Abstract: The invention herein relates to a kind of teaching tool that allows children at play to perform simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division arithmetical operations, learning decimal concepts and practices through experience and, furthermore, learn about year, month, day and day of the week as well as the hour, minute and second clock positions, which enables the invention herein to be an multi-functional teaching tool that combines fun with learning and the promotion of intellectual development.

Abstract: A mobile marker board unit has a wheeled base which mounts a pair of upright and vertically enlarged marker boards. The marker boards, as they project upwardly, are rearwardly sloped to define a triangular storage space between the marker boards. This storage space is accessible from at least one end of the unit, and is preferably provided with structure which permits storage therein. A slidable tray arrangement is mounted adjacent the lower edge of each marker board and can be moved between open and closed positions. Each tray arrangement includes an outer tray disposed directly adjacent the lower edge of the marker board and positioned for support of articles thereon. This outer tray is fixedly joined to an enlarged inner tray which is normally stored in a closed position between the marker boards, with the tray assembly being slidable into an outer position wherein the inner tray projects outwardly from the marker board adjacent the lower edge thereof.

Abstract: An office cart includes a pair of laterally spaced apart side walls, a plurality of vertically spaced apart elongate fixed shelves, a back wall which extends between the side walls and which is disposed adjacent to the vertically spaced apart shelves, and a plurality of wheels mounted to the cart to facilitate transportability of the cart. The cart provides convenient storage of files, office supplies and like articles associated with a particular project or task or group of related projects or tasks which are assigned to an individual or to a small team comprised of two or more individuals.

Abstract: A book having at least one fold out page with a metal insert which assists the placement or arrangement of magnetic manipulatives onto a page of the book.

Abstract: A merchandise display system and method for related types of products in which each product is provided with a package bearing an icon indicating the type of product and its intended use, and an indicia of the quality of the product. A display is provided which includes panels setting forth the icons, and literal descriptions thereof, and which provides for arranging the product packages in rows and columns based upon the icon and indicia of quality on each package.

Abstract: An exercise planner and method, in which a ringed binder contains a set of exercise cards, with each card showing a given exercise, the purpose of the exercise, describing the benefits of the exercise and how to perform it, and on the reverse of the card providing an easily erasable grid on which the user can record their workout progress. The order of the cards can be set in any desired arrangement so as to achieve a workout calculated to maximize the benefit to the user.

Abstract: A kit or cohesive group of reusable elements to aid a facilitator or trainer to enhance interchange and organization of group discussions comprising portable foldable backboards, plastic erasable, reusable recording sheets, at least one process display wallboard, multiple colored or imprinted cards of variable shapes and sizes that will allow recording thereon and removably cling to said sheets and said wallboard and necessary marking and erasing accessories. With a preferred embodiment further including a specially designed carrying cases for ease of transport of said components.

Abstract: A combination presentation organizer comprises a central graphic viewing area and attachment system for attachment to a suitable surface or structure such that the apparatus can provide ready visual access and convenient and efficient information storage and retrieval. The device is constructed of a suitable material, such as vinyl, which would be compatible with permanent or nonpermanent water or other solvent based ink markers, adhesive-backed notes, and could be transparent or opaque and of any color. Sized similar to a bulletin board or chalkboard and, optionally, a clipboard or other smaller design, the device can come with marking devices, pointers or notepads. The device is mounted using attachment system integral to the device including mating pieces of hook and loop fastening material, temporary, low-tack or permanent, high-tack adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a book for young readers designed to make reading more enjoyable. The book of the present invention preferably includes illustrations on at least some of the pages thereof. Additionally, edible candy is provided as a part of the book pages and may be positioned to form a part of an illustration found on a page. The candy is attached to or otherwise provided as a part of the book pages in a manner so that it may be easily removed from the book and eaten by the reader. In an alternative embodiment, the book pages may include holes formed therein and the candy may be provided on an insert designed to be placed behind the page so that the candy is in registry with the holes formed in the page and so that the candy extends out through the holes when the insert is placed immediately behind the page. In this manner, after the candy has been removed from book, the insert may be removed and replaced with another candy containing insert.

