New or Improved Device for Blowing Soap Bubbles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Device for Blowing Soap Bubbles.
I WILLIAM SPENCER TODD, of 63 Moscow Road, Bayswater, in the County
of London, House Decorator, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
Hitherto children when amusing themselves by blowing soap bubbles have used
for this purpose a basin or cup or the like for containing the soapy water and a
pipe, usually a tobacco pipe. This pipe has to be dipped into the soapy water,
after blowing one or more bubbles and as a consequence the liquid is generally
spilt.
Now the object of my invention is a device for blowing soap bubbles in which
the pipe and receptacle for the soapy water are so combined that the end of the
former where the bubbles form may be moistened with the soapy water without
spilling any of the latter on the floor.
For this purpose I use as the container for the soapy water a cylindrical or other
shaped vessel to the upper end of which the lower ends of two tubes or rods are
secured at diametrically opposite points. These tubes or rods have slots formed in
their upper free ends and in these slots slide the ends of a cross bar carrying the
bubble blowing tube, said cross bar being normally held in its lower position by the
action of springs or strips of elastic contained in the tubes or rods.
The bubble blowing tube is formed of metal or other material provided at one
end with a suitable mouthpiece. The opposite end of this tube is provided with
one or more coverings of fine gauze or the like to prevent the entrance of the soapy
water, and has secured to it a bell or similar shaped hood which when the tube is
turned into a vertical position fits on to the upper end of the container and is
pressed thereon by the action of the springs or elastic on the cross bar thus
preventing the escape of liquid during the process of moistening the interior of
the hood by inverting the container previous to turning the tube into a
horizontal position and blowing through it in the usual manner to form a bubble.
New or Improved Device for Blowing Soap Bubbles.
I, WILLIAM SPENCER TODD, of 63 Moscow Road, Bayswater, in the County
of London, House Decorator, 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 :-
Hitherto children when amusing themselves by blowing soap bubbles have used
for this purpose a basin or cup or the like for containing the soapy water and a
pipe, usually a tobacco pipe. This pipe has to be dipped into the soapy water,
after blowing one or more bubbles and as a consequence the liquid is generally
spilt.
Now the object of my invention is a device for blowing soap bubbles in which

page_text: the pipe and receptacle for the soapy water are so combined that the end of the
former where the bubbles form may be moistened with the soapy water without
spilling any of the latter on the floor.
For this purpose I use as the container for the soapy water a cylindrical or other
shaped vessel to the upper end of which the lower ends of two tubes or rods are
secured at diametrically opposite points. These tubes or rods have slots formed in
their upper free ends and in these slots slide the ends of a cross bar carrying the
bubble blowing tube, said cross bar being normally held in its lower position by the
action of springs or strips of elastic contained in the tubes or rods.
The bubble blowing tube is formed of metal or other material provided at one
end with a suitable mouthpiece. The opposite end of this tube is provided with
one or more coverings of fine gauze or the like to prevent the entrance of the
soapy water, and has secured to it a bell or similar shaped hood which when the
tube is turned into a vertical position fits on to the upper end of the container and
is pressed thereon by the action of the springs or elastic on the cross bar thus
preventing the escape of liquid during the process of moistening the interior of the
hood by inverting the container previous to turning the tube into a horizontal
position and blowing through it in the usual manner to form a bubble.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a sectional
elevation on line - Fig. 1 of a device for blowing soap bubbles constructed
according to my invention."
The cylindrical container a has secured to its upper end, at diametrically
opposite points, the lower ends of two tubular uprights 6 in longitudinal slots in
which slide the ends of a cross bar or slide c carrying the bubble blowing tube d.
This tube d is provided at one end with a suitable mouthpiece e whilst its opposite
end is provided with one or more coverings ƒ of fine gauze or the like to prevent
the entrance of the soapy water, and has mounted or formed upon it a bell or
similar shaped hood or enlargement g. This hood facilitates the formation of the
bubbles and is of such size that it fits onto the upper end of the container when
the tube d is turned into the vertical position and being pressed downwards, by the
action of springs arranged within the uprights band connected to the cross
bar or slide c, onto a ring of rubber or other packing arranged within an
upright flange closes said container so that the latter may be inverted and the
interior of said hood moistened with the soapy water previous to turning the
tube d into a horizontal position and blowing through it in the usual manner to
form a bubble.
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 :-
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(1.) A soap bubble blowing device consisting of a container a uprights 6 cross
bar or slide c tube d provided at one end with a covering of gauze or the like and
with a hood or enlargement g, and springs constructed, arranged and operating
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(2.) In a bubble blowing device a tube having a mouthpiece at one end and
provided with a covering of gauze or the like and a hood or enlargement at its
opposite end substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
(3.) In a bubble blowing device a receptacle or container is provided with
vertical guides projecting from its upper open end substantially as and for the
purpose described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 97th dow of December 1804
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Invention
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CASTLE SMITH,
Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,.
Agent for the Applicant.