Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
I CHARLES MIDFORTH BEAUMONT of 152 Park Avenue Hull Solicitor do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to toy soldiers and has for its object to enable missiles to be
discharged from such toys in such a manner as to strike and overthrow other toy
soldiers so that mimic battle may be represented in a realistic manner so as to
afford amusement to children. and others and that this may be accomplished at
small expense and more particularly as follows:-
Whereas a method has been published for effecting similar objects to the above
consisting of the figure of a soldier in a shooting or charging attitude armed with
a gun the barrel of which consists of a straight tube of uniform section open and
accessible at both ends and not in aligument with any part of the figure with which
figure so armed is used a dart consisting of a straight rod of circular section and
uniform diameter so proportioned to the size of the said tube that it can be
propelled through and discharged from the said tube by a fillip of the finger of
the person operating the toy. And my present invention is designed to improve
the above method by affording an easier method of discharging the dart from the
gun and by enabling it to be discharged with sufficient force to overthrow toy
soldiers of larger size and greater weight than can be overthrown by the above
method.
My invention consists in the addition to the figure of a soldier with tube and
dart as above described of a spring consisting of a piece of spring steel, such for
example as that of which clock springs are made, and either straight or slightly
curved or bent as the exigencies of its position may require, one end of which is
firmly fixed and attached either to the base of the figure or to some portion of the
figure in such a manner that the other end of the said spring is left free and when
at rest is opposite to the rearward end of the said tube and in alignment with it
and when the said spring is made to vibrate its vibrations are to and fro in the
direction of the length of the said tube and so that when the spring is at rest its
free end is at such a distance from the rearward end of the said tube that it shall
have room to vibrate freely but so that the said dart may be placed so as to rest in
the said tube but projecting from the rearward end of the said tube so that the
projecting end of the said dart will touch the free end of the said spring, and so
that when the free end of the said spring is pulled away from the said tube and then
set free, the figure being held firmly in an upright position by the operator, the free
end of the said spring will strike the said dart in the direction of its length and
propel it through and beyond the said tube with greater or less force according to
the strength of the said spring.
The accompanying drawing represents the toy as described, the tube being
therein marked B, the dart represented as resting in the tube ready to be
discharged, is marked C, and the spring represented as being bent by the operator
for the purpose of discharging the missile as above described is marked D.
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page_text: I CHARLES MIDFORTH BEAUMONT of 152 Park Avenue Hull Solicitor do
bereby 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 :-
My invention relates to, toy soldiers and has for its object to enable missiles to be
discharged from such toys in such a manner as to strike and overthrow other, toy
soldiers so that mimic battle may be represented in a realistic manner so as to
afford amusement to children and others and that this may be accomplished at
small expense and more particularly as follows:-
Whereas a method has been published for effecting similar objects to the above,
consisting of the figure of a soldier in a shooting or charging attitude armed with
a gun the barrel of which consists of a straight tube of uniform section open and
accessible at both ends and not in alignment with any part of the figure, with
which figure so armed is used a dart consisting of a straight rod of circular section
and uniform diameter so proportioned to the size of the said tube that it can be
propelled through and discharged from the said tube by a fillip of the finger of
the person operating the toy. And my present invention is designed to improve the
above method by affording an easier method of discharging the dart from the
gun and by enabling it to be 'discharged with sufficient force to overthrow toy
soldiers of larger size and greater-weight-than can be overthrown by the above
method.
My invention consists in tlie addition to the figure of a soldier with tube and
dart as above described, and as-more particularly described in the Complete
Specification of Patent Number 6192 of the year 1893, of a spring which may
consist of a piece of spring steel, such for example as that of which clock springs
are made, and either straight or slightly curved or bent as the exigencies of its
position may require, one end of which is firmly fixed and attached either to the
base of the figure or to some portion of the figure by being soldered or rivetted to,
or let into the figure or its base, or in some other suitable manner, in such a
inanner that the other end of the said spring is left free and when at rest is opposite
to the rearward end of the said tube and in alignment with it, and when the said
spring is made to vibrate its vibrations are to and fro in the direction of the length
of the said tube, and so that when the said spring is at rest its free end is at such a
listance from the rearward end of the said tube that it shall have room to vibrate
freely but so that the said dart may be placed so as to rest in the said tube but
projecting from the rearward end of the said tube so that the projecting end of the
said dart will touch the free end of the said spring whilst the said spring is at
rest, and so that when the free end of the said spring is pulled away from the
said tube and then set free the figure being held firmly in an upright position
by the operator the free end of the said spring will strike the said dart in the
direction of its length and propel it through and beyond the said tube with greater
or less force according to the strength of the said spring.
I
The accompanying drawing represents the toy as described the tube being
therein marked B the dart, represented as resting in the tube ready to be discharged,
is marked C and the spring, represented as being bent by the operator for the
purpose of discharging the missile, as above described is marked D.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The combination wich tamallin Cinting of the fruire of soldier armed

page_text: with a straight tube open and accessible at both ends and furnished with, a
projectile consisting of a straight rod adapted to slide easily through the said tube)
of a spring having one end firmly attached and fixed to the said figure or its base
and the other end free and so adjusted that its vibration may be utilised to
propel the said rod through the said tube as above described.
Dated this 20th day of February 1895.
CHAS. M. BEAUMONT.