US697958A - Toy. - Google Patents

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JOIIN FLINDALL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 697,958, dated April. 15, 1902. Application filed September 12, 1901. Serial No. 75,147, (No model.)

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Be itknown that I, JOHN FLINDALL, of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to mechanical toys; and the object of my improvement is to provide a toy having a platform with sockets or keepers arrangedin a row around its margin by which a series of pins or other figures may be supported in erect position, to provide a series of stops for choking and opening the sockets, and to provide means for operating the stops in such manner that a row of iigures may be erected and supported in the consecutive sockets along one side and end of or half-Way around the platform; but the further extension of the row of erect figures will cause the gures previously erected to be progressively knocked out of their socketsand fall down upon the platform. I have attained this object by the `construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of atoy containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken 'just below the board or platform. Fig. 3 is avertical section of the complete device, taken at the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail showing a fragment of a detached part in perspective, and Fig. 5 is a detail showing a form of standing pin in per spective.

In the drawings, A is a board orplatlorm provided with a row of holes a around at the margin. Said bgard is secured to and forms the top or cover of a shallow box B,\vhose bot tom is provided with a row of holes l), which register with the holes a. Alternatinglevers C are supported on a wire or rod c, fastened to the end pieces b' of the box, so as to support said levers at or near the center and allow them to vibrate individually. The ends of these levers are provided with a hole c', in which are loose pins C'. Said pins enter and work loosely in the holes rt Z1. Stop-pegs o2, through holes in said pins C', prevent their dropping out of place or` being projected through the holes d b by the movement of the levers. A series of alternating levers D, simil larly supported on a wire or rod d, fastened at its ends to thc side pieces of tho box, is

provided for the holes a l) at the ends of the box, the support cl being arranged oli' from or above the support c a sufficient distance to allow the levers O and D to Work Withoutinterference with one another. The levers U at the ends of the box are provided with a slot, as shown at d', Figs. 2, 3, for the pins O at the ends to work in without interfering with the levers.

The pins C are the stops operated by the alternatinglevers C D, so as to alternately choke and open the holes a, which serve as the sockets or keepers for the standing pins E or other iigures, which are to be installed on the platform A by having their ends set in the keepers,l

which serve as the means for holding them in erect position, there being a sufileient number of the standing pins to fill all of said keepers. They iit in loosely and rest upon the ends of the pins C' in said keepers, as illustrated at e, Fig. 3, so that one beingnstalled at e an attempt to install another at e' would depress the pin C' at that point and by means of the lever D correspondingly elevate pin C at e, (the corresponding opposite point,) and thus lift out the one there and cause it to fall over on the platform. Each of the alternatnglevers OD, with its pins C', operates in the same Way to automatically choke the keeper on one side by the opening of the one directly opposite.-

It should be observed that the two series or groups of levers C D and the pins C connected therewith are arranged relatively to `the cover and bottom of the box so that the sockets may be choked consecutively along one side and end of the platform, While simultaneously leaving open those along the opposite side and end, and that the Iigures may be supported erect in a row in the open' sockets, but that further extending the row, which can be done by pressing the figures down upon the stops in the closed sockets, will cause the figures previously erected to be progressively knocked out of their sockets and fall down upon the platform. The alternating levers inclosed in the box under the platform are hidden from View, so that the cause of the falling is obscure.

What I claim is- 1. A toy comprising a shallow box providedwith sockets extended in a row around at the margin of its cover, stops adapted to choke and open the sockets and two groups of transversely-arranged levers mounted Within the box and connected with the stops, the arrangement of the levers and stops relatively to the row of sockets being as specified.

2. A toy comprising a shallow box provided with registering holes in it-stop and bottom extended in a row around at the margin, stops adapted to work in said holes, and two groups ot transversely-arrangedand i-idividuallyoperative levers mounted on fulcra located in dierent planes within the box, each group of levers being connected with a portion of the stops arranged at opposite ends of the group as specied.

3. A toy comprising a shallow box: provided with sockets extended in av row at the margin ofv its cover, stops adapted to choke and open the sockets, two groups of transverselyarranged levers mounted within the box and connected with the stops, the arrangement of the levers and stops relatively to the row of sockets being as shown, and means for limiting the movement so as to prevent the prejection of the stops above the upper surface of the cover as specified.

JOHN FLlNDALL.

Witnesses:

WALTER VAN SANDS, ANNIE M. ADAMS.

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