A Combination Elementary Educational Appliance for the Young.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Aug., 1897
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Combination Elementary Educational Appliance for the Young.
I, ROBERT THOMAS HOGG, trading as Cox and Company, of 99 and 101, New
Oxford Street, London, W.C., Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has for its object, a multum in-parvo' or combination educa-
tional appliance for instructing the young by abacus lessons, word-building,
black board teaching and chromatic color charts.
The said apparatus or appliance consists of a rectangular and partly open
frame divided off into two divisions or portions, one half or portion of the frame
having directed across it, a series of horizontal wires upon which are strung a
series of balls, the same as in an ordinary abacus frame, for teaching the elemen-
tary operations of arithmetic. Facing the abacus frame are a series of horizontal
bars, preferably grooved on their inside edges for receiving tablets, blocks, cards
or the like, bearing letters or figures employed in word building or number
construction.
The one side of the other half portion of the frame is fitted with a fixed or
removable black-board or equivalent writing surface or tablet, whilst the other
side of the same portion is provided with a chromatic color chart, bearing the
primary colors and their principal combinations.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any particular con-
struction of abacus frame, nor to any particular arrangement or disposition of the
wires and balls therein, neither to the arrangement of the slides, frames or
equivalent means for the reception of the numbered or figured tablets or cards
employed in word building or the like. The black-board or other writing surface
and the chromatic chart may also be disposed in any convenient part of the
apparatus, and be either removably or fixedly attached to the primary frame
thereof by any suitable means.
The bottom edge of the frame may have a vertical spindle or stalk, which,
when the appliance is in use, drops into a socket in a suitable support, so that
the frame can be readily turned round to exhibit either one side or the other.
Or the frame may be provided with two such spindles or pivots, coming either
at top and bottom or upon the two opposite sides.
Dated this 10th day of August 1897.
ROBERT THOMAS HOGG,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: A Combination Elementary Educational Appliance for the Young.
I, ROBERT THOMAS HOGG, trading as Cox and Company, of 99 and 101, New
Oxford Street, London, W.C., Merchant, 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:-
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This invention has for its object a multum-in-parvo' or combination educa-
tional appliance for instructing young children by abacus lessons, word-building,
black-board teaching and chromatic color and form charts.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a front elevation of a
combination educational appliance constructed according to an elevation, showing
the word building frame, the form and color chart and the abacus apparatus.
Figure 2 is a vertical section of Figure 1, upon the dotted line a.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the upper part of the reverse side of the apparatus,
showing the black board and the wires on which the abacus beads are threaded.
Figure 4 is a horizontal section of the said appliance, upon the dotted line <¹.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
The said apparatus or appliance consists of a rectangular and partly open
frame a, one side of which has directed across it a series of horizontal wires b,
upon which are strung a series of different colored balls 61, the same as in an
ordinary abacus frame for teaching the elementary operations of arithmetic.
Coming in front of one half of this abacus frame are a series of horizontally
directed flat bars or strips c, preferably grooved on their edges for receiving
tablets, blocks, cards or the like d, bearing letters or figures employed in word
building or number construction.
The opposite side of this half portion of the frame is fitted with a fixed or
removable black board or equivalent writing surface or tablet e, which covers
up one half of the abacus frame and comes behind the word-building strips whilst
on the same side of the frame as that on which the said groove-edged strips come,
and disposed on one side of the same, is a chromatic color chart f, bearing
representations f¹, of the primary colors and their principal combinations, and
also a series of diagrams f, representing the principal geometric forms.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any particular con-
struction of abacus frame, nor to any particular arrangement or disposition of the
wires and balls therein, neither to the arrangement of the slides, frames or equiva-
lent means for the reception of the numbered or figures tablets or cards employed
in word building or the like. The blackboard or other writing surface and the
chromatic chart may also be disposed in any convenient part of the apparatus
and be removably or fixedly attached to the primary frame thereof by any suitable
means.
The bottom edge of the frame may have a vertical spindle or stalk g, which,
when the appliance is in use, drops into a socket h³, in a suitable support h, so
that the frame can be readily turned round to exhibit either one side or the
other. Or the frame may be provided with two such spindles or pivots, coming
either at top and bottom or upon the two opposite sides."
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:-
First: A combination elementary educational enulianas.

page_text: frame, a black-board, chromatic color and form charts and a word-building
frame, arranged and combined substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly: In an educational appliance for teaching young children, the com-
bination with an abacus calculating apparatus, of word-building strips mounted
on a single frame, either with or without a color and form chart substantially
as described and set forth.
Thirdly-In an educational appliance, the combination with an abacus
apparatus of a blackboard, either with or without a word-building frame, or with
or without a color chart, the whole being carried upon a single frame, substantially
as described and set forth.
Dated this 4th day of March 1898.
ROBERT THOMAS HOGG,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.