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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| 7452211 | Educational box toy and method An educational box toy and method for teaching one or more of the alphabet, numbers, colors, spacial problem solving and hand-eye coordination, utilizes a series of four blanks dimensioned and configured for selective erection by folding into a corresponding series ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7347028 | Modular construction system utilizing versatile construction elements with multi-directional connective surfaces and releasable interconnect elements A modular construction system that utilizes versatile construction components releasably attachable to one another, in virtually any desired direction, by use of one or more interconnect components positioned therebetween. Each construction component includes at lea... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341251 | Puzzle game apparatus and method A puzzle game apparatus includes a substantially rigid game piece including a first plate, a second plate and a third plate. Each of the first, second and third plates has a bottom edge, a top edge, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. The top edge of the... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7257367 | System and method for rewards-based education A system and method for rewarding educational accomplishment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing rewards to a user, such as a child, for achievement of one or more goals within an educational activity. The rewards are preferably credit in a ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7234986 | Magnetic construction kit with wheel-like components A movable magnetic construction kit that is suitable for creating a variety of different construction profiles and including at least one primary connecting element that can be operatively associated with one or more secondary connecting elements via magnetic and/or... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7169010 | Block and gavel with the intention to relieve stress novelty-kit A simulated Judge's traditional courtroom gavel appartatus, comprising a sounding-block modified with a preferred plurality of nine cubes, bearing some fifty-four different graphic indicia (one upon each facet), a possibly stressful-situation sensitive word reading ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7104798 | Language teaching method A method of teaching students a language utilizing a coded medium through verbal and nonverbal communication. The students unconsciously learn the structure of the language through color, sound, shape/texture, a verb puzzle piece, gestures and grammar stories. The m... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7104863 | Product cycle project development A method for teaching production cycle project development utilizing a construction set having at least one construction set component designed to be alterable (e.g., robot) for constructing a user-definable apparatus. The teaching may include providing instructions... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7018210 | Method and apparatus for teaching and learning reading A method and apparatus for teaching and learning reading is disclosed. The apparatus is a group of universally connectable blocks and a primer having intelligible reading units composed of reading indicia. Each block has at least three faces, and each face of a give... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6960087 | NMR teaching method and apparatus An NMR teaching method and apparatus incorporating pieces representative of chemical fragments. Each piece has the number of sides corresponding to the number of bonds present around the central atom. Bonds to hydrogen are curved while bonding sides are flat. The pr... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6790118 | Block set for educational purposes The object of this invention is to provide a block set for educational purposes. The block set features that a plurality of block units of the same color are integrated so as to build a block bar, and two or more block bars respectively of different colors are cross... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6685477 | Method and apparatus for teaching and learning reading A method and apparatus for teaching and learning reading is disclosed. The apparatus comprises blocks that are removably connectable and bear various reading indicia on their faces. The reading indicia includes pictures, vowels, consonants, combinations o... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6599131 | Modular educational and/or recreational apparatus to vary learning levels An apparatus for educational and/or recreational learning provides a means for stimulus or query to test skill and knowledge, generate a response to the stimulus or query, and rewards correct responses to reinforce learning. The educational and/or recreat... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6419493 | Three-dimensional shoestring book A child's 3D amusement book is created by forming at least two holes through the book and threading a string therethrough, or otherwise offixing a cord to opposing pages of a book or card. Parallel string segments are coordinated with drawings on the inne... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6152797 | Interconnectable space filling model The present invention is for a modeling kit in which triangularly shaped panels fit together to form the faces of either tetrahedral or octahedral modules. Centrally located in the triangularly shaped panels are face-to-face interlocking mechanisms which ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6079624 | Data processing form using a scanning apparatus This invention is directed to an optical mark sensing device known as a mark read scanner for reading marks on a form. This scanner is a stand-alone device that has an internal micro-controller with the controlling software therein. An external personal c... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6076828 | Educational language skills game An educational card game is disclosed which consists of a deck of playing cards. One face of each card is inscribed with a word which represents one or more of the eight forms of speech in the English language. The game is designed to enhance the particip... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5967787 | Educational display with a clock and with numeral and date blocks accompanied by a base 10 mathematical apparatus 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,... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5944312 | Educational game apparatus for learning relationships between living or non-living things A game apparatus teaches relationships between members and subsets of a recognized set of living or non-living things, such as the five food groups, through illustrations on faces of geometrical-shaped blocks. The apparatus further includes coded indicia ... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5897421 | Alpha beanie buddies A bean bag alphanumeric figure is provided comprised of a first fabric side and a second fabric side having indicia of a face on the exterior of the first fabric side. The first fabric side and the second fabric side are held together in attachment so as ... