US659758A - Combined bubble-blowing and whistling device. - Google Patents

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No. 659,758. Patnted 0st. I6, 1900. W. McGlVEN,

GOMBlNED BUBBLE BLOWING AND W HISTLING DEVICE.

(Application filed Feb; 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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WILLIAM MOGIVEN, OF GROVE CITY, OHIO.

COMBINED BUBBLE-BLOWING AND WHISTLING DEVICE.

SPECIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 659,758, dated October 16, 1900- Application filed February 28, 1898. Serial No, 671,965.. (No model.)

To rtZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VILLIAM MCGIVEN, a citizen of the United States, residing'at Grove City, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Combined Bubble-Blowing and WVhistling Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of toys, and has particular relation to the production of a combined whistle and bubbleblowing device.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and amusement-producing toy of this class of improved construction and arrangement of parts. This object I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View in perspective of my device, showing the air-sack inflated. Fig. 2 is a detail View in perspective of the upper portion of the whistle-tube, and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of my device with the airsack inflated.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of my device I employ a body having the form of a tobacco-smoking pipe, of which a represents the bowl and b the hollow stem, which communicates in the usual manner with the lower end portion of said bowl and extends outwardly at or substantially at right angles therewith. Within the lower portion of the bowl and slightly above the bottom thereof I cause to fit tightly a plug or stopper 0, which may be of cork or other suitable material. Secured within the central vertical opening which passes through the plug cis the lower portion of the whistle-.

tube cl, the upper portion extending upward within the bowl of the pipe, as shown more clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawings. About this upper portion is suitably secured the neck or mouth portion a of an expansible air-sack f, the latter being formed of rubber or other suitable elastic or expansible material. In order to convert the tube (Z into a whistle, the upper or outer end of said tube, which is within the neck portion of the air-sack, may be bridged, as indicated in Fig. 2, by a flexible strip of rubber or other suitable material the latter being of less width than the diameter of the tube end over which it is secured. While it is well known that by the construction above described a Whistling sound may be produced from the tube cl by the passage of air therethrough, any other suitable or well-known whistling device may be connected with the upper end of the tube.

The bowl to of the pipe-body is preferably of such size as to admit of the air-sack when collapsed being contained within the upper portion of said bowl. However, by blowing into the hollow stem 1) sufficient air may be forced into the bottom of the pipe-bowl beneath the plug and thence upward through the tube d into the air-sack to inflate said sack, causing the same to rise from the bowl in the form of a bubble, as shown by the drawings. When the sack is inflated to the desired extent and the operation of forcing air therein is discontinued, it is obvious that the air will gradually escape from the sack, passing down through the tube 01 on either side of the strip g, thence out through the stem 1). In its escape from the sack it is obvious that a whistling sound will be emitted by the passage of the air through the tube and that owing to the employment of the exceedingly-small passage through the stem b the escape of the air, and consequently the whistling sound, will be greatly prolonged. 4

It will be observed that in the construction of my device I have so formed the parts contained within the bowl as to facilitate the use of the same in connection with an ordinary smoking-pipe bowl. In this connection it will be seen that the plug, the bowl, and the tube 01 are separately formed and that said plug may be readily inserted within an ordinary pipe-bowl to a depth sufficient to provide a desirable air-passage between the plug and the stem and at the same time provide space between the upper side of the plug and the top of the bowl wherein the sack may be folded prior to inflation. By forming the plug and whistle-tube separately I have also provided for the insertion of any ordinary whistle-tube within the central opening of said plug.

Although the air-sack herein shown is substantially a balloon shape when inflated, it is obvious that other forms of sacks might be employed-such, for instance, as sacks having the forms of animals or human heads or bodies.

Having now fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a combined bubble-blowing and whistling device, the combination with abody consisting of a pipe-bowl a, a stem 1) leading outward therefrom and communicating therewith, of a plug 0 supported and fitting in the lower portion of said bowl as described, a

tube d extending within a central opening in WILLIAM MCGIVEN.

In presence of- J. W. KEYS, BEN F. WYGANDT.

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