A New or Improved Whistling Toy.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
A New or Improved Whistling Toy.
Communicated to me from abroad by JOHN GAGE, of Graciot Street, St. Louis,
United States of America.
I, JAMES GAGE of 8 & 10 Pembroke Place, Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster, Toy 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 has for its object a mechanical whistle or whistling toy in which
the rapid gyration of the instrument shall cause a whistling note, the exact note
varying with the speed of the gyration. One form of this apparatus is set forth in
the accompanying drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the implement,
Fig. 2 a transverse section of the implement.
Fig. 3 a general view of the apparatus showing the full length of the string.
In these A A are two chambers formed of tin or other tough_hard material,
soldered or otherwise connected together round the periphery. B B are two tubes
connecting these two chambers, and preferably pressed out of the tin or other material
used for forming the mechanism. CC two holes equi distant from the centre point
in the device. DD the string. E E holes pierced through the centre of each
chamber.
The mode of action is as follows:-
As
The two loops of the string being held one in each hand, the instrument is
whirled round rapidly. The string is then alternately pulled out straight, and
again allowed to coil, just as it is in a large number of kinds of toys worked by a
string in this way, for I make no claim whatever to the use of a string broadly for
rotating a spinning device by means of two holes through it in this manner.
the device in this way rotates rapidly the air rushes in at each of the holes E E
where the forward side in spinning cuts the air. The air rushes through to the
other chamber by means of the air tube, escapes from the orifice in the opposite
chamber A. In the meantime an equal and opposite current is entering the other
chamber A, at its forward side passes through the other tube to the other chamber,
and escapes at the rear side. There are thus two currents constantly entering and
discharging, the entering and discharge being on opposite sides of the same holes.
The result is a musical note which increases in intensity with the speed. In thus
describing my invention I do not bind myself to this exact shape, as it is obvious
that once give the idea of two currents being forced to go in opposite directions
through the same orifice in this way by rapid rotation numerous other means can
be found for rotating the device.
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 [
claim is :-
1. A whistling toy which consists in a device in which currents are caused to
enter and leave the device in opposite directions at the same point substantially as
described the said device being rapidly rotated to cause these currents.

page_text: 2. In combination with a device the rapid rotation of which will cause a musical
note varying with the speed of the rotation a string for whirling the same arranged
substantially in the manner described.
3. The new or improved whistling toy substantially as herein described.
Dthe "at dan of 1005
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent: Agents for the Applicant.