Improvements in Children's Balls, whereby they are rendered applicable for Educational Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Balls, whereby they are rendered
applicable for Educational Purposes.
I, FREDERICK YOUNGMAN, of 11 Manchester Road, Bradford, in the County of
Yorkshire, Hosier, do hereby declare the natnre of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in children's balls whereby they are
rendered applicable for educational purposes; its object being to construct children's
balls in such a manner that they may be readily mounted free to revolve in a
suitable frame or stand to serve the purpose of globes for teaching geography and
astronomy. For this purpose of course the balls must bear representations of the
earth's surface printed, embossed, or otherwise marked upon their surface.
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According to this invention I form the balls with a recess or detent or slight
projection at two diametrically opposite points. Care is taken in marking the map
upon the surface of the ball that these points coincide with the earth's poles.
The frame or stand is so constructed that the ball takes a bearing at the two
points referred to, and can be freely rotated thereon. Thus, in the case of the
balls having depressions the stand will be made with points or projections to enter
these depressions, and in the case of the balls having projections at the poles, the
stand will have eyes or recesses to receive the said projections.
Dated this 9th day of January 1893.
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Children's Balls, whereby they are.rendered
applicable for Educational Purposes.
I, FREDERICK YOUNGMAN, of 11 Manchester Road, Bradford in the County of
Yorkshire, Hosier, 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 improvements in children's balls whereby they are
rendered applicable for educational purposes; its object being to construct children's
balls in such a manner that they may be readily mounted free to revolve in a
suitable frame or stand to serve the purpose of globes for teaching geography and
astronomy. For this purpose of course the balls must bear representations of the
earth's surface or the celestial bodies printed, embossed, or otherwise marked upon
their surfaces.
According to this invention I form the balls with a recess or detent or slight
projection at two diametrically opposite points. Care is taken in marking the map
upon the surface of the ball that these points coincide with the earth's poles.
The frame or stand is so constructed that the ball takes a bearing at the two
points referred to, and can be freely rotated thereon. Thus, in the case of the
balls having depressions the stand will be made with points or projections to enter
these depressions, and in the case of the balls having projections at the poles, the
stand will have eyes or recesses to receive the said projections.
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And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into

page_text: practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accom-
panying drawing, which is a perspective view of a ball and frame constructed
according to this invention.
The ball a which may be made of celluloid india rubber or any other suitable
substance has printed, embossed, or otherwise marked upon its surface a repre-
sentation of the earth's surface, or the celestial bodies and at two diametrically
opposite points recesses, detents, or slight projections are formed thereon. The
frame in which the ball a is mounted when used for teaching geography or
astronomy consists of a base c from which projects two uprights d shaped as shown
at their upper ends and having sliding on their lower parts a clamping pieee e.
To secure the ball in this frame it is placed so that the recesses, detents, or
projections thereon are opposite the ends d' of the uprights which ends are shaped
to fit into or on to the said recesses, detents, or projections, the clamping piece e is
then forced downwards, so forcing the free ends of the uprights d together
sufficiently to allow them to loosely hold the ball a between them.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) Children's play balls having printed, embossed, or otherwise marked on their
surfaces representations of the earth's surface, or the celestial bodies, substantially
as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
(2) Children's play balls having two recesses detents, or projections at
diametrically opposite points, substantially as and for the purposes described and
ascertained in the accompanying drawing.
(3) The frame for supporting children's play balls, substantially as and for the
purpose described and ascertained in the accompanying drawing.
(4) The combination of children's play balls and frames for supporting them,
substantially as described and ascertained in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 5th day of October 1902
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, Loudon, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.