US611761A - Spinning-top - Google Patents

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Patented Oct. -4, I898. G. A. SAHLENDER.

SPINNING (Application filed A TOP. I

(No Model.)

NITED STATES GODFREY A. SAHLENDER, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

SPINNING-TOP SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,761, dated October 4, 1898.

Application filed AprillS, 1898.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GODFREY A. SAHLEN- DER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belleville, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Spinning-Tops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in spinning-tops; and it contemplates the provision of a top having a body of substantially elliptical form and a peg or plug at each end of such body, so as to form a double top, either of which may receive the windingcord and be spun as desired.

The invention and its many advantages will appear from the following description and claim when taken in connection with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved top, and Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the same.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A indicates the body. This body for the sake of cheapness may be turned out of a single piece of wood into the shape of an elliptical figure, so as to form two cones a a, to receive the winding or spinning cord. It is obvious that the body might be made of any suitable material, such as paper or metal, but it is preferable to make it of wood. The body is of the proportional size illustrated, being equal to about two ordinary tops, and each conical portion a is provided at its reduced end with a socket Z) to receive a peg or plug 0, and such portions are also provided with circumferential grooves d to receive and keep the spinningcord from slipping on the body.

The pegs or plugs 0 may be threaded,'as

shown, and both ends pointed, the outer end of each plug being pointed to form the spinningtip, while the opposite end may be pointed to facilitate turning it into the body. I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to having these pegs or plugs pointed, nor do I wish to be understood as limiting myself to having them threaded. In fact, I

may in some cases provide both points or plugs from a single rod taking longitudinally through the center of the body, with each end pointed and projected sufficiently to form spinning-points.

So far as I am aware I am the first to ever provide a top body of elliptical or double Serial Nor 678,046. (No model.)

manner, either spinning-point being thrown on the ground or other support, so that the body will stand perpendicular while spinning, and one of the plugs or points will assume a vertical position. With a top of this form no great care need be taken in throwing it to be spun, as there is no butt on which it may fall, so that no matter which point it may fall on it will always spin. Another advantage which will be appreciated will be found when the game known as plucking is played, as the top always presenting an upperconical surface will prevent a top striking it from splitting or otherwise materially injuring it.

In some cases two top-bodies of the usual form might be so shaped and secured together as to provide a double top which would fall within the spirit of my invention, and, in fact, small pieces of wood might be utilized in this way in manufacturing the top, although I prefer to make the body of a single piece of material.

I am well aware that a humming-top comprising a spindle with points at its opposite ends and a hollow sheet-metal body fixed to the spindle and tapered toward its opposite ends is old. I therefore make no claim to such a top. 1

What I claim is- 7 As an improved article, the herein-described top comprising the solid body A of double conical form, provided with grooves d,

and a spinning-point at each reduced end of the body; the said top being designed to be thrown and spun upon the ground, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GODFREY A. SAIILENDER.

Witnesses:

JAMES McGUIRE, ERNEST WEIDMANN.

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