A hand held, hand operated, mechanical Rosary prayer sequence symbol prompter comprising:
- counting symbol means including 6 straight sided nonsimilar geometric shaped symbols and 1 circular shaped symbol;
- counting symbol support means including a vertical sided circular enclosure with a prompter actuating push button protruding from its side, and a structural frame that supports a vertical sided symbol fastening base ring to the interior surface of said enclosure;
- counting symbol fastening means including a hinge and tension spring assembly, for each straight sided symbol that causes a symbol to tend to rotate clockwise toward the vertical, and that flexibly connects the symbol by one end to the top surface of said vertical sided base ring;
- circular counting symbol support means including a vertical elongated flat headed rectangular shaped shaft that extends down from the underside of the symbol's circular top and that is carried in an elongated rectangular shaped vertical hole in said structural frame, supported to an up and down non-rotational travel capability;
- counting wheel means comprising a wheel with 60 teeth and 60 V shaped notches that are radially spaced 6° apart, cut in said wheel's peripheral edge, each tooth corresponding to a prayer in the 60 sequenced prayers said in a recitation of the Rosary, and a semicircular, elongated, flat bottomed hold and release mechanism actuating displacement cam that is fastened disposed aligned radially on the top surface of said wheel;
- counting wheel support assembly means for supporting said wheel to a horizontal rotational plane;
- counting wheel mechanical rotational propulsion means comprised of a push button actuated wheel ratcheting mechanism that imparts rotational movement to the wheel, and a wheel rotational movement control pawl mechanism;
- typical noncircular type symbol hold down and release means comprised of a symbol hold down hook, which is in the form of a short length of channel, fastened to the underside of said symbol, and a hold down and release mechanism assembly that while engaging said hook to hold said noncircular symbol, can be actuated by said counting wheel cam to effect the upward release of the noncircular symbol into an inclined counting mode attitude;
- noncircular counting symbol reset means including a reset lever that is hinge fastened by one end to the unfastened lower front end of each noncircular symbol and is also hinged near its midlength point that allows the lever to swing from the horizontal to the near vertical and engage a tab that is carried by said circular symbol;
- circular counting symbol hold down and release means comprised of a lever that is carried extending horizontally out of the lower end of said symbol's vertical shaft, and a mechanism assembly that while engaging said horizontal lever to hold said symbol down, can be actuated by said counting wheel cam to effect the upward release of the symbol into an elevated counting mode attitude;
- circular counting symbol noncircular counting symbol resetting means including a circular skirt that extends down from the underside of the circular symbol's circular top, and six tabs that extend horizontally out of the circular bottom of said skirt, aligned to engage the unfastened ends of the reset levers hinged to the 6 corresponding noncircular symbols;
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- a Rosary compartment means for carrying a Rosary on one's person, said compartment space being located in the bottom of said prompter.