Improvements in Toy Blacksmiths.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 1st Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy Blacksmiths.
I WILLIAM COTTRELL of 47 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon in the County
of Surrey Stationer 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 :-
The objects of this my invention are to provide for amusement or otherwise highly
ornamental and sightly toy blacksmiths and to actuate the same in a very simple
but efficient manner in such wise that their motions are very life-like and in exact
accordance with nature.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein I have for
the sake of clearness and general convenience shewn the apparatus as if it were
constructed of glass or other transparent material whereas it is obvious that in and
for practical use the figures will generally be constructed of sheet metal or other
opaque material and the box whereon they are erected will generally be constructed
of wood in the ordinary manner as it is not desirable that the method of operation
and the means employed should be exposed to gaze and in this drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my apparatus and Figure 2 is an end elevation of
the same.
I make of any suitable size and in any convenient style and form and manner two
figures of blacksmiths and one figure A holds in both hands a larger hammer while
the other figure B holds in its right hand a smaller hammer and I erect both
figures A and B in the proper positions facing each other on a suitable box or
casing C whereon also I place between them an anvil D and the figure B holds in
its left hand a bar duly laid on this anvil D.
Horizontally across the inside of the chest of the figure A is mounted a shaft E
capable of oscillation on the two ends whereof are properly secured the upper ends
or the shoulders of the separately formed two arms of this figure A and at the
proper position in the length of this shaft E is secured thereon an arm F to the end
whereof is connected a wire or rod G which passes down inside the figure A directly
into the box C wherein the other end thereof is connected to one arm of a bell
crank lever H mounted therefor longitudinally in the proper position in the box C.
To the other arm of this bell crank lever H is connected a wire or rod J the other
end whereof is connected to a crank pin K formed on or with a shaft L capable of
revolution and mounted horizontally and transversely in the box C on which shaft L
is secured a toothed wheel M which gears into another toothed wheel N of about
half the size and formed with half the number of teeth secured on another shaft P
also capable of revolution and mounted horizontally and transversely in the box C
and to a crank pin Q formed on or with this shaft P is connected a wire or rod R
the other end whereof is connected to one arm of a bell crank lever S mounted
therefor longitudinally the proper position in the box C. To the other arm of
this bell crank lever S is connected a wire or rod T which passes directly out of the
box C up inside the figure B wherein the other end thereof is connected to the end
of a similar arm F¹ secured at the proper position in the length thereof on a similar
shaft E also capable of oscillation and similarly mounted horizontally across the
inside of the chest of this figure B and on the one end only of this shaft E¹ is
properly secured the upper end or the shoulder of the separately formed right arm
of this figure B. By this arrangement it is obvious that the right arm of the
figure B is capable of performing two movements while the two arms of the figure A

page_text: are performing one movement, as they respectively are actuated from the crank
pins Q and K on the shafts Pand-L which are driven at the necessary different
speeds by the geared toothed wheels N and M.
To the crank pin Kherein before dèscribed is also connected another wire or rod V
the other end whereof is connected to one arm of a bell crank lever W mounted
therefor longitudinally in the proper position in the box C and to the other arm of
this bell crank lever Wis connected a wire or rod X which passes directly out of
the box C up inside the figure B wherein the other end thereof. is connected to one
arm of a bell crank lever Y mounted therefor transversely in the proper position in
the chest of this figure B close to and underneath the right shoulder thereof and to
the other arm of this bell crank lever Y is connected a wire or rod Z.the other end
whereof is properly secured to the separately formed right arm of the figure B at
the desired distance from and below the shoulder thereof. By this arrangement it
is obvious that the right arm of the figure B is also capable of performing one
movement while the two arms of the Figure A are likewise performing one move-
ment as they are actuated from the same crank pin K on the shaft L.
It is evident therefore that through and by means of these appliances herein before
described the two arms of the figure A have only vertical motion or motion in a
vertical plane while the right arm of the figure B has both vertical and transverse
or horizontal motions or motion both in a vertical plane and in a transverse or
horizontal plane of which two motions the vertical motion is twice as fast as that of
the figure A while the transverse or horizontal motion is at the same speed as the
vertical motion of the figure A and as these two motions of the right arm of the
figure B are being performed at one and the same time the hammer held by this
right arm will take the course prescribed and necessitated by the combination of
these two motions.
This apparatus is preferably operated by causing either of the shafts Lor P'to
revolve through and by means of any convenient and usual or other devices or
appliances. For example one of these shafts can be revolved by a cranked handle
as is shewn in the drawing or a spring which could be wound up can be applied'
thereto. to cause one of these shafts to revolve or any other ordinary means can be
used.
All these parts and appliances hereinbefore described are so constructed' and
formed and proportioned and arranged that the action of this apparatus and the
sequence of its motions are or may be as follows.
The figure A brings its hammer down on the bar that the figure B'continuously.
holds on the anvil and it then raises the same again when the figure B' in its turn
brings its hammer down on the bar on the anvil and while it is raising the same
again its right arm is moved transversely to carry its hammer out of the way of the
hammer that the figure A holds and then the figure B again brings its hammer
down but on the anvil to the right of or away from the bar thereon it' may most
conveniently be at or about the same time that the figure A again brings its bummer
down on the bar on the anvil and then while both the figures A and B are raising
their hammers or at all events while the figure B is raising its hammer the right arm
of the figure B is again moved transversely but in the opposite direction so that this
figure B will the next time again bring its hammer down on the bar on the anvil
and so on the figure B bringing its hanımer down twice as often as the figure A
brings its hammer down and so bringing the same down alternately on the bar on
the anvil and on the anvil to the right of or away from the bar thereon.
This apparatus can be enclosed in any suitable casing whether for purposes of
preservation or appearance or otherwise."
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
The arrangement and combination of parts and appliances constituting- my

page_text: improvements in toy blacksmiths substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 17th day of August 1892.
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.