Title: Entertainment and/or educational device

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1. An entertainment and/or educational device comprising:

a housing, said housing having therein first and second chambers and a passageway between said chambers; said passageway having opposite walls at oppositely directed sides of said housing, each said wall having a window portion and a support portion with the window portion of each said wall being in superimposed relationship with the support portion of the other said wall;

first and second spools respectively rotatably mounted in said first and second chambers;

a display element in the form of an elongated film or web having a plurality of pairs of markings thereon, the markings of each said pair being respectively a question and an answer and being respectively on opposite sides of the display element; said display element being mounted on the said first and second spools and extending between said spools along said passageway;

means externally of said housing for manual rotation of said spools to move said display element along said passageway from said first spool to said second spool to successive display positions; said walls defining guide surfaces for guiding movement of said display element therebetween;

the markings of each said pair being offset relative to each other such that the markings of successive said pairs are simultaneously in alignment with said window portions at said successive display positions, whereby in each said position said markings of one said pair are displayed through said window portions but each marking can only be viewed at a respective one of said oppositely directed sides of the housing, and that part of the said display element which is aligned with each said window portion of each said wall is supported by the support portion of the other said wall.

2. A device according to claim 1 wherein

said housing is formed from a pair of like moulded plastic shells.

Other info:

Inventors: Flynn, Dennis E.

Application Number: 833745
Filing Date: 1977-09-16
Publication_date: 1980-01-08
Assignee:
Primary Class(es): 434/347 40/518
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

669682	Mar, 1901	Carver	40/518.
1525696	Feb, 1925	Spencer	35/75.
1992944	Mar, 1935	Grudin	40/518.
2924889	Feb, 1960	Di Lauro	35/76.
3392459	Jul, 1968	Schure et al.	35/9.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Grieb, William H.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Pearson & Pearson