Improvements in Mechanical Toys.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mechanical Toys.
GEORGE FREDERICK LÜTTICKE, Adalbert Str., 94, Berlin, S.O., Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: –
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My invention refers to the construction of a pin jointed dancing figure and a
novel device for imparting to the same and to other pinjointed figures or parts
of same movements independent one from the other. To carry out my invention
I may construct a figure of suitable flat metal, the legs being pinjointed at the
knees and hips, with invisible stops in the nature of projections partly straight
partly bent to an angle. The improved means for imparting motion may con-
sist of a flat metal disc, capable of rotation, with an indented periphery, a spring
or weight worked lever or the like, travelling on such periphery and suitably
connected with the figure or part of same and a lever or the like in connection
with a pin or the like on the surface of said disc, such lever being constructed
and arranged to impart to the said figure or part of same a to & fro movement
independently of the oscillating motion derived from the lever travelling on the
indented periphery of said disc.
I may also use a spring or weight in connection with the lever working from
the surface of said disc. This method of a double movement, one independent
of the other, may be applied to any pinjointed figure either two legged or four-
legged.
Improvements in Mechanical Toys.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK LÜTTICKE, of 5/6, Elisabeth-Ufer, Berlin, in the Empire
of Germany, Manufacturer, late of 94, Adalbert Str., same city, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:---
My invention refers to the construction of a pinjointed dancing figure and a
novel device for imparting to the same and other pinjointed figures or parts of
same movements independent one from the other.

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a front view;
Fig. 2 represents a side view;
Fig. 3 represents a back view; Fig. 4 shows a part of the thigh and lower part
of the leg of the figure; Fig. 5 shows a lever; Fig. 6 & 7 show the two slits at
the back of the figure.
A represents, for example, the figure of a sailor, which in this instance is made
to dance a hornpipe dance by means of a clockwork-motor B. A characteristic
feature in the arrangement of the figure is the relative position to each other of
the thigh and the lower part of the leg r. The thigh ris pivoted freely to
the body A at t, the lower part of the leg is pivoted to the thigh rat t¹, but not
freely, in as much as projections y and 2 act as stops, and the angle at the knee
joint cannot exceed over 40° as shown in Fig. 4 by the two extreme positions
and z¹. The thigh is stamped out with the projection y¹ which is bent backward.
The sailor figure A is made subject, concurrently, to two distinct movements, the
one swaying, the other lifting. These movements, originating in the clockwork-
motor B, are produced by a revolving disc m with irregularly indented peri-
phery m¹, a wire spring 7 secured at n n to B, carrying the figure A and a lever p
in the manner following viz:
The clockwork-motor B is arranged to revolve the disc m. Such disc m,
rotating on the pin e, is driven by the gear-wheel and the pinion g¹, the latter
being secured to the axle of the gear-wheel h. This wheel h is driven by the
pinion h¹ of the axle i, the latter being actuated by the spring f and a bevelled
gearing not shown in the drawing but commonly known in clock-works of this
kind. The wing k for regulating the speed is secured to the axle i. The spring f
on the axle e is wound up by the handled in the usual way.
The disc m has excentrically placed a pin s, which acts on the lever p by means
of a slit into which it projects, thus imparting a to and fro movement to the
upper end of such lever p being pivoted at p¹. The upper end of such lever ?
is loosely inserted in two slits a¹ and a¹¹ at the back of the figure A. Fig. 6
shows the comparatively short slit a" of the lower cross-piece a2 and Fig. 7 the
comparatively longer slit a¹ of the upper cross-piece a.
This arrangement causes the figure to perform a swaying movement laterally.
The irregular indentation m¹ of the disc m on the other hand imparts to the figure
an up and down movement in the following manner:
At a convenient point of the lower part of the body of the figure a hole o is
pierced, through which passes the end of a wire spring 7. Such wire spring
(Fig. 2) is fixed to the side of the motor mechanism Band forming an angle, the
horizontally placed free part of it resting and pressing on the indented disc,
which, when being revolved, causes it to perform up and down movements.
In order to prevent the wire spring from moving laterally a slit o¹ in the front
partition C acts as a vertical guide. The end of the wire spring passing through
the hole in the body of the figure, the latter is suspended on the same. The body
of the figure A thus receives two distinct movements, the one swaying laterally
the other lifting vertically.
It is obvious, that the principle of a combination of two distinct methods of
imparting movements to pin-jointed figures, as herein before shown and which I
claim as new, can be applied to a variety of subjects, with slight variations as
to the minor devices used. I, therefore, do not confine my invention to a dancing
figure, nor do I confine myself to the particular auxiliary means shown and
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1) The combination of two distinct methods for imparting movements to pin-

page_text: jointed figures, or parts of same, by utilizing both the surface and the indented
periphery of a disc, by the means shown and described or by equivalent methods.
2) The arrangement in pin-jointed dancing figures of two projections acting
as stops, to limit motion as herein before shown and described.
3) The improvements as hereinbefore shown and described.
Dated this Tenth day of September 1898.
GEORGE FREDERICK LÜTTICKE.