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Schoenhut Patents

The following are the Schoenhut patents I have identified so far. If you can identify more for me, let me know so I can put them here. I have included photos of example pieces. Click on the thumbnails to see enlarged image.

Schoenhut Patents and the Produced Toys
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Utility Patent 715,106 from Dec 2, 1902 protects the ball and 
sockets joint construction for their circus toys.
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Utility Patent 725,594 from April 14, 1903 applied for on Jan 18, 1903 protects the jointed 
arrangement of the personnel. The strings of rubber cords are recorded.
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Utility Patent 806,008 for April 16, 1904 improves upon the ball and socket joint construction.
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Schoenhut Design Patent D36,917 from May 17, 1904 depicts the very rare all wooden
 clown that is known only on a ball. This toy clown must not have been 
produced in great numbers and perhaps never as a stand alone.
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Schoenhut's Utility Patent 842,712 from Jan 29, 1907 protects its design for an improvement on 
the "Knockdown Toy Structure". This design is for the canvas tent that easily erects and stores within its base.

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Schoenhut's Roly-Poly design that patents the construction of the toy so the weights
that return the toy to its upright position will not come loose. This Utility Patent 907,092 from Dec 15, 1908
 

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