Book kit for a drawing game-fun sky

• US 5,989,033 A
• Filed: 04/30/1998
• Issued: 11/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle, Societe Nationale Des Poudres Et Explosifs
• Original Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle, Societe Nationale Des Poudres Et Explosifs
• Inventors: Burgio, Patricia
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fernstrom, Kurt
• Application Number:
  US09/069,997
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 434/261, 434/85, 434/88, 434/217, 281/15.1, 281/27.1, 281/38, 283/63.1, 402/79
• US Class Current: 434/88
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/32 comprising elements to be used without a special support
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 11/06 Devices involving the use of transparent or translucent tracing material, e.g. copy books

Abstract

A book kit for a drawing game which includes a book and a pen. The book has a front cover page which has a series of holes located along one edge thereof and a back cover page which has a series of holes located along one edge thereof. Such edge corresponds to the edge of the front cover page. A number of internal pages located between the front cover page and the back cover page. The internal pages each have a series of holes located along one edge thereof. The internal pages are transparent pages alternated with non-transparent pages. One side of each of the non-transparent internal pages contains a photograph or print of clouds in the sky. There is a binder which is a metal or plastic spiral or which has pliable prongs which extend through the holes along the side of the front cover page, the back cover page and the internal pages. The binder has a lateral cross-section which is round and has a central longitudinal passageway. A pocket is located on the internal face of the back cover page. The pen can be inserted at least partially into the central longitudinal passageway of the binder or it can be otherwise packaged with the book in, for example, shrink wrapping or other packaging material. The pen can be used to write on the transparent pages of the internal pages whereby outlines can be drawn of animate and inanimate objects observed or perceived to be the clouds shown on the adjacent, facing side of one of the printed pages.

Claims

1. A process of conducting a drawing game using a book, the book comprising

(i) a front cover page,

(ii) a back cover page, and

(iii) at least four internal pages located between the front cover page and the back cover page, the at least four internal pages being transparent internal pages alternated with non-transparent internal pages, one side of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph or print of clouds in the sky, the process comprising:

(a) overlaying one of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph or print of clouds in the sky on a side of said non-transparent internal page with the transparent internal page adjacent to said side of said non-transparent internal page, and

(b) drawing on the adjacent transparent internal page an outline of an animate or inanimate object observed or perceived to be in the clouds on adjacent, facing side of said non-transparent internal page.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein a transparent or translucent paper sheet is overlaid the transparent internal page upon which the outline of the animate or inanimate object in the clouds had been drawn, and the drawn outline on the transparent internal page is transferred onto the transparent or translucent page by means of drawing thereon the underlying drawn outline on the transparent internal page.

3. The process according to claim 2 wherein the outlined object drawn on the transparent or translucent paper sheet is colored by means of paint or ink.

4. A process of conducting an educational exercise using a book, the book comprising:

(i) a front cover page,

(ii) a back cover page, and

(iii) at least four internal pages located between the front cover page and the back cover page, the at least four internal pages being transparent internal pages alternated with non-transparent internal pages, one side of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph or print of clouds in the sky, at least one of the non-transparent internal pages, which is located on the opposite side of the other non-transparent internal page facing the transparent internal page, contains a reverse image of the clouds with a colored reverse image of the outlined object, the process comprising;

(a) overlaying one of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph or print of clouds in the sky on a side of said non-transparent internal page with the transparent internal page adjacent to said side of said non-transparent internal page,

(b) drawing on the adjacent transparent internal page an outline of an animate or inanimate object observed or perceived to be in the clouds on adjacent, facing side of said non-transparent internal page, and

(c) overlaying the reverse of the outlined object drawn by the transparent internal page on the colored reverse image of the outlined object on the other non-transparent internal page and comparing the reverse image of the outlined drawn object with the colored reverse image of the outlined object.

5. A process of conducting an educational exercise using a book, the book comprising:

(i) a front cover page,

(ii) a back cover page, and

(iii) at least four internal pages located between the front cover page and the back cover page, the at least four internal pages being transparent internal pages alternated with non-transparent internal pages, one side of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph or print of clouds in the sky, at least one of the transparent internal pages containing a preprinted outline of an animate or inanimate object observed or perceived to be in the clouds on the adjacent, facing side of said non-transparent internal page, the process comprising;

(a) overlaying the side of one of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph or print of clouds in the sky on a side of said non-transparent internal page with the transparent internal page, which contains the preprinted outline of the animate or inanimate object observed or perceived to be in the clouds on the adjacent, facing side of said non-transparent internal page, adjacent to said side of said non-transparent internal pages, and viewing said animate or inanimate object in said clouds on said side of said non-transparent internal page as outlined by said preprinted outline of said animate or inanimate object on said transparent page; and

(b) overlaying the side of another of the non-transparent internal pages containing a photograph of clouds in the sky on a side of said non-transparent internal pages with the transparent internal page, which is without a preprinted outline of the animate or inanimate object observed or perceived to be in the clouds on the adjacent facing side of said non-transparent internal page, adjacent to said side of said non-transparent internal page, and drawing on the transparent internal page an outline of the animate or inanimate object observed or perceived to be in the clouds on the adjacent, facing side of said non-transparent internal page.

6. The process according to claim 5, wherein the preprinted outline of the object on a transparent or translucent paper consists of preprinted black printed line or lines.