US1245089A - Mechanical toy. - Google Patents

Description

H. S. COLEMAN.

MECHANICAL TOY.

APPLlCATlDN FILED JULYI. 19:7.

1,245,089. Patented Oct. 30, 1917.

iii a n u TH"! HALE S. COLEMAN, OF ASHLAND, WIsCQNSIN.

MECHANICAL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. so, 1917.

Application filed July 7, 19 7. Serial no. 179,196.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HALE S. COLEMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the coiuity of Ashland and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Toys; and I 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.

My invention has for its object to provide a mechanical toy; and, to this end, it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, I

Figure 1 is a view of the toy, partly in side elevation and partly in central vertical section, with some parts broken away; and

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on the irregular line 22 of Fig. 1.

The numeral 3 indicates two vertically spaced annular base sections supported at diametrically opposite points on hooplike frame a. The toy may be turned and supported on either of its base sections 3. Located between the two base sections 3, is an upright rod. 5 having each of its ends bent to form a pair of diametrically opposite crank arms 6, provided with eyes 7 in their outer ends. The intermediate portion of the rod 5 is also bent to form an annular eye, in which is intermediately secured a horizontal bar 9. On each end of the bar 9, is a figure 10 (as shown, a boy holding a flag) secured by a horizontal pivot 11, in th form of a nail or screw, for turning movement in a vertical plane, and the lower portions of said figures have sullicient weight to keep the same in upright positions.

Each pair of crank arms 6 is secured to the adjacent base section 3, at the axis there of, by a pair of flexible non-elastic connections 12, as shown, in the form of cords. These cords 12 have their inner ends secured in the eyes 7 of the crank arms 6 and their outer ends are extended through axial bores 13 in the base sections 3 and which bores also extend radially through the frame 4:. The outer ends of the cords 12 are knotted at 14, after passing the sam through the bores 13, to anchor the same.

are formed in the bottoms of the base sections 3 to receive the knots 14:, so that said base sections will rest evenly upon the support on which they are alternately placed... The pairs of cords 12 have such slack, that mechanical power of gravity to revolve the. whirling" parts of the toy, and when said toy is turned, so that the twisted pair of cables 12 1s uppermost, said cords, under the weight of the rod 5, bar 9 and figure Cavities 15 10, acting on the connected pair of crank arms 6, impart a whirling movement to said rod, bar and figures. This movement of the whirling arts of the toy, acting through the lowermost crank arm 6, will twist the connected pair of cords 12 simultaneously with the untwisti'ng of the uppermost pair thereof. I

lVhen theuppermost pair of cables 12 is untwisted, the whirling of the movable parts of the toy stops. toy so that the same is supported on its other base sectiong, which brings the pair of cords-12, thus twisted, uppermost, the movable parts are a gain started to whirl.

Secured to each base section 3, is a cylindrical casing 16, which extends axially inward andhas in its inner end a small aperturethrough which the adjacent end of the rod 5 projects. These casings 16 hold the rod 5 againstradial movement, but with freedom for endwise movement therethrough, and completely inclose the crank arms 6 and pairs of cords 12.

Fi hat I claim is 1. A mechanical toy comprising a frame, an upright rod having cranks at its ends, an object carried by the rod, and flexible non-elastic pairs of connections between the crank ends of the rod and opposite points on the frame, said pairs of connections having such slack that the one pair can be twist-ed without placing the other pair under strain, whereby when the twisted pair of connections is uppermost, the same will impart a whirling movement to the rod and object carried thereby and twist the lowermost pair of connections.

2. A mechanical toy comprising a frame, an upright rod having cranks at its ends, a bar intermediately secured to the intermediate portion of the rod, a figure pivoted Then by turning the to each end of the bar for pivotal movement in a vertical plane and weighted to stand in an upright position, and flexible nonelastic pairs of connections between the crank ends of the rod and opposite points on the frame, said pairs of connections having such slack that the one pair can be twisted. without placing the other pair under strain, whereby when the twisted pair of connections is uppermost, the same will impart a whirling movement to the rod, bar, andobjects carried thereby and twist the lowermost pair of connections.

3. A mechanical toy comprising a pair of vertically spaced base sections and a frame connect-inn the same, an upright rod located between the base sections and having cranks at its ends, abar carried by the rod and having figures mounted thereon, and pairs o1 cords connecting the crank ends ot the rod to the base sections, said pairs of cords having such slack that the one pair can be twisted without placingthe other 7 pair under strain, whereby when the toy is supported on the base section to bring the twisted pair of cords uppermost, the same will impart a whirling movement to the rod, bar and figuresand twist the lowermost pair of cords.

a. A mechanical toy comprising a pair of vertically spaced base sections and a frame connecting thesame, an upright rod located between the base sections and having cranks at its ends, a bar carried ,by the rod and having figures mounted thereon, pairs of cords connecting the crank ends of the rod to the base sections, said pairs of cords having such slack that the one pair can be twisted without placing the other pair under strain, whereby when the toy is supported on the base section to bring the twisted pair or cords uppermost, the same Wlll impart, a whirling movement to the rod, 'bar and figures and twist the lowermost pair ott cords, and casings secured to the base sections and covering the crank 5 ends of the rods and the pairs of cords.

of cords.

6. A mechanical toy comprising a pair of vertically spaced base sections and a frame connectinpfthe same, an uprightrod located between the base secti ns and having each of its ends bent iO, TOIHi a pair of crank arms and ha ing its intermediate portion bent to form a loop a bar intermediately secured to the loop in the rod, figures mount ed on the bar, pairs of cords connecting the crank arms to the base sections, said pairs of cords having. such slack that the one pair can be twisted without placingthe other pair uncer strain, whereby when the toy is supported on the base section to bring the twisted pair of cords uppermost, the same will impart a whirling movement to the rod, bar and figures and twist the lowermost pair ofcords, and casings secured to the base section and covering the crank arms and pairs of cords.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature in presence of, two witnesses.

HALE S. COLEli iAN. li itnesses Tn'nofW. G. Nonn, il innrs WELKER.

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