A New or Improved Toy and Decorative Device.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 18th Dec., 1895--Accepted, 18th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Toy and Decorative Device.
We, ADOLPH TUCK of the Firm of Raphael Tuck and Sons of 72 and 73 Coleman
Street in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers and WILLIAM HENRY ELLAM
of The Studio, 11 Foulser Road, Upper Tooting in the County of Surrey Artist
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to a new or improved toy and decorative device intended
principally for the amusement of children and young people but also useful as a
decoration for rooms.
The device comprises a cut out figure of a horse, donkey or other animal and a
figure or series of human or other figures adapted to be placed thereon to represent
riders.
The figures are printed on pasteboard or the like or on paper which is afterwards
mounted on pasteboard or the like and are cut out round the outline of the
figures.
The quadruped is formed in two pieces the body and two of the legs being
formed on the principal sheet or piece, and the other two legs on a separate piece
which is afterwards glued or otherwise attached to the other piece in such manner
as to admit of these legs being bent out away from the other legs so as to enable
the animal to be stood up.
The figures intended as riders are similarly printed and cut out. If the rider
represents a man or boy one leg forms part of the principal piece and the other
leg is glued or attached thereto in such wise as to admit the insertion of the
figure of the horse between them and so that the rider may appear to sit on the
saddle. If the figure is that of a lady the whole figure is in one piece, and a
small piece of pasteboard is attached to the back thereof which serves to hold the
figure on the back of the animal.
These figures both of the riders and quadrupeds I prefer to print in colours, the
rider being represented in appropriate clothing and with one hand holding the reins
and foot in stirrup or otherwise according to the particular design, and the horse
may be represented with saddle and bridle and any other appropriate trappings.
According to this arrangement a number of riders may be supplied with each
horse or several horses and several riders may be supplied in each set so that the
youthful possessor may find great amusement in placing the various riders on the
various horses, putting for instance a lady on the grey horse a gentleman on
the bay, and a groom on the roan, and changing them at pleasure.
The figures thus prepared may be made exceedingly lifelike and when tastefully
arranged form very pretty ornaments for the decoration of side tables, brackets
and other places.
Dated the 23rd day of March 1895.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We, ADOLPH TUCK, of the Firm of Raphael Tuck and Sons of 72 and 73 Coleman
Street in the City of London, Fine Art Publishers, and WILLIAM HENRY ELLAM,
of The Studio 11 Foulser Road, Upper Tooting, in the County of Surrey, Artist,
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 :-
Our invention relates to a new or improved toy and decorative device intended
principally for the amusement of children and young people but also useful as a
decoration for rooms.
The device comprises a cut out figure of a horse, donkey or other animal and a
figure or series of human or other figures adapted to be placed thereon to represent
riders.
The figures are printed on pasteboard, or the like or on paper which is
afterwards mounted on pasteboard or the like and are cut out round the outline
"of the figures.
In the accompanying sheets of drawings we have represented specimens of cut
out human figures and animals made according to and illustrating our invention.
Fig. 1 represents a cut out figure of a horse. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical
"section of the same.
Fig. 3 is a cut out figure of another horse with a rider shown in dotted lines.
Fig. 4 is a représentation of the opposite side of the same figure.
Figs. 5 and 6 are other cut out figures of boys.
Figs. 7, 9 and 10 are cut out figures of young lady riders and
Fig. 8 is a representation of the left side of Fig. 7.
The quadruped is formed in two pieces the body and two of the legs being formed
on the principal sheet or piece a, and the other two legs b b on a separate piece which
is partly shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1 and which is glued or otherwise attached
to the piece a along its upper part as indicated by the dot and dash line in Fig. 1,
and in such manner as to admit of these legs being bent but away from the
other legs as shown in Fig. 2 so as to render the animal self supporting when
stood up.
The figures intended as riders are similarly printed and cut out. If the rider
represent a man or a boy as in Figs. 3, 4 5 and 6 one leg forms part of the
principal piece c and the other leg d'is glued or attached thereto at d' in such wise
as to admit the insertion of the figure of the horse between them and so that the
rider may appear to sit on the saddle as shown by the figure in dotted lines in
Fig. 3. If the figure is that of a lady, as shown in Figs. 7, 8 9 and 10 the whole
figure is made of one piece e, and a small piece of pasteboard fis attached by its
upper part at f¹, see Fig. 8, to the back thereof, and which serves to hold the
figure on the back of the animal.
These figures both of the riders and quadrupeds I prefer to print in colours, the
rider being represented in appropriate clothing and with say one hand holding
the reins, and foot in stirrup, or otherwise according to the particular design, and
.the horse may be represented with saddle and bridle and any other appropriate
trappings.
According to this arrangement a number of riders may be supplied with each
horse or several horses and several riders may be supplied in each set so that the
youthful possessor may find great amusement in placing the various riders on the
various horses, putting for instance a lady on the grey horse, a gentleman on
the bay, and a groom on the roan, and changing them at pleasure.

page_text: The figures thus prepared may be made exceedingly lifelike and when tastefully
arranged form very pretty ornaments for the decoration of side tables brackets and
other places.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
(1.) The new or improved toy or decorative device substantially as hereinbefore
described.
(2.) The combination of the cut out representation of animals formed in two.
pieces a and b and cut out riders fitted to be placed thereon formed of the
parts c and d or e and for all of these arranged so that the riders fit on the
animals interchangeably substantially in the manner and for the purposes described
and shown.
(3.) In a set of cut out figures consisting of representations of animals and riders.
and which are interchangeable as described, the device for attaching the riders to
their seats substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
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aha 1905
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.
NEWNHAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicants.