Improvements in Jugglery Apparatus, and in the Mode of Illuminating same.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Jugglery Apparatus, and in the Mode of
Illuminating same.
1, MORRIS CRONIN of 57 Charing Cross, London, Professional Juggler do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is. to produce jugglery apparatus adapted to form.
electric light transparencies in such manner as to make. the. light independent of
any outside source and so that the lamp in the apparatus may be alight or not at
any time throughout the performance at the will of the performer. For this
purpose I arrange an electric battery or batteries and glow lamp or lamps within.
the apparatus itself such for instance as an Indian club, a pole or a ball and
provide a switch or switches in connection therewith so that the performer may: at
any time switch the light on or off while performing.
In one form as applied to an Indian club the body of same is made hollow of
sheet metal or other suitable sheet material provided with perforations covered by
transparent paper. in any desired design. The handle made of metal, celluloid, or
other suitable material is formed hollow to contain a battery the elements of which-
are arranged lengthwise in continuation of each other, the, switch being placed
convenient for being operated upon while performing; the battery supplies current
to a lamp or lamps inside the hollow body. Or the battery, in the form of a
circular hollow disc with three or four cells may be placed within the hollow body,
say near the handle end of same.
As applied to a hollow ball the battery in the form of a circular hollow disc may
suitably occupy a central zone of the ball and supply current to two glow lamps,
one on each side of the battery.
A pole with a hollow transparency ball at each end would be fitted with a
battery near each ball, with a lamp inside each ball and a switch between them.
Dated this 7th day of June 1895.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
Improvements in Jugglery Apparatus, and in the Mode of
Illuminating same.
I, MORRIS CRONIN, of 57: Charing Cross, London, Professional. Juggler, 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 :—
The object of my invention is to produce jugglery apparatus adapted to form
electric light transparencies, in such manner as to make the light independent of
any outside source, and so that the lamp in the apparatus may be alight or not at

page_text: any time during the performance at the will of the performer. For this purpose
I arrange an electric battery or batteries and glow lamp or lamps within the
apparatus itself, such for instance as an Indian club, a pole, or a ball, and provide
a switch or switches in connection therewith so that the performer may at any time
switch the light on or off while performing. I shall now describe my invention
with reference to some examples.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings is an elevation and Fig. 2 a longitudinal
section of an Indian club.
Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 3 a side view of a ball.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of a ball slightly different in construction.
Fig. 5 is an elevation and Fig. 6. a longitudinal section of a pole with hollow
end balls.
Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation of a ball with electric motor arranged on a
helmet.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 the body A of the Indian club is made hollow of
sheet metal or other suitable sheet material with perforations a of any desired form
or design, covered by pieces B of transparent material for instance of celluloid, silk
or paper in the same or different colours. The handle C made of celluloid, wood,
metal or other suitable material is formed hollow to contain a "dry" battery, the
elements D E. F of which are arranged lengthwise in continuation of each other;
the switch G which may be of any usual form is placed convenient for being
operated upon while performing; the battery supplies current to a glow lamp H
inside the hollow body A. Or the battery with say three or four cells such as
shall be presently described with reference to Figs. 3, 3 and 4 may be placed
within the hollow body A.
In Figs. 3 and 34 the battery having three cells E is in a circular zone and in
Fig. 4 within a ring C; the battery supplies current to two glow lamps H one on
each side of the battery. G is a switch which is adapted to turn the current on or
off to one or both lamps.
'
In Figs. 5 and 6 two batteries, such for instance as that described with reference
to Figs. 1 and 2 would be provided in the pole C near each ball A with a lamp H
inside each ball, or a battery as described with reference to Figs. 3 and 3 or 4 may
be arranged in each ball, and a switch G is arranged between them to switch off
the light to either or both balls.
Fig. 7 shews a ball such as described with reference to Figs. 3 to 4 applied to a
helmet provided with an' electic motor I which is rotated by current supplied from
the battery E in the ball, the latter being rotated by the motor and having a
square socket fitting over the square end of the hollow motor spindle K through
which the wires pass. A switch G is provided to turn on or off the current from
the battery to the motor I and to the lamp H. By- the rotation of the ball the
light from the lamp shining out through the coloured "transparent material pasted
over the perforations by preference on the inside of the ball, produces a pretty
effect.
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 I
claim is :-
:-
1. Jugglery apparatus comprising a hollow perforated body provided with
transparency devices, one or more glow lamps and an electric battery within such
body, and a switch for making and breaking the lamp and battery circuit, said
switch adapted to be operated upon the outside of the apparatus, substantially; as
and for the purpose set forth.
2. Jugglery apparatus constructed as described with reference to Figs. 1 to 6.
3. Jugglery apparatus comprising a hollow perforated' body provided with
transparency devices, one or more glow lamps and an electric battery within such
body, an electric motor adapted to revolve the hollow body, a helmet for supporting

page_text: the parts named and a switch adapted to be operated upon the outside of the helmet
for turning on or off the current from the battery to the motor and the lamp,
substantially as described with reference to Fig. 7.
Dated this 9th day of March 1896.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.