Patent ID: 6589056
Filing Date: 2003-07-08
Classification: A44C

Abstract:
A hand held, hand operated, mechanical Rosary prayer sequence symbol prompter comprising:counting symbol means including 6 straight sided nonsimilar geometric shaped symbols and 1 circular shaped symbol; counting symbol support means including a vertical sided circular enclosure with a prompter actuating push button protruding from its side, and a structural frame that supports a vertical sided symbol fastening base ring to the interior surface of said vertical sided circular enclosure; counting symbol fastening means including a hinge and tension spring assembly, for each straight sided symbol, that causes a symbol to tend to rotate clockwise toward the vertical sided circular enclosure, and that flexibly connects the symbol by one end to the top surface of said vertical sided symbol fastening base ring; circular counting symbol support means including a vertical elongated flat headed rectangular shaped shaft that extends down from the underside of the symbol's circular top and that is carried in an elongated rectangular shaped vertical hole in said structural frame, the vertical elongated flat headed rectangular shaped shaft is supported to an up and down non-rotational travel capability; counting wheel means comprising a wheel with 60 teeth and 60 V shaped notches that are radially spaced 6Â° apart, cut in said wheel's peripheral edge, each tooth corresponding to a prayer in the 60 sequenced prayers said in a recitation of the Rosary, and a semicircular, elongated, flat bottomed hold and release mechanism actuating displacement cam that is fastened disposed aligned radially on the top surface of said counting wheel means; counting wheel support assembly means for supporting said counting wheel means to a horizontal rotational plane; counting wheel mechanical rotational propulsion means comprised of a push button actuated wheel ratcheting mechanism that imparts rotational movement to the wheel, and a wheel rotational movement control pawl mechanism; typical non-circular type symbol hold down and release means comprised of a symbol hold down hook, which is in the form of a short length of channel, fastened to the underside of said symbol, and a hold down and release mechanism assembly that while engaging said hook to hold a nonsimilar geometric shaped symbol, can be actuated by said counting wheel means to effect the upward release of the nonsimilar geometric shaped symbols into an inclined counting mode attitude; non-circular counting symbol reset means including a reset lever that is hinge fastened by one end to the unfastened lower front end of each nonsimilar geometric shaped symbols and is also hinged near its midlength point that allows the lever to swing from the horizontal to the near vertical and engage a tab that is carried by said circular shaped symbol; circular counting symbol hold down and release means comprised of a lever that is carried extending horizontally out of the lower end of said symbol's vertical shaft, and a mechanism assembly that while engaging said horizontal lever to hold said symbol down, can be actuated by said counting wheel means to effect the upward release of the symbol into an elevated counting mode attitude; circular counting symbol non-circular counting symbol resetting means including a circular skirt that extends down from the underside of the circular symbol's circular top, and six tabs that extend horizontally out of the circular bottom of said skirt, aligned to engage the unfastened ends of the reset levers hinged to the 6 corresponding nonsimilar geometric shaped symbols; and a Rosary compartment means for carrying a Rosary on ones person, said compartment space being located in the bottom of said prompter.