TYPROVEMENTS IN Tove son our USE OF CHILDREN." PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PARENT to Cuiseppe Antonic Giovanni Nani, of the Sableniere,
Hotel, Leicester Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the
Hotel, Leicester Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the
Invention of "TYPROVEMENTS IN Tove son our USE OF CHILDREN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by tho said Guiseppe Antonio.
Giovanni Nani at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th December 1856.
I, GUISEPPE ANTONIO GIOVANNI NANI, of the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the naturo
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOYS FOR THE USE OF CHILDREN," to
be as follows:-
I propose constructing forms or figures of any description, for example,
that of the horse or other animal, giving theroto the motion or inovement
natural to the animal so represented, or to other forms or figures any peculiar
motion that may be desired, effecting this by means of combinations of metal,
caoutchouc, or other elastic material (used in form of springs or otherwise)
placed beneath the figure. In some cases motion being given by reason of
the weight of the child when placed upon the figure, in others the combination
of springs or other elastic material may be acted upon by simply dragging.
the entire construction along. upon wheels, giving the peculiar motion desired,
or the elastic combination may be put in motion by any other means.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and
of the above Order, filed by the said Guiseppe Antonio Giovanni Nani
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 30th June 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUISEPPE
ANTONIO GIOVANNI NANI, "of the Sabloniere Hotel, Leicester Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Guiseppe Antonio Giovanni Nani, Her special licence that I,
the said Guiseppe Antonio Giovanni Nani, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Guiseppe Antonio, Giovanni. Nani, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during throl term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TOYS FOR THE
USE OF CHILDREN," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Guiseppe Antonio Giovanni Nani, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to, be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said. Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Guiseppe Antonio Giovanni Nani, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, (that is to, say) :-
The object of my Invention is to construct forms or figures of any description,
for example, that of the horse or other animal, giving thereto the motion or
movement: natural to the animal so represented, or to other forms or figures,
any peculiar motion that may be desired. This is effected by means of
combinations of metal, caoutchouc, or other elastic material used in the form
of springs, or otherwise placed beneath the figure. In some cases motion is,
given by reason of the weight of the child when placed upon the figure; in
others the combination of springs or other elastic material may be acted upon
by simply dragging the entire construction along upon wheels, giving the

page_text: peculiar motion desired, or the elastic combination may be put in motion by
any other means.
In the accompanying Drawing Figure 1 represents a horse, and the
apparatus below the figure enables it to imitate all the natural movements of
the living animal. A and B are two planks, placed one above the other, and
the animal proposed to be represented is placed on the top of the upper
plank A; C, C, C, C, are springs, attached to and placed between the two
planks A and B, and by their motion give the necessary clasticity to the
figure. In order to prevent the animal from falling or swerving on either
side, I affix one end of the iron rod D to the upper plank A, and cause the rod
itself to slide up and down through the aperture in the iron plate E, which is
firmly fixed to the lower plank B, and thus the figure is kept always in an
upright position.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described and represented, as the same
may be varied without departing from the nature of my said Invention, but I
claim as my Invention,―
First, the method of giving the necessary elasticity or natural movement of
the animal intended to be represented.
Second, the method of preventing the figures from falling or swerving on
either side, and keeping it always in an upright position.
In witness whereof, I, the said Guiseppe Antonio Giovanni Nani, have
hercunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
GUISEPPE ANTONIO GIOVANNI NANI. (L.S.)
STEPHEN BARTLETT.