An Improved Apparatus for Use as a Means for Public Amusement or Exhibition.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 13th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Use as a Means for Public Amusement
or Exhibition.
I, REGINALD HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co. of
18 Buckingham Street Strand W.C., London Patent Agent do hereby declare
the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Charles
Georges Nielsen of Paris in the Republic of France, Clerk, to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide improved apparatus for use as a
means for public amusement or exhibition in a manner somewhat similarly to a
roundabout.
In place however of making the figures of horses, boats, cars, animals or the like
to revolve round an axis as in a roundabout, this invention consists in mounting
them rigidly or movably upon trucks or carriages to be drawn along a track
composed of rails laid to follow any suitable curves or otherwise. Movements of
galloping, rocking or the like may be communicated to the figures by gear from the
rotary axles or wheels of such carriages.
By arranging two of such tracks in proximity to each other, or one such track
suitably curved, this apparatus may also be used for purposes of tournaments,
joists or the like, or by addition of the usual apparatus for the following exercises
it may be used for "tent pegging," "heads and posts,"
," "lemon cutting" and other
similar diversions.
Dated this 19th day of July 1895
An Improved Apparatus for Use as a Means for Public Amusement
or Exhibition.
I REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co. of
18 Buckingham Street Strand W.C., London Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Charles
Georges Nielsen of Paris in the Republic of France, and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to apparatus similar in its nature to a roundabout or
roundabouts but differing therefrom in the fact that the wooden horses, animals,
cars, boats or other devices on or in which persons are to seat or place themselves,
do not move in a circle about a stationary axis, but are enabled to move along a
track or tracks of variable form or dimensions in order that illusion may be given
not merely of motion but of natural direction.
By arranging the track in such a way that some of the riders pass in the same
or in opposite directions parallel to other riders the apparatus may be used to
produce the illusion of a tournament, or of jousting; and by arranging adjacent of
the track suitable devices such as "turks heads rings, tent pegs, and the like the
riders in passing may amuse themselves with exercises of this nature.

page_text: In the annexed drawings
Fig. 1 is a side elevation showing the apparatus.
Fig. 2 is a cross section on line 2-2 Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a diagram showing a form of track;
Fig. 4 is a diagram showing an alternative form of track.
B is an endless trench on the bottom of which are secured the rails C. C.
a aa are the flat platforms of cars, each of which runs on four wheels A which
are flanged to engage the rails C, C. The trench is of such depth that the
platforms a, a, a, are level with the surface D of the surrounding ground. The
cars a, a, a are coupled together and drawn by a motor car a' similar in all respects
to the other cars except that it carries a motor F geared by bolt or chain with
one of the axles of the car. The housing of the motor is made to represent an
elephant E or other device. On the cars a, a, a are mounted horses G or other
devices.
The track is so made that part of it runs parallel to another part of it or to a
part of an adjacent track, the track or tracks being endless. In Fig. 3 CC are
two endless tracks each having straight parts between 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and curved
parts between 2 and 3, 4 and 1. Branch tracks connect the points 1 and 3, 2 and 4
whereby trains circulating round the track in either direction may reverse the
direction of their travel. Trains passing in opposite directions along the Section 3
may carry persons engaged in a sham fight or joust. In Fig. 4 one track only C
is used, this being also endless and having parallel straight parts between 13-14
and 5-6, curves at 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and 16 and crossing places
at 3 and 8.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An endless trench B having straight lengths connected by curved lengths,
rails C, C along said trench, and cars having platforms a level with the top of said
trench and carrying devices forming seating accommodation in combination for the
purpose set forth.
2. The combination with two endless trenches B having straight lengths
connected by curved lengths, a straight length of the one being parallel to a
straight length of the other, and two trains composed each of a series of cars and
a motor car having platforms a, a, a level with the top of the trenches, one train in
each trench, and devices forming seating accommodation on said platform for the
purpose set forth.
Dated this 17th day of Anril 1896