Improvements in andi connected with Children's-Toys.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1892-Accepted. 1st Oct., 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in andi connected with Children's-Toys.
I, AUGUST FREIHERR VON BABO, Junior, of' Klosterneuburg, near Vienna.
Austria, Baron of the Austrian Empire, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner. the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement: -
This invention relates to those toys for children which may be arranged and
re-arranged at will in standing or inclined positions in various orders and groups:
These toys are commonly known, and as most frequently employed are repre-
sentations of soldiers and other figures, animals; trees; houses and parts of liouses
and structures, bridges and the like, made of metal, wood, or other suitable
material! As usually constructed, these toys can be used only on a firm and
level surface with advantage, and the object of this invention is to enable them
to be used with equal facility on the sand of the sea shore, on turf, and on other
similar surfaces, as well as upon the firm surfaces of tables, floors, and boards, if it
be so desired.
According to these improvements, I arrange in the base of each toy a fixed or
removable pin or similar device which may have various forms and which when not
fixed, may be inserted into the toy when it is to be used on a sandy or similar
surface and be removed therefrom when the toy is to be used on a firm surface.
I will more particularly describe my said invention with reference to the accom-
panying drawings, which represent various modifications of the removable pin or
device and of its method of application.
In these drawings,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a toy gate, forming part of a fence or
enclosure.
Figure 2 is a side view and front view respectively of a set of entrance steps,
or part of a staircase.
Figure 3 is an elevation of a small table, and
Figure 4 an end view of a garden bench.
Each of the articles represented by Figures 1 to 4 inclusive are provided with
the device for fixing the toy in sand clay carth or the like according to this
invention.
As represented by the drawings, the fixing device consists of a small peg or pin w,
suitably arranged in the base of the toy, and formed of wood, horn, bone, metal or
similar suitable material, with a rectangular circular or polygonal cross section.
In Figures 5 to 8 inclusive, the device has a cylindro-conical form, which may be
hollow or solid, and as shewn by Figure 9, it has a tubular form.
In the forms represented by Figures 5, 6 and 7, the pins a are secured to the
base of the toy by means of a plug or tenon fitting into a socket or mortice, and
they may have either of the cross sections shewn, or any other convenient form.
As shewn in Figure 8, the device is secured to the toy by means of a screw
threaded part, screwed into a tapped hole formed in the bottom of the toy.
In the modification represented by Figure 9, the device consists of a small tube a
which may be fitted into an annular groove formed in the bottom of the toy, or the
upper part of the tube may be screwed and fitted into a corresponding tapped hole
formed in the base b.
When the toy has two or more points of support, as indicated by Figure 4, the
device a, may be formed upon or connected.with one only of the points of support,
as shewn by the full lines, or the device may be formed upon or connected with
each of the points as indicated by the dotted lines.
It is obvious that the device is applicable to all kinds of toys which are required

page_text: to stand in an erect or inclined position, and that the form and construction thereof,
as well as the means for securing or connecting it. with the toys may be varied in
very many ways, without departing from my invention.
When the devices are made in the removable form, the toys may be used either
with the devices in the open air, or without them in-doors. .,
Having now particularly described 'and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. In combination with toys for children, devices consisting of pins pegs and the
like, fixed upon or removably connected to the bases of the toys, substantially as
and for the purpose hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accom-
panying drawings.
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2. Devices for maintaining children's toys in an erect or inclined position in sand
and similar loose material, said devices being either fixed upon the bases of the
toys, or removably connected therewith so that they may also be used on tables in
the ordinary manner, constructed and arranged substantially as hereinbefore
described and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
WILLIAM E. HEYS,
Agent for the Applicant.