Coloring book with elevated outline portions

• US 20050258633A1
• Filed: 04/05/2005
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anderson Press, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Anderson Press, Inc.
• Inventors: Hilicki, Mary Christine, Hilicki, Richard
• Application Number:
  US11/099,736
• Publication Number:
  US 20050258633A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 283/63.100
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 11/00 Teaching hand-writing, shorthand, drawing, or painting

Abstract

A coloring book is provided with elevated portions located on each coloring page. The elevated portions may define the outline of images on the coloring pages for users to color. The elevated portions may be fabricated from a black velvet such that a user is provided resistance when trying to color “outside the lines” of the outline created by the elevated portions. The coloring book may include additional features such as, for example, a musical system, transparent film revealing hidden drawings, coloring instrument holders, or any other suitable additional feature.

Claims

1. A coloring book comprising:

a book cover;

an interior sheet having a first page and a second page, wherein the first page and the second page are defined by a fold line in the interior sheet;

a first image on the first page, the boundaries of which are defined by a first elevated portion attached to the first page; and

a second image on the second page, the boundaries of which are defined by a second elevated portion attached to the second page.

2. The coloring book of claim 1 wherein the elevated portion is made from velvet material, plastic, or paper.

3. The coloring book of claim 1 wherein the elevated portion is dark, light, or a combination of light and dark in color.

4. The coloring book of claim 1 wherein the first elevated portion is permanently fixed or removably attached to the first page.

5. The coloring book of claim 1 wherein a coloring instrument abuts the elevated portion when the coloring instrument attempts to overstep the elevated portion.

6. The coloring book of claim 1 wherein a portion of the coloring book comprises a mechanism for producing a sound or light.

7. The coloring book of claim 6 wherein the mechanism produces music.

8. The coloring book of claim 6 wherein the mechanism is activated mechanically, by light, by darkness, by a magnetic field, or by an actuation mechanism.

9. The coloring book of claim 6 wherein the portion of the coloring book is the book cover or an interior sheet.

10. The coloring book of claim 1 further comprising a film configured to reveal an image hidden in a portion of the coloring book by placing the film over the image.

11. The coloring book of claim 10 wherein the film is colored.

12. The coloring book of claim 1 further comprising a coloring instrument holder attached to a portion of the book.

13. The coloring book of claim 12 wherein the holder is closable or reusable.

15. The coloring book of claim 12 wherein the portion is the book cover or an interior sheet.

14. The coloring book of claim 14 wherein the holder comprises a projection from the surface of the coloring book.

16. A coloring book comprising:

a book cover having a cover sheet having a first cover page and a second cover page, and wherein the first cover page and the second cover page are separated by a cover fold line;

an interior page sheet having a first page and a second page, wherein;

the first page and the second page are separated by a page fold line;

at least a portion of the cover fold line and the page fold line are fixed together by a staple; and

the first page and the second page are separated from the page fold line by first and second perforations parallel to the page fold line;

a first outline of a picture that is fixed to the first page such that portions of the first outline are elevated from the first page;

a second outline of a picture that is fixed to the second page such that portions of the second outline are elevated from the second page, wherein the portions of the first and second outlines that are elevated are fabricated from a velvet material.