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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5477211 | Ambulatory aid warning device An ambulation aid warning device for warning the uses when an ambulation aid is about to be used improperly. The device includes one or more gravity sensitive switches to activate an auditory, visual and/or sensory alarm when the ambulation aid is tilted ... | 12/19/1995 |
| 5374192 | Child survival and training apparatus A survival and training apparatus for children is constructed in the form of a teddy bear. The teddy bear has an exterior casing formed of multiple durable materials including a fluorescent fabric of lime yellow color that is visible during daytime condit... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5371962 | Football display board A board member arranged to provide for illustration and representation of football teams is provided, to include a plurality of first and second rows of helmet posts to each receive a helmet member thereon, with each of the first and second posts having a... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5356293 | Sexually-transmitted disease awareness program package A sexually-transmitted disease awareness program utilizing a series of collector trading cards including some on which pictured celebrities express their views on "safe sex", and others on which educational facts about sex are provided, with both types be... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5282749 | Method and apparatus for teaching children how to fold clothes and other objects Children's clothing with matching decorative indicia for teaching relatively young children how to fold their clothing are disclosed. Either matching pair of decorative illustrations, such as blocks with letter or numbers, or foldline illustrations are pl... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5203703 | Deglutition training method and apparatus A method of teaching pill swallowing by initially administering very small, usually hollow, pills and increasing the pill size gradually during the learning period. The learning period is ordinarily a period of days. Such a method is effective as a result... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5194030 | Toy vegetable doll and seeds A toy doll having a body portion in the shape of a vegetable is imbedded in a simulated flower pot packed with an artificial potting soil. The doll is formed from a resilient foam, and has arms and legs extending from the body, and fanciful hair extending... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5190458 | Character assessment method A psychological test for character assessment, derived from a drawing drawn by an individual being instructed to include in the drawing a number of set graphic symbols. The graphic symbols are to be selected from the group including a hand, eye, tree, fis... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5184958 | Educational doll A method of matching at least two persons possessing dolls of similar characteristics for the purpose of having the parties communicate with each other about said dolls in the fashion of adoptive parents communicating about biological siblings is disclose... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5173051 | Curriculum planning and publishing method A curriculum planning and publishing method and system is provided in which large quantities of information may be rearranged to produce a customized learning tool. This learning tool may embody a variety of formats ranging from a simple book to a compute... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5102338 | Method for training children in the art of dialogue writing A method for training individuals in the art of writing dialogue utilizes a bound volume of pages depicting scenes arranged in a sequence pursuant to a pre-prepared story outline. Each scene includes one or more characters in the story and enclosed captio... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5100621 | Test kit for diagnostic procedures A test kit for performing a diagnostic procedure. The kit comprises a plastic base which has an upper surface. The base is formed from a plastic material and a plurality of upwardly opening nests are provided in the upper surface of the base. A test compo... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5092780 | System performance simulator The instant invention is a system performance simulator which includes a library of expression-literate model artifacts, each of which is at least partially representative, mathematically and operatively, of a model element which includes at least one vir... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5071355 | Demonstration device A demonstration appliance has a human figure comprising a head region, a foot region with a convex downward or pointed foot surface, and a block whose height matches that of the foot region. The block comprises at least two, preferably three, superimposed... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4969821 | Combination novelty and educational device The combination novelty and sanitation device and method is designed to promote health awareness in such a manner as, for example, to be fun or entertaining, to learn how to substantially prevent AIDS and venereal disease, or the prevention of unwanted pr... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4934939 | Method of teaching bed-making This invention discloses an educational bed-making kit for teaching children to properly miter the corners of articles of bedding such as bedsheets, and a method of producing such a kit. The kit includes a bedsheet and an instruction book. The bedsheet is... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4929181 | Toy & instructional apparatus This is a toy and instructional apparatus which includes a hollow blow tube having light weight elements normally confined therewithin and connected to each other by a light weight connecting member anchored to the tube to suspend the elements from the tu... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4854880 | Wardrobe color coordination kit A wardrobe color coordination kit for enabling men and women to rapidly select color coordinated outfits utilizes numbered tags which are secured to various major clothing items. Short cylindrical numbered tags are also provided for attachment to conventi... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4783922 | Memory enhancing calendar system A calendar system for training and enhancing the memory of a person practicing the methodology of the system. Two calendars are arranged side by side. The first calendar is permanent and reused each year. The user notes thereon events of perennial signifi... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4734040 | Memory enhancement device and method A device for storing a serial string of confidential numbers or letters in public view without compromising the confidentiality or identity of the numbers or letters, yet enabling a person having knowledge of those numbers to recognize and recall their id... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4722554 | Alternative-value paper refund form A single sheet paper form contains upon a first side the complete face of a negotiable instrument, nominally a check. Upon the opposite second side are printed one or more coupons in an image area which is partially overlapping of the oppositely juxtapose... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4639226 | Adult/child communication kit A communication kit for organizing and encouraging postal communications between an adult (e.g., divorced parent) and a child includes a plurality of sets of stationery, each set tailored to a specific month of the year. Each set includes a calendar for t... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4625396 | Pattern fuel assembly loading system An interactive system (10) for facilitating assembly of fuel rods into nuclear fuel assemblies having specific grid location requirements for the fuel rods, includes an operator work station (12) adapted for positioning between a supply of fuel rods and a... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4556390 | Adult/child communication kit A communication kit for organizing and encouraging postal communications between an adult (e.g., divorced parent) and a child includes a plurality of sets of stationery, each set tailored to a specific month of the year. Each set includes a calendar for t... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4519781 | Teaching tool A teaching tool is provided in the form of a glove with a plurality of tags which are removably attachable to the glove. Preferably the tags are provided with indicia such as letters, numbers, words, shapes and such which can be placed on or removed from ... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4504236 | Devices for displaying or performing operations in a two-valued system An apparatus for displaying and performing a complete set of the sixteen binary connectives in a two-valued notational system, the apparatus comprising at least one device in which at least one combination of a plurality of symbols has been placed in at l... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4402151 | Visual display arrangement The present visual display arrangement has a display panel with two electrically conductive layers separated by a dielectric support panel, and a visual display layer on the front of the display panel. One or more lamps have prongs of different lengths fo... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4367066 | Devices for displaying or performing operations in a two-valued system An apparatus for displaying and performing a complete set of the sixteen binary connectives in a two-valued notational system, the apparatus comprising at least one device in which at least one combination of a plurality of symbols has been placed in at l... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4340972 | Transmitter/receiver teaching apparatus A teaching apparatus including a transmitter portion, a receiver portion and a prompter portion, each of the portions being disposed in a separate self-contained unit, the transmitter portion being adapted to be worn on the head and including a peripheral... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4299301 | Random motion mechanisms Random motion mechanisms having at least one driving element that is operated at randomly varying speeds. One such mechanism is a self-propelled vehicle which has at least one randomly operated driving wheel. The vehicle desirably has a second randomly op... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4273542 | Devices for displaying or performing operations in a two-valued system A system for displaying or performing operations in a two-valued system comprising a plurality of devices each having at least one symbol, each symbol having iconicity, eusymmetry, and frame consistency so that said symbol is consistent with respect to a ... | 06/16/1981 |
| 4204705 | Animal track teaching Full-scale representations of animal tracks indicating animal activity are located on a sheet. The sheet is placed outdoors in a natural setting where the tracks may be interpreted by an observer.... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4162073 | Hollow pyramid containing indicia-bearing spheres An entertainment game device having a game board with a continuous path enclosing a central area within which is disposed a pyramidal random choice device for indicating individual player moves, the continuous path comprising a plurality of player positio... | 07/24/1979 |
| 4083123 | Jigsaw puzzle with extra interlock This invention is a teaching aid for use by children and others in learning the association between mechanical items. It is characterized by two parts of a mechanical item which are capable of being connected together, being respectively connected to diff... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4008714 | Brain wave correlation system and method of delivering a recorded program of material educational in content Methods and apparatus are provided for deriving an audible indication of a person's brain wave frequency, and for actuating a tape player or the like to deliver a recorded program of material educational in content when said frequency reaches a preselecte... | 02/22/1977 |
| 3979840 | Teaching and measuring box A device for developing and also determining the ability of a child or adult in solving a logical problem; the device in its most elementary form consisting of a closed rectangular box having a transparent front side to allow observation inside, the box h... | 09/14/1976 |
