Instructional printing equipment

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters of the United States is: 1.
Instructional printing equipment for teaching the correct manner of printing letters and/or numerals comprising a set of letters and/or numerals each formed as a block with at least one groove forming the configuration of a letter or numeral concerned, each groove having an upper surface shaped to facilitate movement of a writing instrument along the groove in a preferred direction to be used when writing the letter or numeral concerned and to resist the movement of the writing instrument therealong in an opposite direction, said upper surface comprising a series of surface portions inclined upwardly in said preferred direction, each upwardly inclined surface portion being followed by a steeply downwardly inclined portion to resist movement of a writing instrument in said opposite direction, and each upwardly inclined portion being spaced from a preceding steeply downwardly inclined portion to provide an aperture to enable a writing instrument moved over the upper surface to pass through each aperture and consequently make a mark on a writing surface positioned beneath the letter or numeral concerned.




Description:
This invention relates to instructional printing equipment for teaching learners, especially children, to form letters and/or numerals in a prescribed manner.
Although it is well known to use stencils for this purpose, such existing equipment does not cause the user to print letters and/or numerals in the manner regarded as correct in the educational field.
According to the present invention, instructional printing equipment for teaching the correct manner of printing letters and/or numerals comprises a set of letters and/or numerals each formed as a block with at least one groove forming the configuration of a letter or numeral concerned, each groove having a surface to facilitate movement of a writing instrument along the groove in a preferred direction to be used when writing a letter or numeral concerned and to resist movement to the writing instrument therealong in an opposite direction