Abstract: A tool is usable as an educational tool, a diagnostic tool or a toy and is designed to develop or diagnose a user's matching, classifying, or labeling skills using primarily visual feedback and manual manipulation--skills possessed by even non-verbal students. The tool comprises one or more boards each of which may be handheld or may include devices for mounting the board on a wall, table, or another support. Each board is also constructed of a durable and preferably rigid material permitting significant rough handling by the user. Each board is composed of at least one panel, and typically two or more panels each of which presents at least one work area having a target and a pocket mounted thereon. The user's matching or classifying skills are ascertained and/or developed by inserting cards in pockets bearing characters matching those borne by the associated targets. The boards may be foldable or combinable so as to vary the number of targets involved in the matching, classifying, or labeling task.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an article of children's clothing for teaching the child an educational concept, wherein the article of clothing is a garment having a plurality of pockets, each of said pockets displaying at least one member of the educational concept and containing an object displaying at least one member of the educational concept. The educational concepts to be taught to the child include the alphabet, geometry, the number system, color, modes of transportation, nature, and zoology.

Abstract: A system is shown to teach individuals the relationship between the visual size and the nutritional characteristics of portions of food by using either a life size image of, or the corporeal finger of the individual as a scale against life size images of different sized portions of different kinds of food, while showing the nutritional characteristics of such portions; and to adjust the relative sizes of portions of food to provide a nutritionally well-balanced meal.

Abstract: A portable water pollution model and method are disclosed that provide an improved device and method for simulating water pollution. The present invention includes a portable simulated watershed model, including a simulated body of water and a simulated water pollution source; a simulated water pollutant, placeable on selected portions of the model; a simulated best management practice for pollution minimization, placeable on selected portions of the model; and a fluid dispenser capable of simulating rain over the watershed model. The present invention further includes a method for simulating water pollution including providing a portable simulated watershed model, providing a simulated water pollutant, placing the simulated pollutant on selected portions of the model, providing a simulated best management practice, placing the simulated practice on selected portions of the model, and simulating rain over the model.

Abstract: A sticker book having at least three sheets. Each sheet is double-sided and can be folded at its center to form twelve pages. One sheet is printed on both sides with colored scenes forming four scene pages on which stickers may be placed. The remaining two sheets each contain, on one side thereof, two pages of die-cut stickers, each page corresponding to a scene page. On the other sides of such remaining sheets are printed instructional pages in black and white, showing how the stickers can be placed on the scene pages. The instructional pages have a surface adapted to be colored. On assembly, the scene sheet is sandwiched between the sticker/instructional sheets and the three sheets are folded to form at least a twelve-page combined sticker activity and coloring book which can be used both to entertain and to teach a child.

Abstract: An educational calendar includes a base web formed of a fibrous material arranged to include a first base to removably mount a monthly indicator plate, with a plurality of rows and columns of date spaces, with each column of date spaces having a date designation mounted to each of the seven columns. The date plates mounted upon the date spaces are of contrasting coloration and configurations for the education and amusement of children and the like. A modified date plate structure is arranged to include a tablet dispensing pocket for use by children.

Abstract: Assembly fixtures for assembling and stuffing a ribbon into a ribbon cartridge for use with a typewriter, or a printer, comprises a base plate, stops on the base plate forming a space for receiving a ribbon cartridge, and an instruction card mounted on the base plate for instructing the operator how to assemble and stuff a ribbon cartridge. The instruction card may include three-dimensional drawings of the ribbon cartridge and its parts. A method of assembling and stuffing a ribbon cartridge includes the steps of providing an assembly fixture having a base plate and a ribbon cartridge space providing instruction cards mounted on the base plate for instructing an operator, guiding the ribbon cartridge into the cartridge space on the base plate, and following the instructions mounted on the base plate to assemble and stuff the ribbon cartridge.

