Patent ID: 8496483

Claim:
An educational toy with interchangeable spheres for teaching the user to produce words, progressions, mathematics, patterns and other educational arrangements and sequences comprising: a) a permanently affixed stationary sphere mounted on one end of a shaft, said shaft terminating within said stationary sphere; b) an opposite end of said shaft being threaded; c) a removable threaded sphere mounted on and being engaged with threads on said opposite end of said shaft, said threads on said shaft being of sufficient length to support only said threaded sphere, and said shaft terminating within said threaded sphere; d) a plurality of educational spheres having horizontal throughbores; and e) said plurality of educational spheres removably mounted on said shaft between said stationary and threaded sphere, said educational spheres comprising indicia and being configured to be arranged and rearranged by a child to produce words, progressions, mathematics, patterns or other educational arrangements and sequences, said educational spheres filling the space on said shaft between said stationary and threaded spheres.