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UNITD STATESPATENT OFFICE.
LEO GIESECKE, OF SOUR LAKE, TEXAS, ASSIGNORE OF ONE-THIRD TO KURT P. GIESECKE,
OF SOUR LAKE, TEXAS.
MECHANICAL TOY HOOP.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Sept. 5, 1916.
Application filed October 13, 1915. Serial No. 55,664.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, LEO GIESECKE, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Sour
Lake, in the county of Hardin and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and use-
f ul Improvements in Mechanical Toy Hoops,
of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to improvements in
toys, more particularly to the class of trun-
10 dung hoops, and has for one of its objects
to provide a movable figure, such as a run-
ning horse, arranged to travel on the inte-
rior of the hoop and with means arranged
to impart motion to the limbs of the horse
15 or other animal as the hoop is rotated.
With these and other objects in view, the
invention consists in certain novel features
of construction, as hereinafter shown and
described and then specifically pointed out
20 in the claims.
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the im-
proved device; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sec-
tional detail illustrating the arrangement of
the figures relative to a portion of the hoop;
25 Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line
3-3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the
arrow; Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2
illustrating a modification in the construc-
tion; Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the
30 line 5-5 of Fig. 4 looking in the direction
of the arrow.
Corresponding and like parts are referred
to in the following description and indi-
cated in all the views of the drawings by
35 the same reference characters.
The trundling hoop is represented as a
whole at 10 and is formed semi - circular
transversely and provided with sunken an-
nular tracks 11, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and
40 5. The hoop is preferably pressed from a
single strip of sheet metal, the tracks 11 be-
ing spaced apart at their confronting edges
to form an annular guide-way 12. One or
more figures of an animal or other object are
45 located within the hoop, and for the purpose
of illustration figures representing horses
are shown, but it is to be understood that it
is not desired to limit the invention to any
specific species of animal or other object.
50 The body portion of the figure is represented
conventionally at 13 with movable members
14-15 representing the fore legs of the ani-
mal and movable members 16-17 represent-
ing the hind legs of the animal. The mem-
55 bers 14-15 are pivoted at 18 to the body 13while the members 16--17 are pivoted at 19
to the body 13, the movable members oper-
ating independently upon the pivots. The
movable members 14-16 are coupled at
their upper ends by a rod indicated at 20, 60
while the movable members 15-17 are cou-
pled at their upper ends by a rod indicated
at 21. By this means the members 14-16
are caused to move in unison, while the
members 15-17 are likewise caused to move 65
in unison. A standard 22 depends from the
figure and is arching in form and supports
carrier wheels 23 which run constantly upon
the sunken tracks 11, as illustrated in Fig.
3. Depending from the figure 13 is an- 70
other standard 24 to the lower end of which
a balance weight 25 is rigidly connected, the
balance weight operating in the interior of
the hoop and beneath the tracks 11. The
standards 24 operate through the guide way 75
12, as will be obvious.
Arranged to travel upon the interior of
the hoop and extending through the guide-
way 12 is a relatively large traction wheel
26 having an axle provided with oppositely 80
directed cranks 27-28, the 'cranks being
preferably arranged at opposite sides of the
wheel. A rod 29 is connected at one end to
the crank 28 and at the other end to the
movable member 15 and a similar rod 30 is 85
connected at one end to the crank 27 and at
the other end to the movable member 14.
The axle of the wheel 26 is likewise con-
nected by a bar 31 to the weight 25. In the
illustration two of the figures are shown and 90
both connected to the same crank axle of the
wheel 26, but it will be obvious that one or
more of the figures may thus be connected to
operate simultaneously without departing
from the principle of the invention or sacri- 95
ficing any of its advantages. By this ar-
rangement of parts it will be obvious that
when the hoop 10 is rotated the wheel 26
will retain its position at the lower side of
the hoop and hold the balance weights 25 100
and the figures attached thereto in the posi-
tion illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the
rotary motion of the hoop will likewise be
imparted to the wheel 26, and this motion
communicated in turn to the movable mem- 105
bers 14-15-16 and 17 and cause them to
operate alternately and cause the horses to
present the appearance of running around
on the interior of the hoop in a natural and'
life-like manner. 1101,196,854.
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Giesecke, Leo. Mechanical Toy Hoop, patent, September 5, 1916; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth859699/m1/3/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.