Title: Animated learning aid

Abstract: An educational device for teaching facts to children in a manner that is pleasant to them by incorporating physical activity upon their part; the device including an upstanding large display board having a row of questions and also a row of answers to these questions mounted on a front side, a contact button alongside each question and each answer, the child holding in each hand a contact probe for each selection being contacted to the contact buttons associated with a correct answer to a question, the probes thus closing an electric circuit on a rear side of the panel that includes a low voltage dry cell battery and motor that activates an animated display upon a front side of the board such as a windmill having rotatable wind vanes, so the child sees that he had identified a correct answer to a specific question.

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Inventors: Sbarra, Frank (BO, TH)
Velardo, Linda J.
Spector, George

Application Number: 680762
Filing Date: 1976-04-27
Publication_date: 1978-10-24
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Primary Class(es): 434/338
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US Patent Ref:

309064	Dec, 1884	Kinch	35/9.
1860895	May, 1932	Marx	35/9.
2275988	Mar, 1942	Parker	35/9.
3362103	Jan, 1968	Neumann	35/9.
3902256	Sep, 1975	Liu	35/9.

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Primary Examiner: Grieb, William H.
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