NEW OR IMPROVED CARICATURE MECHANICAL Toys
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
I JOHN GARRETT TONGUE of the firm of Tongue & Birkbeck Patent Agents
and Engineers of 34 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED
CARICATURE MECHANICAL Toys" to be as follows:-
. This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
caricature mechanical toys in which two or more toy figures (human or animal) or
other objects or parts mechanically combined are caused to assume a variety of
grotesque or other positions by the elongation and contraction of a spring
or springs (advantageously of india rubber) attached to the figures animals or
objects to which motion is to be imparted.
For this purpose as an illustration of the method of carrying this Invention into
practice one end of a spring is attached to the hind legs (or other part) of a goat
horse ass pig or other animal the other end of the spring being fixed to a base
plate or elsewhero.
To the bead or other part of the animal the bands of a toy figure of a man are
connected by a pin joint so as to move freely. All the joints of the limbs both of
the figure of the man and animal are connected by pin joints so as to admit of
their moving automatically and assuming various attitudes by elongating the
spring and allowing it to contract.
Thus two figures such as the above and various others may be caused to appear
as though struggling to try which is the strongest,
The figures of two men may be so arranged as to appear in the act of wrestling
or boxing automatically.
The spring (or springs) may be actuated by drawing a cord attached to the leg
or other part of one of the figures which is thus caused to act as a lever to
distend the spring and cause the other parts to assume, various attitudes
automatically.
The lever and spring (or springs) may be actuated by other means such as a
weight or otherwise.

page_text: In like manner motion may be imparted to automaton figures to cause them to
appear as if in the act of performing various mechanical operations such as sawing
hammering grinding gymnastic and other movements.
I JOHN GARRETT TONGUE of the firm of Tongue & Birkbeck Patent Agents
& Engineers of 34 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane in the County of
Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED 1
CARICATURE MECHANICAL TOYS" and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This Invention relates to improvements in the arrangement and construction of
caricature mechanical toys in which two or more toy figures (human or animal) 1
or other objects or parts mechanically combined are caused to assume a variety
of grotesque or other positions by the elongation and contraction of a spring or
springs (advantageously of india rubber) attached to the figures animals or objects
to which motion is to be imparted.
For this purpose the Drawing hereto annexed affords an illustration of the 2
method of carrying this Invention into practice in which one end of the spring a
is attached at a to the hind legs b (or other part) of a goat c (or it might be a
horse, ass, pig, or other animal) and the other end of the spring a is fixed at a³ to
a base plate d or elsewhere.
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To the head c¹ or other part of the animal the hands of a toy figure of a man e are 2
connected by a pin joint at e¹ so as to move freely-All the joints of the limbs
both of the figure of the man and animal are connected by pin joints so as to admit
of their moving automatically and assuming various attitudes by elongating the
elastic spring a (by pulling the cord a³) and allowing it to contract.
Thus two figures such as those above described and various others may be 3
caused to appear as though struggling to try which is the strongest.
The figures of two men may be so arranged as to appear in the act of wrestling
or boxing automatically.
The spring (or springs) may be actuated by drawing the cord a³ attached to the
leg or other part of one of the figures which is thus caused to act as a lever to:
distend the spring a and cause the other parts to assume various attitudes
automatically.
The lever and spring a (or springs) may be actuated by other means such as a
weight or otherwise.
In like manner motion may be imparted to automaton figures to cause them to
appear as if in the act of performing various mechanical operations such as sawing,
hammering, grinding, gymnastic and other movements.

page_text: No claim is made to any of the parts separately which are well known and in
common usc.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention (communicated to me from abroad) and in what manner the same is to
be performed I declare that what I claim is,
The improved arrangements and combination of the spring a with the parts b. c.
d. and e in the construction of caricature mechanical toys substantially in the
manner and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated thin 9th do of T..1 1001