An Improved Toy or Puzzle.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1898--Accepted, 5th Nov., 1898
An Improved Toy or Puzzle.
I, FRANCIS HERBERT WILLIAMS, of 64, Stanmore Road, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Oil Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has for its-object an improved toy or puzzle for placing upon a disc
or medal or other circular coin bearing upon its surface the representation of a
bust.
In order that my invention may be more clearly understood and easily carried
into practical effect I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which I
have illustrated examples of my toy or puzzle.
Figure 1 shews the metal blank from which I form my toy or puzzle.
Figure 2 is a sectional view of Figure 1 shewing the flange or turned over edge.
Figure 3 shews the toy or puzzle stamped and pierced complete.
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Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 3 shewing the toy or puzzle fitted upon a
disc shewing a fair representation of Mr. Gladstone's head in an upright position.
Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 4 shewing a further fair representation of
Mr. Bradlaugh's head.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the blank or disc A by stamping
or pressing out of sheet brass or other suitable metal or material with the flange a¹
raised around the outside edge as clearly shewn at Figure 2 to form a recess.
I then form another disc, coin or.medal & upon the face of this disc or coin I raise
or stamp an impression of a head or bust. This latter disc or coin fits into the
flange al of the disc A, which disc A is formed with the holes or openings a² & a³,
the hole a being so cut or shaped that when the back portion of the bust or head
on the inner disc or coin is placed so as to come opposite the hole or opening a² a
fair representation of Mr. Gladstone's face is shewn as seen at Figure 4. The
other hole a is cut or shaped so that when the lower portion of the bust or head on
the inner coin is exposed a fair representation of Mr. Bradlaugh's face is shewn as
seen at Figure 5. The ears hair and other portions to complete the head in both
cases are produced by stamping or raising such impressions upon the centre portion
of the disc or frame A as clearly shewn at Figure 3. When forming my toy or
puzzle from other material than metal, the ears, hair and other portions which
complete the head in both cases may be printed upon the centre portion of the
disc or frame or they may be stamped or raised and in some cases I may print
these portions when using a metal disc or frame. The disc bearing the bust may
be made of metal or other material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:

page_text: such as a and a pierced or cut therein and operated in combination with a disc
of metal or other material having upon it the representation of a bust substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein set forth and shewn.
1000
FRANCIS HERBERT WILLIAMS.
By George Barker, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents,
Agent for Applicant, 77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.