Other Braille Equipment
Here you will find a range of other Braille devices for both teaching and personal use.
This is a deaf blind communicator.
A wooden box with two simulated Braille keyboards.
As you press down a dot on one side the opposite dot raises, two people would sit with this between them writing their message.
Pic of deaf blind communicator:
An egg box.
I use this with ping pong balls in it painted black for contrast.
A new tactile learner can use this to learn the layout of the Braille cell while developing their tactile skills.
Pic of egg box:
A dymo tape Braille gun.
This has a print dial so a sighted person can make labels for a Braille user without having to know Braille themselves.
Pic of dymo gun:
Now we have two key rings.
The first has 3 sections that turn independently, each section has 4 sides, on one side there are 2 dots, the opposite side has no dots and the 2 remaining sides having one dot.
Turn the sections to make every Braille dot combination.
The second has a standard Braille cell with pins that are pushed with a style.
You can write anything you like with this up to 6 characters long.
Pic of Braille cube keyring:
Pic of key ring with 6 cells:
Here I have a new offering to the list.
It is a selection of connectable blocks, each block has 6 sliding pegs to make a Braille sign.
These are large blocks, large enough for a person with poor tactile skills to use and learn the code.
Pic of Braille teaching cubes:
I do not know what this is called.
It is a wooden box, with holes drilled in the base.
They are set out in groups of 6, you insert rivets into the holes to make Braille symbols.
Pic of wooden box:
I also have a number of other items.
Here we have an Unilock product. This is a box full of tiles with print and Braille on, which lock together to make some words for young learners when trying to spell.
Now we have 2 upward writing aids.
The first is a king pocket upward writer.
This is like a traditional hand frame but instead of punching the dots down with a pin type style, you have a style that has a small cup which allows you to push the paper over a raised dot, hard to explain but it does work.
The king pocket frame has 4 lines with about 12 cells.
Pic of king pocket frame:
The second is a device that has a paper roller so you can write on sheets of paper.
This only has one row of about 30 cells with the same method of writing used for the pocket frame.
Pic of large king upward writer:
I believe this one, also to be a king writer, however this one is a downward writer.
Pic of downward writer:
Imperial Typewriter. The Good Companion Model T.
Made in Leicester, England.
A conventional, portable typewriter, perhaps 1950’s. With Braille scale on the carriage.
Black body, black keys.
Pic of Imperial Typewriter:
Moon writing machine.
Moon is another form of tactile writing, the code follows quite closely to print characters. Writing Moon on this machine is freehand, so characters may not be precisely produced, a bit like trying to read handwriting. However Moon can be produced using a computer programme with very crisp clear characters using heat reactive paper.
Pic of Moon writing machine:
I have many other items that I wish to list later if I can think of a category to list them under.
My first thoughts would be to list the range of liquid level indicators and a range of white sticks/canes.
But that is for a later page.
Links to other pages in this section:
www.mycollections.org.uk/moving
www.mycollections.org.uk/fixed