Education and demonstration – Visual art or craft – artistic adornment – or color training... – Color display
Patent
1997-04-01
1999-06-22
Richman, Glenn E.
Education and demonstration
Visual art or craft, artistic adornment, or color training...
Color display
434101, G09B 500
Patent
active
059136839
ABSTRACT:
A learning aid for teaching colors including a base member having a first plurality of illuminatable colored indicator areas positioned on the exterior surface of the base member, a wheel cavity partially defined by a cavity bottom surface having a cavity bottom surface center, and a bearing tube formed into the base member through the cavity bottom surface center; a rotatable color wheel having a bearing shaft rotatably positionable within the bearing tube, magnets positioned on an underside surface of the rotatable wheel that are spaced in graduated lengths from the wheel center of the rotatable wheel; and a visual and auditory verification circuit including magnetically actuated reed switches, a like first plurality of light illuminating elements, voice synthesizer circuits, and an activation switch, one illumination element being positioned beneath each one of the illuminatable colored indicator areas, each of the reed switches being mounted on the cavity bottom surface of the base member and spaced in graduated lengths from the cavity bottom surface center in a manner such that each of the magnets is positionable in actuating position with respect to one and only one of the reed switches, each reed switch being in activating connection with one of the illumination elements and one of the voice synthesize circuits, each voice synthesizing circuit being in connection with a speaker.
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Rahmoune Ruthie M.
Simpson Betty Z.
Breaux Joseph N.
Richman Glenn E.
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