US242709A - Dissected toy picture - Google Patents

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.w. STRANDERS. Dissected Toy Picture.

No.'24 2,709. Paten ted June 7,1881

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER STRANDEBS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES C. SHEP- HERD, OF PASSAIO, NEW JERSEY. I

DlSSECTED TOY PICTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,709, dated June 7, 1881.

Application filed April 20, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern; Be it known that I, WALTER S'LRANDERS of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Dissected Toy Pic- 5 tures, of which the followingis a specification. Toy pictures and maps have been made in a 'num ber of ways, the object being to amuse and instructyonng persons While placing thepieces together. l Thepresent invention relates to a dissected picture in which provision is made for building up one thought or expression after another by the addition of other pieces to take the place of pieces thatare introduced in the foun- 1 dation design of the toy. I l

l have illustrated the present invention in connection with the well-known jingle called The house that Jack built.

in the drawings, Figure 1 represents simply the house that Jack built, with the surrounding shrubbery, 850. This picture is placed upon arbacking of wood, cardboard, or other suitable material, and divided up into sections, which are numbered 1, 2, 3, 850. There may be more divisions than those,if desired. The otherfigures show the sections that are to be used-successively to replace the correspondingly-numbered sections in Fig. 1. For instance, reniove section No. 1 from Fig. 1 and 0 replace it by section No. 1 from Fig. 2, and you havel This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. Then remove section No. 2 from Fig. 1 and replace it by section No. 2from Fig. 2, and you have This is the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack 5 built. Then substitute section No. 3, Fig. 2, for the corresponding section in Fig. 1, and you'have This is the cat that killed the rat thata te the maltthat lay in the house thatJack built; and so on, by introducing into Fig. 1 40 the successive sections shown in Fig. .2, the picture No. 1 will be'com'plete after each substitution, and the incidents or statements of thejingle will be illustrated in the Fig. 1.

It will be evident that this character of toy 5 picture can be made to represent various devices-sucl1,for instance, as cages for animals, with sections that can be removed and others represen tin g animals be introduced and many other kinds of dissected pictures can be made in which one or more sections can be removed and other sections introduced to represent additional devices, articles, or ideas.

I claim as iny'invention- The combination, witha dissected toy pic tnre, of one or more substitute sections to be introduced into the said toy picture to convey something additional to the ori gin-.11 dissected toy picture, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 7th day of April, A. D. 188i.

\VALTER STRANDERS.

Witnesses:

HAROLD SERRELL, WILLIAM G. More

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