Abstract: An educational dental kit for entertaining and educating young children about both the mythological "Tooth Fairy" and about good dental hygiene. The kit comprises a greeting card, a poster, and a drawstring pouch. The poster portrays a child's face with particular emphasis on the mouth. The teeth on the mouth are printed on removable stickers, each sticker representing a different tooth. When the child loses a tooth, the corresponding sticker is removed from the poster and is placed in the appropriate location on the greeting card. Indicia describing the teeth as well as proper dental hygiene may be located on the poster. The greeting cards may include indicia in the form of an image or text. The greeting cards may also encourage active participation of the child. A number corresponding to the order in which each tooth is lost may also be provided on each greeting card. The numbers would appear in ascending order on each successive greeting card.

Abstract: The game apparatus of the present invention comprises a plurality of game cards with each game card having an indicia bearing front and rear face. The front face of each card includes a pictorial representation and the rear face has a worded description of that particular pictorial representation. The game apparatus further includes a card support for supporting the cards individually in a generally upright position with the pictorial representation on the front face of each card in an exposed position and the worded description on the rear face of each card being viewable from the rear of the card support without having to remove the card from the card support. The players of the game include one guesser at least one bluffer and a truth teller. The bluffers and the truth teller view the back of the card. The bluffers then give an inaccurate statement and the truth teller gives an accurate statement as to the pictorial representation on the card.

Abstract: A board apparatus is arranged for educational presentation of inter-relationship relative to atomic particles and their associated energy levels relative to interaction of such particles, wherein the board structure includes a central ferrous metallic base plate formed with a perimeter framework accommodating a plurality of ferrous metallic discs to simulate atomic particles such as electrons and their interaction relative to one another. A modification of the invention includes a dispenser housing mounted to a first side of the framework and a container housing mounted to a second side of the framework to provide for the respective dispensing of the discs and the storage of writing instruments.

Abstract: A device for demonstrating the operation of gas contaminant testing apparatus and for training persons to use such apparatus. The device can be portable and allows demonstration of and training on testing apparatus in a location removed from the environment in which the gaseous medium and its gaseous and vaporous contaminants are normally found. The device uses very small contaminant samples for demonstration in order to minimize personnel exposure and inadvertent or deliberate releases to the environment. The device allows the substitutions of, for training and demonstration purposes, a harmless gaseous medium for the actual gaseous medium of interest. In a preferred embodiment, designed for demonstrating the operation of a refrigerant contaminant testing apparatus, air is susbstituted for refrigerant as the gaseous medium in which contaminants are entrained when using the device. In that embodiment, air is caused to flow through a container holding a contaminant sample of interest.

Abstract: An educational toy for use in teaching a child the concepts of geometrical shapes, color, numbers, and sets of numbers. The toy includes a small can for storing the clips, and a large can for storing the small can, and a cover for the large can. The clip has a front board, a rear board, and an effortless spring-biased hinge. The front boards have a series of numbers, and the rear boards have a series of colored shapes, one number and one colored shape per clip. The small can has a series of panels and the large can has a series of panels, each series extending in a peripheral direction on the surface thereof. The panels on the small can have a gradually increasing number of figures; and the panels on the large can have a gradually increasing number of colored shapes. The child matches the numbers or shapes, or colors, in at leasst three different games to the panels of the small can, or the large can, by clipping each clip to a matching panel.

Abstract: A markerboard which includes a rectangular substrate having first and second side edges, top and bottom edges, and front and rear major flat surfaces. A plastic sheet having an erasable surface is fixed to the front surface of the substrate and wrapped over the entire upper edge and at least partially over the remaining edges. A bottom rail is supported by the bottom edge of the substrate, with the bottom rail having first and second ends and a longitudinal groove which extends between the ends having a lip for supporting accessories. First and second stiles cover and conceal the sidewardly facing first and second edges of the substrate and the first and second ends of the bottom rail. The first and second stiles and bottom rail all have having front-facing surfaces which are substantially co-planar with the erasable surface, without overlap over the erasable surface.

