Improvements in Toy Animals.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1896
Improvements in Toy Animals.
I, JOHN EBENEZER BOUSFIELD, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The
General Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to
me by Eisenmann & Co., of Fuerth, Bavaria, in the German Empire, Merchants)
to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to construct toy animals in such a manner that
they can be caused to utter different sounds or notes and that at the same time
certain parts such as the wings and beak of a bird shall be caused to move by the
air pressure which also produces the sound.
In carrying the said invention into practice the body of the animal is made
hollow and has fixed within it a bellows adapted to be inflated through an india-
rubber tube or the like. A reed or other sounding device is arranged in connection
with the bellows so that it will be sounded as the bellows is inflated. The
movement of the bellows is utilized for moving the part of the figure desired by
any suitable connections.
Dated this 19th day of December 1895
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Toy Animals,
I, JOHN EBENezer BousfieLD, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The
General Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London,
Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Eisenmann & Co., of Fuerth, Bavaria, in the German Empire,
Merchants,) 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 to construct toy animals in such a manner that
they can be caused to utter different sounds or notes and that at the same time
certain parts such as the wings or head and beak of a bird shall be caused to move
by the air pressure which also produces the sound.
In carrying the said invention into practice the body of the animal is made
hollow and has fixed within it a bellows adapted to be inflated through an india-
rubber tube or the like. A reed or other sounding device is arranged in connection
with the bellows so that it will be sounded as the bellows is inflated.
movement of the bellows is utilized for moving the part of the figure desired by
any suitable connections.
The
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference to
the accompanying drawing, in which the figure is a vertical section of a toy bird
provided with bellows for sounding a note, moving the head and opening and closing
the beak.

page_text: a is the hollow body of the bird and b the bellows arranged at the lower part of
the neck of the same.
As clearly shewn the bellows b is secured to the body a of the bird whilst the
movable portion a¹ of the same is fixed to the head a whereby, when the bellows is
inflated, the head is moved into the position shewn in dotted lines. d is a spring
which serves to guide the movement of the head and to return it to its normal
position when the bellows is allowed to deflate. e is the india-rubber tube through
which the bellows is inflated.
In order to effect, simultaneously with the movement of the head, a corre-
sponding movement of the mouth or beak I advantageously employ the following
arrangement.
The lower chap or portion f of the beak is pivoted at f¹ and is kept in its normal
-position, that is to say, in contact with the upper chap 2 of the beak by means of
a counterweight 9. The said chap fis connected to the body of the bird at h by a
wire i or the like. If, now, by blowing out the bellows the head is caused to move
forwards into the dotted position the lower chap of the beak is held back by the
wire. This causes the said lower chap f to turn on the pivot f' so that the mouth
or beak of the animal is opened.
When the head returns to its normal position, the counterweight g closes the
beak or mouth.
The bellows is, as above stated, provided with a reed or other suitable sounding
device, but, if desired, this may be dispensed with.
Although I have described my invention as applied to a toy bird it will be
obvious that it is applicable to toy animals of all kinds and that any desired part
of the animal can be caused to move when the bellows is inflated.
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. The combination with a toy animal, of a bellows and of means whereby, when
the bellows is inflated, a part or parts of the body of the animal is or are caused
to move, the said bellows being provided with a device for sounding a note or not,
when the bellows is inflated, substantially as described.
2. A toy animal of the kind described in Claim 1 in which a movement of the
head is accompanied by a movement of the mouth (opening and closing), the said
movement being effected by pivoting the lower chap or jaw of the mouth and
connecting it with a fixed point in the body in such a manner that the said lower
chap is held back when the head moves so that it turns on its pivot, substantially
as described.
3. The toy bird herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 14th day of September 1808