GB1594364A - Didactic apparatus - Google Patents

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GB1594364A
GB1594364A GB3886177A GB3886177A GB1594364A GB 1594364 A GB1594364 A GB 1594364A GB 3886177 A GB3886177 A GB 3886177A GB 3886177 A GB3886177 A GB 3886177A GB 1594364 A GB1594364 A GB 1594364A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
    • G09B1/00—Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways
    • G09B1/02—Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways and having a support carrying or adapted to carry the elements
    • G09B1/04—Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways and having a support carrying or adapted to carry the elements the elements each bearing a single symbol or a single combination of symbols
    • G09B1/06—Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways and having a support carrying or adapted to carry the elements the elements each bearing a single symbol or a single combination of symbols and being attachable to, or mounted on, the support
    • G09B1/10—Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways and having a support carrying or adapted to carry the elements the elements each bearing a single symbol or a single combination of symbols and being attachable to, or mounted on, the support by means of pins and holes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/06—Patience; Other games for self-amusement
    • A63F9/10—Two-dimensional jig-saw puzzles
    • A63F9/1044—Display boards therefor

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(54) IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO DIDACTIC APPARATUS (71) We, PHILOGRAPH PUBLICATIONS LIMITED, A British Company of 2 Serjeants Inn, London. EC4Y IDLY. do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement: This invention relates to didactic apparatus and especially to games or puzzles, more particularly for young children, comprising a board or tray and a plurality of geometrically shaped parts for assembly thereon.
According to the present invention didactic apparatus comprises a board or tray having a plurality of discrete bounded shapes more than two of which are different and sufficient number of parts at least two of which are identical. such as inserts. to fill all of said shapes. each shape to be filled by a group of at least two of said parts cooperating to define the boundary of that shape. Preferably all the bounded shapes are different and each said group is unique.
The parts are preferably "geometric parts" which term may be defined as including triangles. semi-circles. rectangles and trapeziums.
The plurality of parts will usually comprise several of each of a number of differ ently shaped parts that are less in number than the plurality of bounded shapes but greater than the number, usually the same, of constituent parts of groups required to fill each bounded shape.
The number of bounded shapes will preferablv be up to. even equal to. the number of different possible combinations of said constituent parts to make the required groups.
For example. where six different part-shaped are provided. twenty one different paired combinations thereof are possible. However, it has been found convenient for a board or tray to have fifteen bounded shapes. each to be filled by a different pair of parts.
Preferably each part of a pair has at least one edge equal in length to an edge of the other part of the pair. such that when the equal edges are juxtaposed the pair of parts define the said boundary.
The board or tray and parts are conveniently moulded from a synthetic resin, for example polystyrene, and the bounded shapes may be formed as recesses or perimeter ridging to receive the parts, which may have handles or similar means of removal from the recesses.
One implementation of the invention will now be described by way of example only and with reference to the accompanying drawing which shows an injection moulded polystyrene tray 10, typically 84 inches by 12 inches by 1 inch deep and having fifteen bounded shapes in the form of recesses 11.
Each recess 11 is filled by a unique pair of parts 12. each part having a handle in the form of a peg 13 for removing the part from the recess. The thirty parts 12 required to fill the recesses comprise only six different shapes, namely semi-circles 12a. right-angled isosceles triangles 12b, rectangles 12c, specifically oblongs. trapeziums 12d, right-angled scalene triangles 12e and further trapeziums 12f Each part has at least one straight edge equal to that of another part with which it cooperates to fill a recess.
Each recess II is of a different geometric shape corresponding to one of fifteen different possible combinations of two of the parts.
It will be noted that in fourteen of the recesses the pair of parts have their equal edges "I" juxtaposed and in the fifteenth, where two right-angled isosceles triangles are combined. the shorter edges are juxtaposed.
In use. the empty tray 10 is presented to a user with the inserts in random arrangement, the object of the exercise being to place the inserts correctly in pairs in the recesses. It will be seen that the invention provides an entertaining but instructive means of teaching children the appreciation of geometrical shapes.
WHAT WE CLAIM IS:- I. Didactic apparatus comprising a board or tray having a plurality of discrete bounded shapes more than two of which are different and a sufficient number of parts at least two of which are identical to fill all of
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    (54) IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO DIDACTIC APPARATUS (71) We, PHILOGRAPH PUBLICATIONS LIMITED, A British Company of 2 Serjeants Inn, London. EC4Y IDLY. do hereby declare the invention, for which we pray that a patent may be granted to us, and the method by which it is to be performed, to be particularly described in and by the following statement: This invention relates to didactic apparatus and especially to games or puzzles, more particularly for young children, comprising a board or tray and a plurality of geometrically shaped parts for assembly thereon.
    According to the present invention didactic apparatus comprises a board or tray having a plurality of discrete bounded shapes more than two of which are different and sufficient number of parts at least two of which are identical. such as inserts. to fill all of said shapes. each shape to be filled by a group of at least two of said parts cooperating to define the boundary of that shape. Preferably all the bounded shapes are different and each said group is unique.
