Mechanical Toy Boats.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1893-Accepted, 12th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Mechanical Toy Boats.
I, CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOCK of 66 St. Ann's Hill Wandsworth Surrey
Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I fix the figure of a man to a seat in the boat by a hinge or pivot joint so that
the figure can oscillate too and fro as the body does in the act of rowing. I fix
5 the arms of the figure to its shoulders by a hinge or pivot joint and to the hand or
hands I joint an oar or pair of oars which rest in rowlocks on the side or sides of
the boat. To produce the requisite motion of the figure and oars I connect the
arms of the figure by a lever, arm or rod to a crank which crank by its revolutions
causes the hands of the figure to describe an oval or some such figure. I cause the
rotation of the crank by any suitable mechanism as for instance clock-work, the
momentum of a heavy wheel, the elasticity of a piece of india rubber or a spiral
spring. I do not confine myself to a single figure in the boat.
Dated this 27th day of September 1892.
C. S. POCOCK.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Mechanical Toy Boats.
I, CAROLINE SPILSBURY POCOCK of 66 St. Ann's Hill Wandsworth Surrey
Gentlewoman, 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 a mechanical toy boat in which by suitable mechanism
a toy figure is caused to propel the boat by working the oars & in order that my
invention may be particularly described and ascertained drawings marked Figs. 1
& 2 are appended and referred to.
I fix the figure of a man A to a seat in the boat by a hinge or pivot joint B so
that the figure can oscillate to & fro as the body does in the act of rowing. I fix
the arms of the figure to its shoulders by a pivot joint D and to the hand or hands
I joint an oar or oars E, E' which rest in rowlocks on the side or sides of the boat.
To produce the requisite motion of the figure and oars I connect the arms of the
figure by a lever arm or rod F to a crank H, which crank by its revolution causes
the hands of the figure to desribe an oval or some such figure as indicated by the
dotted lines K. K. I cause the revolution of the crank by any suitable mechanism
as for instance that shown in the drawings where J is a piece of string attached at
one end to the crank spindle S and at the other end to the boat at M, L being a
pulley on the string and attached to the boat at N by the india rubber or spiral
spring P. The spindle having a crank handle T for winding it. Clockwork may
be adapted in place of the mechanism shown or a revolving heavy wheel or a spiral
spring around the crank spindle. I do not confine myself to a single figure in the
boat as two or more may be employed.
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. In mechanical toy boats the combination of the oscillating figure A with the

page_text: crank H and the rod F whereby the hands of the figure are caused to describe an
oval or similar figure.
2. The improvements in mechanical toy boats substantially as herein before
described and shown.
Deted this 26th dev of June 1802
CAROLINE S. POCOCK.