AN IMPROVED TOY TO BE ACTUATED BY STEAM
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Sutton, of No. 108, Holloway Road, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED TOY TO
BE ACTUATED BY STEAM."
Sealed the 30th April 1867, and dated the 7th November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Sutton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
November 1866.
I, CHARLES SUTTON, of No. 108, Holloway Road, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Ax
IMPROVED TOY TO BE ACTUATED BY STEAM," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved toy to be actuated by steam.
The improved toy consists of a bulb of glass with a tubular stem issuing from.
the top and having a small orifice at the end; this instrument is suspended.
by means of a chain from any suitable support, and there is a swivel in the
chain which allows the instrument to rotate freely; the bulb is filled with
water or liquid by warming it over the flame of a spirit lamp and then plunging.
the point of the tubular stem in the water or liquid. The instrument being:
thus prepared the bulb is heated by the lamp until the water or liquid boils,
and the steam then issuing from the orifice at the end of the tubular stem

page_text: causes the instrument to rotate rapidly, the stem being directed in such manner
that the steam issues in a line at right angles to the diameter of the bulb or,
nearly so.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Sutton in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SUTTON, of No. 108, Holloway Road, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh, day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Sutton, Her special licence that. I, the said Charles Sutton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Sutton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great. Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED TOY TO
BE ACTUATED BY STEAM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Sutton, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent..
'
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Sutton, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and 'by the following
statement 'thereof, that is to say :-
'
This Invention has for its object an improved toy to be actuated by steam.
The improved toy consists of a bulb of glass with a tubular stem issuing from
the top and having a small orifice at the end; this instrument is suspended
by means of a chain or wire from any suitable support, and there is a swivel
in the chain or wire which allows the instrument to rotate freely; the bulb is

page_text: filled with water or liquid by warming it over the flame of a spirit lamp and
then plunging the point of the tubular stem in the water or liquid. The
instrument being thus prepared, the bulb is heated by the lamp until the water
or liquid boils, and the steam then issuing from the orifice at the end of the
tubular stem causes the instrument to rotate rapidly, the stem being directed
in such manner that the steam' issues in a line at right angles to the axis of
the bulb, or nearly so.
CHAS. SUTTON. (L.S.)