IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANISM FOR ACTUATING MECHANICAL AUTOMATON TOY WORKMEN EFFIGIES OR OTHER FIGURES
Year: 1884

page_text: DI MULTICATION,
I GEORGE COLE of 6 Falcon Square in the City of London Merchant and
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MECHANISM FOR ACTUATING MECHANICAL AUTOMATON TOY WORKMEN
EFFIGIES OR OTHER FIGURES" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and application of
mechanism for actuating mechanical automaton toy workmen effigies animals or
other figures represented as in the act of sawing or planing a piece of timber stone
or other material grinding, filing, hammering or performing other like mechanical
or other automaton operations where reciprocatory or rotary motion is required.
The mechanism consists of a fly wheel (heavy in proportion to its diameter)
which is mounted in a suitable frame with one end of the shaft or axis resting
upon the rim or periphery of a disc or wheel. A cord is wound up on the axis of
the fly wheel and when drawn off quickly therefrom imparts a rapid motion to
the fly wheel by the axis of which rotary motion is imparted to the disc by friction
or adhesion the disc being advantageously covered with india rubber or other
suitable material or means to produce a slight amount of friction.
A crank on the axis of the disc is connected to a slotted arm fixed upon an axis
to give a reciprocatory movement thereto another arm on this axis is connected by a
pin joint to the end of a saw or other frame the other end of the saw or other frame
being connected by a pin joint to the hand of the automaton workman figure or
effigy its fore arm being connected by a pin joint at the elbow to the other part of
the arm connected by a pin joint to the shoulder of the automaton figure which is
thus moved as if in the act of sawing.
A plane file hammer or other reciprocatory tool may be substituted for the saw
or a toy sewing machine or toy grindstone may also be actuated by the same
mechanism a pulley being mounted on the crank axis to transmit rotary motion
when required.
GEORGE COLE.
Tongue & Birkbeck,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: "C
I, GEORGE COLE of 6 Falcon Square in the City of London Merchant and
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS
MECHANISM FOR ACTUATING MECHANICAL AUTOMATON TOY WORKMEN
EFFIGIES OR OTHER FIGURES" and in what manner the same is to be performed
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
IN
This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and application of
mechanism for actuating mechanical automaton toy workmen effigies animals or
other figures represented as in the act of sawing or planing a piece of timber stone
or other material, grinding, filing, hammering or performing other like mechanical
or other automaton operations where reciprocatory or rotary motion is required.
And in order that my Invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into practice I will proceed to describe the accompanying Drawings which show
several examples of the manner in which my improved mechanism is arranged and
constructed in accordance with my Invention and applied so as to actuate
mechanical automaton toy workmen and other automaton toy figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a side view and Figure 2 an end view of an automaton toy
workman represented as in the act of sawing a piece of timber.
The mechanism for actuating the moving parts consists of a fly wheel a (heavy
in proportion to its diameter) which is mounted on axes al supported in the
frame with one end of the shaft or axis a' resting upon the rim or periphery of
a disc or wheel c. A cord is wound up on the small pulley or drum a² fixed on
the end of the axis a¹ of the fly wheel a and when drawn off quickly therefrom
imparts a rapid motion to the fly wheel a by the axis a¹ of which rotary motion is
imparted to the disc c by friction or adhesion the disc being advantageously covered
with india rubber or other suitable material or means to produce a slight amount
of friction.
A crank c¹ on the axis c2 of the disc c is connected to a slotted arm d fixed upon
the axis so as to give a reciprocatory movement thereto another arm d² on this
axis is connected by a pin joint d³ to the end of a saw or other frame e the other
end of the saw or other frame e being connected by a pin joint to the hand f of
the automaton workman figure or effigy its fore arm being connected by a pin
joint at the elbow to the other part of the arm which is connected by a pin
joint to the shoulder of the automaton figure which is thus moved as if in the
act of sawing.
A plane file hammer or other reciprocatory tool may be substituted for the saw
or a toy sewing machine or toy grindstone may also be actuated by the same
arrangement of mechanism a pulley being mounted on the crank axis to transmit
rotary motion when required.
Figure 3 shews'a front elevation of an automaton shoeing-smiths shop and forge
the automaton figure of the smith being in the act of shoeing a horse and the
automaton figure of his man in the act of blowing the bellows. Figure 4 is
a plan.
The arrangement of driving mechanism employed for actuating the automaton
toy figures in this toy is the same as that previously described corresponding parts
being marked with corresponding letters of reference.

page_text: The crank c¹ on the axis c³ of the disc c gives motion to the rod d which
actuates the bellows which are connected to the band of the figure by the rod d¹
the fire being represented by colored tin foil revolving with the axis c² behind the
fixed perforated screen c³. The arm and hammer of the smith is actuated by the
lever arm c on the axis c³ in its revolution striking the cranked lever c³ connected
to the hammer arm of the automaton figure. The noise to indicate the blow of
the hammer is produced by another lever arm co on the axis c' which raises the
lever and weight c7 and allows it to fall upon the bell at the moment the blow
of the smiths hammer is struck.
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Figure 5 shows an end view Figure 6 a plan and Figure 7 a side view of an
automaton toy see-saw with automaton figures of children mounted upon a
rocking bar or plank.
The mechanism for actuating the rocking bar or plank is the same as that
previously described corresponding parts being marked with corresponding letters
of reference a crank c¹ on the axis c² gives motion to a slotted arm fixed on the
underside of the rocking bar or plank c on which the figures of the children are
mounted to impart a rocking movement thereto.
Figure 8 shows a side elevation and Figure 9 a plan of an automaton toy
"round-about " or revolving table with figures of horses mounted thereon which
may serve for playing a race game as the fixed table or ring surrounding the
revolving table may have a series of numbers marked thereon as indicated in
Figure 9 of the Drawings.
The mechanism for actuating the revolving table is similar to that previously
described corresponding parts being marked with corresponding letters of reference.
The periphery of the frictional disc c' fixed on the axis c3 by acting upon the
under surface of the revolving table d gives motion thereto horses d¹ or other
figures or objects being mounted upon the table d.
In place of the disc c being driven from its outer circumference it may be formed
with a projecting rim and be driven by the axis of the fly wheel acting upon its
inner circumference by which the size of the disc c may be greatly reduced and its
speed thereby increased. I make no claim to any of the mechanical or other parts
separately which are well known and in common use neither do I limit myself to
the application of my improved driving mechanism to the particular automaton
toys represented in the Drawings annexed as such improved driving mechanism
may be applied to a great variety of automaton toys and figures in accordance with
my Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is :-
The improved arrangement and construction of the driving mechanism consisting
of the parts a a¹ and e arranged and combined for actuating mechanical automaton
toy workmen effigies and other figures substantially in the manner and for
the purpose hereinbefore described and represented in the Drawings hereto
annexed.