Improvements in or Additions to Bauble Toys or Pacifiers for Infants and Young Children.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Mar.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Bauble Toys or Pacifiers for
Infants and Young Children.
I, AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT of Ford Street, Hockley, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in, or additions to, bauble toys or pacifiers
for infants and young children, and consists primarily in the employment or
combination with a stem and teat, alone or combined with other adjuncts, of a
whistling or squeaking ball, toy-figure or ornament.
The said ball or toy-figure addition is made of india-rubber, and inflated in the
ordinary way, so that a child, in grasping the said article, causes the same to
squeak or whistle.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I connect a ball in any suitable way to
a stem or stalk, surmounted by a teat, preferably circumferentially grooved at its
inner end, and into which groove, a bone or other shield is sprung, by drawing the
said shield, which has a hole in its middle down over the teat to its junction with
the stem.
The musical part of the article consists of an ordinary tongue covering a slit or
aperture leading from the article, and which tongue is made to vibrate by air
issuing through a small hole in the inflated ball or figure.
Instead of employing a ball as the primary terminal, I may employ an accordion
shaped body, with a musical note applied thereto.
Or the stem may be made telescopic, with a pistou at one end, so as to force air
past a musical tongue.
The said article may, if necessary, be made up of four or other number of
integral parts as described, or it may be made up in one piece and from rubber or
other suitable material.
When made in a single piece of rubber, I fashion the same in mould, which
comprehends the whole of the article, and by means commonly known to rubber
manufacturers.
Dated this 11th day of July 1893
AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Bauble Toys or Pacifiers for
Infants and Young Children.
I, AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT, of Ford Street, Hockley, in the City of
Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 improvements in, or additions to, bauble toys or pacifiers
for infants and young children, and consists primarily in the employment or
combination with a stem and teat, alone or combined with other adjuncts, of a
whistling or squeaking ball, toy-figure or ornament.
The said ball or toy-figure addition is made of india rubber, and inflated in the
ordinary way, so that a child, in grasping the said article causes the same to
squeak or whistle.

page_text: In carrying out one form of my invention, I connect a ball in any suitable way
to a stem or stalk carrying a teat and with a bone or other shield coming between
the said stalk and teat.
The musical device part of the article may consist of a hollow metal shell having
a slit or aperture leading from the article, the metal of which is made to vibrate
by air being forced through it from in the inflated ball or figure, or the device may
consist of an aperture having a vibrating tongue in front of it.
Instead of employing a ball as the primary terminal, I may employ an accordion
shaped body, with a musical note applied thereto.
Or the stem may be made telescopic with a piston at one end, so as to force air
past a musical tongue.
The said article may, if necessary, be made up of four or other number of
integral parts as described, or it may be made up in one piece and from rubber or
other suitable material.
When made in a single piece of rubber, I fashion the same in mould, which
comprehends the whole of the article, and by means commonly known to rubber
manufacturers.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in side elevation a bauble toy
provided with improvements made according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents the same with an upper part in section showing the musical
or sounding device at the crown of the hollow ball or sphere part which forms the
medium for forcing air through the said musical device.
Figure 3 represents a horizontal section upon the dotted lines A B Figure 2.
Figure 4 represents a topside plan of Figure 1, showing the teething ring.
In Figures 1 to 4, a is a hollow rubber ball or sphere, having connected with it,
a rigid stem b, which carries at its end, a teat c, and shield c¹. d is a teething ring
or part ring carried by the ball, and e is a musical device.
Figure 5 represents a modified form of my invention.
b is the stem,
a is a gussetted body part, which when distended, draws air into its interior, and
when compressed, forces air through the musical sounding device e.
c' is a shield and c is a nipple and d is a teething ring.
Figure 6 represents a still further form of my invention in which a is a hollow
end a
rubber ball or sphere, and a' is a cylindrical chamber having at its upper
musical device e, whilst working within the said chamber is a piston a², having a
stalk a³, connected at one end to the stem b. c is a teat, c' a shield and d a teething
ring.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
First. In a bauble toy, the combination with parts of the same, of a self-inflating
ball or sphere b, having a musical device e, coming opposite to an orifice or hole in
the walls of it, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 4.
Secondly. In a musical bauble toy or pacifier, the construction, arrangement and
combination of the parts substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 4.
Thirdly. The combination with a bauble toy, of an air forcer in the form of
bellows for sounding a musical device contained within it, substantially as described
and set forth in Figure 5.
Fourthly. The combination with a bauble toy, of an air-forcing means for
sounding the musical device, substantially as described and set forth in Figure 6.
Dated this 24th day of January 1894.
AARON SMITH CARTWRIGHT,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.