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US 7,924,657 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for time management and instruction
OwnerDaniel Liebowitzinventor
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Abstract
A cyclical or non-linear time management system and method of managing time, and a time and time management teaching system and method of teaching time and time management is disclosed. The system relates a user's schedule to an actual or imagined clock face to give the user a better perspective and understanding of the flow of events and tasks in the day, and relates intuitive concepts such as the transit of the sun to both the clock and the user's schedule. The system can be used to manage a user's time, taking advantage of the user's familiarity with telling time by an analog clock, and further can be used to educate a user about telling time drawing on the user's familiarity with a daily routine or schedule.
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A time management device comprising:
- a planning surface having a pair of rings mapped thereon defining two 360 degree paths around a center of said planning surface, wherein the two 360 degree paths are defined to correlate to a 720 degree rotation of an hour hand of a clock about the pair of rings, a first 360 degree path representative of the 12 AM hours of the day, and a second 360 degree path representative of the 12 PM hours of the day;
- a 24-hour closed loop path mapped upon the planning surface to define a rotation around the first 360 degree path and the second 360 degree path;
- wherein the planning surface is flat, planar and non-rotating;
- wherein the planning surface comprises a printed material configured to be written and drawn upon, thereby configured to record a plurality of data;
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- at least one interchangeable transparent dry-erase overlay sheet extending over the planar planning surface in whole and having at least one directional arrow and having a first traverse, interrelated to the 24-hour closed loop path, from the first 360 degree path to the second 360 degree path at a traverse point thereby representative of a change from darkness to daylight, and having a second traverse from the second 360 degree path to the first 360 degree path at the traverse point thereby representative of a change from daylight to darkness, cooperatively engageable with said planning surface, and having at least one additional feature thereon, said at least one additional feature being selected from the group consisting of clock face numbers, radial dividers, angle indications, a line tracing said closed-loop path, an indication of a date, an indication of a day of the week, a clock, and hands of a clock, said at least one transparent dry-erase overlay sheet cooperatively engageable with said planning surface to add said at least one additional feature to said planning surface.
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A method of teaching time comprising the steps of:
- relating each hour of a day with a respective area of a planning surface, said planning surface comprising a pair of rings mapped thereon defining two 360 degree paths around a center of said planning surface, wherein the two 360 degree paths are defined to correlate to a 720 degree rotation of an hour hand of a clock about the pair of rings;
- relating a first 360 degree section of said pair of rings to 12 AM hours of the day;
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- relating a second 360 degree section of said pair of rings to 12 PM hours of the day;
- relating a 24-hour closed loop path mapped upon the planning surface to define a rotation around the first 360 degree path and the second 360 degree path;
- wherein the planning surface is flat, planar and non-rotating;
- wherein the planning surface comprises a printed material configured to be written and drawn upon, thereby configured to record a plurality of data;
- utilizing at least one interchangeable transparent dry-erase overlay sheet extending over the planar planning surface in whole and having at least one directional arrow and having a first traverse, interrelated to the 24-hour closed loop path, from the first 360 degree path to the second 360 degree path at a traverse point thereby representative of a change from darkness to daylight, and having a second traverse from the second 360 degree path to the first 360 degree path at the traverse point thereby representative of a change from daylight to darkness, cooperatively engageable with said planning surface, and having at least one additional feature thereon, said at least one additional feature being selected from the group consisting of clock face numbers, radial dividers, angle indications, a line tracing said closed-loop path, an indication of a date, an indication of a day of the week, a clock, and hands of a clock, said at least one transparent dry-erase overlay sheet cooperatively engageable with said planning surface to add said at least one feature to said planning surface;
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- engaging the overlay sheet with the planning surface;
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- relating the at least one feature of the overlay sheet to the planning surface.
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