Improvements in Toys, Shades, and Advertising Devices, and in Methods of Actuating or Exhibiting the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1890-Accepted, 28th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toys, Shades, and Advertising Devices, and in
Methods of Actuating or Exhibiting the same.
We, EDWIN BURBAGE PHILLIPS, 20, South Parade, Grantham, Lincolnshire,
and HENRY COURTEEN, Dean Cottage, Great Ponton, Lincolnshire, Engineers,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In our invention we utilize the hot air ascending from a gas jet or jets, the flame
or flames of a lamp, or from any other light or lights, for the purpose of imparting
motion to any suitable toy, shade, or advertising device. We effect this by
mounting in or on a suitable frame or support, carried by preference on a lamp
glass, or gas globe, above the flame and at a suitable distance from it a revolving
propeller provided with the necessary conical or other coil or worm and blades or
wings to cause it to be set in motion by an ascending current of air, and by con-
necting this propeller either by direct union or by gearing or by any suitable
mechanical or other arrangement to the object which it is desired to set in motion,.
in such a manner as to produce from the rotary motion of the propeller the
movement required in the toy, shade, or advertising device. Amongst other objects
to which we thus impart motion we may name: dancing or jumping dolls suspended
above the propeller and taking their motion from its projecting blades or other
projections or attached to the frame in other ways permitting of their receiving
motion from the propeller; merry-go-rounds, circular switch-backs, bicycles,
windmills or other toys carried on arms radiating from the propeller, or on other
suitable attachments; revolving lamp shades suspended from a circular or other
frame attached to the propeller; zoetropes or "wheels of life" the moving part
being mounted in a similar frame, and provision being made for replacing the
zoetrope bands so as to permit of a variety of these bands being employed in the
same frame; revolving bands, shades, flags, figures, and other suitable advertising
devices carrying inscriptions, printed matter, or pictures, or without the same,
attached to or mounted in a similar or suitable frame; mechanical toys,
kaleidoscopes, gongs, bells, or advertising devices attached to or mounted in the
frame carrying the propeller, and actuated by the latter by means of bevil gearing
or other suitable mechanical devices; reflectors, transparencies or other apparatus
casting or throwing moving lights, shadows, colors, pictures or advertisements on
ceilings, window blinds or elsewhere, either by movement imparted to the same by
the propeller, or by movement imparted by the latter to intervening or other
suitable devices.
We do not however confine ourselves to the combinations named, but we impart
motion to other suitable toys, shades, or advertising devices by the means indicated.
We by preference secure the frame carrying our apparatus to a lamp glass or gas
globe by means of spring, adjustable, or other clips, and we fix to the frame a handle
or handles to facilitate the removal and replacing of the apparatus.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of March 1890.
EDWIN B. PHILLIPS.
HENRY COURTEEN.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toys, Shades, and Advertising Devices, and in
Methods of Actuating or Exhibiting the same.
We, EDWIN BURBAGE PHILLIPS, of 5, Augurs Terrace, Grantham, Lincoln-
shire, and HENRY COURTEEN, of Bottesford, Leicestershire, Engineers, 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:-
In our invention we utilize the hot air ascending from a gas jet or jets, the flame
or flames of a lamp or any other light or lights for the purpose of imparting motion
to the toys shades or advertising devices hereinafter described. We effect this by
mounting on a suitable frame or support carried by preference on a lamp glass or
gas globe above the flame and at a suitable distance from it a revolving propeller
provided with the necessary wings or conical or other coil to cause it to be set in
motion by an ascending current of air and by connecting the propeller either by
direct union or by any suitable mechanical or other arrangement to the object which
it is desired to set in motion in such a way as to produce from the rotary motion of
the propeller the movement required in the toy, shade, or advertising device. The
objects to which we thus impart motion are zoetrope bands of various kinds alone or
in conjunction with shades and provided when required with mirrors to reflect the
zoetrope pictures or figures. We by preference secure the frame or support
carrying our apparatus, which we designate a zoophotoscope, to a lamp glass or gas
globe by means of spring, adjustable, or other clips, and we fix to it a handle or
handles to facilitate the removal and replacing of the apparatus. The zoetrope
pictures or figures may when desired represent or embody advertisements, or
advertisements may be shown on a shade suspended to the zoetrope band.
We will now proceed to describe our invention more particularly, having reference
to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters refer to corresponding parts
in all the figures.
Figures 1 and 2 represent in vertical section and plan respectively an apparatus
consisting of a propeller A provided with wings A', and connected to the zoetrope
band B in which the slots Care placed between the zoetrope pictures or figures.
The propeller A is united to the band B by means of the radial arms G and rim H
and is balanced so as to revolve freely on the pointed upright D which is carried by
or forms part of the frame or support E. F is the handle. I are clips or fasteners
for securing the band B to the rim H. N is a lamp chimney, M a lamp globe.
The propeller A, radial arms G and rim H are by preference made in one stamping.
O is a shade made by preference of paper or a textile material, attached to the
band B and kept in shape by the wire ring P.
In Figures 3 and 4 representing a vertical section and plan respectively, an
apparatus is shewn in which the zoetrope pictures or figures are reflected by the
revolving mirrors J which are carried by the ring K attached to or in one piece
with the radial arms G.
Figure 5 represents in elevation (outside view) the apparatus shewn in
Figures 1-2 without the shade O.
Figure 6 represents in plan and elevation a frame or support E with 2 adjustable
arms E', D being the pointed upright, F the handle.
In Figure 7 is shewn an apparatus, mounted on a gas globe Q and actuated by a
propeller consisting of a coil A2 balanced on the pointed upright D by the arm R to
which the coil is attached.
In our drawings the zoetrope band is shewn with the slots C between the pictures
or figures, but in bands wider in proportion the slots may if desired be above or
below the pictures or figures. The zoetrope bands B are made when desired
detachable to permit of a variety being employed with the same propeller.
In conclusion we do not claim broadly the use of toys, shades, or advertising
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page_text: devices in connection with a propeller actuated by a current of air ascending from
a lamp or gas jet, as such combinations are already well known.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination of a zoetrope band with a propeller actuated by the current
of air ascending from a gas jet or jets, the flame or flames of a lamp or from any
other light or lights substantially as described and illustrated in our drawings.
2. The combination with the apparatus described in our first claim of a shade
suspended from the zoetrope band and carrying any suitable advertising design,
picture, or other matter, substantially as described and illustrated in our drawings.
Dated this 19th day of December 1890
EDWIN B. PHILLIPS.
H. COURTEEN.