Abstract: Educational apparatus for use with an overhead projector has a transparent grid with horizontal and vertical indices for projecting a grid onto a wall screen. A plurality of removable cover pieces, keyed to the grid, cover up grid segments whereby when the transparent grid has pictorial material a student, or player, may project a particular grid segment by picking up the cover piece on that segment.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for making complex and beautiful arrays of marbles or other translucent decorative objects in a free creative manner. A base has structure defining a rectangular grid for engaging both marbles and structure for supporting marbles above the level of the base. Such supporting structure includes support posts engageable with the base for holding marbles at their respective upper ends and inclined risers, both free standing and supportable for facilitating inclined displays of marbles. Substantially horizontal elevated platform structures, similar in configuration, but smaller than the grid, may also be employed. Flexible and segmented support posts add variety and interest.

Abstract: Flooring and/or tiling having golden arabesque designs are made up primarily of three pieces. First, there is a square whose sides will have common "a" measurements. Secondly, there is a rectangle whose larger side will measure "a" long and whose shorter side will be "a.sqroot.2-a", obtained as the difference between the diagonal of the square having "a" sides and the proper "a" side. The third piece is a rectangle whose larger side will be "a" long and whose lower side will be ##EQU1## obtained as the difference between the half of the square "2" and the lesser side of the second rectangle "a.sqroot.2-a," "a" being any real number. The first piece or square has its diagonal line marked while the second piece, or principal rectangular piece, has an arc with a radius of "a.sqroot.2" drawn from vertex to vertex.

Abstract: A stacking game in which square shaped markers are placed on an inclined surface and supported directly or indirectly by raised portions forming notches extending along the lower edge of the surface. A plurality of such surfaces can be joined together in a pyramid or other configuration.

Abstract: A method is disclosed by which an article of art comprising a mosaic-like pictorial design may be made. The pictorial design comprises an arrangement of a plurality of flat, colored pieces of material, with each piece having the configuration of a square, a triangle or a rectangle. The pieces are pictorially arranged by visually following a separate, mosaic-like pattern of numerically color-coded shapes which lie on a grid pattern of intersecting transverse and longitudinal lines which form rows of equal-sized squares and wherein the coded shapes are square, with the size of a grid square, triangular, and rectangular; the triangular shape formed by diagonally bisecting a square, and each rectangular shape by bisecting a square with a line parallel to a transverse or longitudinal line.

Abstract: An apparatus/kit for making a composite picture on a surface medium preferably includes such surface medium and pad-like applicators to apply color media to the surface medium forming respective symbols thereon creating the composite picture. The applicators preferably are padlike, being formed of paint, or other color media, holding pads mounted on a support structure or backing; the pads preferably are resilient and absorbent or adsorbent. The invention also embodies a method for creating a composite picture on a surface medium using such pad-like applicators to apply color media in selected symbol-like designs to selected areas of the surface medium. Such application may be in a form of free expression by the user or may follow a prescribed pattern furnished as part of the apparatus/kit.

Abstract: The disclosed graphic art puzzle kit has a durable plastic base form templet sized the same as a specific graphic art design, and a plurality of smaller templets that represent different colored or shaped components of the design. Markings on the templets instruct the user what color media to use when tracing the templet to duplicate the templet shape on the media; and the user may then cut out these media pieces. Line markings on the base form templet also illustrate the shape and location of all of the component templets. Each of the smaller component media pieces is properly located when one or more of its outer edge(s) is in registry with one or more outer edge(s) of the base form media piece. A full size visual aid picture is also in the kit, and it illustrates the completed graphic art design in color.

Abstract: There is disclosed a pictorial block puzzle capable of reproducing three different pictures. It consists of a pedestal and of a set of puzzle blocks. The pedestal has a flat upper face and a group of identical plugs projecting from its upper face; the plugs being disposed along orthogonal lines and being equally spaced from one another along those lines. The puzzle blocks are hollow cubes of equal size of which three walls illustrate a portion of one of the three pictures while the other walls are pierced with openings large enough to allow mounting of the cubes around one of the plugs of the pedestal to reproduce one of the pictures when all of the picture portions face up and are properly positioned.