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5803743 | Alphabet block books A series of books having indicia printed on the outside thereof which cooperate when employed as building blocks is disclosed to function as an educational tool.... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5785530 | Method and apparatus for visually depicting in three dimensions a health care treatment regimen for a given medical diagnosis Method and apparatus for visually depicting a health care treatment regimen for a given medical diagnosis including a substantially flat planar platform and a plurality of groupings of geometric members which are representative of various events which go ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5762529 | Multi-sided colored mirror image block set An educational set of amusement blocks includes a set of a plurality of pairs of mirror image multi-sided sided blocks. In each set, each block preferably includes seven sides, including various geometric shapes for each side. The blocks are stable, and c... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5752701 | Game device A game device includes a plurality of game blocks, at least two playing cards, and at least two hollow game boxes. The game blocks are grouped into at least three sets by shapes and sizes so that each of the game blocks belonging to a particular set has a... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5651682 | Sticks and method for consulting chinese book of changes The present invention provides a method and device for consulting and contemplating the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The invention provides six rectangular sticks having indicia on the four sides. Two of the indicia represents the changing Yang line a... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5567159 | Method and apparatus for teaching reading A method and apparatus for teaching reading and spelling skills to children which is particularly adapted to be used in teaching children with a short-term memory disability. Visual indicator members are provided wherein a first set of visual indicator me... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5489230 | Blank for constructing triangular polyhedra A geometric construction set is described having a number of blanks where each blank includes four contiguous triangular sections. The two outer triangular sections each have two edges at the peripheral edge of the blank and the remaining two inner triang... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5480308 | Wooden identification blocks Each block of a set of wooden blocks bears indicia of the tree species of the wood from which the block is made. Preferred embodiments may include the following features. The blocks are configured as building blocks for children. The indicia on each block... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5458495 | Building block having opposing male and female hinge elements for connection to like elements on another like block This invention relates to a building block in the shape of a right-angles isosceles triangular prism. the block has male hinge elements on one edge and female hinge elements on another edge such that two blocks can not only be hingedly attached but also j... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5447433 | Learning system with interlocking hexagonal control structures A learning system is disclosed that comprises ordered pairs of interlocking cooperatively aligned hexagonal bosses and recesses having one or more peripherally disposed lobes as control structures to influence a user to connect or assemble articles or obj... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5385473 | Display polyhedra having marked and unmarked paired opposing faces A polyhedra for emulating an object or other phenomena with marked surfaces, includes a plurality of faces, some with markings and some being blank. The surfaces are arranged about the polyhedra so that each marked face is opposite a blank face. The polyh... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5352121 | Demonstration device A demonstration device in the form of a single-story house comprises a body (26), a roof (28) and a base slab (30). The body (26) is composed of a number of prism-shaped building blocks (20-24) whose height is equivalent to the height of a story. Each bod... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5275567 | Toy building blocks for teaching braille Toy blocks and sets of toy blocks containing Braille characters for teaching young, sight-impaired children. A typical wooden block is cubical, comprising a pair of opposite, spaced apart display sides having recessed surfaces. One recessed surface contai... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5238408 | Row of joined arithmetic blocks with common walls which are double end wall thickness Base-ten blocks for teaching arithmetic to children, in which each block (19) has a projecting boss (27) with curved (bowed-out) sides (29) and an aperture (33) with straight sides (35), so that blocks (19) can be securely joined together to form multiple... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5238407 | Blocks with mating bosses and recesses which bulge for interference fit Base-ten blocks for teaching arithmetic to children, in which each block (19) has a projecting boss (27) with curved (bowed-out) sides (29) and an aperture (33) with straight sides (35), so that blocks (19) can be securely joined together to form multiple... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5190287 | Jigsaw puzzle toy using blocks A jigsaw puzzle toy has a board (2) with a recess (5) defined in its upper surface. The jigsaw puzzle toy includes a plurality of first projections (19) projecting on the upper surface of the board and having first shapes, respectively, when viewed in pla... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5114349 | Element for a didactic play, and a set formed by such elements An element for a didactic play, of the type capable of showing several surfaces carrying different representations, which may possibly be combined with the representations of other elements forming a set, in order to compose writings, images or the like, ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5092775 | Prism prompter A freestanding visual aid is disclosed which includes instructional material displayed on multiple sufaces of a geometric object to allow the selective display of indicia representing information, on at least one of the surfaces, in a resting position of ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5049078 | Picture book with play effect A picture book set with play effect, having a plurality of toy elements with modularly dimensioned coupling means. The toy elements may be placed on a picture plane provided with correspondingly dimensioned positioning recesses or elevations, so that a ch... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4997375 | Elastically interconnected articulated blocks Elastic cord interconnected blocks in which each block contains a plurality of deep slots cut to a centrally positioned interior washer-like connecting element having a hole coaxial that can freely pass the elastic cord. The element hole is coaxial with a... | 03/05/1991 |
