Improved Apparatus for Giving Prizes for Accurate Throwing.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1891 "
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Giving Prizes for Accurate Throwing.
We, JOSEPH BUCHANAN, of 35, Prince of Wales's Crescent, Engineer, and
ADRIAN DAMARIS, of 6, Lady Somerset Road, Widow, both in Kentish Town,
in the County of London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to improved apparatus which is designed to serve as a mark
or target for throwing or shying and which when struck at a certain part is designed
to deliver a cocoa-nut or other article.
According to our invention we provide a rotating shaft having upon it two or
more radial arms the ends of which are provided with balls or heads. This shaft
with its arms and heads is arranged behind a screen in such a manner that only one
arm and head is visible at a time. When the visible head is struck by a ball or
other object thrown at it motion is imparted to the heads which motion is utilized
for delivering a cocoa-nut or other article as a prize.
In practice we advantageously arrange that the head or one of the heads behind
the screen shall act to throw out the prize through the screen. We prefer to make
the screen in the form of a door or doors which will be opened automatically for the
discharge of the prize therethrough and then again closed.
The said screen is also preferably mounted with springs behind it to form a
cushion so that it will yield when struck by a ball.
Means are sometimes provided for delivering the prizes automatically to the point
from which they are discharged.
Dated the 19th day of May 1890.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus for Giving Prizes for Accurate Throwing.
We, JOSEPH BUCHANAN, of 20, Ferdinand Street, Engineer, and ADRIAN
DAMARIS, of 6, Lady Somerset Road, Widow, both in Kentish Town, in the
County of London, 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 :-
Our invention relates to improved apparatus which is designed to serve as a mark
or target for throwing or shying at and which, when struck at a certain part, is
designed to deliver a cocoa-nut or other article.
According to our invention we provide a rotating shaft having upon it radial
arms, one of which is arranged behind a screen whilst another is visible at all times
and carries a target. The motion imparted to the arms when the target is struck
by a ball is utilized for delivering a cocoa-nut or other article as a prize.
We
We prefer to make the screen in the form of a door or doors which will be
opened automatically for the discharge of the prize therethrough and then again
closed.
The said screen is also preferably mounted with springs behind it to form a cushion
so that it will yield when struck by a ball.

page_text: Means are sometimes provided for delivering the prizes automatically to the
point from which they are discharged.
To enable our invention to be fully understood we will describe the same with
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of apparatus constructed according to our
invention :
Figure 2 is a front view, the top and front end being removed in order to expose
the internal mechanism:
Figure 3 is a plan partly in section, with the top removed:
Figure 4 is a view of a detail illustrating the operation of the apparatus.
a is the case of the apparatus, the front end of which forms a screen a¹, provided
with doors b, b adapted to open for the discharge of the prize and to close under
the action of springs c, c. The screen a¹ is mounted on pins a² provided with
springs a³ which form a cushion for the screen when struck by a ball.
d, e are the radial arms which, as shewn, are formed integral with each other
and mounted upon a pivot in such a manner that the arm d (which carries at its
free end the target g) projects above the top of the apparatus whilst the arm e
extends into a cup or hollow h immediately behind the screen doors b, b so that,
when the target a is struck by a suitable missile, the said arms will be moved to
the position indicated by the dotted lines in Figure 1, and cause the discharge of,
say, a cocoa-nut resting in the hollow h, in front of the arm e, through the doors b, b
which will give way and open for the purpose, as indicated by the dotted lines in
Figure 3.
In order that after one cocoa-nut has been discharged through the doors b, b
another shall take its place ready for discharge we advantageously provide the
following mechanism, that is to say, within the case a we arrange a tube i into
which the cocoa-nuts are placed and down which they will move by gravity. At
the discharge end of this tube i is an escapement having two arms j, j', the said
escapement being mounted upon an axis k to which is also secured an arm designed
to be operated by a pin m upon the arm e in such a manner that, when the arm d is
moved, say, from the position indicated by full lines in Figure 1 to that indicated
by dotted lines, the arm e and the escapement will take the position also indicated
in dotted lines in the said figure.
It will be noticed that one arm of the escapement is bent while the other is straight.
The object of this arrangement is that, when the parts of the apparatus are in
their normal positions and a cocoa-nut is in the hollow h, the cocoa-nut in the tube i
next to be discharged is resting against the said bent arm ; when, however, the
target is struck and the escapement moved to the position indicated in dotted lines
in Figure 1, the lowermost cocoa-nut in the tube i is free to pass under the end of
the bent armj, after which it will strike the arm j. Before the said cocoa-nut can
escape past the said arm j' the radial arms and also the escapement will have moved
so far back that the bent end j will prevent the escape of the next cocoa-nut, as
shewn most clearly in Figure 4. n is a spring which serves to return the arms d, e
to their normal positions, and o is a spring which serves to retain the arm / in contact
with the pin m.
P is a bell-crank lever, one arm of which projects above the casing a in
front of the target arm d but is at a lower level than the target, whilst the
other arm of the said bell-crank lever is connected to a lever pivoted in the
casing.
r is an india-rubber ball or the like connected to a horns and designed to be
struck by the free end of the lever g to cause the horn to sound.
It will be understood that the projecting arm of the bell-crank lever p serves to
prevent the missile from operating the apparatus by striking the portion of the
arm d below the target, the said arm p receiving the blow instead which will cause
the free end of the lever q to impinge against the india-rubber ball and sound the
horns, thus announcing that the arm p has been struck.

page_text: 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 new kind of apparatus hereinbefore described for giving prizes for
accurate throwing, the said apparatus comprising a target adapted to be moved
by the impingement of a missile against it, the motion of the said target being
utilized for operating apparatus for delivering a prize, substantially as described.
2. In apparatus of the kind hereinbefore described the combination of a target
mounted upon a vertical arm and an arm adapted to operate simultaneously with
the target so as to deliver a cocoa-nut or other prize when the target is struck,
substantially as set forth.
3. The combination with apparatus of the kind referred to in the preceding
claiming clause, of means for allowing the cocoa-nuts or the like to be delivered to
the point from which they are discharged, substantially as set forth.
4. In apparatus of the kind hereinbefore described provided with a target
mounted upon an arm or lever, the employment of an arm or lever arranged in
front of the first mentioned arm or lever and serving to prevent a missile from
striking the same, the second arm or lever being capable of movement substantially
as set forth.
5. The manufacture and use of the improved apparatus for giving prizes for
accurate throwing substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated the 19th day of February 1801
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.