US2110592A - Toy - Google Patents

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v March 8, 1938. DEUCE-l 2,1m592 TOY Filed March 19, 1937 27 INVENTOR. /a f g f z a 5% ATTORNEY.

Patented Mar. 8, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFEE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to toys and has special reference to a toy upon which may be operated a plurality of manually animated objects.

The principal object of the invention is to provide simple means for simultaneous movement of a plurality of figures.

Other novel advantages of the device will appear in the following description thereof.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the top of a receptacle in which the operating mechanism is inclosed.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the receptacle inverted and showing the mechanism therein partly broken away.

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmental sectional view of the arrangement of some of the cooperative parts and diagrammatic view of an object on the surface of the receptacle operated by the mechanism, showing the shafts 9 and H1 at right angles to their normal position as shown in Fig. 2 to better illustrate the operation of the animated objects.

In this embodiment of the invention I have illustrated the receptacle as being of sheet metal, circular in form, and of sufficient height only to house the operating mechanism, and four objects are shown as being operated simultaneously, one over each circular ground surface, as indicated at 2; the top of the cylindrical housing being illustrated at I and the side walls thereof at 3.

In the plan view as shown in Figure 1, I have simply suggested the position of the object to be animated as by the parallel dotted lines 44 and 55, and which objects may be representative of a chicken, other bird or animal, for example, having a neck lever 6, head I, and tail lever 8, and which, obviously, may be modified as desired, and therefore they are here shown only diagrammatically.

It will also be noted that the figures or objects, whatever they may be, are illustrated as being greater in extent than the circular area 2 allotted to each for operation thereover so that the extremities of the figures or objects overlap these areas and therefore must be positioned in such a manner upon their operative shafts as not to conflict one with the other, and the objects 4-4 travel or rotate clockwise while the figures 55 rotate in the opposite direction or anti-clockwise. The special feature here intended to attract the attention of the observer is that these animated objects appear closer together than might be anticipated in a mechanically operated device and in viewing same the wonder occurs why they do not interlock or foul one another, thus becoming more attractive.

The mechanism comprises three parallel shafts 9, ill, and l l, they being journalled adjacent their ends in the side walls of the receptacle or any 5 other suitable way desired, the shaft 9 being the driving shaft and upon one end of which externally of the receptacle is installed a crank l2 for manual operation thereof. Upon this shaft is installed the sprocket driving wheel l3 which 10 meshes at one lateral extremity with the cogged wheel M fixed to the shaft l0 and on its opposite extremity with the cogged wheel I5 fixed to the shaft H for the driving of same. Here it is to be noted that all of these wheels are of the sheet 15 metal pressed type for cheapness of construction, though may be otherwise formed if desired. The sprocket l3 also meshes at its top with the sprocket wheel "5, shrunk or tightly pressed onto the central shaft IT for rotating same, and 20 this shaft, slightly above the sprocket It carries thereupon a similar sprocket it which meshes with the two opposed cogged wheels l9 and 20 one upon either side thereof and which cogged wheels form the driving members for two dia 25 metrically opposed similarly sized sprocket wheels 2i and 22; each of these four wheels operating an animated object upon the uppermost surface of the platform of the device. While the shaft I! is illustrated as being suspended from 30 the deck I and rotatable therein, the lower end may be suspended in any desired manner either upon the transverse shaft 9, or bya suitable transverse member not shown. It will be noted that the cogged wheels 89 and 2|! have long depending 35 cogs 23 therein so that they may be driven by the sprocket wheel I8 and upon opposite sides thereof above the sprockets 2| and 22, this particular arrangement of overlapping sprockets and gears being for convenience in the close grouping of 40 same, as more clearly illustrated in Figure 3.

Thus it will be seen that each of the four larger sprocket and cogged wheels is carried upon a small tubular gudgeon or journal 24 extending upwardly through the deck I and above 5 which deck each journal carries fixed thereto the disc 25 upon which the figure to be animated is carried, bird or animal as the case may be, and the body of which is diagrammatically illustrated at 26, Fig. 3, and by the dotted lines 4-5, Fig. 1. 5

Directly beneath each of these central journals and below their respective driving wheels is installed a star wheel illustrated at 21, two on the shaft l0 and two on the shaft H, and loosely carried upon the shaft 9 are radially disposed 55 lever members 28 reaching to a point directly over a star wheel for each and having their extreme outer ends provided with a weight indicated at 29 sufficiently heavy to maintain the head I, for example, on the neck arm 6 of the animal or bird in raised position, as well as the tail 8 if so desired, the connection between the end of the lever 28 and the inner end of the neck and tail levers being accomplished as by a cord or the like indicated at 30 for such operating engagement. These levers are pivoted at the opposite extremities of the body portion as at 3| and 32 respectively.

The star wheels are shown as having five points simply as a convenience in making all of the objects operate uniformly or these may be varied so that one or more of them may have a different number of motions and cause one bird to peck faster than another, as desired. It is apparent, however, that when the drive shaft is rotated manually by the crank l2 the other two shafts l9 and II will also be rotated as well as the four large discs for operating the animal or birds on the deck of the device, two of said discs rotating in clockwise direction and two in anticlockwise direction, and with their tails and heads simultaneously operating providing an attractive and amusing toy.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A toy comprising in combination a cylindrical receptacle having a fixed deck like top, a plurality of circular rotatable discs mounted above said deck and upon each of which discs is a representation of an animal having extending portions thereupon to be animated, a power shaft journalled within the walls of the receptacle and disposed diametrically therein, two other shafts journalled within the walls of the receptacle and spaced equally one upon either side of said power shaft, each of these two shafts being aligned beneath a pair of said discs, means whereby said two shafts are simultaneously operated by said power shaft, and means upon said two shafts one beneath each disc and operable by the power shaft for animating the extensions of said animal representations, and means for simultaneously rotating said discs by the operation of said power shaft.

PETER DELICH.

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