US1575961A - Musical toy - Google Patents

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Marh 9 1926. 1,575,961

W. BARTHQLOMAE MUSICAL TOY Filed qne 1 1925 Patented Mar. 9, ieae.

v IVY-UNITED W WILLIAM nAn'rnoLo wAn, or innooxmzn, NEW YORK, ASSIG'NOB. r BAR-ZIM TOY MFG; 00., me er NEW YORK, N'.-Y., AOORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MUSIGAL TOY.

Application filed June l, 1925. Serial No. 34,203. I i

" 1 To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, OMAE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the borough ofBrook 6 lyn, in: the city of New York, county of n Kings,1an d State of New. York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Musical "Toys, OfWlliChflthe following is a'specification, reference being had !)v to-the accompanying drawings, forming part .thereof. 3 This invention relates toimprovements in musical toys and particularly-to improve- I ment'sin that typeor'kind of musical toys infwhich. there are provided several sounding elements the form ofbars or the like that have been 'given "various, forms or shapes heretofore. In 'playingrp'rior musical toys of this A general class, the sounding elements have been tapped with the ball shaped I end of a small stick. ,An object of this invention resides in'the-provision of a musical toy of this typehaving sounding ele ments that are designed and adapted to be lightly rubbe d, from end to end, with a sidewise strokeflcrosswise of the toy, whereby there may be produced music, that has been 7 likened tor-the soundingof chimes. Tothis end, the face .of the sounding elements that is arranged;to-betouchedby the players stick is given a .ridged surface, which may be produced in 'various' ways, some of which are hereinafter described. 'Anothe r object of thisinvention lies in the provision of the 5 sounding elements with lips, by the formation of which the note given forth by the.

' 3 element is varied and improved. A third object of this invention consists in the novel and improved mounting provided for the 40 sounding elements in the frame or base of.

- -the toy. Other features of this invention will bebroiight outas the description pro grasses.

In the a e-Wags illustrating the principle of this invention'and the best mode now" known to me of applyingthatvprinciple,

Fig. 1' is a plan vlew'of themusical toy,

I pa'rtsbeing shown broken at A; Fig; 2' is a fragmentary side elevation; Fig. 3 is altrans- 0 verse section onthe line 3'3,'of Fig. 1; Figs. 4, 5and 6 are detail views illustrating, in section, soundingelements provided with r lips'that are difierently formed, Fig. is a detail view illustrating, in ect1on,' a frag I 5 meat f a sounding e1e ment, the rubbing or WILLIAM Burnoustroking face of which is formed with corrugations; Fig, 8 is a'detail'v-iew illustrating, in perspective,'a modified form of sounding elementyand Fig, 9 is :a detail illustrating still another form ofridged playing faceof a sounding element.

v As will be seen from'an lnspection'of Fig,

1, the base or support B is, in plan view,

trapezoidal; in form, the end-blocks w, b, lyingpara-llel to each other, while thesidewalls 0, cl, converge towards "eachiother so that the end-block a is smaller than the other end-block b. "The side-'walls'c, d, are, at

their bottoms, formed with inwardly-turned flanges 0 d, the edges 0", d, of which are finished off by being doubled back upon the flanges 6,01. Along their tops, thesider walls 0, d, are formedfwith recesses .ef arranged to receive 1 the sounding or musicemitting elements f.- The recesses e. are

separated by upstandinglugs or posts'g, the

upper ends ofwhich are formed withguideloops or eyes '9'. Assh'own in'Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive, the sounding elements 7 have a substantially inverted U shape, in end view and cross 'section, and the walls It that'extend lengthwise offthe' sounding element f and downwardly from the playingj(or rubbing) :surface 41 thereof," are formed with holesfj thatare arranged to receive a cord lo thatis threaded through the eyes gfand that passes outside of the end-block b fanjd the ends .of which are" held the button m that iscarried by the othe'r. end-block a.

This mode 'of su'spension of the sounding elements reduces damping of the vibra-' tions and results in the tone emitted being more sustained and more pure.

