US943529A - Sounding toy. - Google Patents

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M. P., B, B. Fm A. S. EXLINE.

SOUNDIIIG TOY. APPLICATION mm) 512M217, 1908.

Emma Dec. M, 11909.

UNITED s' rA Es PATENT OFFICE.

MARCUS P. EXLINE, BEN'A BIRD EXLINE, AND ALBERT S. EXLINE, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

SOUNIDING TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 14, 1909.

To all whom at may concern:

Be it known that we, MARCUS P. EXLINE, BENA Bum EXLINE, and ALBERT S. EXLINE, citizens of the United States, residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sounding Toys; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to sounding toys, and has for an object to provide a toy of the description embodying new and improved features of construction, utility and economy.

In general the toy here represented is similar to the toy forming the subject-matter of co-pending application Serial Number t50,2l8,'filed August 25, 1908, and has for a further object to provide improved construction for accomplishing a similar purpose.

A further object of the invention is to provide new and improved construction for the wind mill portion of the toy.

A further object of the invention is to provide improved construction for the pointed or engaging arm.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

In the drawings :F igure 1 is a view of the improved toy in front elevation. Fig. 2 is a view of the toy in side elevation. Fig. 3

is-a view of the toy in rear elevation.v Fig.

4 is a view of the core or button of the improved toy in front elevation. Fig. 5 is a view of the core or button in side elevation. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the disk-engaging points and carrying means. Fig. 7

is an enlarged transverse sectional view through the disk showing the roughening formed as corrugations.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Like co-pending application, No. 450,218, filed August 25, 1908, the present invention comprises a toy in the form of a wind mill whereby the rotation of the mill under the action of the wind produces a sound by the immaterial to the present invention.

bent as at 18 to form employment of pointed ends with a rotating or moving roughened surface.

In the present invention the wind mill comprises a core or button 10 journaled upon a handle 11 by means of a pin 1260 through a central opening 13 of such button.

The button 10 is provided upon its periphery with a plurality of spirally disposed slots 14 in practice preferably formed by a saw cut, the "button being also preferably composed of wood, although the material of such button and the manner of formation of such slots is Wholly immaterial to the present invention. Within the slots 14., which may be of any desired number, a similar number of vanes or blades 15 are secured, such vanes for the construction of the toy being preferably constructed of stiff, tough paper, although the material from which such vanes are constructed is wholly The vanes are preferably curved somewhat transversely as indicated by shade lines in Fig. 1.

At the back of the button 10 and between such button and the handle 11 a disk 16 is secured in any approved manner as by being glued, nailed or otherwise secured to the button 10 and also preferably, though not necessarily, secured to the rearward edges of the vanes 15. The disk 16 is journaled to rotate upon the pin 12, the same as the button 10.

Secured to the handle 11 is a cross piece 17 preferably by means of being-inserted through an opening in the handle 11 and pointed extremities 19, in engagement with the rearward roughened surface of the disk 16. The cross piece is also provided with a handle member 20 preferably in alinement with one of the extensions forming the points 19 so that the cross piece 17 and the points 19 may be moved. Such movement may be either by I moving the cross piece longitudinally and slidably through the handle 11 or may be 1 rotatably relative to the cross piece 17. It will be noted that the extensions terminating in the points 19 are not in parallelism but are angularly disposed relativeto each other so that with the mill rotating in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3 the roughened disk 17 passes relative to the points in such manner that the points will not dig the material of the disk.

The disk 16 may be made of any approved material, checked, corrugated or roughened in any approved or convenient manner as,

constructed of fabric orfor book binding or other corrugated metal or in fact any material having a roughened or corrugated surface for engagement by the pointed extremities 19. I

The employment of the roughened dlsk and the engaging points broadly are similar to the disclosure in co-pending application No. 450218, and for a like purpose, that is, when the mill is rotated by the action of the wind against the vane 15, the roughened disk 16 is rapidly rotated in engagement with the points 19- producing there y atmospheric vibrations which cause sound according to the rapidity of the rotation of the mill and the consequent vibration produced thereby. By reason of the adjustability of the cross piece 17 and points 19 the points may be dlsposed at unequal distances from the handle 11 thereby causing different tones as the corrugations will pass such points at unequal rates of speed.

Vith the disk 16 corrugated in one direction, as shown in Fig. 3, it isevident that a constant rotation of the mill will produce varying vibrations as the points are brought into engagement with the corrugations transversely or longitudinally or the varying degrees between such transverse or longitudi for instance, bein dmarlly employe fabric, wire gauze,

nal engagement so that the sound produced by paral e1 corrugations is a constant rise and fall of the tone.

\Vhat we claim is I 1. In a device of the class described, a handle, a rotating member carried by the handle, a cross piece carried by the handle, points carried by the cross piece in engagement with the rotating member, and means to adjust the posit-ions of the points.

2. In a device of the class described, a handle, a rotating member journaled upon the handle, a roughened disk carried by the rotating member, a cross piece carried by the handle, oints carried by the cross piece positioned or engagement with the roughened disk, and means to move the cross piece and points relative to the handle.

3. In a device of the class described, a handle member, a rotatin roughened member carried by the hand e, and adjustable contact points carried by the handle in engagement with the roughened member.

1n testimony whereof we afiix Oursignatures in presence of two Witnesses.

lVitnesses TIN. COLLIER, JOHN A. CAPLEN, Jr.

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