Improvements in Toys.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th May, 1890-Accepted, 28th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toys.
I, GEORGE CLOW GOODING, of 2 Ravenscroft Park, High Barnet, in the County of
Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in a toy parachute in imitation of the
descents of Professor Baldwin and consists in the application to a toy parachute and
figure of means to enable it to be used as a messenger on the string of a kite and
from which it may be detached at will by the kite flyer at any elevation.
To carry my invention into effect, the parachute is constructed of any light textile
material or paper with a figure acting as a weight attached by threads or strings to
the various corners of the material of the parachute.
When ascending in the air, the material of the parachute lies vertically in suitable
folds weighted down by the figure or weight attached by threads to the corners of the
textile or paper material.
When falling, the air enters the body of the parachute material and expands
the same, but the extremities of the material are kept distended by the tension of
the threads suspending the figure or weight below.
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The essential novelty of my invention is, however, the attachment of the top
or centre of the textile or paper material of the parachute to a hook vertically above
the same.
"
This hook, which is fairly deep, enables the parachute to be suspended upon a kite
string when the kite is flying, and the action of the wind and the vibration of the
string causes the parachute to gradually ascend to the kite as a messenger."
At any point in its ascent or when it reaches the kite, as the attachment is
only a deep hook open at the bottom the parachute may be detached by a jerk of the
hand upon the kite string.
The parachute thus may be made to descend from a great height and forms an
excellent amusement.
P
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toys.
I GEORGE CLOW GOODING of 2 Ravenscroft Park, High Barnet, in the County of
Middlesex Engineer 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 a toy parachute in imitation of the
descents of Professor Baldwin and consists in the application to a toy parachute and
figure, of means to enable it to be used as a < messenger on the string of a kite
and from which it may be detached at will by the person flying the kite.
In carrying my invention into effect the parachute is constructed of any light
textile material or paper with a figure acting as a weight attached by threads or
strings to the various corners of the material of the parachute.
When ascending in the air the material of the parachute lies vertically in suitable
folds weighted down by the figure or weight attached by threads to the corners of
the textile or paper material.

page_text: When falling, the air enters the body of the parachute material and expands the
same, but the extremities of the material are kept distended by the tension of the
threads suspending the figure or weight below.
The essential feature of novelty of my invention is the attachment of the top or
centre of the textile or paper material of the parachute to a hook vertically above the
same.
This hook which is fairly deep enables the parachute to be suspended upon a kite
string when the kite is flying and the action of the wind and the vibration of the
string causes the parachute to gradually ascend to the kite as a messenger."
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At any point in its ascent or when it reaches the kite, as the attachment is only a
deep hook open at the bottom, the parachute may be detached by a jerk of the hand
upon the kite string.
The parachute thus may be made to descend from a great height and forms an
excellent amusement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The employment and use of a hook in combination with a toy parachute for the
purpose of booking or suspending such parachute onto a kite string when the kite is
fying the said hook being constructed and attached to the parachute in such a
manner as to allow the said hook and parachute to which it is attached to travel up
the kite string freely, and so that by a jerk of the kite string the said hook becomes
detached therefrom at any altitude and thus the toy parachute descends to earth in
imitation of the descent of Professor Baldwin and other performers known as
"parachutists," substantially as, and in the manner hereinbefore described.
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