US993282A - Amusement device. - Google Patents

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0. B. TOWER, JR. AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 8, 1907.

Patented May 23, 1911.

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CLEMENT IB. TOWER, JR, OF HYDE PARK, MASSACHUSETTS.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented ll/Iay' 23, 1911.

1907. Serial N0. 382,592.

Application filed July 8,

T 0 all whom it may concern: operate with the slideway E as presently de- Be it known that I, CLEMENT B. TOWER, l scribed. The depth of the body portion A, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing from front to rear, is preferably such that at Hyde Park, in the county of Norfolk, the specific tongues shown are prevente State of Massachusetts, have invented an from turning within the device on a vertical Improvement in Amusement Devices, of axis and are thereby maintained with their which the following description, in conneccurved surfaces in proper relation to the tion with the accompanying drawings, is a slideway E. specification, like letters on the drawings In operating the preferred form shown in representing like parts. the drawings the device may be shaken until This invention relates to an amusement one tongue, extending downwardly, strikes device which may be best understood by the slideway E and protrudes through the reference to the accompanying drawings, aperture G, the curvature of the tongue fawhich show a preferred illustrative embodicilitating this movement. ment. The interior of the device is preferably In the drawings: Figure 1 is a front eleentirely inclosed, to render it impossible to vation of the illustrative embodiment reascertain which of the tongues is next to be ferred to; Fig. 2, a perspective showing the displayed. This permits the device to be device with its front removed; and Fig. 3, a used as the agency of a guessing contest or perspective of a part hereinafter described. the like. Fig. A is a central longitudinal section of the The principle of this invention may be device showing the body and face me bers utilized in various difierent ways, as will e and a containing member, all assembled, apparent to those familiar with the art per- The specific device shown in the drawings ming o musement devices. comprises a hollow body portion A, having 1 laim as my invention: its rear preferably permanently closed and l- A11 amusement device comprising, in its front closed by some amusing representaom ination, a hollow body having a front tion such, for example, as that of a human m m er formed in representation of a face face B. In the front, closure-i. in the and provided With a HlOllth aperture; and a faceis an aperture G, shown as th o th plurality of connected tongues different in of the face. In the interior of the device are pp ran e fr m ne ano her and loosely one or more tongues D- D, prefer bly h vcontained in said body, said tongues being ing displayed upon each of th o e i free to alternatively project through said scription such as Yes, No, etc. he aperture by chance when the device is shaken. floor of the body portion A preferably slopes 2- An amusement device comprising, in downward, su plying a slideway E whi h combination, a hollow body having a front at its lowermost edge, preferably r gi ters member formed in representation of a face with the lower extremity of the aperture C. and provided with amouth aperture; a slide- The tongues D-D are preferred to b way leading to said aperture; and a free loose in the interior of the amusement detongue member loosely received in said body vice and said tongues may be formed inand having a portion adapted to glide along tegrally or otherwise fastened together, or said slide-way through said mouth aperture they may be separate. As illustrated in Fig. and project through the latter when the de- 8, there are four tongues extending radially vice is shaken, said member having profrom a common center and forming in efiect vision for limiting its projection through a species of star wheel, the star wheel being said aperture. loosely contained within the device. 3. An amusement device comprising, in The specific tongues D-D shown in Fig. combination, a hollow body having a fron 3 are preferably bent slightly inward toward member formed in representation of a face their common center, so that each will 00- and provided with a mouth aperture; and

tongues differing in appearance from one In testimony vvhereof, I have signed my another and adapted alternatively to proname to this speclfication, in the presence of ject by ehance through said aperture when tWo subscribing Witnesses.

the device is shaken, said tongues being CLEMENT B. TOWER, JR. 5 loosely received in said body and having Witnesses:

provision for limiting their projection LAURENCE A. JANNEY, through said aperture. ANNIE E. OHESLEY.

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