Educational teaching toy
AssigneeThe Quaker Oats Company
InventorRaymond C. Phinney
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Abstract
An educational teaching toy for teaching a child the names of various objects. The toy comprises a card holder for holding a card having a visible picture of an object, and adjacent thereto aligned spaced-apart letters defining the name of the object. A slider covers the name, and if the child does not know the name of the object, the slider can be moved in increments across the name from one end thereof to the other to expose the letters one at a time to assist the child to identify the object. A double sided laminated card having letters that are visible only when the card is back-lit is also described.
Claims18
An educational teaching toy comprising:
- a card holder for holding a card having a visible picture thereon of an object, the card further having aligned spaced-apart letters adjacent the object for defining the name of the object;
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- a slider for covering the name, having a plate at one end for covering the name, and a handle at the opposite end by which the slider can be moved in increments across the name from one end thereof to the other and detent means for releasably engaging and stopping the slider after each letter is uncovered to expose the letters one at a time to assist the child to identify the object.
An educational teaching toy comprising:
- a card holder for holding a card having a visible image thereon, the card further having aligned spaced apart characters adjacent the image and related thereto;
- a slider for covering the characters, the slider being movable to expose one or more of the characters at a time;
- illuminating means disposed behind a card holder for backlighting the portion of the card having the characters thereon;
- and switch means for selectively energizing said illuminating means.
A card for use with an educational teaching toy having a cardholder and means selectively back lighting a portion of the card comprising:
- two plies, each having an image on one side and indicia on the other side, said indicia printed in reverse on the opposite side of said card as the side on which the image is printed, and said two plies are laminated to form a card having images on both sides and hidden indicia corresponding to each image, so as to be visible only when said card is back lit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.