An Automatic Toy and Game.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Toy and Game.
I, FREDERICK REDMAN 27 Martins Lane Cannon Street London E.C. Cabinet
Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention consists in the construction of a toy, so as when a ball or coin is
thrown in a slot or hole therein a lever or catch is operated by the said ball or coin,
and an article is automatically delivered and the same is carried out in the following
manner: I provide a suitable casing, which may be made if desired to represent any
animal, which contains the mechanism and the article to be delivered. I provide a lever
or catch which is pivotted in the centre, to the casing. This lever or catch is for the
purpose of retaining the article to be delivered in position on a sloping platform
forming part of the bottom of the said casing. This platform is sloped so as (when the
ball or other article enters the slot or hole and falling on the end of the lever or catch
holding the article on the platform and releases the said article) the article will run
down the said sloping platform and deliver itself.
I will suppose for example that a toy carriage is being held in position on the
sloping platform inside a suitable casing by the said lever or catch and the object is to
throw in a ball or coin, or marble or other suitable article, from a fixed distance,
down the slot or hole in the said casing, the said hole or slot communicating, to the
lever retaining the said carriage.
The first person who is successful in depositing the ball or coin in the slot or hole
and thus delivering the carriage or other article would be entitled to same. This
invention is equally applicable for the automatic delivery of coco-nuts and the like.
Dated this 21st day of November 1889.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Automatic Toy and Game.
I, FREDERICK REDMAN now of 37 Barbican in the City of London Cabinet Maker,
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 :-
This invention consists of an automatic toy and game so constructed that when a
ball, coin or other object is thrown into a hole or aperture in the toy it acts upon a
lever and thereby moves a catch. This movement of the catch frees an article
previously held by it and the said article then runs down an incline or sloping
platform and delivers itself through an outlet provided for the purpose. The toy can
be constructed to hold and deliver cocoa-nuts, oranges, balls and the like in which
case it will preferably be arranged to contain a number of them, or it can be
constructed to hold and deliver a wheeled article, such for example as a toy carriage.
The construction and action of my automatic toy and game will be understood on
reference to the annexed drawings which show its adaptation to cocoa-nuts, oranges
or the like. Figure 1 is a vertical section and Figure 2 a plan of the holding and
releasing device.
a is a casing which can if desired be made to represent a human figure or any
animal. 6 is the hole or aperture for the ball or other object thrown and c the outlet
for the cocoa-nut or other article to be gained. d is an outlet for the ball or object
thrown into the hole b. e is a fixed incline or sloping platform upon which the first
cocoa-nut rests. This nut is normally retained on the platform e by a catch f

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forming the front end of a lever g. The lever is pivoted at hand has at the rear end
a part upon which the ball i falls after entering the hole band passing down the
shoot k. It will readily be understood that when the ball i thus falls it depresses the
rear end of the lever g and lifts the front end of same so that the catch f (see
the dotted lines in Figure 1) rises clear of the nut a and this at once runs down the
platform e and delivers itself through the outlet c. The ball i escapes by the outlet d.
The toy or apparatus shown is capable of holding a number of cocoa-nuts or other
like articles; they are superposed in a receptacle to which access for introducing the
nuts to the lower portion is gained through a door m while the upper part is filled
through the open top. In order that only one nut may pass at a ti
platform e there is a fixed stop or barrier n to retain the bottom nut y and hen the
lever is acted upon so as to free the nut a already on the platform a finger or piece p
attached to the lever pushes up the bottom nut y clear of the stop and this nut then
moves forward of itself assisted by the pressure of the nuts above. q is a check-plate
attached to the lever g to prevent the bottom nut y reaching the platform e before the
catch has returned to position to catch it; the check-plate y also assists in preventing
two nuts passing at the same time on to the platform e..
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When the toy is intended to hold and release such an article as a toy carriage,
the platforme should be somewhat longer and less inclined. The lever with its
catch can be arranged as shown in the figures except that the finger p and check-
plate 9 are dispensed with.
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
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An automatic toy and game constructed and acting substantially as hereinbefore_
ЕМИСН
Dated this 29th day of July 1890.
J. C. MEWBURN,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, I tent Agent.