An Improved Toy.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1894-Accepted, 27th Oct., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Toy.
I WILLIAM GERALD BEVERLEY SWEET of 181 Queen Victoria Street in
the City of London, Merchant, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved toy that will produce a sound when turned
quickly round or otherwise passed quickly through the air.
According to this invention I stretch across a substance so as to bend this latter
in the form of a curve or otherwise, a piece of elastic so that when this latter is
passed quickly through the air a sound or combination of sounds will be produced.
One sort of toy that may be produced by this invention is a bee that will hum
when turned quickly round.
This I effect by cutting the outline of a bee in card or other material, and
stretching across it tightly an elastic band so that the former shall be bent in the
form of a curve, the humming being produced by the air passing between the
material of which the bee is formed and the elastic stretched across it. Various
sounds may be produced by having the material bent more or less, the sound being
dependent upon the distance between the elastic and the substance of which the
toy is made.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will now describe
the same with reference to the accompanying drawing which shews my invention
applied to a toy bee.
Fig. 1. shews elevation of the toy. Fig. 2. shews a plan of same.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the views.
a shews the toy in the form of a bee made of card-board or other suitable
material, b shews an elastic band stretched round the bottom portion of the toy,
c shews a piece of string fastened to the said toy.
Instead of having a piece of card-board or other springy material I may have a
rigid material in which case the band would be of such size as to stretch tightly
across same, or a strip of elastic might be fastened by each end so as to stretch
tightly across in the same manner, or even this latter way of fastening may be
employed when a springy material is used. I have shewn this way of fastening
at Fig. 3. The humming or other sound is produced by taking hold of the string
and swinging the toy round.
The quality of the sound depends upon the distance between x and y Fig. 2. or
the sound may be slightly varied by holding the string so that it is either longer or
shorter.
Although I have shewn a toy representing a bee by way of example of course I
may have any other description of toy constructed according to this invention and
having the same object in view..
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 :-
1. A toy having a piece of elastic stretched across same with a space left between

page_text: the substance of which the toy is made and the elastic, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
2. Toys substantially as set forth.
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BROWNE & Co.,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.