US884391A - Spinning-holder for tops. - Google Patents

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PATENTED APR l4, 190m K. E. JOHA-NSSON. SPINNING HOLDER FOR TOPS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1907.

YHE NORRIS PETERS co., WASHINGTON. u c,

KARL E. JOHANSSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPINNING-HOLDER FOR TOPS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed September 9, 1907. Serial No. 391,939.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL E. JOHANSSON, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Spinning-Holder for Tops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in a spinning holder for tops, and consists in certain peculiarities of the construction, novel arrangement, and operation of the various parts thereof, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The objects of the invention are to provide a spinning holder for the tops to be used for maintaining the ends of the top in perfect alinement with one another while the spinning cord is being withdrawn from that portion of the top on which it has been wound.

A further object of the invention is to pro vide a spinning holder, of such construction that its bearings for the stems of the top may be automatically released therefrom, or they may be held in engagement therewith, and released by pressure of the hand of the operator.

A further object of the invention is to provide a spinning holder for tops, which will enable the top to be spun for a great length of time by an inexperienced person.

Other ob'ects and advantages of the inventioii will be disclosed in the subjoined description and explanation.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention pertains, to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a top and spinning holder therefor, embodying the invention, and showing by dotted lines about the positions the members or parts of the holder will assume when the top is released. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view taken on line 22 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of a modified form of the top andFig. 4 is a greatly enlarged perspective view of one of the prongs of the holder.

Like numerals of reference, refer to corresponding parts throughout the different views of the drawing.

The spinning holder, which is designated in whole by the reference numeral 7, is preferably made of wire, but may be made of suitable spring metal, flat or otherwise in cross-section, and comprises a handle portion consisting of two parallel parts 8, having at one of their ends a spring, which may be in the form of a coil 9 integral with the parts 8, as shown. The parts 8 are divergently extended from one another at a suitable distance from the spring or coil 9 as at 10 in Fig. 1 of the drawing, and are then extended in parallelism with one another, as is clearly shown in said figure. of the members or parts 8 is flattened or broadened as at 11, and is bent back to approximate a portion of the member, thus providing bearing members 12, each of wh ch is provided with an opening 13 for the spmdles 14 and 15 of the top 16, the body of which may be of any suitable shape, but preferably of the shape or form shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, in which it will be observed that the spindle 14 is secured. in the center of one end of the body of the top, and that said body is provided with a flattened apex 17 around the said spindle. The other end of the top 16 is provided with a reduced extension 18, for the reception of the sp1n ning cord, which is wound around said extension when it is desired to spin the top.

The spindle 15 is secured in the center of the free end of the extension 18, and is of sufficient length to rest against the inner surface of the flattened portion 11 of one of the members 8, so that the bearing member 12 thereon will be free from the end of the extension 18, as is obvious by reference to the drawing. Secured at one of its ends to one of the members 8, near its outwardly bent ortion, is a guide and locking member 19 for the other member 8 of the holder.

The member 19 may be secured at one of its ends to one of the handle members 8 by being coiled around the same as at 20, and soldered thereto, or it may be otherwise attached to said member, and extends transversely with respect to the parts 8, and is rovided at its free end with a loop 21 one o the members of which loop is furnished with a lateral offset 22 to provide means for locking the member 8, which extends through the loop, in its contracted position, or in such position that the bearing members 12 will engage the spindles 14 and 15 of the top. The

offset 22 is formed at a proper place on one of the members of the loop 21, so that when the members 8 are in their contracted ositions, as shown by full lines in Fig. 1, the lbwer sur- The free end of each face of the member 8 which passes through the loop will rest on the lower surface of the inner portion of the offset 22, thus restricting the inward movement of said member 8. By this arrangement, it is apparent that the bearing members 12 will be held out of contact with the flattened apex 17 and the end of the extension 18, thus reducing the friction incident to the revolution of the top to a minimum degree.

In Fig. 3 of the drawing, I have shown a modified form of the top, which consists in providing the enlarged end thereof with an extension 18 instead of locating it in the tapered end as in the construction shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. In this modified form of the top 16", the tapered portion thereof is provided with a spindle 1 1, and the free end of the extension 18 is provided with a spindle 15, as in the other construction, and said spindles are adapted to engage the openings 13 in the bearlng members, as in the other construction.

From the foregoing and by reference to the drawing it will be seen and readily understood that by employing a spinning holder embodying my invention, a very simple and efficient spinning device and holder is furnished, and that by reason of the peculiar construction of the top, it may be made to spin for a great length of time on either end, for it is evident that the holder may be inverted from the position shown in Fig. 1, or that the position of the top may be reversed.

The operation is simple and as follows The spindles 14 and 15 of the top are placed in the openings 13 of the bearing members 12, when said members may be held in the position shown by continuous lines in Fig. 1 of the drawing, simply by the pressure of the hand on the parts 8 of the holder, or one of the parts or members 8 may be caused, by a lateral movement thereof. to engage the offset 22 in the loop 21, thus firmly holding the bearing members in engagement with the spindles of the top until the spinning cord, which shall have been tightly wound around the reduced extension 18 or 18 of the top, is quickly withdrawn therefrom, which will impart to the top rapid rotary motion, when by releasing the grasp of the hand from the parts 8, or disengaging the member 8 from the offset 22, it is evident that the bearing members 12, by reason of the resiliency of the holder, will be separated, thus releasing the top and ermitting it to fall on the floor or other sur 'ace upon which it is desired to spin the same.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is 4 1. A spinning holder for tops consisting of a spring-pressed forked holder having at the free end of each of its prongs a bearing member for engagement with the spindles of the top, and a guide member transversely located with respect to the prongs of the holder and secured at one of its ends to one of said prongs and having at its other end aloo through which the other prong is extende said loop having in one of its members an offset or recess to engage the prong and to hold it in its depressed position.

2. A spinning holder for tops, consisting of a spring-pressed forked holder having at the free end of each of its prongs a bearing member for engagement with the spindles of the top, and a guide member transversely located with respect to the prongs of the holder and secured at one of its ends to one of said prongs and having at its other end a 100 through which the other prong is extendec.

KARL E. JOHANSSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. C. TILLMAN, M. A. NYMAN.

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