An Improved Roundabout or Riding School.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1886
Complete Left, 15th July, 1887
Complete Accepted, 7th Oct., 1887
An Improved Roundabout or Riding School.
I, JOHN ROSE No. 20 Lincoln Lane Boston Lincolnshire Baker, do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED ROUNDABOUT OR RIDING SCHOOL to be as
follows:-
The platform to be made in 12 sections, 2 wheels to carry each section on 1 shaft,
to run on a tram, the horses to be worked from the same shaft by excentrics, and the
legs also, the horses to be fixed over the shaft, each horse to have 2 iron rods fixed to
the body of the horse between the hind legs, to come down to platform to work in a
joint ont op of platform, 1 iron connection rod from excentric to the horses body between
fore legs, to work the horses body, and 1 connection rod from excentric to the horses
hind legs, the hind legs to be connected to the fore legs by a rod of iron also, the
2 rods of iron which is fast to the horses body, gives the action to the horse as it is made
to rise and fall by the excentric, the top end of the excentric rod made to work in a
joint between the horses fore legs, a larger excentric to work the legs, to have 3 horses
on a breast, each section of platform to have cog segments under the inside of plat-
form, the sections of platform to be bolted together, the platform to be driven froni two
sides, by two engines, viz., a single engine each side of vertical boiler, each engine
connected to shafts with pinion on the other end to run in cog segments on
platform.

page_text: An Improved Roundabout or Riding School.
I JOHN ROSE No. 20 Lincoln Lane Boston in the County of Lincoln Baker 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 'an improved roundabout or riding school, and
consists in having a revolving frame or platform with horses fixed upon it to which
all the movements of a galloping horse are given. I propose to do this as follows,
the revolving frame or platform is made in sections, with three horses on a breast on
each section, each horse is supported on three vertical rods, one rod between the fore
legs, and two rods between the hind legs, the front rod a pivoted to the horse at the
top end, whilst the lower end is attached to a crank or eccentric, which is on a axle
under the platform, the horse is rigidly fixed on the top ends of the rear rods b, whilst
the lower ends are pivoted to the platform c, the legs of the horse are hinged or joined
to the body, and are caused to move in a natural manner, to effect this, one end of the
rod, d, is pivoted to a cross rod between the fore legs, whilst the other end is pivoted to
a cross rod between the hind legs, the top end of the connection rod e, is pivoted to
the cross rod between the hind legs, whilst the lower end is attached to the eccentric f.
This eccentric which gives motion to the legs is larger than the eccentric which gives
motion to the body, so as to give a greater throw to the legs, thus, as the body of the
horse is raised by the smaller eccentric, all the legs are brought forward by the larger
eccentric as it passes over the top-and when the body is lowered, all the legs are
brought back by the eccentric as it passes under the axle. Each section of platform is
carried by two wheels which is fixed loose on the axle that actuates the horses, the
axle is made to revolve by fixing a pin through the wheel and axle thus it will be seen
that when the platform is set in motion, each horse goes round in a circle, and the
wheel on the tramway turning the axle causes the horses to be moved up and down
whilst the rear rods b, cause the body to move backward as the horse rises, and forward
as it falls, the platform is made in twelve or more sections which are bolted together,
the platform is provided with cog segments under it, one or two segments to each
section of platform, the whole frame or platform is driven from both sides by two
engines, viz. one each side of a boiler, which is fixed in the space in the centre
of the roundabout, each engine is connected to a shaft which has a pinion on the other
end to run in the cog segment which is on the platform, it will thus be seen that when
the roundabout is moved from place to place it will not be necessary to take the horses
off as in other roundabouts neither will the segment be taken off the section, when
unbolted, and the pin drawn out of the wheel and axle, can be moved at will by the
same wheels which carry the section.

page_text: 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
First. The combination of the three vertical rods with their respective joints,
whereby motion is imparted to the body of the horse.
Second. The connection rods from the eccentric to the horses legs, and the rod
from the hind legs to the fore legs, which gives the motion to the legs.
Third. The method of driving the roundabout from both sides by two engines.
Fourth. My improved roundabout or riding school substantially as described.
Dated this Fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty seven.