Abstract: A puzzle is provided comprising a base formed from a transparent material and including a generally planar bottom wall and a frame extending upwardly from the bottom wall to define a puzzle recess. The puzzle further comprises a plurality of transparent puzzle pieces dimensioned to be received within the puzzle recess of the base. The transparent puzzle pieces are formed from a material that removably accepts markings thereon. The puzzle can be used by placing the base and the assembled puzzle pieces over a selected image which can be traced with a suitable marker. The puzzle pieces with the traced image thereon can be removed from the base and subsequently reassembled. The image created on the puzzle pieces can further be removed therefrom to enable the creation of a new puzzle.

Abstract: A pasted picture manufacturing method capable of completely omitting by using a double-coated adhesive tape such a laborious operation for pasting decorative paper such as Japan paper, which constitutes a pasted picture, on a rough sketch, and of completing a pasted picture by merely sticking Japan paper, which forms an object picture, to the upper surface of a transparent board so that the picture is aligned with the rough sketch on a rough sketch-carrying plate fixed to the lower surface of the transparent board.

Abstract: This disclosure is a game played with colored chips, which when played on a game board or flat surface, one chip at a time, create for each consecutive of two or more players, with his specific color chips, patterns of number, letters, or geometric designs, depending on the selection of which pattern type, as the game objective at start of game. Values are established for each pattern which determine the winner as the one who has constructed the most patterns and or their accumulated number of values. The game chips are preferably flat pieces of rigid or semirigid material, having multiple edges, such as squares, hexagons, octagons, etc. Each consecutive play by each player constructs "legs", that is, a group of same color chips in a row, of two or more, the combinations of these rows used to construct the specific pattern selected by the player.

Abstract: A set of elements have square surfaces with patterns thereon, the elements being arrangeable such that the square surfaces are juxtaposed to form a design. The patterns are defined by one or two contour lines on the square surface, the surface areas on either side of each contour being different colors. The square surfaces have patterns belonging to two groups or have no pattern thereon. The first group includes square surfaces having only circular arcs as contour lines and the second group includes square surfaces having only straight lines as contour lines. The first group includes four types and the second group includes two types.

Abstract: An apparatus for mechanically composing a mosaic pattern formed by balls, which comprises an inclined composition table subdivided by uniformly spaced protruding guides into a number of columns extending along the direction of the lines of maximum slope, each column having a width slightly larger than the diameter of a ball and a length several times larger than said diameter, a store of differently colored balls to be disposed into columns, situated at a level higher than that of the composition table, a reservoir for discharged balls, situated at a level lower then that of the composition table, a launching and column forming device actuable to direct each ball arriving from the upper store towards a preselected column of the composition table, a rejection device opening into the lower reservoir, a retaining device situated at the lower end of the columns of the composition table to normally retain the balls contained in these columns and, on command, to let them roll down towards the lower reservoir, and a

Abstract: A design game comprising at least six series of at least six modules each, each of the series being constituted of the same number of modules and all of the modules having the same shape in plan, with the area in plan of the modules of each series progressing in the same way as in every other series, from the smallest to the largest, according to a definite geometric formula. Modules in the shape of a square are specifically disclosed. The modules are used to form various abstract and quasi-representational designs. At least one spacer element may be used as an aid for positioning the modules relative to each other in a desired angular relationship.

Abstract: A puzzle in which each of a number of regular octagons is divided to form an irregular octagon and a number of smaller pieces. Each irregular octagon has four pairs of equilateral parallel sides. Each of the smaller pieces has two pairs or three pairs of equilateral parallel sides. The sides of all parts formed are equal in length. A number of the pieces are capable of being assembled in juxtaposition to form a large regular octagon, which assembly can be performed in a large number of different ways.

