A NEW AND IMPROVED Tox
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Jewitt, of Kentish Town, in the County
of Middlesex, Importer, for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED
Tox.”—A communication from abroad by William W. Rose, of New
York, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Jewitt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th June 1872.
I, HENRY JEWITT, of Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex,
Importer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A
NEW AND IMPROVED TOY," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in producing on blocks or half cubes of wood or
other material parts of figures, faces, or other characters. These figures or
characters are designed that when two or more of the blocks or half cubes.
are placed together, a whole or complete figure is produced; for instance,
if a set of four blocks is used, upon two of which (on the upper surface)
are half-length drawings, or the upper portions of two figures respectively,

page_text: and upon (the upper surface of) the other two blocks forming the set a
complete appearanceof the figures will be obtained.
Other figures, such as parts of faces, and other designs of a similar
character to those above-mentioned can be produced upon the other
surfaces of the half cubes; and when the edges of the other surfaces of
the blocks or half cubes are placed together, as before described,
complete representations of faces or other figures are obtained. The
number of combinations and variations thus obtained being limited
only by the greater or less number of blocks or cubes employed.
The figures or designs are printed, painted, or otherwise produced
upon the blocks or cubes, or upon paper or other suitable material, which
is then gummed, pasted, or otherwise made to adhere to the blocks or
cubes, and then the surfaces are coated with varnish of any transparent
and "hard drying" description, care being taken in designing the figures
that the lines shall correspond when the blocks or cubes are placed
together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Jewitt in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th December 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JEWITT, of Kentish Town, in the County of Middlesex, Importer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Jewitt, Her special licence that
I, the said Henry Jewitt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Henry Jewitt, my executors, administrators,
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 "A NEW AND IMPROVED TOỲ,” a

page_text: communication to me from abroad by William W. Rose, of New York,
United States of America, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Henry Jewitt, my executors or adminstrators, 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 Henry Jewitt, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement and accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to
say) :-
1
This Invention consists in producing on blocks, or cubes, or half cubes
of wood or other material parts of figures, faces, or other characters.
These figures or characters are designed that when two or more of the
blocks or cubes are placed together a whole or complete figure is pro-
duced; for instance, if a set of four blocks is used, upon two of which
(on the upper surface) are half-length drawings of the upper portions of
two figures respectively, and upon (the upper surface of) the other two
blocks, forming the set, are half-length drawings of the lower portions
of the same figures, and the lower edges (of the upper surfaces) of the
two first-mentioned blocks be placed above and against the upper edges
(of the upper surfaces) of the two last-named blocks forming the set, a
complete appearance of the figures will be obtained.
Other figures, such as parts of faces, and other designs of a similar
character to those above-mentioned can be produced upon the other
surfaces of the cubes, or half cubes, or blocks, and when the edges of the
other surfaces of the cubes or blocks are placed together, as before-
described, for the upper surfaces, complete representations of figures are
obtained; the number of combinations and variations thus obtained
being limited only by the greater or less number of blocks, or cubes, or
half cubes employed.
The figures or designs are printed, painted, or otherwise produced
upon the blocks, or cubes, or half cubes, or upon paper, or other suitable
material, which can then be gummed, pasted, or otherwise be made to
adhere to the blocks or cubes, and then the surfaces may be coated with
varnish of any transparent description.

page_text: It is necessary that care be taken in designing the figures that the
lines shall correspond when the blocks or cubes are placed together.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, the upper surfaces of a set
of four blocks are shewn in different figures or positions.
In Figs. 1 and 2 are shewn the upper portions of two figures respec-
tively, and in Figs. 3 and 4 are shewn the lower portions of the same
figures.
In Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, the lower edges a (of the upper surfaces) of
the blocks shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, are shewn placed above and against
the upper edges 6 (of the upper surfaces) of the blocks shewn in Figs. 3 1
and 4, thus producing complete appearances of the figures, the number
of combinations and variations obtained being limited only by the greater
or less number of blocks or cubes employed.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said In-
vention, I desire it be understood that I claim the new and improved :
toy herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Jewitt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.