side edges or angles c3 and the box partially collapsed, as shown in Fig. 4, the back a', between the scores a2, will be flexed outward, and when the pressure is relieved the said back, by reason of the said scores, willspring inward and the box will resume its normal shape, this alternate collapsing and resumption of its normal shape serving to create an alternate suction and expulsion of air and smoke through the cigarette. The box A is secured by its front a4 to the back of a disk or sheet C or its equivalent, near the bottom of the same, the disk being also preferably of cardboard, and it is fashioned to simulate a human head, nondescript, or caricature. The mouth c is produced at the aperture a, and the upper lip c is made to be flexed outward and to bear with a slight pressure against the cigarette B to better hold thelatter. The nose c2 is also made to flex outward, and over the same Vis passed a cord lor thread D, the ends of the cord passing at the rear of the disk C and diagonally across the eye-apertures c3 through balls E, the latter having a through-bore for the loose passage of the cord.

The balls are painted at two opposite sides to simulate eyes. With this construction the eyeballs will respond readily to the vibratory movement given the structure in manipulating the suction device A, and as the eyeballs are rocked and rotated on theirv cords the expression of the face will be rapidly changed,

the eyes thus moving and changing in conso-k nance with the smoking action caused by the suction device. The eyes will also move when the structure is bodily shaken; but the desire is'to form a structure which when resting on a suitable support and its suction device operated will be so vibrated as to move the eyes, the movement of the eyes and the ejection of the smoke thus being in consonance. f

The device is of cheap and simple construction, efficient for its purpose, and the action of the suction device is not so strong as to rapidly consume the cigarette.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim as new and desire' to secure by Letters v scribed, a disk held in fixed relation thereto and simulating a head, the suction device having an aperture leading to the mouth of the head, adapted to receive a cigarette, and eyes loosely held in place to rockin response to the vibrations caused by manipulating the suction device, substantially as described.

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3. The combination, in a smoking toy, of a 4. The herein-described suction device, conlo disk secured thereto and made to simulate a sisting of a box-like structure of stiff matehead, eyes held in diagonal positions in the rial scored in curved lines adjacent to certain head by a cord, and a suction device held to of its angles, substantially as specified. the disk and having an aperture for receiv- A ing a cigarette, the manipulation of the said JOSEPH T GRAW' suction device serving to vibrate the struct- Witnesses: ure and rock the eyes, substantially as de- J. L. MOAULIFFE, scribed. v C. SEDGWICK.