Abstract: An improved toy phonograph of the type in which a pickup arm is pivoted at one end and is engageable with a playing surface of a first phonograph record rotatably mounted on one side of the turntable, with a first spring urging the pickup arm toward the periphery of the phonograph record and with a first speaker cone means resiliently mounted on the housing of the phonograph record above the pickup arm and having a lift bar means removably engageable with the pickup arm in sound reproducing contact, includes an arrangement for resiliently pressing the pickup arm into engagement with the phonograph record for reproducing recorded sounds from the phonograph record playing surface during rotation of the turntable, with this pressing arrangement substantially uniformly resiliently biasing the lift bar against the pickup arm with a substantially uniform biasing force for exerting substantially uniform pressure on the pickup arm needle throughout the entire path of travel circumscribed by the needle across the phon

Abstract: A toy phonograph comprises means for pressing a pickup arm into engagement with a phonograph record for reproducing recorded sound from the phonograph record playing surface during rotation thereof. The sound is picked up from a sound reproducing groove in the playing surface by direct resilient contact of a speaker cone assembly with the pickup arm. The speaker cone assembly includes a lift bar containing an aperture adjacent the end of the recording with a protrusion on the pickup arm being received in the aperture as the pickup arm reaches the end of the recording. The drive means for the turntable has an associated electrical contact located between the phonograph record playing surface and the lift bar. When the protrusion is received in the lift bar aperture, the lift bar drops a sufficient amount to engage a leaf spring contact which is normally biased to a closed circuit condition to open the circuit and thus shut off the drive means.

Abstract: A hand crank generator-powered slide projector is provided in which the hand cranking both powers a projection lamp to illuminate a transparency and causes automatic film frame advance of the transparencies after a preset number of cranks to provide a stationery illuminated slide display. The generator comprises a stator coil capable of having a current induced therein and a magnetic rotor rotatable within the stator for producing a changing magnetic field across the stator coil due to such rotation for inducing the current therein. The stator coil is electrically connected to the illumination source for providing induced current thereto for enabling illumination of a positioned transparency. The crank is mechanically connected to the rotor for enabling rotation thereof and gear means are drivingly connected to the rotor for enabling simultaneous rotation therewith in response to rotation of the rotor by the crank.

Abstract: A toy phonograph having a base, a turntable, a first pickup arm engageable with a playing surface of a first phonograph record on one side of the turntable, a second pickup arm engageable with a playing surface of a second phonograph record on the opposite side of the turntable. The first phonograph record having a clockwise sound reproducing groove and the sound reproducing groove of the second phonograph record having a counterclockwise sound reproducing groove. The sound is picked up from the sound reproducing groove by direct resilient contact of a speaker cone assembly with each of the pickup arms which presses the respective pickup arm into playing engagement with the phonograph record. The speaker cone assembly includes a lift bar containing an aperture adjacent the end of the recording with a protrusion on the respective pickup arm being received in the aperture as the pickup arm reaches the end of the recording.

Abstract: An improved resettable toy phonograph in which a phonograph record is mountable on a rotating turntable with sound being picked up from the record by a pivoted pickup arm. The pickup arm contains an upstanding protrusion which is received in an aperture in the lift arm at the end of the play of the record to enable the resiliently biased lift arm to be lowered toward the record a sufficient amount to enable the lift arm protrusion to engage the protrusion on the floating cam. The floating cam is biased into nesting engagement with a congruent cam fixedly mounted on the turntable for rotation therewith with both cams comprising a pair of spaced apart sloped peripherally engageable cam surfaces for enabling an equal distributed direct upward lift for the speaker cone assembly when the cams are driven out of nesting engagement.

Abstract: An improved toy phonograph in which a phonograph record is mountable on a rotating turntable with sound being picked up from the record by a pivoted pickup arm which is direct contact with a speaker cone assembly which presses the pickup arm into playing engagement with the phonograph record. The pickup arm is automatically reset to the periphery of the record upon completion of play of the record by engagement of a protrusion on the pickup arm with a protrusion on the floating cam at the end of the play of the record. The floating cam is biased into nesting engagement with a congruent cam fixedly mounted on the turntable for rotation therewith with both cams being a triangularly sloped peripheral engageable cam surface for substantially 180.degree. of the peripheral circumference of the cams.