An Improved Toy or Child's Spade.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1892--Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Toy or Child's Spade.
I, FREDERICK REDMAN of 37 Barbican, in the City of London, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to make a toy or child's spade which shall not only
be adapted for digging and the like in the sand as an ordinary toy spade but shall
also be further useful in providing additional amusement and occupation.
The invention consists of a toy or child's spade which also constitutes a matrix or
die for moulding figures, objects or names in sand. For the purpose of my invention
I make a toy spade preferably of wood of any required size, and i form a circular
or other aperture in the blade, and in this aperture I fix a matrix or die adapted to
The matrix
form by moulding any desired object such for example as an animal.
or die is preferably made by stamping or embossing a metal sheet or blank with the
desired design, the sheet being at the same time formed with a flange which fits the
aperture in the blade and serves to secure the matrix therein. The matrix is
preferably placed at the face of the blade but it should not project so as to interfere
with the use of the spade for digging.
Or
Instead of the aperture for the matrix being made entirely through the blade it
may, when the blade is sufficiently thick, be cut only partly through, thus forming
a recess to receive the matrix which will then be at the bottom of the recess.
in some cases it may be preferable to fix the matrix or die on the flat surface of
the blade; this will have the further advantage of strengthening the blade.
thin 6th day of January 1892.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Toy or Child's Spade.
1, FREDERICK REDMAN formerly of 37 Barbican but now of 20 High Holborn
in the County of London, 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:-
The object of my invention is to make a toy or child's spade which shall not
only be adapted for digging and the like in the sand as an ordinary toy spade, but
shall also be further useful in providing additional amusement and occupation.
The invention consists of a toy or child's spade which also constitutes a matrix or
die for moulding figures, objects or names in sand.
The invention can be carried out in various ways. According to one way I make
a toy spade of wood or other material of any required size and I form a circular or
other aperture in the blade, and in this aperture I fix a matrix or die adapted to
form by moulding any desired object such for example as an animal.
This way of carrying out the invention is illustrated in Figures 1 and 2 of the
annexed drawings which are respectively a longitudinal section and a face view of
the blade of a spade. a is the blade, a circular aperture formed therein, and
c is the matrix or die fixed in the aperture b. The matrix or die shown is adapted
to mould a crab but of course a matrix or die adapted to mould any other figure or
object can be employed. The matrix or die is preferably made by stamping or
embossing a metal sheet or blank with the desired design, the sheet being at the

page_text: same time formed with a flange d which fits the aperture in the blade and serves to
secure the matrix therein. The matrix is preferably placed at the face of the blade
but it should not project so as to interfere with the use of the spade for digging.
Instead of the aperture for the matrix being made entirely through the blade it
may, when the blade is sufficiently thick, be made only partly through as seen at >>
in Figures 3 and 4, thus forming a recess to receive the matrix c which will then be
at the bottom of the recess.
Figures 5 and 6 illustrate respectively in longitudinal section and face view a
mode of carrying out my invention which consists in fixing the matrix or die on the
plain surface of the blade. It will be seen that the blade a is of the ordinary form
and that the matrix which is a suitably stamped or embossed metal sheet is fixed
thereto by pins or rivets c e.
When the blade is made entirely of metal the matrix or die can be stamped or
embossed directly thereon, the blade and the matrix or die then being in one piece.
This is illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 which represent by way of example a blade
having as a design a crab c on a circular raised part ƒ in the centre, and Hutings 9 9
radiating from the raised part to the corners and sides of the blade. The design
can be moulded in sand with either the face or the back of this blade.
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:-
As a new article of manufacture a toy or child's spade made substantially as
hereinbefore described so that the blade constitutes a matrix or die adapted to mould
figures, objects or names in sand.
Dated this 5th day of Ontahan 1000
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.