Educational toy

• US 4,272,896 A
• Filed: 05/30/1979
• Issued: 06/16/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sydarsis Liou
• Original Assignee: Sydarsis Liou
• Inventors: Liou, Sydarsis
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Peter
• Application Number:
  US06/043,829
• Time in Patent Office: 748 Days
• Field of Search: 35/9 D, 35/9 C, 46/145, 46/146, 46/26 S
• US Class Current: 434/340
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/183 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/066 with answer indicating cards, blocks

Abstract

An educational toy comprising a frame structure provided with two compartments for separately receiving each one of a series of selective quiz and answer boards, a flexible channel bar having a plurality of selective electrical connections, and two mechanisms to show whether the answer is affirmative or negative when an answer board is placed to match a corresponding quiz board via said flexible channel bar.

Claims

1. An educational toy comprising a frame structure, two compartments provided on the surface of said frame structure, a series of selected quiz and answer boards, one compartment for receiving said quiz boards and the other compartment for receiving said answer boards, a bar disposed beneath said compartments comprising a base and a plurality of flexible upright stems disposed in two rows along opposite longitudinal sides of said base having heads exposed to said compartments and accessible to the quiz and answer boards placed therein, ejecting means for ejecting an answer board from said other compartment to signify the answer is negative and indicating means for showing that an answer is affirmative, separate electrically operated means for individually actuating said ejecting and indicating means, electrical contacts on said stems and electrical circuitry connecting said contacts and said separate electrically operated means, and means on said quiz and answer boards for flexing said stems when inserted in said compartments for selectively closing said contacts to activate one of said separate electrically operated means.

2. An educational toy according to claim 1 wherein said electrical contacts comprise a comb-like conductive plate attached to the row of stems along one longitudinal side of said base, and another comb-like conductive plate attached to the stems of the row along the other longitudinal side of said base, said plates facing each other and extending to the top edges of said heads, and one of the comb teeth being separately and independently attached to one of said stems.

3. An educational toy according to claim 1, wherein said ejecting means comprises a ram located beneath said other compartment.

4. An educational toy according to claim 1, wherein said indicating means comprises at least one toy figure and there are means for moving said figure up and down.

5. An educational toy according to claim 1, wherein said separate electrically operated means comprises separate electric motors, and a relay is provided in said circuitry to interchange the action of said ejecting means and indicating means.

6. An educational toy according to claim 1, wherein each board is formed at its top surface with a central recess for receiving a replaceable card.

7. An educational toy according to claim 1, wherein said means for flexing said stems on each board comprises at least two ribs projecting outwardly along at least one edge thereof, one of the ribs being located at an unvariable identical location for each board and the other of the ribs being located at a different location so as to have a distinguished combination.