Improvements in or appertaining to Merry-go-rounds.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 22nd April, 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
[Communicated from abroad by FIELDHOUSE LONG, of 2575 Howard Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. America, Roundabout Proprietor.]
Improvements in or appertaining to Merry-go-rounds.
I, JOHN WILLIAM OUTHWAITE, of 20, St. Paul's Road, Shipley, in the County of
York, Roundabout Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in roundabouts or merry-go-rounds.
To carry out my invention I provide a clip, claw or carrier connected by an inclined
conduit or its equivalent to a suitable bopper adapted to hold a supply of rings or
other suitable tokens. The said clip, claw or carrier is located within reach of the
riders on the roundabout and is so constructed and arranged that when each ring or
token is removed from it another one immediately passes from the said conduit or its
equivalent into its place. By this means each of the riders may be given the
opportunity of obtaining one of the said rings or tokens and a certain proportion of
them may be blanks i.e. entitle the holder to little or no reward, privilege or benefit
whilst the remainder may each entitle their respective holders to have the whole
or a portion of the roundabout proprietor's charges remitted or to any other suitable
reward, privilege or benefit.
Provision may be made for locking the rings or tokens or holding them back until
it is desired to allow them to pass into the clip or its equivalent when notice or an
audible alarm may be given to the riders.
The different tokens may be distinguished by being made of different metal or in
any other convenient manner.
Dated this 21st day of July 1906
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Merry-go-rounds.
I, JOHN WILLIAM OUTHWAITE, of 20, St. Paul's Road, Shipley, in the County of
York, Roundabout Proprietor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in or appertaining to roundabouts or

page_text: To carry out this invention I provide a clip, claw or carrier connected by an inclined
conduit or its equivalent to a suitable hopper adapted to hold a supply of rings or
other suitable tokens. The said clip, claw or carrier is located within reach of the
riders on the roundabout and it is so constructed and arranged that when each ring
or token is removed from it another one immediately passes from the said conduit or
its equivalent into its place By this means each of the riders may be given the
opportunity of obtaining one of the said rings or tokens and a certain proportion of
them may be blanks i.e. entitle the holder to little or no privilege or benefit whilst the
remainder may each entitle their respective holders to have the whole or a portion of
the roundabout proprietor's charges remitted for the next journey.
To fully describe this invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet of
drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference
indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of the said ring carrier mounted upon a stand.
Figure 2, represents a plan view of the same.
Figure 3, is an elevation of the ring carrier alone ou a larger scale.
Figure 4, is a longitudinal section, and Figure 5, is a plan of the same.
Figure 6, is a section of Figure 3 on the broken line a, b.
The ring carrier A is made with a hopper shaped opening B at the top
communicating with the inclined conduit C. The rings D passed into the hopper roll
down to the bottom of the conduit and are retained by the clips or metal springs E, E
which are sufficiently strong to prevent the rings from falling out. but readily spring
apart to allow the ring next to them to be withdrawn.
The carrier A is pivoted by the pin F to the post of the stand H which is
provided for the attendant supplying the rings to stand upon and this stand is located
adjacent to the roundabout so that when the carrier is moved round to the position
shown in Figures 1 and 2 the mouth G of the conduit is in reach of the riders on the
roundabout who may each, if they choose and are sufficiently adroit, withdraw one of
the rings from the month of the conduit as it is passed.
The spring clips E are secured to the carrier A by the metal strap H2 or in any
other convenient manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
An appliance adapted to supply the riders of roundabouts with rings or other
tokens, substantially as herein shown and described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 19th day of April 1897
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.