Improvements in Spinning Tops.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spinning Tops.
SAMUEL BARNES of 181 Boarshaw Lane Middleton, Bookseller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
That in place of the ordinary way of spinning a top with string I apply friction
and perform the same in the following manner simply apply a band of rubber or
other suitable material round the place which the string is ordinarily used and in
place of the string I use a wooden stick (or other suitable substance) or bow such
as the bow of a violin and by drawing the stick or bow across the rubber it causes
the top to rotate at a tremendous speed. The top is made in any suitable shape.
The top portion of the spinning top is made in different shapes representing
different figures such as a inan with a silk hat or what is commonly called a bod y
hat or other suitable figures. I also claim to spin the top with an ordinary piece
of wood by having the particular place (where the string is ordinarily used) milled
or roughened or by having a smooth surface on the top and a stick to spin with
having a piece of rubber or other suitable material of a binding or gripping
nature.
Dated this 20th day of A woust 1904
SAMUEL BARNES.
Improvements in Spinning Tops.
SAMUEL BARNES of 181 Boarshaw Lane Middleton in the County of Lancaster,
Bookseller, 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 :-
That in place of the ordinary way of spinning tops with string, I apply friction
and do the same in the following manner as the description and drawings shew.
In the place where the string of the ordinary tops are wound I apply a ring of
"rubber" cloth or any other suitable material of a binding or gripping nature or by
forming a milled or roughened edge on the part where the string is usually
wound.
Figure 1 in the drawings shows the top with a rubber baud "A" round the part
where the string is usually wound.
Figure 2 shews the top with a roughened or milled edge B.
Now having formed a roughened or binding part on the top where the string is
usually wound, my method of spinning is with a wooden stick Figure 4 about
12 to 15 inches long inch to inch in width and from th to inch in thickness.
And by placing the stick on the roughened or binding part of the top as shewn in
Figure 3 and drawing the same quickly across it causes the top to rotate at a
tremendous speed, thereby doing away with the necessity and trouble of winding
the string round the top to spin it with, as the stick is always ready to repeat
the spinning of the top either when it is stopped or whilst it is rotating.

page_text: And to cause the stick which the top is spun with to be usefull and more
amusing I have on one side printed or stamped as a rule or measure and the other
side is set apart for advertisements.
The wooden portion of the top "C" Figures 1 and 2 that is the part which you
hold in the hand and which is fast to the peg or spindle of the top is made in
different shapes or figures, such as a man with a silk hat or a man with a round
felt hat a nigger or any other suitable figure which may be affixed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
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A frictional top formed by a rubber "cloth or a roughened or milled edge
formed so as to allow a wooden stick to grip or bind on the said top and cause it
to rotate and in combination with the rule or measure with advertisements on sticks
used for spinning tops.
Dated this 27th day of October 1891
SAMUEL BARNES.