Improvements in Spinning Tops.
Year: 1898

page_text: We, JOHN PAGE CROFT, of 23, Quadrant Chambers, New Street, and GEORGE
COOMBER, of 106, Little King Street, both in the City of Birmingham, Merchants,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention consists of improvements in spinning tops, especially of the
type known as whipping tops," our object being to construct such toys of a
very pleasing appearance and in such a manner that they shall produce pretty
effects when spinning.
Our improved whipping tops are preferably of the usual form or shape, but
instead of producing them from wood or other ordinary material we make them
from glass or like material of varying colours. When constructing a top from
ordinary white glass we form its interior in the manner of the ordinary coloured
glass marble, alley, or taw.
By thus constructing the tops we produce toys of a very pleasing appearance,
and which when spinning will give a more pretty effect than can be obtained
with the ordinary wooden or other tops at present in use.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Spinning Tops.
We, JOHN PAGE CROFT, of 23, Quadrant Chambers, New Street, and GEORGE
COOMBER, of 106, Little King Street, both in the City of Birmingham, Merchants,
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:-
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This invention consists of improvements in spinning tops, especially of the
type known as whipping tops," our object being to construct such toys of a
very pleasing appearance and in such a manner that they shall produce pretty
effects when spinning.
Our improved whipping tops are made of any suitable form or shape, but
instead of producing them from wood or other ordinary material we make them

page_text: from glass or like material of various colours. When constructing a top from
ordinary white glass we form its interior in the manner of the ordinary coloured
glass marble, alley, or taw.
By thus constructing the tops we produce toys of a very pleasing appearance,
and which when spinning will give a more pretty effect than can be obtained
with the ordinary wooden or other tops at present in use.
Figure 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings is an elevation and Figure 2
a plan illustrating one pattern of our glass whipping tops.
We make the head A in varying shapes and we groove or form rings or threads
in the surface of the stem 13 to which the whip is applied for maintaining the
spinning action of the top.
We preferably form the interior of the head A in the manner of. the ordinary
coloured glass marble, alley, or taw.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The construction of spinning tops from glass or like material of various
colours, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. Glass whipping tops having an interior formed in the manner of the ordinary
coloured glass marble, alley, or taw, substantially as and for the purpose described.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and
25, Cross Street, Manchester, Agents for Applicants.