Mechanical Apparatus for use in Teaching Colour to Infants.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Dec., 1892
*Complete Specification Left, 30th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Mechanical Apparatus for use in Teaching Colour to Infants.
OSCAR NEWMANN of 84 Newman Street, London W. Educational Publisher
and WILLIAM GARDINER WAKLEY of 48 Bedford Street, Roath, Cardiff
Certificated Teacher in a Public Elementary School, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention consists of three disks made of pulpboard, wood, or a similar
material all being connected together by a pin as shown in Figure 2, on which
they all and severally revolve. The larger or outer disk being divided into eight
spaces each section being coloured with one of the following colours-dark green,
dark brown, dark red, dark yellow or orange, dark blue, dark grey, dark violet,
dark pink, but not of necessity in the above order. The middle or second size
disk is divided into eight spaces each section being coloured with one of the
following colours, green, blue, brown, red, pink, yellow, grey, violet, but not of
necessity in the above order, and this disk has two knobs or handles B. B.
Figures 1 & 2. to be used for turning this disk on its pivot. The smaller or inner
disk is divided into 10 spaces each section being coloured with one of the following
colours light green, light brown, light red, light yellow, light blue, light grey,
light violet, light pink, but not of necessity in the above order, and in the centre
of this disk C. Figure 1. is a circle of black which is surrounded by a ring D.
Figure 1. of white and this disk has also two knobs or handles A. A. Figures 1 & 2,
to be used for turning this disk on its pivot.
And further this invention consists of 26 slats E Figure 3 made of pulpboard,
wood or some such similar material, each slat having a slot to be used in suspending
the slats on the slat holder, each slat is coloured to match each one of the different
colours of the above described disks.
And further this invention consists of a slat holder Figure 3 made of pulpboard,
wood or similar material and has twenty six pins or hooks as shown in drawing F
Figure 3. on which the above described slats are hung.
Doted this 21st day of December 1892
OSCAR NEWMANN.
WILLIAM GARDINER WAKLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Mechanical Apparatus for use in Teaching Colour to Infants.
OSCAR NEWMANN of 84 Newman Street Oxford Street London, Educational
Publisher and WILLIAM GARDINER WAKLEY of 48 Bedford Street Roath Cardiff
Certificated Teacher in a Public Elementary School 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 :-
Our invention consists of three disks made of pulpboard, wood or a similar
material all being connected together by a pin as shewn in Fig. 2 in the drawings
left with the Provisional Specification on which they all and severally revolve.
The larger or outer disk being divided into eight spaces each section being
coloured with one of the following colours, dark green, dark brown, dark red, dark
yellow or orange, dark blue, dark grey, dark violet, dark pink, but not of necessity
in the above order.
The middle or second size disk is divided into eight spaces each section being
coloured with one of the following colours, green, blue, brown, red, pink yellow,

page_text: grey, violet, but not of necessity in the above order, and this disk has two knobs
or handles B. B. Figs. 1 & 2 (in.the drawings left with the Provisional Specification)
to be used for turning this disk on its pivot. The smaller or inner disk is
divided into ten spaces which includes the black & white circles each section being
coloured with one of the following colours, light green, light blue, light brown,
light red, light yellow, light grey, light violet, light pink, but not of necessity in
the above order, and in the centre of this disk is a circle of black C Fig. 1 (in the
drawings left with the Provisional Specification) which is surrounded by a ring of
white, D Fig. 1 (in the drawings left with the Provisional Specification, and this
disk has also two knobs or handles A. A. Figs. 1 & 2. (in the drawings left with
the Provisional Specifications), to be used for turning this disk on its pivot.
And further this invention consists of twenty six slats made of pulpboard, wood
or some such similar material, each slat having a slot to be used in suspending
the slats on the slat-holder, each slat is coloured to match each one of the different
colours of the above described disks. And further this invention consists of a
slat holder, made of wood, pulpboard or some such similar material Fig. 3 (in the
drawings left with the Provisional Specification) which has twenty six pins or
hooks on which the above described slats are hung F Fig. 3 (in the drawings left
with the Provisional Specification).
The method of useing our apparatus is as follows
The disk is placed before a class of children and a child is asked to arrange the
three shades of one colour so that they appear to overlap, this is always to be
done by turning the middle and inner disks by means of the white knobs. This
is the teaching of shading colours. After each of the eight colours have been
used the slat holder is brought before the class and a child is given a slat and is
told to find on the disk a colour that will match with the slat held in the hand
when this has been accomplished the slat is hung on the slat holder. This is the
teaching of and tests for matching colours.
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The position of the black and white on the inner disk shew that they cannot be
shaded though they can be matched.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.-
The apparatus above described for facilitating the matching and shading of
colours.
Dated this 9th day of December 1893 ·