Improvements in Kindergarten and other School Appliances.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Kindergarten and other School Appliances.
I WILLIAM MORGAN MORRIS of Bryngelly, Merthyr Road, Pontypridd,
Engineer, 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 the appliances used in Kindergarten and
other school teaching in which objects of various kinds are employed for purposes
of demonstration. My invention has for its object to enable such appliances to be
more easily used, and secured in the required positions. These objects consisting
of geometrical and other figures are commonly placed upon a vertical board for
purposes of demonstration, and to permit of this being done more easily than
heretofore I secure a number of small studs or points projecting from the surface
of the blocks or figures. These pin points can enter into the board and thus
immediately fix the blocks in position, any figures required being formed by means
of combinations of the blocks.
The pin points are inserted into the articles so that they only partially enter
them all danger of the points being pressed through or otherwise moved out of
position being thus obviated. The figures employed may consist of straight or
curved bars, cubes, rings, and other objects commonly used in schools.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan looked at from below of a straight
stick or bar furnished with my invention."
Figs. and 4 show a cube also in elevation and plan, and
Figs. 5 to 10 show the invention applied to other forms.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 the stick or bar A is furnished with the small pin
points B one close to each end. These pin points as shown extend partially through
the bar, and project sufficiently far to allow of their entering easily into the board
used for purposes of demonstration. The cube A¹ shown in Figs. 3 and 4 is
furnished with the points B at each corner of one face, the method of using being
the same as that described. Figs. 5 and 6 show respectively in plan and side view
a ring A³ with a pin at each side. Figs. 7 and 8 illustrate the invention applied to
a curved bar A³ the pin being placed at each end. In Figs. 9 and 10 a flat segment
of a disc is shewn, three pins being employed to fix it. With this invention the
various exercises known as stick laying, cube designs, ring work, cork work and
the like can be easily demonstrated, the figures being instantly fixed in place or
removed as desired.
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.) The improved means for securing the objects employed in Kindergarten and
other school exercises to boards or other articles consisting of a set of pins fixed in
the said objects and projecting for a suitable distance, substantially as described
and for the purposes specified

page_text: (2.) Improvements in appliances for demonstration purposes in Kindergarten and
other school exercises consisting of a means of securing the appliances in position
substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings, and for the
purposes specified.
Dated this 14th day of June 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.