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Children's pad printing kit

US5435240A · kind A · utility

9Cited by
19References
11Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 17, 1994
Grant dateJul 25, 1995
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 17, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09B11/06
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An educational device in the form of a children's pad printing kit (10) which kit includes a smooth, preferably transparent, transfer sheet (32) upon which images may be drawn or traced, one or more water based felt tip ink pens 22, and a deformable rubber-like transfer pad (36) which is capable of lifting off an image from the surface of the transfer sheet when the rubber-like transfer pad is placed into contact with the ink image on the surface, the transfer pad being capable of depositing the lifted-off image upon another surface, such as the surface of a sheet of drawing surface. The kit may additionally include artwork (26) which has images to be traced, and stencils (24) which may be used for forming images on the surface of the transfer sheet. The ink pens use washable ink permitting the images drawn on the transfer sheet 12 to be changed as desired.

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