Abstract: A combination carrying/storage and display device for storing and displaying a number of furniture part transparencies in overlapping relation to form a pictorial presentation of a custom design. Five sets of parts such as arms, backs, seats, cushions and skirts are provided, each set having three to seven different styles of parts. Each individual transparency carries indicia which when combined in overlapping form displays the proper style number, dimensions, quantities of materials etc. for the furniture as designed.

Abstract: An artistic toy for producing a desired design, figure or picture includes a support with cells and a plurality of blocks to be mounted in the cells. Once mounted in the cells, the blocks are firmly held therein. The toy further includes a block remover which enables the blocks to be readily removed, one by one, from the cells no matter how the blocks are located relative to one another. Another artistic toy includes (i) a holding plate which can be connected to a support to hold blocks from above, (ii) means for standing an assembled toy of the support, blocks and the holding plate on a flat surface, and (iii) means for hanging the assembled toy on a wall.

Abstract: A child's holiday calendar is arranged for enabling children to visually ascertain the approach of a holiday without a reading requirement associated therewith. The calendar includes a matrix of pockets of a predetermined number to include the date of the month prior to and including the holiday date. An underlying opaque pouch is utilized for storage of various visual markers, such as candy, marking spheres, and the like, wherein a child may visually ascertain an approach of an impending holiday as the markers sequentially removed from the associated pockets. The pockets may be prenumbered, or alternatively may utilize removable date cards or fanciful figures attachable to the portion of the support sheet overlying each pocket.

Abstract: An index sheet formed of one recording sheet on which are printed, as small-size positive images in parallel rows, a plurality of scenes recorded on an image recording medium such as, for example, a photographic film, a still video floppy, a video cassette, or a video disc. The small positive images are arranged in the same order they were taken, and frame numbers are printed in juxtaposition with the respective positive images. To produce such an index sheet, a plurality of strips of negative are copied onto photographic paper in a reduced size with the negative strips inserted in a negative sheath. For a magnetic or optical image recording medium for a very large number of images, a lesser plurality of scenes read out are edited in such a manner as to arrange in a representative sample and thereafter are printed on a recording sheet.

Abstract: An educational doll kit is provided including a flat doll body to which doll clothing is removably attachable by means of hook-and-loop fasteners. One component of the fasteners is permanently affixed to the doll body and formulated to simulate undergarments, making the act of dressing the doll more realistic and ensuring that the fastener will not be exposed to view when a garment is properly applied. The kit includes a mounting board on which an environmental setting may be depicted and which can be refined by the application of scenic components, likewise removably attachable by means of hook-and-loop fasteners. Both the articles of clothing and the scenic components are of an improved construction enabling them to more closely simulate, respectively, actual clothing and envionrmental objects. The doll kit can provide an educational experience to children, teaching them the type of clothing which would be appropriate for a selected environmental setting.

Abstract: An activity kit for drawing, painting, sewing or the like, comprising a rigid case providing a flat activity surface and a cavity within the case for receiving a roll of medium, such as paper on which the activity is to be carried out. Medium from the roll is fed between medium guide positioned on the activity surface adjacent in the direction of dispensing of the medium. A medium dispensing control may be provided to restrict the medium which can be pulled at one time to only so much as would cover the activity surface. The kit according to the present invention provides a portable, compact activity center for young children in which the wastage of medium, such as drawing paper may be minimized through use of the medium dispensing control.

Abstract: A watering system display stand comprises a display panel having a variety of garden plants graphically displayed thereon and a watering system, including a plurality of authentic interconnected irrigation components, mounted on the display panel to visually portray a typical mock, instructional watering system for the garden plants. A plurality of trays are mounted vertically below the display panel to retain corresponding irrigation components therein for purchase by a consumer. The trays are numerically coded to match corresponding codes imprinted adjacent to corresponding irrigation components mounted on the display panel. Rolls of porting and drip tubing are mounted on the display stand, below the trays. The trays are formed from suitably scored paperboard blanks that are folded to form interlocked panels.

