Back to results
US 5,684,758 AGranted
Child disciplinary device
AssigneeT.O.T. Ventures, Inc.
InventorsJacqueline D. Gray, Margaret B. Sterr
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A child's disciplinary device including a plush toy and a countdown timer secured to the toy. The timer includes indications corresponding to children's ages, and the timer is set to a proper time-out period by setting the timer to the child's age. The correspondence between ages and time-out periods is nonlinear.
Claims14
A child's disciplinary device comprising:
- a plush toy;
- and
- a countdown timer secured to said toy, said countdown timer including age indications and means for setting a time-out period associated with each of said age indications, the relationship between said age indications and said periods being nonlinear, whereby a child may be disciplined by putting the child in a time-out area, setting a desired time-out period on said countdown timer, giving said device to the child, allowing the child to hold said device, and requiring the child to stay in the time-out area until the time-out period expires.
A child's disciplinary device comprising:
- a stuffed character;
- and
- a countdown timer secured to said stuffed character, said countdown timer including age indications and means for setting a time-out period associated with each of said age indications, the relationship between said age indications and said time-out periods being nonlinear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.