US324344A

US324344A - Bowling-hoop

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Publication number: US324344A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-08-11
Anticipated expiration: 1902-08-11

Description

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No. 324,344. Patented Aug. 11, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

JAMES H. VENNERS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

BOWLING-HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,344, dated August 11, 1885.

Application filed December 15, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMEs H. VENNERs, of the city and county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bowling-Hoops, of which the .following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the toys known as bowling hoops, which are plain round structures without spokes or arms, and are usually propelled by a hoop stick or handle, held so as to loosely hook or engage with the hoop at a certain elevation relatively to its center, for the purpose of guiding as Well as pushing or propelling it.

My invention consists in a plain or armless bowling-hoop provided with one or more projections inside of its outer surface or perimeter, each, if more than one of such projections, constituting a tripper for operating each time it comes round a bell or other indicating device connected with the handle for the purpose of indicating the speed at which the hoop is run.

The invention also consists in the combination, with such a tripper-hoop, of a handle of the character described, of any desired style or pattern, provided with a speed-indicating device. This indicating device, operated by the tripper or trippers on the hoop, may-either be one distinguishable by soundsuch as a bell or gongor one discernible by sight such as a recording device provided with a dial, or both may be used on the same handle. The invention may either be applied to a bowling-hoop of small size-as, for instance, a mere toy-hoopor to a hoop of larger size, suitable for racing or sporting purposes on a track or course for indicating the speed made in afoot-race; and when the handle is provided with a gong or bell in addition to a speed-recording dial the sound of the gong will enable the spectators to register the speed without inspecting the dial attached to the handle.

This invention essentially differs from bell t-rundlehoops in which the hoop (so called) is a wheel provided with spokes or arms and axle to which the handle in the form of a nonrotating frame is permanently attached, and is provided with a bell and spring-hammer operated by the spokes of the wheel in succession for the purpose of producing a musical (No model.)

vFig. 3 a transverse section of the hoop. Fig.

4 is longitudinal top view of the hoop-handle as provided with a bell or gong indicator.

' A indicates the hoop,which is a plainround one, constructed or provided with a projection .or tripper, b,- or there may be more than one,

if desired, at different points in the length of the circle formed by the hoop. Such tripper is arranged on the inside of the outer surface of the perimeter of the hoopthat is, on its 1 inner surface or on either side of the hoop, but preferably on its inside.

B is the detachable hooked or crooked handle forbowling and guiding the hoop as bowling-hoops are now operated. This handle, however, has a speed-indicator attached to it for operation by the tripper I) each time it comes round. This indicating device is here shown as consisting of a gong or bell, c, and spring-hammer cl, which latter as it is acted upon by the tripper -b sounds the gong once in each revolution of the hoop, or oft-ener if the hoop be provided with two or more trippers at equal distances apart. In this way the speed of the hoop is readily ascertained.

The invention is simple, cheap, and very attractive, and the hoop may be run by either sex with the right or left hand.

Unlike bell trundle toys as heretofore constructed, With an axial support for the wheel and fixedlyattached propelling handle or frame carrying said wheel and arranged to project transversely to the axis for the purpose of pulling or pushing the toy as an ordinary draft-pole is used, my invention does not admit of an axially-supported wheel being used, but the trundling device must have an unin terrupted open space in its center, or, in othe words, be strictly a hoop, in order that the detachable hooked and speed-indicating proscribed by the hoop, for use in connection with a spersd-indicating propelling-handle, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with the bowling-hoop A, having an indicator-tripper, b, on its inner peripheral surface within the uninterru 'itcd open space circumscribed by the hoop, of the detachable hooked or crooked propelling-handle B, provided with a hell, 0, and springhanimerd, essentially as shown and described.

JAMES H. VENNERS.

Witnesses:

H. Dunn, J os. E. REEPLns.