Educational apparatus

• US 3,401,470 A
• Filed: 05/04/1966
• Issued: 09/17/1968
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Palisades Educational Foundation, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Thomas J. Gaven
• Inventors: Gaven, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US04/547,489
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• US Class Current: 434/308
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon

Claims

1. IN A TEACHING MACHINE:

THE COMBINATION OF A WINDOW HAVING A COVER GLASS, MEANS FOR EXHIBITING ITEMS OF INFORMATION THROUGH SAID WINDOW, TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE SURFACE AREAS ON SAID COVER GLASS PREDETERMINATELY LOCATED RELATIVE TO THE ITEMS TO BE EXHIBITED, A MANUAL SELECTOR DEVICE OF A PENCIL-LIKE FORM HAVING A CONDUCTIVE TIP AND ADAPTED TO BE HELD IN THE HAND BY THE PUPIL AND TO BE POINTED TO SAID RESPECTIVE ITEMS IN TOUCHING CONTACT WITH SAID RESPECTIVE CONDUCTIVE AREAS TO SELECT THE RESPECTIVE ITEMS OF INFORMATION, MEANS IN SAID MACHINE FOR RESPONDING TO SELECTION OF SAID SUCCESSIVE ITEMS, AND CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING SAID MANUAL SELECTOR DEVICE AND RESPECTIVE CONDUCTIVE SURFACE AREAS FOR CAUSING SAID RESPONDING MEANS TO BE SUCCESSIVELY OPERATED AS SAID ITEMS ARE SUCCESIVELY SELECTED.