US1440944A - Toy - Google Patents

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Jan. 2, 1923. 1,440,944

H. M. TARR.

TOY. FILED MAR. 21, 1921.

Inwenfir,

X Harold M Ta???) amp 1%,

' citizen-of the United States, and

Patented Jan. 2, 1923.

HAROLD M. TAKE, or Ann-matron, MASSACLHUSETT S.

TOY.

Application fild aria 21,1921. seiii at. 454,015;

. T 0 all whom 2'2? may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HAROLD M. TARR, a a resident of Arlington, in the county of lwli ddl'esex and Commonwealth of lVlassac-husetts, have invented certain new and useful l Improvements in Toys, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact specification." The object of this invention is the construction ofa' toy or game to enable chil- I dren to play store, providing them with diminutive shelving upon which to locate small facsimiles of canned and package goods already on the market. To this end I provide such a shelving with small objects preferably wooden blocks of different forms and sizes, cylindrical ones for the canned goods, and rectangular ones for the package goocls,the intention being to have manufactures of such goods furnish diminutive facs miles of theirlabels, either with to be pasted upon the blocks of appropriate shape and size by the children having the toy, and serve both as attractive additions to the toy as valuable advertising to the manufactures. q

I have found is quite a problem to determine how much to reduce the sizes of the actual labels in order best to fit the facsimiles to my purpose. If a yeast cake and bag of flour are reduced in the same proportion, the cake will be too small to see, if reduced equally with the bag to enable the latter to be located on the shelves. On the other hand it is essential to have all the articles reduced with some kind of uni- I formity in order that their relative dimensions shall correspond as nearly as possible to those of the goods upon the market.

Moreover, it is not expedient to have the facsimiles reduced in accordance with any linear dimension, since some of the goods are low and wide, others high and narrow, and others with substantially equal dimensions. 7

I therefore have determined both that the facsimiles shall be reduced in accordance with a sliding scale, thatthe larger the article, the greater its reduction, and the smaller the article, the less the reduction of its label; and, in addition, that the unit for each article shall be its face-area, since that more closely approximates its size to the beholder.

In the drawings forming part of this spe'cificatiion, Fig.1 is a perspective view of a cabinet or set of toy shelving-embodying a part of my invention, the same being shown with toy goo'dsfupon its shelves. Fig. 2 isa diagram 'sliowingthe scale by means of whichth'e various. articles can be suitably produced in minature.

The cabinet consists of V 2, sides 3,'bac k Land shelves 5. side 3 is hin half that 0f 13 To each ed a door 6 having 1ts width ecablnet, so that when swung against its front the doors will meet edge to edge; Upon the inner faces of the doors are printedor otherwise indicatedshelves '7 betweenwhich' are to be pasted miniature labels or representations of various articles. Upon the shelveso arejto be placed the wooden blocks either cylindrical, as 9 or rectangular, as 10, the. sizes of the blocks 7 a top 1, bottom being made proportional toithe articles v represented thereby, and having'the proper the goods or separately. These lables are diminutive labels pasted" thereon; q

For thus determining'thedimensions of the toy cans or packages, the diagram shown in Fig. 2 has an oblique line 11-11 thereon, with numerals 1, 2, 3, eto., located opposite the heavy horizontal lines, and 20, 40, 60, 80, etc., located beneath each vertical heavy line. If, now, a package has the area of its face approximately 45 square inches, then the point in the oblique line 1111 where the vertical line from 45 intersects it is in a horizontal line represented by 2% at the left thereof. This signifies that the linear dimensions of the commercial article or label or both are to be divided by 2% for the toy article and label. Ifthe commercial article has its facial area approximately 140 sq. inches, then the lines of the same are to be reduced to one-fourth for the toy; and so on, the larger the article, the greater it reduction, but all the time preserving a definite ratio of reduction so that the child playing store with the reduction will not fail to carry with him a suitable relative proportion between the same, and yet so modified as not to have the largest articles too large for a toy, and the smallest ones too diminutive to be seen.

By providing the case carrying the shelving, the child can suitably play with the various facsimiles of go'ods he sees in the stores, rearranging, dusting them, selling and purchasing them, while the doors of the case are provided with pictured shelves on which are permanently pasted other labels and pictured articles, thereby enlarging the apparent shop-space yet with no greater ex pense than the addition of thin board doors which serve to properly enclose and pre serve the loose articles on: the shelves.

Inasmuch as it is a financially profitable thing i'or the manufacturers of the various goods toadvertise the same in the home and especially among the children, the maprrty of the'manuiacturers Will undoubtedly co I operate and give to the children Whenever purchasing their gOO(lS,1l10l6 or less or the reduced facsimiles of their labels. Hence the toy itseli neednot be composed of more than the case or cabinet of shelving and the various sizes of blank cylindrical and me tangular bl'ocl zs leaving to the children the fun of matching the labels to the proper size and shape of blocln and of applying the a same thereto. Although I have shown in the dr'awingsthe' inner-surface of but one door and the representations of labels pasted thereon, it is to be understood that I also prefer to provide the'other door With similar representations oi shelving and to have labels likewise applied thereto.

While I have described the objects 10, 11

as being of Wood, inmany cases it is pref- Yerable to make them iroin paper and in the form of card-board cartons.

Iii case the manufact rers oithe articlesabove referredto, fail to provide the re-I face-area oi the articles.

duced. labels in suffic-ient number or at an early date, I design to manufacture and pro- 2'. A toy comprising a small set of shelves, I

and numerous small objects thefdi'mensions of which hear apredeterinin ed variable ratio to certain ell known articl'esof cornmerce the reduction for the larger articles being greater than forthesinalleryarticles.

31 A toy comprising a small set.- of shelving, andnumerous small objects in the shape of certainwell known articles ofcominerce,

with a ratio one element or which vis the 4:; A labelfor a-toy article made in imitation of Well known labels but dimensioned to beara predetermined variableratio to the genuine lahels. v a i J In testimony that l claim the foregoing invention, 1 have hereunt'o'setiny' hand this 19th dayof'hlarch, 1921.

' HARQLD M. TARR:

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