New or improved Tоу.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1897---Accepted, 25th Sept., 1897
New or improved Tоу.
I, ERNST PAUL LEHMANN of 6 Plauerstrasse, Brandenburg on the Havel,
Prussia in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer, 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:―
My invention relates to a toy, consisting of any convenient animal or human
figures arranged to move in spiral guide-ways along a hollow shaft, turning
around the same, as they are moving on.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 is a side view of the toy,
Figure 2 illustrates the two figures connected to each other by a piece of
common wire or other suitable material the ends of which are destined to project
from the spiral slit in the hollow shaft and to carry the said figures.
The shaft A, of any suitable length, is preferably wound of a single strip of
sheet metal, the ends of said shaft may be closed by caps a but the said caps may
as well be omitted and the spiral slit, left open between the turns of the metal
strip, be closed by winding the strip more tightly at both ends of the said shaft.
The said shaft might also be formed of wire wound spirally in a manner to leave
an open guide way between its turns, or the said shaft could be made of a tube
or pipe of any suitable material with a slit spirally cut into it to serve as a guide
way for the figure or figures which are desired to move along the said shaft.
The said figure or figures B, of any suitable material and representing any
animal or human creature, are mounted, each on a pin or stud b, projecting
through the spiral slot of the said shaft A, the inner end of said pin or stud b,
being connected to any suitable counterweight arranged inside the said hollow
shaft A, and sliding therein, if one end of the said shaft A is lowered or if the
said shaft is turned round its longitudinal axis. If two figures B are arranged
to move in connection with each other, as shown, the said figures may con-
veniently be mounted on the ends of the same wire C, the ends of which are bent
to project from the slit of the shaft A, and to carry the figures B. In this case
the two figures will form a counter-weight to each other and the wire C connect-
ing the two figures will serve as a sliding piece inside the shaft A. It will be
easily seen, that more than two figures could be arranged to move in connection
with each other, without in the least changing the essential features of this
invention.
As it has been mentioned before, the figure or figures will move from one end
of the shaft to the other, if the one end is lowered, and in moving on they will be
forced to turn round the shaft. By holding the said shaft in a horizontal line
and turning the same round its longitudinal axis, the figure or figures will move
on in one or the other direction without turning round the shaft.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
is,―
1. A toy consisting of a hollow shaft having a spiral slit in its circumference,
a sliding piece or pieces arranged inside said shaft, a guide pin or pins projecting
through said slit and a figure or figures carried by said pin or. pins, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
2. A toy consisting of a hollow shaft wound from a single strip of sheet metal
leaving between its turns a spiral slit, a guide pin or pins sliding within said slit,
and a figure or figures carried by said pin or pins outside the shaft, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
3. A toy consisting of a hollow shaft having a spiral slit in its circumference,
a sliding piece arranged to move inside the said shaft, the said sliding piece
being formed of wire or other suitable material, the ends of which are bent to
project from the said slit, and figures carried by said ends, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
D 10+h dov of 1897
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.