Improvement in Toy or other Parachutes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 9th May, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Toy or other Parachutes.
We HENRY AUVACHE 39 Brierley Road Leytonstone, E. Wood Sawyer and
WILLIAM HENRY VALENTINE 156 Downsell Road Stratford, E. Carpenter do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The novelty in this invention consists in the mode of attaching, carrying, &
detaching a parachute used in connection with an ordinary kite and consists
Firstly. In having a small metal ring attached to the top point of parachute.
Secondly. In employing a metal ring with hook fixed on one side & projecting
therefrom at a certain angle to be used on the string only, attached to an ordinary
kite.
Thirdly. The said ring and hook when placed on or over the string of an
ordinary kite and attaching thereto, the parachute, will, by the propulsion of the
wind carry the said parachute up and
Fourthly. At the will of the user, can by a slight jerk, detach the said parachute
from said ring & hook, causing said ring and hook to immediately fall down the
kite string to the users hand, leaving parachute to descend through the air by
itself.
Dated this the Twenty-first day of June 1890.
HENRY AUVACHE.
WILLIAM HENRY VALENTINE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Toy or other Parachutes.
We HENRY AUVACHE 39 Brierley Road Leytonstone E. Wood Sawyer and
WILLIAM HENRY VALENTINE 156 Downsell Road Stratford E. Carpenter, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in toy and other parachutes which are
intended to be used in connection with kites for the purpose of replacing what is
known as messengers which were usually inserted upon the leading string of a kite
to be carried upwards by the wind, the object of this arrangement being to allow
the parachute or messenger to be detached from such string after it has reached
any height in order to fall unfolded upon the ground.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 is a general view of a kite with a parachute suspended to the leading
string of the same.
Fig. 2 is a detached view at an enlarged scale of the upper portion of the
parachute and of the supporting device.
Fig. 3 is a side view of the latter.
a is an ordinary kite furnished with a tail b and a leading string c upon which
the parachute d is suspended. The latter is furnished at the top with a loop e in
which is inserted a small ring connected to a larger ring 9, one end of which
projects upward and is terminated by a hook h. This hook is of suitable shape so
that it may easily slide up on the leading string c, and yet be readily detached
when it has reached the desired height by merely shaking the string c, the
parachute ascending first in an open attitude and gradually falling when detached
until it reaches the ground.

page_text: 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
A messenger parachute suspended to the leading string of a kite, and capable of
being readily detached therefrom whenever required in order to fall to the ground
substantially as herein described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 16th day of March 1891.
RAYNER & CASSELL,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.