I have dlscovered that an improved tone is obtained from the extending element 7, when its lengthwise and downwardly extendbe bent from the walls It as'is shown at h (Fig. 2), or at hi (Fig. 4). Orthese lips may be curved inwardly as at h? (Fig. 5), or they may be curved outwardly, as at 70* (Fig.6). v

An important feature of this invention resides in the provision of the top or playing face i with a ridged surface, which the player strokes or rubs with the ball-shaped end of his playing stick or a like device). This rid ed or ;wav urface may be given to the slaying face z in various ways; e. 2, the ringed contour may be P'XOtltld 5 ing walls 71. are formed with lips, which may t forming series'of raised portions or protuberances 21 (Figs. 2zand-3)" that are spaced from one another, so that a music'altone ornote. isemitted by the-sounding element f when the. playingzisti'ck is stroked or passed lightly over the prominences i of the playing surface 2' of the element ffrom 'endto end thereof or transversely of the toy-base B. Or, as is shown in Fig. 7 the playing foriningitwith alternate swells i, andvalleys i, that is, it may be 'W-rihkled or corrugated. In; F ig'. 8 the-sounding]element has afplayingfacee that is ridged by forming it With a series of froniinences or bosses n that are separated y'the, grooves n and are flattened at their tops n; In

Fig.9, the playing-face'ilof the; element f is given a ridged or bossed contour by the provisionof the'rounded humps or teats 0*.

In all' thesei eases, the spaced ridge-forms,

ing" prominences are of such; slight BlViLtlOll above the levelcf'. the playing'face' the to permit the musicalv'soundsto be produced by wi ing theridged playing face 71 of the sounding elements f, f, f, with the playing stick in an-c unobstructed or uninterrupted (that is, c'ontinuous) rubbing acr'o ss-stroke from; end to end'of' these "ele the SPa edJidge fOI'niing promidistinctly understood that- '1 I fully realize that cl'ianges may be made inthe structure herein disclosed, and that "I-j intendfto-include' Within the scopeofz theclaims that ifollow hereinafter all modificationsio-f' the referred form of this invention that do not depart substantially from thespirit' thereof. For example, instead of flattening thetops 'n"? 'of the ribs n (Fig. 8 the tops of the latter maybe made more or. less sharp,;so I I [1,024,878. face of the element f". may berridgedby that. they will give the playingj face a" a'45" toothed or notched contour-y that is, the ridged playing face a may be serrated.

' In the claims. that. follow, the elements I o are described: music-emitting. elements and so are distinguished from frame-forming or supporting elements, such as the channel-bars a, c, of my priorPatent, No.

I claim: v y 1. A musicaltoy having music-emitting elementsof'varying pitch the playing-faces of which elementsare ridged by low-lying, j spaced prominences and arranged to emit musical sounds when stroked Witha play-1 ing-stick, such prominences being of music? producing quality and; having such slight elevation above thepla'ying-f'aces as to afi'ord'i-the' playing-stick free passage in" a rubbing 'music p'rod'ucing' stroke l'engthivfi. of the elements and over the prominences.

2. A1 musical toy the, 1nusic emittii1g ele-; f ments of Which are channeled'and have side '5 walls that are formed with lips.

31Av musical my including a base-supff 1 port formed with recesses; music-emitting -I I elements arranged in the recesses, saidele ment s' being U-shaped in: cross-section,

formingvlateral.Walls which areperforate di, g and a cord that'is rove through the holes'inl 3 f the lateral, Walls of the elements and; that 75,- 1 secures the latterto" thebase-support "and supports theni'in the-recesses;

41A musical toy-having music-emitting" elements of varyingpi'tchi; the playingfaces o of? said elements being ridgedfiand arranged f to emit musical sounds whenstrok'ed with v,: a playing'stick over the" inequalitiesof they ridged playing surfaces; such" inequalities l, being of music-producing quality and affording the playing stickfre'e passagefi'n a'rubbing. music-producingstroke;

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