Apparatus for Amusement and Use in Instruction of Campanology.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 12th May, 1892-Accepted, 18th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Amusement and Use in Instruction of Campanology.
I WALTER EDWARD BENNETT of Condover, Shrewsbury in the County of
Shropshire Gardener do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide apparatus by means of which
instruction in the art or science of campanology may be imparted under the guise
of a game of amusement, or by means of which practice in the changing per-
mutations of change ringing may be had by indulgence in a game of skill dependant
upon the mental consideration of such permutations.
The apparatus consists of a board or sheet having its surface divided by lines
into a number of squares arranged in one or more columns of rows of squares, six
squares in each row. There are preferably one hundred and twenty rows or seven
hundred and twenty squares arranged in four columns for convenience in shaping
the board. The squares and the rows may be numbered. The apparatus comprises
also six sets of counters, each set preferably of a different colour or otherwise
distinguished one from the other. Each set should contain one hundred and twenty
counters. The game is played by any number of players preferably however from
one to six and the intention is to cover the board with the counters so that no two
counters of the same set shall appear on the same line of six squares and no line
shall in the relative arrangement of counters be the same as any other line.
going over the board in this manner six times the seven hundred and twenty
permutations obtained on six bells may be illustrated.
By
By increasing the number of squares in each row from six to eight or more
illustration may be given of permutations obtainable on eight or more bells.
By moving the counters as in draughts it will be necessary to use only a number
of counters equal to the number of squares in each row-that is to say six or eight
or more.
Dated this 19th day of August 1891
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Amusement and Use in Instruction of Campanology.
I WALTER EDWARD BENNETT of Condover, Shrewsbury in the County of
Shropshire Gardener, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide apparatus by means of which instruction
in the art or science of campanology or bell ringing may be imparted under the guise
of a game of amusement, or by means of which practice in the changing per-
mutations of change ringing may be had by indulgence in a game of skill dependant
upon the mental consideration of such permutations.
The apparatus consists of a board or sheet A. having its surface divided by lines
into a number of squares a a etc. arranged in one or more columns of rows of
squares, six squares in each row. There are prelerably one hundred and twenty
rows or seven hundred and twenty squares arranged in four columns for convenience
in shaping the board. The squares and the rows may be numbered. The apparatus
comprises also six sets of counters bb etc. each set preferably of a different colour

page_text: or number or both or otherwise distinguished one from the other. Each set should
contain one hundred and twenty counters. The game is played by any number of
players preferably however from one to six and the intention is to cover the board
with the counters so that no two counters of the same set shall appear on the same
line of six squares, and no line shall in the relative arrangement of counters be the
same as any other line. By going over the board in this manner six times, the
seven hundred and twenty permutations obtained on six bells may be illustrated.
By increasing the number of squares in each row from six to eight or more,
illustration may be given of permutations obtainable on eight or more bells.
By moving the counters as in "draughts" namely from any square diagonally
to another square on a lower line it will be necessary to use only a number of
counters equal to the number of squares in each row, that is to say, six or eight
or more.
The drawing shows a plan of the board with two rows of pieces thereon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what I
claim is.
Apparatus for instruction in campanology by means of a game or games of
skill cousisting in the board A having thereon columns of squares arranged in
rows, preferable six to a row and an equal number of sets of distinguishable
counters or of distinguishable sets of counters therefor substantially as herein
described.
Dated this 12th day of May 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.