Abstract Each card has one or more letters of the alphabet on its face, each letter comprising superimposed printed and cursive forms of substantially the same size with the coinciding portions thereof at a different level than the face of the card and/or than the remaining portions. Said remaining portions may be either of a different color from the coinciding portions and/or printed on the face of the card. The coinciding portions are tactually distinct from the remaining portions of the letters, i.e. connectors, smoothers and decorations, and these remaining portions may be tactually distinct from each other and/or the card itself, as by lowering them or raising them, using ridges, knoblike structures, roughness, different compositions or other means to distinguish them to the touch. Guide lines extend horizontally at the upper and lower extremities of the letter and at other significant parts of the letter either printed on the face of the card and/or at a different level therefrom.
Inventors
👤 Barbara Salvatore Ingalls
Bibliographic Details
Application Number—
JurisdictionUS
Data Sourcegoogle_patents
Last Synchronized2026-10-27 12:19
CPC Classifications
G; G09; G09B; G09B1/00; G09B1/32; G09B1/34
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 5
Claim 1
Independent Claim
70 words
In an educational system, a set of cards each having on its face a letter of the alphabet in cursive form at a distinctive level different than said face and having a printed form of the same letter disposed in coinciding relation to a portion of said cursive form with the connectors, smoothers and decorations of the cursive form when present at a level distinctively different from said printed form.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
70 words
In an educational system, a set of cards each having on its face a letter of the alphabet in cursive form at a distinctive level different than said face and having a printed form of the same letter disposed in coinciding relation to a portion of said cursive form with the connectors, smoothers and decorations of the cursive form when present at a level distinctively different from said printed form.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
The cards of claim 1 in which the cursive form connectors, smoothers and decorations are distinctively colored from the color designation of said printed form.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
24 words
The cards of claim 1 in which the coinciding portions of the printed and cursive forms and the remaining cursive portions are tactually distinct.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
The cards of claim 3 in which one of said portions has a surface of different tactually identifiable structure than the surface of said other portions.