Improvements in Toy or Hobby Horses.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Dec., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy or Hobby Horses.
I, ALEXANDER SINCLAIR COGHILL, of 85 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin,
Stationer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to my present invention I construct toy or hobby horses of wood or
other suitable material with legs resting with rubber covered wheels or rollers on
the ground and pivotted to the body, each pair being coupled together and acted
upon either by springs or balance weights that tend to keep them in a certain
position.
Thus the child, by the motion of its body or by touching the ground with its
feet can cause each pair to be shifted more or less out of that position, while the
springs or balance weights afterwards bring the legs back again into their original
position, so that by this means a rocking, galloping, or other progressive motion
can be imparted to the horse.
Instead of pivotting both pairs of legs as described, only the one pair can be so
arranged, the other pair being rigidly attached.
The head or tail, or both, may also be pivotted to the body and suitably
connected by rods or levers to the pivotted legs, so as to receive a rocking motion
therefrom.
Dated this 26th day of March 1891.
ABEL & IMKAI,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toy or Hobby Horses.
I, ALEXANDER SINCLAIR COGHILL, of 85 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin,
Stationer, 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 :-
According to my present invention I construct toy or hobby horses of wood or
other suitable material with legs resting with rubber covered wheels or rollers on
the ground and pivotted to the body, each pair being coupled together and acted
upon either by springs or balance weights that tend to keep them in a certain
position.
Thus the child, by the motion of its body or by touching the ground with its
feet can cause each pair to be shifted more or less out of that position, while the
springs or balance weights afterwards bring the legs back again into their original
position, so that by this means a rocking, galloping, or other progressive motion
can be imparted to the horse.
Instead of pivotting both pairs of legs as described, only the one pair can be so
arranged, the other pair being rigidly attached.
The head or tail, or both, may also be pivotted to the body and suitably
connected by rods or levers to the pivotted legs so as to receive a rocking motion
therefrom.
The accompanying drawing shews, by way of example, the arrangement which
I prefer to employ in carrying my invention into practice.
Fig. 1 shews a side view of the hobby horse, and Fig. 2 shews a front of the
same, the horse itself being shewn in dotted lines while the spring device is shewn
in full lines for the sake of clearness,

page_text: The body of the horse which may be of wood, leather covered framework or
other suitable material contains a steel band spring a a of the curved shape shewn
which is securely fixed to the body at one point A by screw bolts or rivets, while
the two coiled ends are fixed at X X to the middle of metal stays of an inverted
U shape, each of which connects respectively the two front and the two hind legs
together. The hoofs of the legs have rubber tyred wheels or castors c attached
thereto. The legs may also be attached to the body at X X either by pivots or
by any other suitable flexible connection that will allow of a certain amount of
motion. The front legs may also be made to turn on a vertical pivot at X and be
connected to the bridle so that by means of the latter they can be turned into an
angular position for steering.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Constructing toy or hobby horses with pivotted legs resting with wheels or
castors on the ground each pair of legs being connected together and one or
both pairs being acted upon either by springs or balance weights that tend to keep
them in a certain position, substantially as described.
2. In toy or hobby horses, the combination with pivotted or moveable legs, of
a curved spring such as a a fixed at its middle to the body of the horse, and at its
ends to supports such as 6 connecting each pair of legs together, substantially as
and for the purposes described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1891.
ABEL.& IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.