US993380A

US993380A - Sounding toy.

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Publication number: US993380A
Application number: US56626210A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank Juhasz
Original assignee: HELEN JUHASZ
Current assignee: HELEN JUHASZ
Priority date: 1910-06-10
Filing date: 1910-06-10
Publication date: 1911-05-30
Anticipated expiration: 1928-05-30

Description

F. JUHASZ.

SOUNDING TOY.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1910.

993,380, Patented May 30,1911.

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FRANK J'UHASZ, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 HELEN JUHASZ, OF WAUKEGAN, ILLINOIS.

SOUNDING TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J UHASZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waukegan, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use-' ful Improvements in Sounding Toys; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention, 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 it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and izlaimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the toy showing the base in section. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on the line wm in Fig. l.

A is the base of the toy which is formed of a hollow box having a top B which forms a sounding-board. A bar C is secured longitudinally in the box under the soundingboard at its middle part, and this bar is preferably formed of wood and its ends are secured to the ends of the box.

D is an anvil 0r sounding-block provided with a flange d at its top which rests on the sounding-board. The main portion of the anvil projects downwardly through a hole in the sounding-board, and it has a forked portion d at its lower end which straddles the middle part of the bar C and which is secured to the said bar.

E are two strikers preferably shaped roughly to conform with the outline of the human frame, and having forked lower end portions or legs 6 which straddle the bar C and which are pivoted to the said bar by pins 6'.

F are holes in the sounding-board, ar ranged one at each end of the anvil, and the upper parts of the strikers project through these holes. The strikers E are provided with projecting arms or hammers f which extend laterally over the anvil.

G is an operating-rod pivoted by pins 9 to the lower end portions of the legs e, and which is slidable in a guide-hole g in one end of the box A.

The toy is operated by reciprocatin the projecting end portion of the rod by hand. This causes the strikers to hammer alternately upon the anvil in imitation of two blacksmiths at work, and in imitation of the sound commonly heard in a blacksmiths shop.

That I claim is:

In a sounding toy, the combination, with a supporting sounding-box provided with a hole in one of its ends and having at its top a sounding-board provided with holes, of a bar secured to the ends of the box, an anvil having at its top a flange which rests on the sounding board and having a stem which passes through one of the holes in the sounding-board and is secured to the said bar, two strikers pivoted to the said bar and projecting through two of the holes in the sounding-board and provided with hammers for striking the anvil, and an operating-rod pivoted to the lower parts of the strikers insidethe box and projecting through the hole in the end of the box.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK J UHASZ.

Witnesses:

' JAMES G. SMITH, Krr'rm G. RYAN.