USRE2673E - tucker - Google Patents

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@nimh 'tatra @anni @Hire FREDERICK oTUCKEE AND WILLIAM w. TUCKER, 0E WEST MEEIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNEES BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS CE THEMSELVES.

Letters .Patent 1V0. 55,591,`dated June 12, 1866; reissue No. 2,673, dated 9, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT. IN TOY TOPS.

-To ALL wHoM IT MAY' CONCERN;

Be' tknown that we, FREDERICK 0. TUCKER and WILLIAM W. TUCKER, both of West Meriden, inthe county of New Haven, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Tops; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction. and opration of the same, reference l'reinghad to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, in whichv Figure 1 is a perspective view of the top, showing the pin in the stem by which the top is to be connected with the whirling-spindle. p 5 A Figure 2 is'a section of Athe top and whirling-spindle, cut vertically through the central part, showing how the two cords are attached to and wound upon .the whirling-spindle, also the position of' the ballast ring in the top. Our improvement consists in the use of awhirling-spindl'e, to be operated by two cords in such a manner that by unwinding onecord it will wind up'the other, so that after one of' the cords has been wound on to one portion of the spindle, and one end of the other cord is attached, by uuwinding one cord we-wind up the other alternately. I

We make the top of two disks ofis'heet metal, which we spin, raise, or strike up to the desired shape, substantially as represented MLB and C, fig. 1, and indicated in g.-2'. And we .uralte the ballast ring as a Asimple circle of wire, and 'before or at the time ofA clasping or locking the' two parts B and C together, we insert the ballast ring, as indicated at D D, iig. 2, that is, lat the pointof the largest diameter of the top, becausethe further the ballast ring' is from the centre, the less weight will he required to keepthe'top steady, or prevent its Ait. l And nt the lower end we cut a. transverse s lot so las to leave a hook as shown at g jumping or dancing. And through the centre-verticallywe fit a stem or axis, as represented at A, igsfl and 2, on the point' a of which the top spins or whirls, and in the upper portion of this stem'A we t a pin, as shown at d, which is to rest'on theihook g', fig. 2, to support the top while the cord P is being pulled to spin the top.

We make the whirling-spindle of a metallic tube, or any otherV suitable substance,substantially as shown at F,

with two holes in it, one of which is shown at It, but the other is concealed by the cord L, which is wound over.

rest. In the centre'we fit a disk like e e, audgnear theends we t similarv disks at c and c', for the cords. to wind against, that is, to serve as heads of spools. And on this whirling-spindle F we t acase, as indicated in section at E E, which serves to kcover orcnclose the cord which is wound up, and also by mea-ns of two holes, as indicated at m and n, it serves to guide the cords while beingwound up, and also when the cord is being pulled to spin the top, it so guides it as to cause the force to operate essentially at right' angles to the spindle. (But guides of any other form wouldserve thepurpose equally well.)

To use our toy top and whirling-spindle with the two cords, we attach the 'inner end of each of the two cords to the spindle Fyas indicated at L, g. 2, and wind one of the'cords as L on to the spindle, leaving the other, as P,unwound, and pass them through the guide holes m and n, all as indicated in fig. 2. We then draw out the cord L, which will revolve the spindle F, and windup the cord P in the opposite direction. We then attach the top by passing the upper end of the stem A into the hollow spindle, so that the pin d will rest in the slot or on the hook g, as indicated in'iig. 2, when it will be ready for spinning the topby pulling out the cord P with a quick-motion, which will give a fapd1y revolving motion to both the spindle and the top, land when the cord P is al1 unwound, as shown at h, the top, by continuing to revolve in the same direction, willl free What we claim as our invention, and desireito secure by Letters Patent, isl The combination of the whirling-spindle Fwith the two cords L and P, when they7 are constructed, arranged, and fitted for spinning or whirling the top, substantially as herein described and set'forth.

E. o; TUCKER,

WM. w. TUCKER.

Witnesses:

JAMES'G. BACON, LEomDAs R. HALL.

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