    The parts are preferably "geometric parts" which term may be defined as including triangles. semi-circles. rectangles and trapeziums.
    The plurality of parts will usually comprise several of each of a number of differ ently shaped parts that are less in number than the plurality of bounded shapes but greater than the number, usually the same, of constituent parts of groups required to fill each bounded shape.
    The number of bounded shapes will preferablv be up to. even equal to. the number of different possible combinations of said constituent parts to make the required groups.
    For example. where six different part-shaped are provided. twenty one different paired combinations thereof are possible. However, it has been found convenient for a board or tray to have fifteen bounded shapes. each to be filled by a different pair of parts.
    Preferably each part of a pair has at least one edge equal in length to an edge of the other part of the pair. such that when the equal edges are juxtaposed the pair of parts define the said boundary.
    The board or tray and parts are conveniently moulded from a synthetic resin, for example polystyrene, and the bounded shapes may be formed as recesses or perimeter ridging to receive the parts, which may have handles or similar means of removal from the recesses.
    One implementation of the invention will now be described by way of example only and with reference to the accompanying drawing which shows an injection moulded polystyrene tray 10, typically 84 inches by 12 inches by 1 inch deep and having fifteen bounded shapes in the form of recesses 11.
    Each recess 11 is filled by a unique pair of parts 12. each part having a handle in the form of a peg 13 for removing the part from the recess. The thirty parts 12 required to fill the recesses comprise only six different shapes, namely semi-circles 12a. right-angled isosceles triangles 12b, rectangles 12c, specifically oblongs. trapeziums 12d, right-angled scalene triangles 12e and further trapeziums 12f Each part has at least one straight edge equal to that of another part with which it cooperates to fill a recess.
    Each recess II is of a different geometric shape corresponding to one of fifteen different possible combinations of two of the parts.
    It will be noted that in fourteen of the recesses the pair of parts have their equal edges "I" juxtaposed and in the fifteenth, where two right-angled isosceles triangles are combined. the shorter edges are juxtaposed.
    In use. the empty tray 10 is presented to a user with the inserts in random arrangement, the object of the exercise being to place the inserts correctly in pairs in the recesses. It will be seen that the invention provides an entertaining but instructive means of teaching children the appreciation of geometrical shapes.
    WHAT WE CLAIM IS:- I. Didactic apparatus comprising a board or tray having a plurality of discrete bounded shapes more than two of which are different and a sufficient number of parts at least two of which are identical to fill all of said shapes, each shape to be filled by a group of at least two of said parts cooperating to define the boundary of that shape.
  2. 2. Didactic apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said parts are geometric parts as hereinbefore defined.
  3. 3. Didactic apparatus as claimed in claim I or 2, wherein all the bounded shapes are different and each said group is unique.
  4. 4. Didactic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the plurality of parts comprises more than two of each of a number of differently shaped parts that are less in number than the plurality of bounded shapes but greater in number than the number of parts in any group.
  5. 5. Didactic apparatus as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the number of bounded shapes is less than or equal to the number of different possible combinations of the constituent parts to make said groups.
  6. 6. Didactic apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein each bounded shape is to be filled by the same number of parts.
  7. 7. Didactic apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein each bounded shape is to be filled by two parts.
  8. 8. Didactic apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of said two parts has at least one edge equal in length to an edge of the other part of the two such that when the equal edges are juxtaposed the pair of parts define the said boundary.
  9. 9. Didactic apparatus as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein the board has fifteen bounded shapes and the plurality of parts includes six different shapes of part.
  10. 10. Didactic apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein each bounded shape comprises a recess.
  11. 11. Didactic apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein each part has means for removal of the part from the board.
  12. 12. Didactic apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim, wherein the board or tray and plurality of parts comprise mouldings of synthetic plastics material.
  13. 13. Didactic apparatus substantially as herein described with reference to and as shown in the accompanying drawing.
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Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS58138960U (en) * 1982-01-14 1983-09-19 小林　茂広 Planar shape learning tools
GB2133297A (en) * 1983-01-10 1984-07-25 Marc Calewaert Board games using triangular pieces
FR2607299A2 (en) * 1986-09-15 1988-05-27 Barberon James Puzzle device allowing any artistic, pedagogic or industrial creations, of varied volumes
WO1988005681A1 (en) * 1987-02-05 1988-08-11 Hidvegi Valeria Combinable toy set of elements with playing board
FR2614799A1 (en) * 1987-05-04 1988-11-10 Serot Marc Parlour game with pieces intended to cover subdivided boards

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS58138960U (en) * 1982-01-14 1983-09-19 小林　茂広 Planar shape learning tools
JPS6350672Y2 (en) * 1982-01-14 1988-12-27
GB2133297A (en) * 1983-01-10 1984-07-25 Marc Calewaert Board games using triangular pieces
FR2607299A2 (en) * 1986-09-15 1988-05-27 Barberon James Puzzle device allowing any artistic, pedagogic or industrial creations, of varied volumes
WO1988005681A1 (en) * 1987-02-05 1988-08-11 Hidvegi Valeria Combinable toy set of elements with playing board
FR2614799A1 (en) * 1987-05-04 1988-11-10 Serot Marc Parlour game with pieces intended to cover subdivided boards

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