Improvements in Apparatus for Driving Mechanical Toys.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Driving Mechanical Toys.
I, EDUARD NEIFF, of 3, Leonhardstrasse, Nuremberg, in the Empire of Germany,
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:
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This invention relates to improvements in appliances or driving mechanism for
driving mechanical toys, the object being to automatically propel or drive toys such
as model locomotives, animals, or figures in one, say a forward direction, then in a
reverse or backward direction.
Such being the nature and object of my said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
in which:-
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the mechanism for purpose aforesaid and the
controlling tappet being at the top.
Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the improved mechanism.
Fig. 3 is a view of the opposite side of Fig. 1, the tappet being shewn at the
bottom.
According to this invention I employ a shaft 1 carried in the frame or case 2
On the shaft 1 is a toothed
and caused to rotate by means of a coiled spring 3.
face wheel 4 alternately gearing with the wheels 5-6 fixed on the shaft 7 free
to move endwise in its bearings in the frame or case 2. On the back of the face
wheel 4 is fixed the tappet 8 extending about half the circumference of said wheel
and engaging alternately with the wheel 9 or the disc 10, both of which are fixed
on the shaft 7, one above and the other below the wheel 4. The wheel 9 gears with
one or other of the wheels 5-6 on the shaft 7, which shaft 7 is by the wheels 11-12
geared with the shaft 14, which is in turn connected or geared with the wheels of
the locomotive or other toy.
When the toy is started by the uncoiling of the spring 3 previously coiled by the
handle 13 the wheel 4 gears with the top wheel 5 on the shaft 7, and the toy is
driven in one direction. When the wheel 4 has made about half a revolution, the
tappet 8 leaves the wheel 9 and engages with the disc 10 so that the shaft 7 is
slided endwise in its bearings and the wheel 5 is moved out of line and gear with
the teeth of the wheel 4, and the wheel 16 is moved into line so that the mechanism
is driven in a reverse direction, and as a consequence the toy which was moving in
one direction is automatically stopped and caused to move in the opposite direction.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
(1) The general construction, arrangement, and combination of parts constituting
the improved driving mechanism, as and for the purpose herein described, and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.

page_text: (2) The face wheel 4, tappet 8,wheels 5—6, wheel 9, and disc 10, all in combina-
tion as and for the purpose herein described and substantially as illustrated by the
annexed drawings.
Dated
this on day of January logo.
EDUARD NEIFF,
By his Agents,
Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.
By his Agents,
EDUARD NEIFF,
Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax.