US967352A - Toy. - Google Patents

Description

J. A. EGTON.

TOY. APPLICATION FILED JAN.5, 1910.

967,352. Patented Aug. 16,1910.

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specification of Letters Iatent. Patefited Aug. 16, 1910.

Application filed January 5, 1910. .Serial No. 586,578.

drawings in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Figure 1, is a plan view of the toy with part of the cylinders cut away, showing-the toy with the elastic wound up. Fig. =2, is a modified form of my invention with one cylinder.

Fig. 4, is a weight which may be used to maintain the plane of the wires instead of thebar. v a

Cylinders 1, have provided on eachend thereof flanges 2. On'each of said flanges is a covering 3, which has a slot 4, out near the medial portion thereof, so cut as to form a radially disposedlug 11. Through each of said cylinders is fitted an axle 5,

with the bearings thereof in said cap or.

covering 3. coverings rigidly are fastened rigidly on the ends of said axles. Near the middle of each of said axles is secured thereon or formed integral therewith and transverse thereto a wire 7, the ends-of which are shaped in the form of a circle Withmor'e than one complete circle of the wire, leaving a small space between the circles of said wire. An elastic is looped over the lug 11 in each of the covers 3 on each of the c linders 1, and then inserted in the circle ormed on the wire 7 by slipping said elastic between the spaced apart Said axles extend beyond the 3, and are spaced apart and shown in Fig. 2. i

If desired instead or using the bars 6, to

Fig. 3, is an end view of one of the cylinders with the axle and bar removed.

held from revolving by bars 6, which prevent the axles 5 from revolving, a weight 9 may be substituted-and whenthat form is used the ends ofthe wire 7, after making the circle, are then shaped at an angle and secured to said weight 9, as shown in Fig. 4.

My toy may be constructed as shown in Fig. 2 and in that form only one cylinder is used and thebarsfi are extended and joined at each end thereof to the other bar 6 and pass through and become the. axle of a small wheel 10. a p

In use the toy is placed on the floor with the elastics 8 unwound as shown in Fig. 2. A. revolving motion is' given to the cylinders by friction on The elastic 8 will wound up as shown in Fig. -1. When the motion given to the toy has expended its force by friction on the floor and the winding of the elastics 8 around the axles 5, the tension of the elastics and the tendency to: unwind will cause the toy to return to the mover.

It. is not my intention to confineinyself to the cylinder form of my toy as it'inay be readily applied to any toy having wheels and axle.

Having thus described my invention I desire to secure by Letters'Patent and claim:

1. In a toy of the class described, a cyl-J inder, a flange oneach end thereof, a cover ing for each end of said cylinder having an opening cut'near the center thereof, an axle carried by said coverings, a wire secured thereon and transverse thereto, the ends of which are formed in acircle, an elastic engaging each end of said" cylinder and insorted in the circle of said wire, and means to prevent said axle from rotatin i I 2. In a toy of the class describe the combination of a plurality of cylinders, flan es on each end of said cylinders, a covering or each flange having a slotted o ening near the center thereof, a radially 'isposed lug thereon, an axle in each of said cylinders, bars connecting the ends of said axles, and an endless elastic inserted through the cir- '-cles of said wire and secured to the covering the floor, secured byshoving or pushing the toy along the. floor.

, ing of two cylinders, covering for the ends lug in the ends ofsaid cylinders, as and for vof said cylinders, a slotted opening in each the purposes descrlbed.

of said coverings, a radially disposed lug In testimony whereof I have afiixedmy therein, an axle through each of said 0 1- signature in presence of two witnesses.

5 inders a wire secured to each of said ax es JESSE A. ECTON.

radially osed thereto, the ends of each Witnesses: wire i )m 1e' as a circle, an endless elastic G. B. BLAKELY,

passed through said circles and engaging the 'D. S. L. McGoRKLE.

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