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810 FEDIiRAL BEPOBTEB. �be immovable flxtures, the bed, E, may consist of a flat board or strip, and not be in the form of rockers. It will i>e perceived that .the construotion of the hody, A C, not only produces a œnvenient and safe [The frames, A A, repre- seating horses in profile and then Connecting] seat [form an attractive and simusing riding mechanism, and present] for the cMid, but that the appear- ance is presented of two [animais] horses Which the child can [imaginarily] drive simultaneously, without straddling eitAer, and thus [without danger of] beprotectedfrom falling [out] ojf. Suitable harness may be placed on the horses, and the bridle extend within convenient reach of the child. It is noticeabie that the child can neither fall forward, backward, or sideward, and I thusproduoe an attractive, amusfng, and safe riding medium." �Eeading, in the foregoing, what is outside of brackets and what is in italics, and omitting what ia inside of brackets, we have the text of the original specification. The claims of No. 4,223, seven in namber, are as followB : �" (1) A riding device, consisting of the profile frames, A A, connected to- gether by a seat, se as to allow thefeet of the rider, to extend downwwdly between the said frames, substantially as described, (2) Two profile frames terminatiiig in rockers below, and connected together by a seat and a, foot- board. (3) The combination of a box, D, profite: frames, A A, and a suitable seat, C, substantially as described. (4) The profile frames, A A, s©»t, 0, box, D, bed, B, rockers and wheels combined, and operating, in relation to each other, substantially as described. (5) A hinged toy-box arranged between two profile frames, substantially as described. (6) The. wheels, F* arranged upon the rockers in front aiid rear, in eombination withithe two profile friiipes con- nected together by a seat, substantially as described, , (7) A riding device, produced substantially as described, that is to say, that it can be ccaverted ihto a carriage or rocking-horse, through the medium of rockers and wheels, the latter adapted to be raised or lowered, substantially as described." �The claims of the original patent were fotr in number, as follows : " (1) The f rame. A, connected together by a seat, C, f orming the body of a rid- ing device, and allowing the feet to project through it, when combined and operating substantially as described. (2) The box, D, connected to the frames, A, in eombination with the seat, ,C, substantially as and for the purpose described. ' (3) The wheels, F, or rockers, B, in eombination with body and seat, A C, substantially as and for the purppse described. (4) The frames. A, seat, C, box, D, bed, B, and wheels, G, combined and operating together, substantially as described." �The claims of No. 4,223, which are alleged to have been infringed by the defendants, are claims 1, 2, 3, and 5. The "profile frames" are an element in eaoh one of those four claims. These profile claims are shown, by the text of the specification, to be frames show- ing the profiles of horses an^not profiles of anything else. The drawings of the original patent and of No. 4,223, which are the same, show. pr.Qfllee.pf horses. Under ^he original patent the claims were. ��� �