Patent Model - Improvement in Toy-Hoops
Maker and role
Albert Hill (b.1828, d.1911), Patentee
Production date
Sep 12 1871
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Hickory (visual), tin, brass, steel
Measurements
384 3/16" (975.8cm)
15 1/8" (38.4cm)
15 1/8" (38.4cm)
Description
Hill's invention "relates to an improvement in trundling-hoops for children, the object being to combine with the hoop a device which, when the hoop is trundled, will produce a jingling sound; and it consists in the arrangement of two or more radial cords or rods, upon which are arranged metallic disks to slide freely on the said rods to and from the center by their own gravity as the hoop rotates." (Patent Number 118,855)
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Object number
2015.14.1356a-c
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