and such like Manufactures.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1887
Specification Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887
and such like Manufactures.
We GEORGE LINES and JOSEPH LANES of 457 Caledonian Road, London in the
county of Middlesex, Toy Manufacturers, 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 certain improvements connected with rocking horses, or
other wooden animals, and rocking chairs and is also applicable to bassinettes, baby
carriages, and all such like manufactures, the object being to ensure greater strength
steadiness and safety than has hitherto been obtained. As usually constructed rocking
horses and the like are mounted upon curved rockers having their feet or legs fixeil
to same, whereby the strain is so great on the legs that repairs of the same are
frequently necessary; others are mounted on parallel swinging bars cranked to a
central fixed bar the whole being mounted on a stand. The objection to the first.
method is its liability to breakage and to rock over and injure the rider and pinch the
feet of lookers on, while it either wears the floor cover or if there be none is apt to be
noisy, while the second system is cumbrous and expensive to manufacture and does
not produce the required cantering motion. According to our invention we mount
the horse or other device not upon its feet or legs but upon its body and so arrange
the rocking apparatus that the frame is stationary and so we avoid all these objections.
The accompanying figures illustrate a toy rocking horse constructed according to
our invention it being obvious that a chair bassinette or any other device to which it
is desired to impart a rocking motion inay easily be substituted in place of the horse.
The oscillating device consists in a pair of cranked bars ce capable of oscillation
in bearings in the fixed frame d which is made of suitable strength and form to
stand firmly on the floor. In normal position, i.e. a position of rest these cranks are
arranged so as not to be parallel with one another and are inclined from the vertical
either outwardly or inwardly as shown in the figure, so that their path of travel i.e. the
are through which they oscillate is so limited as to prevent their complete revolution
and on movement of the horse chair or other device a steady safe and easy rocking

page_text: motion similar to the cantering motion of a horse is ensured, and the liability to rock
too far is avoided.
The oscillating device is connected to the horse chair or other device by one or
preferably a pair of curved pieces of wood iron or suitable material a a each lower end
of which is fixed rigidly to a metal attachment plate & hinged upon the horizontal parts
of the cranks ce and supported by the cranked bar bearings.
The body or strongest part of the horse chair or other device is firmly attached to
these curved supporting pieces a a and by this method of mounting the liability of
breakage by the systems herein before referred to is avoided.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :—
1. The improvement connected with rocking horses chairs and the like consisting
in the oscillating device substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described
and illustrated.
2. The improvement, consisting in the combination with the said oscillating device
of the supporting pieces and attachment thereto substantially as and for the purposes
described and illustrated.
3. The hereinbefore described improvement consisting in the method of mounting
the rocking horse, chair or other device.
Tatal this Tremix kiith day of Wahun 1887
J. C. CHAPMAN,
70, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.