GB459534A - Convertible mechanical toy - Google Patents

Abstract

459,534. Toys. ARNOLD, C., 47, Deutschherrnstrasse, Nuremberg, Germany. July 10, 1935, No. 19739. [Class 132 (iii)] Toy comprises a box a, Fig. 1, containing different vehicle bodies, for example, a rail zeppelin b, tank b<1>, locomotive b<11>, and motor car b<111>, the bodies being of sheet metal or wood and having plates g with bayonet slots f for engaging the axles l of the wheels d of the frame c carrying the driving motor. The plates g are covered by extensions of the side walls of the body if the wheels are to be invisible. The plates g may be omitted in the case of the motor car body, and the slots f provided directly in the side walls of the body. The frame c has on its front end upwardly extending lugs h, Fig. 4, on which a U-shaped plate m is pivotally mounted on a pin i. The axle l carrying the front wheels d is journalled in the arms of the plate m, and is pressed away from the lugs h by a spring k wound on the pin i and secured at one end to the plate m and bearing with its other end against one of the lugs h.