Patent · US Expired

Shape sorting educational toy

US5139453A · kind A · utility

40Cited by
17References
18Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 15, 1991
Grant dateAug 18, 1992
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 15, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA63F2009/0668
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A sorting device including an open top container with an invertible sorting member mounted thereover. The sorting member includes multiple funnel-shaped passages therethrough each having, at one end, an enlarged opening and at the second truncated end a specifically configured opening of a size to closely receive and pass therethrough only a correspondingly configured block introduced in either direction through the configured opening.

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