Improvements in Toy Hoops.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy Hoops.
I HENRY BAKER Junior of 17 Newnham Street Whitechapel in the County of
Middlesex Foreign Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object the application of bells or other sounding appliances
to the inner circumference of a toy bowling hoop which latter may be made of wood
metal or other suitable materials or combinations of the same.
The bells applied to bell hoops in accordance with my invention may be of the
ordinary forms or they may be hollow metal balls having a loose solid ball inside to
act as a rattle when the hoop is rolling along.
Other contrivances and appliances for producing sound may be employed in
carrying out my invention if desired.
Dated this 15th day of February 1280
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy Hoops.
I HENRY BAKER Junior of 17 Newnham Street Whitechapel in the County of
Middlesex, Foreign Agent, 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 has for its object improvements in the application of bells or other
sounding appliances to the inner circumference of a toy bowling hoop which latter
may be made of wood metal or other suitablo materials or combinations of the same.
The bells applied to bell hoops in accordance with my invention may be of the
ordinary forms or they may be hollow metal balls having a loose piece of metal marble
or other material inside to act as a rattle when the hoop is rolling along.
Other contrivances and appliances for producing sound may be employed in carrying
out my invention if desired.
And in order that my improvements in toy bowling hoops may be clearly understood
and readily carried into practice I will proceed to describe the same more fully
reference being had to the drawing hereto annexed which shows a side view of a toy
bowling hoop having bells applied thereto in accordance with my invention.
a is a toy bowling hoop having staples b, b fixed within the inner circumference
thereof such staples being advantageously curved to correspond therewith-c. c are
moveable bells (cymbals or other sounding instruments) suspended to the staples b the
ends of which are advantageously curved to prevent the bells from being wedged or
stuck fast as the hoop is travelling along.
I would remark that I am aware that sounding instruments have before been applied
to bowling hoops I therefore make no claim thereto but what I claim is,
The application of bells c, c or other sounding instruments to the inner circumference
of toy bowling hoops such bells or sounding instruments being suspended on

page_text: longitudinal staples 6 so as to be free to move to and fro thereon whilst the hoop is in
motion substantially in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described and
represented in the Drawing hereto annexed.
Dated this 14th day of February 1889.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, Agents for the Patentee.