Keyboards for homes

• US 4,927,279 A
• Filed: 09/11/1989
• Issued: 05/22/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ruth B. Morgan
• Original Assignee: Ruth B. Morgan
• Inventors: Morgan, Ruth B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Burr, Edgar S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): YAN, REN LUO
• Application Number:
  US07/405,592
• Time in Patent Office: 253 Days
• Field of Search: 400/472, 400/473, 400/474, 400/486, 400/487, 400/483, 400/489
• US Class Current: 400/486
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 5/10 Arrangements of keyboards , e.g. key button disposition

Abstract

Keyboards structured to accommodate electronic technology advances evidenced this past seven years involving keyboards for personal and home use on computers typewriters, personal home computers, calculator and chording keyboards and other typographical equipment are disclosed. A plurality of different designs utilize 26 letters of the English alphabet in a keyboard configuration of at least two rows and an unlimited number of keys. The vowels are separated from the consonants and placed on different rows; thereafter, vowels and punctuation appear on the same row completing one design. In some of the keyboards of the invention all of the vowels are separated from the consonants and in others only a few vowels are separated from the consonants and punctuation keys may be located anywhere on the keyboard. The alphabet is always in its natural sequential order. Color can be used as an identifying aid. These keyboards are intended for nontypists and physically handicapped people. All of the keyboards for homes are self-teaching. Typing lessons are not needed to find the desired keys.

Claims

1. A keyboard display for use on typewriters and other typographical equipment having keys or key designations wherein three rows are provided with a top row of 10 keys, a center row of 11 keys, and a bottom row of 11 keys comprising:

Five vowels, A, E, I, O, U, displayed in alphabetical order on the center five keys of the center row and said center row further displaying on the outer three keys at each end all of the punctuation marks, provided on said keyboard, said punctuation marks including the quotation mark, colon, semicolon, comma, question mark, and period and said top and bottom rows displaying only the remaining letters of the alphabet in horizontal ascending alphabetical sequence starting at the left end of the top row.

2. The keyboard display of claim 1 in which the keys in the center row are arranged as follows:

";

;

A E I O U ,? .

3. A keyboard display for use on typewriters and other typographical equipment having keys or key designations wherein three rows are provided with a top row of 10 keys, a center row of 11 keys, and a bottom row of 11 keys comprising:

said center row including five vowel keys and all punctuation marks contained on said keyboard, the keys in the center row being arranged as follows;

,A;

E*I^? /O,U;

said top and bottom rows displaying only the remaining letters of the alphabet in horizontal ascending alphabetical sequence starting at the left end of the top row.