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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
STACY POTTS, OF VALLEJO, CALIFORNIA.
EDUCATIONAL SOUVENIR.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Feb. 2,1915.
Application filed October 23, 1914. Serial No. -868,245.
To (.lB/t/of it may concern:
Be it known that I, STACY POTTS, a citizen
of the United States, residing at Vallejo, in
the county of Solano and State of Cali.
5 fornia, have invented new and useful Im-
provements in Educational Souvenirs, of
which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to an article of
manufacture in the nature of educational
10 souvenirs and particularly to a compressible
geographical sphere.
It is an object of this invention to pro-
vide a combined souvenir and amusement
device.
15 Another object is to provide a compressi-
ble, resilient sphere having formed or de-
lineated on its surface a map, picture or
other subject matter, and to provide the
sphere with an aperture for the induction of
20 a charge of water or other liquid and with a
substantially invisible orifice through which
the water may be ejected upon the compres-
sion of the ball when the induction aperture
is closed.
25 It is a particular object of this invention
to provide an article which will be at once
educational by the subject matter thereon
and also amusing by reason of the combina-
tion with the subject matter of ludicrous
30 features. .
The invention consists of the parts and
the construction and combination of parts
as hereinafter more fully described and
claimed, having reference to the accompany-
35 ing drawings, in which-
Figure 1 is a side view of the article.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional detail, the
slit being exaggerated.
2 represents a hollow globe of rubber, or
40 other suitable material, which is compressi-
ble and resilient. On its exterior surface
may be delineated, printed, embossed, mold-
ed, or in any way produced, a subject matter
of desired character, here shown as a map 3
45 of the western hemisphere. The surface
may be lettered or otherwise provided with
symbols indicating a place or event which it
may be desired to commemorate. Thus at
the approximate location of San Francisco
50 may be placed the letters P. P. I. E. indicat-
ing the Panama-Pacific International Ex-position, thus associating the ball as a souve-
nir of that event.
To render the device instructive of the lo-
cation of the Panama Canal the isthmus is 55
severed by a substantially invisible slit 4
through the wall of the ball. At the loca-
tion of the North Pole is provided an aper-
ture 5. By immersing the ball and com-
pressing it, air will be displaced and upon 60
the release of pressure water will be drawn
in through the aperture as the ball resumes
its normal shape. Then to locate the Pana-
ma Canal the finger, is placed upon the
North Pole and pressed down, whereupon 65
water will be sprayed through the slit 4 at
the isthmus.
It is understood that while I have shown
the western hemisphere in this embodiment,
that any other subject may be substituted as 70
for instance a map of Yellowstone Park
with the slit 4 at the location of the geyser,
or a- map of Texas with the slit at an oil
" gusher," or a map of Hawaii with the slit
at Mona Loa. 75
Having thus described my invention, what
I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat-
tent is-
1. A compressible, resilient, hollow body
of suitable shape having on its exterior sur- So
face suitable illustrative subject-matter, the
wall of the body being pierced by an aper-
ture for the induction of a liquid and having
a substantially invisible slit in coordinate
relation with said subject - matter and 85
through which the liquid will be ejected
when the filling aperture is covered and the
body compressed.
2. A combined souvenir, educational and
amusement device comprising a compressi- 90
ble, resilient, hollow sphere, and instructive
subject-matter on its exterior surface, said
sphere having an aperture for the introduc-
tion of liquid and having a substantially in-
visible slit in coordinate relation with the 95
subject-matter and through which the liquid
will be ejected when said aperture is covered
and the sphere compressed.
3. A combined souvenir, educational and
amusement device comprising a compressi- 100
ble, resilient, hollow sphere, and instructive
subject-matter on- its exterior surface, in-1.,127,276.
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Potts, Stacy. Educational Souvenir., patent, February 2, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858805/m1/2/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.