Improvements in or relating to Hoops for Children's Use.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 4th Jan., 1896:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in or relating to Hoops for Children's Use.
I, HENRY CHARLES DAVIS, of Swells Hill, Brimscombe, County of Gloucester,.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to childrens hoops to enable them to be run from the-
side by a combined pushing and pulling action, a plan which keeps the hoops in
safe custody of children without the risk of leaving the path as with hoops that
are trundled in the ordinary way by a loose stick.
The invention consists of a hoop of any kind provided with say three or four
epokes connecting the hoop rim with a central block or hub. This hub has a.
hollow centre through which a kind of loose bolt is passed with a projecting eye-
or lever on one side, and to which the handle is looped for pushing or for pulling
the hoop along either slightly in advance at the side, or slightly to the rear of
a child having the handle in its hand.
The hub is of such width and the loose bolt of such length as to keep the
hoop upright while running, at the same time they give the child perfect command
or control over the article.
The loose connection of the bolt eye or loop with the handle eye or loop, that.
when not in use the handle can lie close alongside.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,.
Agent for the said Henry Charles Davis.
Improvements in or relating to Hoops for Children's Use.
I, HENRY CHARLES DAVIS, of Swells Hill, Brimscombe, County of Gloucester,.
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 childrens hoops to enable them to be run from the side
by a combined pushing and pulling action, a plan which keeps the hoops in safe.
custody of children without the risk of leaving the path as with hoops that are
trundled in the ordinary way by a loose stick.
The invention consists of a hoop A of any kind, provided with say three or four
spokes B, B, connecting the hoop rim with a central block or hub C. This hub C
has a hollow centre through which a kind of loose bolt D is passed with a pro-
jecting eye E on one side, and to which the handle bar F is looped for pushing or
for pulling the hoop A along either slightly in advance at the side of or slightly
to the rear of a child having the handle G in its hand.
The hub C is of such width and the loose bolt D of such length as to keep the
hoop A upright while running, at the same time they give the child perfect.
command or control over the article.

page_text: The loose connection of the bolt eye or loop E with the handle eye or loop His
such that when not in use the handle G and its bar F can lie close alongside.
Figure 1 is an end elevation of the hoop. Figure 2 a side elevation.
Figure 3 a detached view of the hub and loops. Figure 4 a face view of same.
Figures 5 and 6 show a modification in which a short lever I is secured to the
hub C by a screw pin, the lever I being free to run thereon.
I am aware that handles have been attached to childrens hoops for the purpose
of trundling them but the connection has been somewhat rigid and did not give the
freedom of action for the handle to be held in any position, so that the child could
pull the hoop, or push the hoop as with the present invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. Looping the handle bar to a loop of the loose bolt fitted loosely within the
hollow hub of a child's hoop in the manner described with reference to Figures 1,
2, 3, and 4 of the annexed drawings.
2. Looping the handle bar to an eye of a short lever having free motion on
a pin in and projecting from a solid hub of a child's hoop, as described and as
represented at Figures 5 and of the annexed drawings.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Charles Davis."
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Charles Davis.