An Improved Toy and Game for Children and others.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr:, 1888 ···
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
An Improved Toy and Game for Children and others.
I WALTER GRIFFIN of High Street Hoddesdon Herts do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
An imitation Water Fall represented by Glass Beads falling from box at top of
Standard into a fixed pan & then passing down a course in spiral form into a pan at
bottom of Standard, which pan revolves & forms a Whirlpool.
The accompanying drawings show the different parts of the Invention and are
referred to by letters.
The same spiral course & Wirlpool also forms the medium of a race game to be
played in the following manner.
An extra pan or tray with numbered divisions fitting inside the whirlpool to be spun
round & different coloured balls started from pan at top of the spiral course run down
& fall into divisions of said whirlpool, the number of the division in which the balls
are found will indicate the number of steps each player may move up the spiral course
or staircase.

page_text: h box or container for beads.
i slide to draw out to start beads running.
j tray with numbered divisions to fit in revolving pan for the race game.
p pivot on which the revolving pan spins.
block on which the spiral course commences.
slots in the steps into which the metal edging is inserted.
m metal sides or edging of the spiral course.
support to spiral course.

page_text: WALTER GRIFFIN High Street Hoddesdon Herts 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 :-
Comprising an imitation Water fall represented by glass beads falling from a box or
container fitted to top of standard into an elevated fixed pan & thence down a spiral
Course or winding Staircase into a revolving pan or box at base forming a Whirlpool,
the same course or staircase & Whirlpool also form the medium of a race game to be
played in the following manner an extra pan or tray with numbered divisions fitting
inside Whirlpool to be spun round & different coloured balls started from pan at
summit of winding Staircase run down and fall into the divisions of said Whirlpool
the number of the division in which the balls are found will indicate the number of
steps each player may move up the spiral staircase the box or pan at the summit to be
the wining post, the same spiral staircase also forming a track down which small wheel
Toys are made to run and chase each other.
The Invention or Toy consists of a square wood frame to form the base an upright
standard fitted into the base and a staircase made by small tablets of wood being
rivetted & glued one tablet on the other and carried up in a spiral form each step has
a slot on each side into which the metal edging is inserted & is kept in its place by a
clip turning under the step & each peice of edging is fastened to the next peice by
clip on the top side thus forming a secure edging the entire length of the course.
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DRAWINGS FILED WITH THE PROVISIONAL

page_text: The drawings filed with the Provisional Specification to be adopted for the Complete
Specification.
Having now particularly described and assertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
First. That this form of Spiral Course or Staircase is my own Invention.
Secondly. The arrangements of the whirlpool are designed for and are necessary to
form the Game.
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