An Improved Apparatus for Imparting Galloping Motions to Toy-horses.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
MEIE DIDIFICATION.
Communicated from abroad by the Firm of CHRISTIANSEN & MEYER,
of 3, Aussenmühle, Harburg-on-the-Elbe, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturers.]
An Improved Apparatus for Imparting Galloping Motions to
Toy-horses.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 relates to apparatus for imparting galloping motions to toy
horses, chiefly designed for use in roundabouts.
The apparatus heretofore used in roundabouts for this purpose are defective,
inasmuch as they do not produce a galloping motion which is true to life, that is to
say the toy horse jumping with all its feet at the same time so that only the front
part and rear part of the horse are alternately raised and lowered, while the seat
or the middle part of the horse's back moves approximately in the horizontal
direction. By the arrangements hitherto employed this seat is also raised and
lowered.
This inconvenience is obviated by the improved apparatus hereinafter described
with reference to Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing.
The body of the horse is supported in front and at the rear by two levers a and b.
The front fever is carried by the crank shaft c adapted to turn in brackets
underside of the platform e and receiving a suitable rotary movement from the
roundabout.
on the
One or two double-armed levers f, which can turn upon an axis g supported by
the platform, connect the middle part of the front supporting lever a with the lower
end of the rear supporting lever b and give the two upper ends of the supporting
levers, which are pivoted to the horse's body, a positive movement in elliptical
paths when the crank shaft c is rotated.
When the rear part of the horse is lowered most, the upper pivoted end of the
rear supporting lever b is approximately at the lowest point of its path and the
pivoted end of the other supporting lever is approximately at the highest point of
its path. If then the pivoted end of the front lever moves downwards in its path
and the pivoted end of the rear lever moves upwards, the front part of the horse
will be lowered forwards and the rear part raised while the whole body of the horse
moves forwards, but the middle part of the horse's body which carries the seat h
and is situated above the axis y of the connecting lever or levers f will practically
be displaced in the horizontal direction without being appreciably lowered or raised.
Accordingly the natural galloping motion of a horse is imitated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
First. An apparatus for imparting galloping motions to toy horses of roundabouts,
in which the upper ends of two supporting levers a b, one of which is pivoted to the
front part and the other to the rear part of the horse's body, describe each an
elliptic path with a positive motion alternately upwards and downwards in the
direction of rotation, while the seat h on the middle part of the horse's body will
receive only an approximately horizontal motion.

page_text: Second. A constructional form of the apparatus specified in the first claim,
comprising the two supporting levers a b, a crank c turned by the roundabout and
moving the front supporting lever a, and one or two connecting levers f arranged
between the two supporting levers and turning upon a fixed axis g so as to render
the motions of these levers positive.
Dated this 1st day of May 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.