An Improved Picture Game for Teaching Reckoning.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1893-Accepted, 30th Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Picture Game for Teaching Reckoning.
1, WALTER BRIERLEY of Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax, in the County of
York, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, which has
been communicated to me by Ernst Trolltsch of 114 Fuerther Street, Nuremberg,
in the Empire of Germany, Private Teacher at the Royal Prison, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
A child will readily learn how to recognize and conceive the object which it sees
always in one and the same shape. In writing for instance, copies of the letters are
given to the child in one and the same form each time, and it has to imitate them in
the like form. This object is attained by the present picture game for reckoning
figures, and such reckoning proceedings are illustrated for the child by figures and
spaced pictures, variously coloured dots, and through representations of objects
familiar to its degree of experience, in different colours or positions, and which the
child will imitate in playing, through the insertion and removal of similar pictures
from various positions, as for example, for boys, horses and other animals inserted
into and taken out of the hollows corresponding with the single figures. The child
will impress upon itself the figure picture by means of the effigies easily understood
and grouped in a distinct form, and will imitate them by the varying application of
similar figures (such as of apples and apples, or cats and cats) while in the selection
of the pictures, the fullest play is left to the imagination of the child. The
drawings annexed hereto will illustrate the idea upon which the present invention is
founded.
In square f¹ of sheet 6 are the unchangeable space pictures or dots representing
numbers.
The value of number 6 for example is illustrated in square f" by the number of
the dots p and images z which may be of persons, animals, or plants. Further there
are in this square 6 hollows (in illustrating number 7 there would be seven;
figure 8 eight hollows, and so on) provided, into which cards with illustrations in
various colours or positions are stuck, and by means of which the single figure
pictures or figure groups are imitated by the child and reckoning operations are
clearly shown. In square f³ figure 6 is represented by 5 black and one red dot, as
well as by 6 figures z all alike, the last of which has special position or colour in
contrast with the others. The child now imitates this kind of group by inserting
into the first 5 hollows s, pictures in like position of similar colour, and into the last
hollow, a picture differing in colour or position from the 5 preceding ones.
the operations of reckoning are explained and executed from as follows:-6 = 5 + 1;
5+16; 6=5+?; 6-1 5; 6 ? 5.
=
=
Thus
In the illustrations shown by f* to f the mode of operation is similar to
that in f.
Through square ✓ the operations―6
4 into 61 remainder 2; 6=1x4+2%3
operations,
6=3+3; 3+3=6;
4+? = 6;
4+2=6;
4; through square f³ the
1 x 3 = 3;
=
4+2 3
2=
6
6
-
=
3 ;
-
2 × 3 = 6;
3 into 62; through square f6, 6 = 2 + 4; 2+4 6; 6 2 4 etc.; through
square f, 61+5; 1+5= 6;
2+2=4+2=6; 6-2 4-2-2-
2 into 6 = 3, are clearly illustrated.
6
-
5 1; etc., and through square f³
=
0; 1 x 2 2; 2 × 2=4; 3 × 2=6;

page_text: 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 :-
A picture game consisting of a board or sheet having figures or numbers grouped
thereon, and also a corresponding number of blanks or hollows, into which can be 5
inserted similar figures or numbers, as and for the purpose herein described, and
substantially as illustrated by the annexed drawings.
Dated this 21st day of November 1893.
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Applicant.