Bible teaching aid

• US 6,887,081 B1
• Filed: 04/12/2002
• Issued: 05/03/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lyndell W. Briggs
• Original Assignee: Lyndell W. Briggs
• Inventors: Briggs, Lyndell W.
• Primary Examiner(s): SOTOMAYOR, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US10/121,349
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 434/245, 434/154, 273/141.R, 273/141.A, 446/236, 446/254, D21/374
• US Class Current: 434/245
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

A bible teaching aid that includes a voice generating circuit, a large number of circuit recognizable templates positionable on a housing containing the voice generating circuit, a spinning pointer mechanism that stops randomly at one of a preset number of stop locations, and generates a spoken biblical teaching message stored in one of a large number of keyed memory locations of the voice generating circuit that are keyed to specific stop locations on specific sides of specific templates that corresponds with a biblical figure, event or location depicted at that stop spot on that particular side of that particular template.

Claims

1. A Bible figure, event, and location teaching aid comprising:

a housing containing a battery powered, voice generating microprocessor controlled circuit, having a motor driven pointer on the exterior thereof that randomly stops at one of a preset number of stop points, and a plurality of coded templates each having a front and back surface provided with a figure, event or location from the Bible depicted at each of the preset stop points and a template insertion key extending from each of the front and the back surfaces that is inserted into a template key receiving socket of the voice generating microprocessor controlled circuit and which has a specific code hard wired within the key such that the voice generating microprocessor controlled circuit knows which template is positioned on the housing face and which side of the template is facing the user;

the voice generating microprocessor controlled circuit having a particular voice message, for each stop location for each front and back surface of each template that is stored in memory on the voice generating microprocessor controlled circuit such that a correct spoken message is played describing the particular figure, event or location from the Bible that is pointed to by the pointer end of the motor driven pointer at the end of a rotating period started by depressing a start pointer button;

the voice generating microprocessor controlled circuit generating the specific voice message signal to a speaker which outputs the spoken message to the user detailing who, what or where is being pointed to and provides some biblical teaching to aid the user in remembering the particular biblical figure, event or location being pointed to by the pointer end of the spinning pointer.