US954544A - Nautical doll. - Google Patents

Description

T. W. SLNFORD.

NAUTIGAL DOLL.

APPLICATION FILED DBo.27,19o9.

Patented Apr. 12,1910.

THEODORE W. SANFORD', OF'ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

NAUTICAL DOLL.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 12, 1910.

Application filed December 27,1909. Serial No. 535,010.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE W. SAN- FORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Nautical Dolls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention .relates to toys of the class designed to iioat in water and consists of a hollow receptacle having the form and appearance of ,a toyk ure and which is partially filled with bir shot for the purpose of enabling the center of gravity to be shifted and thereby cause the figure to assume different postures while in the water.

The essential features of my invention are embodied in the doll set forth in the following description and accompanying drawing in which like reference characters refer to corresponding parts.

In the drawings: Figure l is a front view of the doll when floatin in an upright position, a portion thereof Iweing shown broken away; Fig. 2, a front view in a reversed position; Figs. 3 and 4 opposite side views respectively in a reclininol position, and Fig. 5, a front view in a rec ining position.

My doll comprises the trunk A, head B, arms C C and legs D D. The entire body is made in the form of a shell preferably out of a composition like hard rubber which may be readlly ierced to form an aperture in the top of t e head b for loading the same with a quantity of bird shot After the loading operation the aperture may be sealedpup with cement and painted over so that the finish of the toy will not be defaced by the loading operation. The quantity of shot is so measured and determined for each size and st le that when the figure is placed lin water t e same will be weighted to effect a predetermmed degree of immersion as shown by the Water line a--a in the sev- .eral figures. The gure may also be manipulated to cause it to assume different postures while loatin in the water by causing the shot to be col ected and distributed in the various pockets and depressions along the lowermost side. These ockets and 'depressions may be formed E outline or contour of the li re.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the shot 1s shown collected in the legs and feet C, C and in the head B respectively thereby causing it to assume an y the natural upright and reversed posture, in Figs. 3 and 4 the shot is shown distributed along the depressions formed in the back and front of the trunk A thereby causing the figure to recline on its back and stomach respectively, and in 5 the shot is collected in the arm B and in the depressions along the side of the trunk A thereby causing the figure to recline on its side. By collecting the shot in the opposite arm`and distributing it along the opposite side the figure will recline on its opposite side. Besides the different postures above described the figure may be floated in various other positions according to the manner in which the shot is distributed.

It will be observed that by using shot instead of a single weighted ball or the like I am enabled to effect a distribution of the weight so as to render stable and iXed the posture of the ligure when floating.

It will also be observed that the depressions and curves offered by the natural configuration of the figure furnishes the necessary pockets and crevices to catch and hold the shot so that the center of gravity may be shifted readily and the ligure become more or less stable when the shot comes to rest.

In manipulatingthe ligure itis merely necessary to'give the same a shake so as to shift theshot to any portion thereof desired. After afew trials the shot can be distributed with more or less accuracy.

While I have shown my invention as embodied in a doll yet the same may be modified to comprehend other figures.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

A. toy ligure made out of a shell like material to form a hermetically sealed recep-` tacle having depressions in its interior walls conforming to the natural configuration of the shell, the said rece tacle being partially filled with bird shot o such a weight as not to destroy the buoyancy of the figure when floating in water and which when' shifted within the rece tacle will become distributed and xed withm' said depressions and thereby change the center of gravity.

THEODORE W. SANFORD.

Witnesses: WALTER A. HOLDEN, ADA M. GESNER.

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