Patent Grant
11984039
The disclosure of the present patent application relates to reading documents, and particularly to a focused reading cylinder that exhibits a document for reading one line at a time.
In modern society, people sometimes have difficulty in properly comprehending documents that they read. Some people have visual impairments that cause successive lines of text to blur together. Other individuals try to read documents too quickly, resulting in the content of two successive lines becoming inextricably intertwined or mixed together. Consequently, a device that trains people or constricts people having such difficulties to read documents one line at a time would be a benefit to the art. Thus, a focused reading cylinder solving the aforementioned problems is desired.
The focused reading cylinder has an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder selectively rotatable within the outer cylinder. The outer cylinder has an elongated main reading slot defined therein dimensioned and configured to expose a single line of text of a document retained between the two cylinders for reading. The top and bottom edges or borders of the main reading slot may have rows of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted thereon to illuminate the text, either in conventional white light or more relaxing colors. A document feeder slot is defined in the outer cylinder and extends parallel to the main reading slot. The inner cylinder is made from or coated with rubber to grip the document between the two cylinders, and has a hand crank or knob for selectively advancing the inner cylinder and document.
The focused reading cylinder may be furnished in kit form with selectively interchangeable lenses insertable over the main reading slots. The interchangeable lenses may include, for example, colored lens (such as yellow and blue), magnifying lenses, or ruled lenses having dividers for separating letters in the text.
These and other features of the present subject matter will become readily apparent upon further review of the following specification and drawings.
Similar reference characters denote corresponding features consistently throughout the attached drawings.
The focused reading cylinder has an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder selectively rotatable within the outer cylinder. The outer cylinder has an elongated main reading slot defined therein dimensioned and configured to expose a single line of text of a document retained between the two cylinders for reading. The top and bottom edges or borders of the main reading slot may have rows of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted thereon to illuminate the text, either in conventional white light or more relaxing colors. A document feeder slot is defined in the outer cylinder and extends parallel to the main reading slot. The inner cylinder is made from or coated with rubber to grip the document between the two cylinders, and has a hand crank or knob for selectively advancing the inner cylinder and document.
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The focused reading cylinder 10 helps everyone who wants to be in focus while reading a passage in a document.
The focused reading cylinder 10 can be used to serve people with dyslexia, with reading weakness, with attention deficit disorder, and those who have a problem with visual processing. The focused reading cylinder 10 provides several supports such as decreased visual field (the reader will not be able to look at the upper and lower lines); using the reader's favorite colors that help focus on reading words; using the word divider into letters to help a child spell correctly. Therefore, the focused reading cylinder 10 helps the child to be independent in learning, and to be more integrated into an inclusive education classroom.
The focused reading cylinder 10 can be used to serve people with visual impairments by limiting the visual field or using magnifiers.
The focused reading cylinder 10 can be used to serve the elderly people, instead of raising and lowering their hand to control the paper, the focused reading cylinder 10 provides easy control of the paper with the stability of the hand.
The focused reading cylinder 10 can be used to serve those who want to train themselves to read quickly by giving themselves a specific time for each line.
There are many people who prefer to read while lying down on their back. Thus, the focused reading cylinder 10 provides an easy way to control the paper.
It is to be understood that the focused reading cylinder is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, but encompasses any and all embodiments within the scope of the generic language of the following claims enabled by the embodiments described herein, or otherwise shown in the drawings or described above in terms sufficient to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the claimed subject matter.
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