AN IM- PROVED APPARATUS FOR THE RECREATION AND AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN AND INVALIDS, COMPRISING IN ONE ARTICLE A NURSERY YACHT, SEE-SAW, ROCKING HORSE, AND SWING, WITH ELASTIC OR RIGID APPLIANCES FOR MUSCULAR EXERCISE
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Mead, Manufacturer of Toys & Games,
73, Cheapside, City of London, for the Invention of "AN IM-
PROVED APPARATUS FOR THE RECREATION AND AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN
AND INVALIDS, COMPRISING IN ONE ARTICLE A NURSERY YACHT, SEE-SAW,
ROCKING HORSE, AND SWING, WITH ELASTIC OR RIGID APPLIANCES FOR
MUSCULAR EXERCISE."
Sealed the 4th August, 1871, and dated the 16th February 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Mead at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th February 1871.
I, JOSEPH MEAD, Manufacturer of Toys & Games, 73, Cheapside,
City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE RECREATION AND AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN
AND INVALIDS, COMPRISING IN ONE ARTICLE A NURSERY YACHT, SEE-SAW, ROCKING
HORSE, AND SWING, WITH ELASTIC OR RIGID APPLIANCES FOR MUSCULAR EXERCISE,"
to be as follows :-
The nursery yacht, see-saw, and swing, are made of wood or metal,
with a seat at each end provided with suitable guards for the pro-

page_text: tection of children, and also a strong foot board, and elastic or rigid
appliances for muscular exercise, the centre of the yacht or see-saw is
occupied with a suitable erection for the purpose of receiving the body of
either a double or single headed horse, or padded or other seat, in such
a manner as to receive on either side a horse of a smaller size, the whole
to work on rockers as heretofore used in the construction of rocking
horses, nursery yachts, and other analogous oscillating contrivances, or
by the substitution of an upright bar or lever made of metal, wood, or
other suitable material, to the top of which the yacht, see-saw, and horse
are securely fixed in a suitable manner, the bottom of the upright bar
or lever being hinged or otherwise securely fixed to the floor or base
board or ironwork forming a base in such a manner that the bar or
lever with the yacht, see-saw, and horse may oscillate in a vertical
plane, or where-a more easy and silent motion is necessary plates or rings
of metal or other substance are attached to each side of the yacht, see-
saw; or horse that they may fall into or hang upon suitable centers made
of metal or other substance attached to a framework of metal or wood
capable of holding the same in suspension. Elastic springs of vulcan-
ized india-rubber or of metal are attached so as to maintain the whole
in equipoise when not in use. For the purposes of a swing strong
metal plates are fixed on the sides of the yacht, see-saw, or horse to
receive cords or irons of a suitable description which may be suspended
as convenient.
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The object of my Invention is an improved apparatus for the
recreation and amusement of children and invalids, and the novelty con-
sists in combining the appliances of a nursery yacht, see-saws, and swing,
in the manner and for the purposes described in my Specification.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Mead in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th August 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPHI
MEAD, Manufacturer of Toys and Games, 78, Cheapside, City of
London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Joseph Mead, Her special licence that
I, the said Joseph Mead, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Joseph Mead, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR THE RECREATION AND AMUSEMENT OF CHILDREN AND INVALIDS, COMPRISING
IN ONE ARTICLE A NURSERY YACHT, SEE-SAW, ROCKING HORSE, AND SWING,
WITH ELASTIC OR RIGID APPLIANCES FOR MUSCULAR EXERCISE," upon the .con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Mead, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Mead, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The nursery yacht, see-saw, and swing are made of wood or metal
with a seat at each end and provided with suitable guards for the
protection of children, and also with a strong foot board and with elastic
or rigid appliances for muscular exercise, the centre of the yacht or
see-saw is occupied with a suitable erection for the purpose of receiving
the body of either a double or a single headed horse, or plank with
padded or other seat, or with contrivances of such a character as to
form a support for the back, and in front a guard or abdominal protector,
or in such manner as to receive on either side a horse or plank of a
smaller size, the whole to work on rockens as heretofore used in the
construction of rocking horses, nursery yachts, analogous oscillating
contrivances, or by the substitution of an upright bar or lever made
of metal, wood, or other suitable material, to the top of which the
nursery yacht, see-saw, and horse are securely fixed in a suitable manner,

page_text: the bottom of the upright bar or lever being hinged or otherwise
securely fixed to the floor or base board or metalwork forming a base in
such a manner that the bar or lever with the nursery yacht, see-saw,
and horse may oscillate in a vertical plane, or where a more easy and
silent motion is necessary plates or rings of metal or other substance
are attached to each side of the nursery yacht, see-saw, or horse that
they may fall into or hang upon suitable centres made of metal or other
material attached to a framework of metal or wood capable of holding
the same in suspension, elastic springs or vulcanized india-rubber, or
of metal are attached so as to maintain the whole in equipoise." for
the purposes of a swing," strong metal plates are fixed on the sides
of the nursery yacht, see-saw, or horse to receive suitable appliances by
which the whole may be suspended.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Mead, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, in 1
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.