Article locator
OwnerAlexandra Montclareinventor
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Abstract
A locator of personal articles being monitored to prevent loss or misplacement. The locator emits a location cue. The location cue may be emitted at the monitored article, or if in the form of a verbal message, may be generated at the person who is monitoring the personal article. Location cues emitted at the monitored article may be audible, visible, or olfactory. The locator may comprise two separate cooperating devices including a querying device and a cue emitting device, or may comprise only one device, such as for emitting the verbal message. The sole device may comprise a location cue emitter kept with the monitored article, such as for emitting an audible cue, a visible cue, or an olfactory cue.
Claims10
A locator for personal articles, comprising a location cue emitter of dimensions and configuration to be hand held, having an odor emitter disposed to emit an olfactory signal responsive to a radiant energy command signal transmitted to the location cue emitter, and a remote signal generator disposed to emit a radiant energy command signal to the odor emitter.
A method of signalling the location of a personal article in the form of audible speech, comprising the steps of:
- carrying on a person's body a speech emitter comprising a memory device, a speech synthesizer, an actuator disposed to cause the speech synthesizer to reproduce a verbal message contained within the memory device, and a timing circuit disposed to operate the actuator after a predetermined time period;
- placing a personal item at a known location within premises;
- entering into the memory device a verbal message indicative of the known location;
- pressing the switch key on the body carried speech emitter to cause the timing circuit to countdown the predetermined time period;
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- reproducing the verbal message from the memory device after the predetermined time period has counted down.
A location cue emitter disposed to emit a sensible signal to annunciate location of a personal article, comprising:
- a sensible signal emitter disposed to emit a sensible signal;
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- a control circuit disposed to operate the sensible signal emitter to emit the sensory signal, wherein the control circuit comprises a timing subcircuit disposed to automatically operate the sensible signal emitter after a predetermined time period has been counted down, and a restart operator disposed to restart the countdown of the predetermined time period, wherein the control circuit is constantly counting down the predetermined time period and is disposed always to automatically operate the sensible signal emitter unless the restart operator operates to restart the countdown of the predetermined time period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.