Improvements in Toys.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892.
UUMI LEID DI PUIT
Improvements in Toys.
I, WILLIAM PITT SHATTUCK of No. 611, Sixteenth Street South, Minneapolis,
Hennepin County, State of Minnesota, United States of America, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The invention relates to improvements in toys and the object that I have in view
is to provide a toy which can be made to move apparently automatically and with
motions, resembling those of a live creature, and the invention consists generally in
a toy provided with differential wheels or pulleys having cords attached thereto
and arranged so that by pulling upon one cord the toy will be made to move along
the other cord, or by reversing, it will return to its former position, this movement
being effected because one pulley winds up or lets off the cord faster than the
other.
The invention consists further in a toy of this class provided with means for
giving to its movable parts motions resembling those of an animal or living creature
that the toy is intended to represent.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification,
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of a toy embodying my invention.
Fig. 2 is a section at right angles to the section of Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 are details showing the different arrangements of the gearing.
In the drawings, 2 represents the body of the toy which is preferably made to
As here shown it is made to
represent the body of an animal, bird or fish.
and the tail 5. Arranged
represent the body of a monkey provided with the head
within the body is a differential pulley 7, 9, the two parts of the pulley being of
different diameters. This pulley is arranged upon a suitable axle 11 so as to turn
freely in either direction. A cord 13 is wound upon one part of the pulley and a
cord 15 upon the other and these cords are preferably arranged to extend in
opposite directions from the body of the toy. The toy is also provided with the
pivoted legs and arms 17 and 19 and with the ends 21 and feet 23. The legs and
arms are also preferably jointed, being formed in two parts and said parts pivoted
together. The ends 21 are preferably provided with an opening 25 through which
the cord 15 passes, and the feet 23 with the opening 27 through which the cord 13
passes.
It
I also prefer to provide the axle 11 of the pulley with a cam or eccentric 31
and this engages connecting rods 33 that are connected at their ends with the
cranks 35 and 37 upon the pivots of the legs and arms 17 and 19 of the toy.
will be seen that the toy which is thus arranged is made to represent a monkey in
the act of climbing a rope. By pulling one end of the cords one cord will be
wound upon the pulley and the other will be unwound and the difference in
diameter of the two parts of the pulley will cause the toy to progress along one of
the cords, so that by holding the cords in a vertical position and pulling upon one
of them the figure will be caused to move up the cord and by slackening upon the
cord the weight will cause it to go down again. The pulley rotates the eccentric,
causes a vertical movement of the rod 33, thereby moving the legs and arms up
and down and giving to these parts the appearance that the legs and arms of a live
monkey would have in climbing up a rope. In place of using the differential
pulley 7, 9 having its two parts of different diameters I may use two pulleys of
different sizes geared together, as shown in Fig. 3, or two pulleys of the same size
having an intermediate gearing as shown in Fig. 4, so that one pulley travels

page_text: faster than the other, or I may use any other arrangement of pulleys that will give
to one cord a different rate of speed than is given to the other.
It will be obvious that the figure that the toy is intended to represent may be
varied without departing from my invention and that in a similar manner the
movements of any kind of living creature may be represented and toys may be
constructed to represent almost any kind of living creature.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A toy consisting of a body formed to represent a living creature, a differential
pulley arranged therein and cords wound upon said pulley, for the purpose set
forth.
2. A toy consisting of a body and parts connected therewith and movable in
relation thereto, a differential pulley connected therewith, cords arranged upon said
differential pulley and means connected with the axis of said pulley for moving the
parts connected to said body for operating said movable parts.
3. In a toy, the combination with a suitable figure provided with movable parts,
a differential pulley connected therewith, cords upon said pulley, and means
connected with the axis of said pulley for operating said movable parts, substantially
as described.
4. The combination with a body of movable limbs connected therewith, a
differential pulley arranged therein, a cam provided in connection with said pulley,
two cords wound on the same, crank rods arranged in connection with the limbs,
and a connecting rod extending between the same and engaging said cam whereby
as the pulley is exerted on one of said cords said body is caused to advance and
said limbs to operate, substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1892.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.