Abstract: An electronic blackboard includes a writing sheet movable along a predetermined path and having a plurality of writing sections spaced apart one from another, reading means for optically reading the writing sheet, and recording means for recording information read by the reading means of a recording medium as a hard copy. In one aspect, the image information read by the reading means is subjected to thresholding operation to produce a binary image data, and a standard concentration pattern is provided on the recording sheet and it is used to automatically set a proper threshold level to be used in the thresholding operation. In another aspect, it is so structured that the writing sheet may be stopped with one of the plurality of writing sections in registry with or out of registry with a predetermined window.

Abstract: An activity book is constructed to have multi educational features especially useful for teaching reading readiness skills to young children. The book comprises a set of bound pages. A plurality of pages have visual objects thereon with magnetic means mounted within the outline of the visual object. A pocket is also found on the page with a set of manipulatives contained therewithin. Magnetic means on the manipulatives and on the pocket permit a variety of educational uses involving word association and matching.

Abstract: A pattern erasably written on a black board or a flexible sheet in a meeting is printed to a hard copy through scanning of the pattern by an image sensor which provides an electrical signal relating to the pattern, and printing the pattern on a paper according to said electrical signal. The present print board comprises a housing, a writing sheet or a black board mounted on said housing, an elongated lamp for illuminating an elongated portion of said sheet, an image sensor to provide an electrical signal relating to the pattern on a scanning line on the sheet illuminated by said lamp, means for relatively moving said image sensor to said sheet for full scanning of the pattern, and a printer for providing a hard copy of the pattern with smaller size than said pattern according to said electrical signal from said image sensor.

Abstract: An educational toy and container (10) having a base (13) and a plurality of walls (15) connected with the base (13) to define therewith an internal cavity (16). The walls (15) each have a top surface (22) having at least one hole (14). The area adjacent to each hole (14), is provided with a distinctive color. An insertable member (19) has a first end (25) and a second end (26). The insertable member (19) is also provided with a distinctive color. The holes (14) on the top surface (22) of the walls (15) are adapted to hold one of the ends (25 and 26) of the insertable member, whereby the insertable member may be inserted and removed from the holes (14). Means for moving the educational toy and container (10) along a floor are also provided. A lid member (24) is oppositely disposed from the base (13) and rests on the top surface (22 ) of the walls (15).

Abstract: An amusement device comprises in combination as a merchandisable packet a storybook, a flannel board, flannel board figures, and a hand puppet. The flannel board figures represent characters, objects, or scenes from the storybook story and the puppet is a likeness of one of the story characters. The hand puppet is adapted to be manipulated by a hand in the normal manner and the puppet includes a storage pocket therein to receive and store the storybook, flannel board and flannel board figures.

Abstract: A home gardener's process and device for fungus and insect control for fruit trees. The process employs the application of a variety of insecticides in a manner that avoids repetitious application of chemicals and forestalls the development of a resistant strain of insects. A variety of water soluble insecticides are prepackaged in measured amounts sufficient to mix with a gallon of water for the spray application of the mixtures to the fruit tree. The packets are numbered with indicia on the outer portion thereof indicating the sequence and the preferred timing of the application. The packets are numbered and arranged in their preferred order of application. The method for protection of pome fruit trees from fungus and insects includes twelve applications of four different chemicals over a prescribed sequence in a prescribed period of time.

Abstract: A portable tray for use in various activities such as study or games is disclosed. The tray includes an accessory bag located beneath the center portion of the tray, with a hinged cover which folds flat with the main portion of the base. Hinged legs are provided on the under side of the tray to provide support during use. The sides of the base are curved outwardly toward the user to increase the adjacent usable tray surface. A detachable light is conveniently mounted on the rear of the tray.

Abstract: A package for non-inflated toy elastomer balloons of like size having on the exterior thereof a picture of one of the balloons inflated to optimum size being held by a child of recognizable size thus indicating the size to which the balloons in the package can be inflated without deleterious effect to the balloon.