US1474852A - Mechanical toy - Google Patents

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Nov. 20, 1923 1,474,852

A. S. RYBACK MECHANICAL TOY Filed Jan. 11 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Nov. 20, 1923 A. S. RYBACK MECHANICAL TOY Filed Jan. 11. 1922 M a 11 9 4:93,. a

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. ANTHONY S. R-YBACK, OF 'DEPEVY, NEW YORK.

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Application filed January 11, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY S. RYBAQK, citizen of Poland, residing at Depew, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Toys, of which the fol lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to mechanical toys,

1 and it has for an object to provide toy adapted to simulate the movements of a work-man at a power forging machine.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following de 1 scription and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 ofv the drawings is a partial side view of a mechanical toy constructed according to the invention, the .mannikin being omitted.

Fig. 2-is a similar view, but looking in the opposite direction.

Fig. 3 is a plan view.

Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

- As here embodied my improved toy comprises a frame consisting of a base 10 and uprights 11 suitably joined together. In this frame a clock-spring motor 12 of ordinary construction is mounted and drives, through a train of gears indicated generally at 13, ahorizontal shaft 14 journaled in the frame. Upon shaft 14 is fixed a pulley 15 connected'by' a cross belt 16 with a second pulley 17 fixed on a stub shaft 18 journaled in the upper end of the frame.

Extending vertically along one side of the frame is a slotted guide element 20 in which is slidably guided a crosshead 21. This crosshead 21 is connected by a rod 22 with a crank disk 23 also fixed on the stub shaft 18. Fixed to the lower end of the crosshead 21 is a downwardly projecting arm 24 having a hook or finger 25 at its lower end. This finger engages under a pin'26 fixed on a sleeve 27 slidable on the guide element 20. Projecting rigidly from this sleeve 27 is a horizontal arm 28 to which is pivotally connected as at 29 the jointed and hinged leg 30 of a mannikin 31, the other leg of the mannikin being rigid, the mannikin being fixed on the base 10 and representing a blacksmith at work at a power hammer or power forge.

Serial No. 528,488.

The shaft 14 has fixed thereto. in addition to the pulley 15, an arm 35 carrying a pin 36 adapted to engage and depress a vertical bar 37 slidable in a guide element 38 30 on the frame, the bar 37 having an inwardly projecting finger 39 on its lower end against which the pin 36 bears. The upper end of the slide bar 38 is connected by a link 40 with an arm 41 fixed on a rock shaft 42 journaled in the upper part of the frame. On this shaft 42 a drum 44 is also rigidly mounted and has attached thereto the upper end of a cord 45 whose lower end is attached, as indicated at 46 in Fig. 4, to a cylindrical block 47 slidable on a vertical rod 48, the rod 48 having a projecting element 49 on one side engaging a slot 50 in one of the frame uprights to prevent rotary movement of the block, the cord 45 being attached to this projecting element 49. The rod 48 is fixed at its upper end in a member 51 shapedto represent a. vertically disposed engine cylinder, and at its lower end to a base block 52 representing the anvil of a power hammer.

The mannikin 31, before referred to, has the arms thereof hinged to the body as at 55, the right arm 56 carrying rigid therewith a member 57 representing a hammer, while 5 the left arm 58 carries a member 59 repre senting a tool or implement, such as an axe, which is being forged. Fixed to the crosshead 21 is a pin 60 which engages under the hammer member 57, causing the same to be raised and lowered, it being understood that when lowered the hammer head contacts with the implement 59. The latter may rest upon an anvil member 62 suitably fixed to the frame.

The manner of operation of my improved mechanical toy is as follows: The spring 12 being wound, by means of a winding handle 63, shaft 14 is caused to rotate in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 4, causing, through belt 16 and pulleys 15 and 17, thecrank disk 23 to rotate in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 4, reciprocating the crosshead 21 and also the sleeve 27 to which the leg of the mannikin is connected. As shaft 14 rotates, the pin 36 on arm 35 engages the finger 39 on slidebar 37 and depresses the latter, causing the shaft 42 to be rocked and the cord 45 to wind on the drum 44 and lift the block 47. The various parts are so arranged that the sleeve 27 reaches its lowest point, resting on base 10, when the crosshead 21 has traveled downwardly about one-half of its full distance, and just before the pin 36 on arm engages the finger on slide-bar 37. The appearance is thus given of the mannikin, which represents the blacksmith depressing a treadle to operate the power hammer.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a mechanical toy, an upright frame having a vertical slot, a shaft, a spring motor for driving the same, an arm fixed to said shaft, a vertically movable slide-bar, a finger on the lower end of said slide-bar adapted to be engaged by said arm to depress said slide-bar, a drum, an arm rigid with said drum, a link connecting said arm with the upper end of said slide-bar, a cord attached at one end to said drum, a vertically slidable block to which said cord is attached at its other end, a vertical guide rod for said block passing freely through the latter and an offset from said block engaging in said vertical slot to hold the block against rotation.

2. In a mechanical toy, a shaft, a spring motor for driving the same, an arm fixed to said shaft, a vertically movable slide-bar, a finger on the lower end of said slide-bar adapted to be engaged by said arm to depress said slide-bar, a drum, an arm rigid with said drum, a link connecting said arm with the upper end of said slide-bar, a cord attached at one end to said drum, a vertically slidable block to which said cord is attached at its other end, and means for guiding said block, said means comprising a vertical guide rod passing freely through said block.

3. In a mechanical toy, a hammer block, means for imparting vertical reciprocation to said block, a mannikin, a vertically movable sleeve to which one leg of said mannikin is connected, and means for reciprocating said sleeve, said means comprising a crosshead having a part 'engaging freely under a part on said sleeve, a crank disk, a rod connecting said crank disk and crosshead, and means for rotating said crank disk. V 4. In a mechanical toy, a vertically 'movable hammer block, a mannikin, a vertically movable sleeve to which one leg of said mannikin is connected, means including a crosshead for reciprocating said sleeve, a hinged arm on said mannikin having a hammer member rigid therewith and a pin on said crosshead engaging under said hammer element to lift the same. v

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature. 7

ANTHONY S. RYBACK.

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