Abstract: The device comprises a casing composed of a bottom tray having an upstanding pivot post and a hinged cover having an open window. Three concentric flat rings have partial designs embossed thereon to provide raised design portions, the inner ring being rotatable about the post, the intermediate ring rotatable about the inner ring and the outer ring rotatable about the intermediate ring. By individually rotating or angularly positioning the rings relative to each other, any of the partial designs can be radially aligned to form a composite design. After the composite design has been formed, a piece of paper is placed over at least the segments constituting the preselected design. Closing of the cover on the tray clamps the rings in a fixed relation with each other so that the user can then rub a marking implement, such as a colored pencil or crayon, over the portion of the paper appearing in the open window in order to transfer the preselected design onto the overlying paper.

Abstract: The invention relates to spectacular, promotional signs suitable for windows, walls and stretched supports, and comprises flexibly connecting a multiplicity of component parts to form giant, self-contained letters, numbers and other characters that are easily folded to compact size without creasing the parts, and are easily separated to accommodate window dividers during installation. In preferred form, the parts are arranged by color to form giant characters that appear to be three dimensional, said parts being made from paper and connected by tape to provide temporary signs that are economical.

Abstract: Representation of designs using pattern members such as domino pattern blocks. The design is subdivided into a plurality of subordinate areas which are assigned values in accordance with a prescribed characteristic such as brightness. The assigned values are coordinated with those of the pattern members which are then substituted into the subordinate areas to realize the desired patterned representation of the design.

Abstract: An arrangement of alpha numeric character sets comprising a plurality of alpha numeric characters of graduated sizes graphically layered in two or three dimensional form. The characters are arranged in a superimposed fashion with the sizes of the characters uniformly graduating in size as one views each set of characters. The characters thus arranged appear to be arranged in a stacked form over a common center point or axis. Such an arrangement is particularly adapted to provide a representation of a calendar date but can, when desirable, be utilized to spell a word such as a person's name.

Abstract: A novelty or educational device having, in combination, a first panel having a group of illustration segments in a predetermined pattern, with at least one overlay panel contiguous to the first panel and separated from that panel by a fold line. The overlay panel has a plurality of window areas arranged in a pattern corresponding to the predetermined pattern of the first panel. A second group of illustration segments on the non-window areas, would be the complement of the first group of illustration segments and would correspond to the second overlay panel. The window areas are formed in a complex pattern alternating from window to solid area in both the horizontal and vertical directions thereby obfuscating the illustrations. Both the reverse and the obverse of each panel contains illustrations segments which are the complement of illustration segments of other panels, thereby providing a number of illustrations.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for constructing a bulletin board on a suitable surface such, for example, as the wall of a room in which a template of a suitable material such, for example, as paper or plastic is formed with a plurality of spaced holes of a certain shape and size and in which areas of the surface of the template surrounding the holes preferably are color coded to provide different patterns of holes. The template is laid over the surface on which the bulletin board is to be constructed and a plurality of bodies of cork or cork-like material of the same shape and slightly smaller than the template holes are adhered to the wall through respective selected openings in one of the predetermined patterns to provide an array of bodies in a predetermined pattern and of a certain density. The pattern may expeditiously be repeated by placing a portion of the template over a part of the already formed pattern and then applying additional bodies to the surface through the remainder of the template.

Abstract: An educational toy, teaching device and puzzle block combination comprising a plurality of sets of blocks of decreasing dimensions so related one to another as to complete an overall design. Preferably these comprise three sets of cubes color coded so that the combination defined by the cubes may be realized by assembling the cubes in a particular order. To this end there are seven cubes of a given dimension, seven cubes of an intermediate dimension and eight cubes of a smaller dimension. The cubes define three horizontal planes of decreasing size and three vertical planes of a first orientation and of decreasing size and three vertical planes of a second orientation and of decreasing size. The cubes are colored so as to define a pair of matching patterns in each of the nine planes so defined. Each cube, therefore, will be colored on anywhere from three to six of its sides. In the preferred arrangement the colored patterns are circles and all exposed sides of the fully assembled cubes are plain.