US1186005A - Sheet-metal toy. - Google Patents

Description

E. KESSLER.

SHEET METAL TOY,

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17, 1915.

1,186,005. Patented June 6,1916.

but

UNITED STATES PATENT o FIo EMIL K'ESSLER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO NONPAR-EIL TOY & NOVELTY (10., INCL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHEET-METAL TOY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented June 6, 1916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMIL KEssLnR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Toys, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a toy, particularly of the sort which may readily be manufactured from sheet metal and which includes a driving element and a driven element.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a device of the kind described in which the driving and driven elements may be stamped out from sheet metal, producing an article which may be sold for a low price and which will be efficient in operation.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less broad than those stated above, together with the advantages inherent, will be in part obvious and in part specifically referred to in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts, and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will appear from the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown a merely preferred form of embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of a toy horse and vehicle, the latter being constructed in accordance with the invention; Fig. 2 is a plan View partially in perspective of the vehicle proper with parts removed; Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the driven element, and Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional View with parts in elevation, illustrating a modification.

Referring to the numerals on the drawlugs and particularly to Figs. 1, 2 and 3,

there is shown at 5 an axle, on which are mounted traction wheels 6. Pivotally secured upon the axle 5 as by means of the lugs 7, there is a bed plate 8, which may be of sheet metal and which carries an upstanding tubular post 9. On the upper face of the bed plate 8 there is provided a circular rib shown at 8', the purpose of which will be later described. The axle 5 is a live axle, and it is provided with a pinion 10 which may be stamped out of sheet metal, and the said pinion projects through an aperture 11 cut in the base plate 8. If desired, the representation of a horse or the like may be provided, as indicated at 12, said efiigy being secured to the bed plate 8 as by means of connecting rods 14. 15 indicates the driven member of the toy, which, as shown in Fig. 3, comprises a disk 16 having a circular rack 17 punched out of it and adapted to cooperate with the teeth of the pinion 10 projecting through the aperture 11 of the bed plate 8. The disk 16 is centrally apertured, and projecting upwardly from the disk 16, above the central aperture thereof is a tube 18, which may carry at its upper end a representation of a canopy or umbrella 19. The disk 16 is supported in spaced relation above the bed plate 8 by the circular rib 8 as seen in Fig. 1. This arrangement tends to lessen the friction of the disk when the same is set in motion. The disk 16 may further be provided, as shown in Fig. 1, with sheet metal representations of horses or the like 20. In use, the disk 16 is placed over the bed plate 8, with the post 9 entered into the tube 18, and with the projecting teeth of the pinion 10 engaging in the cut-out rack 17, the re-.

sult is that when the traction wheels 6 are caused to rotate, the disk 16 will be correspondingly rotated, carrying the canopy 19 and figures 20 with it, thus providing an animated toy.

In the form shown in Fig. 4, there is shown a toy intended for stationary use. In that figure there is shown a box 21 in which is mounted a shaft 22, which is operated by means of a crank 23. The shaft 22 carries a pinion 10, which projects through an aperture in the top of the box. Projecting from the top of the box there is a tubular post 9, and there is also a disk 16 pro vided with a circular rack similar to the rack 17 shown in Fig. 3. This disk 16 has a central upstanding tube 18, having at its upper end a canopy or umbrella 19, and this tube sets over the tubular post 9. It will be evident that when the crank 23 is turned, the rotation of the pinion 10 will cause rotation of the disk 16, tube 18, and canopy or umbrella 19, as already described with reference to Fig. 1. The disk 16 in this form of the device may be provided with figures 20 or the like if desired.

Inasmuch as many changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention could be made Without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the lan guage used in the following claims is intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the inven tion which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim:

1. In a device of the kind described, an axle, a bed plate secured thereto and having a central post upstanding therefrom, said bed plate being provided with an aperture, a pinion on the axle projecting through such aperture, and a disk member rotatably supported on the post and having a cut-out circular rack engaging with the pinion.

2. In a device of the kind described, a driving element including an axle, a bed plate above the axle, having an opening therein, a pinion mounted on the axle, and projecting through said opening, a disk member, and means arranged on the bed plate for supporting said disk, said plate having a circular cutout rack therein engaging with said pinion.

3. In adevice of the kind described, a driving element including an axle, a bed plate above the axle, having an opening therein, a pinion mounted on the axle, and projecting through said opening, a disk member pivotally supported on the bed plate and means arranged on the bed plate beneath said disk member to space the same from said bed plate, said bed plate having a circular cutout rack therein engaging with said pinion.

4. In a device of the kind described, a driving element including an axle, a bed plate above the axle, having an opening therein, a pinion mounted on the axle, and projecting through said opening, a disk member pivotally supported on the bed plate and a circular rib arranged on the bed plate beneath said disk member to space the same from said bed plate, said plate having a circular cutout rack therein engaging with said pinion.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EMIL KESSLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

Images