Education and demonstration – Visual art or craft – artistic adornment – or color training...
Patent
1999-02-08
1999-10-26
Hafer, Robert A.
Education and demonstration
Visual art or craft, artistic adornment, or color training...
434 96, 434 98, 446 73, 446147, 446149, 40406, G09B 1100
Patent
active
059717629
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a book having (a) a front cover, a back cover and a spline, forming an outer portion of a book; (b) a plurality of pages affixed within the outer portion of the book and containing a plurality of words constituting a text; (c) at least one page being a three-dimensional hollow frame structure with its front being at least partially made of see-through material. The frame structure is divided into an upper section and a lower section, separated by a wall having at least one connecting orifice, and containing a trap mechanism at each of said at the connecting orifice, and including a lever functionally connected to the trap mechanism. There is also a plurality of bead-like structures contained within the upper section of said frame structure, having a sufficient shape and size to flow via gravity through the connecting orifice of the upper section to the lower section when a user actuates the lever with the book in a substantially upright position.
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Lipton Catherine L.
McKenna Paul A.
Glynn, Esq. Kenneth P.
Hafer Robert A.
Miller Bena B.
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