PHONE FOR BLINDS AND ILLITERATES
Summary:Conventional telephone dialer is modified to use in combination with dial-cards. Dial-card stores a particular telephone number which can be dialed when needed by inserting into a slot provided with said modified telphone instrument.
Full Description:
Phone for Blinds and Illiterates’, a patent pending technology, provides a convenient method for dialing ,programming and storing telephone numbers equally beneficial for a common, illiterate, aged, visually handicapped and physically challenged person. Generally, to dial a number one has to press a long series of buttons. To remember a telephone number different methods are adopted. Numbers are written in diaries, telephone instruments that have memory or one has to learn it by heart. Only a literate person can read numbers written in diaries and stored in telephone instruments. Also numbers can’t be learned by heart beyond a limit. More ever, aged, illiterate, visually handicapped and physically challenged persons can’t use numbers stored in phone books and directories easily. Even literate person who is aged, weak or have weak eyesight faces problems while dialing a telephone number. Visually handicapped person can’t read ordinary phone books and directories. Telephone instruments with big buttons are available in the market for persons having weak eye-sight which are of no use to illiterates and blinds. One can dial numbers stored within the phonebook of available LCD phones by seeing in the screen and searching desired number. To access phone numbers one has to be literate. More ever a blind person can not use this facility. The said invention comprises a modified telephone instrument and a portable Dial-Card capable of storing a telephone number. An ordinary telephone instrument is modified to use with said Dial-Cards. The modifications don’t affect normal working of the telephone instrument. For illiterates Dial-Cards are marked using different colours, figures or by pasting image of number owner for easy identification. For visually handicapped Dial-Card are marked using embossed figures or Braille characters. Dial-Cards have a hole through which a cord can be passed to keep cards in plurality easily or a key ring can be used for the same purpose. These cards can be considered as a phonebook when used in plurality. Dial-Cards are programmed using the same telephone instrument. A slot is provided with the main body of telephone instrument to insert Dial-Card. A switch is provided to select normal dialing of telephone instrument or dialing using Dial-Card. Telephone number stored in a Dial-Card can be dialed by inserting it into provided slot and then pressing the redial button present on key pad of telephone instrument. Alternately a rotatable disc, capable of holding 8-12 Dial-Cards, is fitted in the telephone instrument into which Dial-Cards can be fitted by sliding through an opening. The marking provided on Dial-Cards is visible through a window. One can select a desirable Dial-Card for dialing by moving a knob (K-1). Both disc and slot options can be used with the same telephone instrument. Physically and visually handicapped are present whole over the world and most of the people of under-developed countries are illiterates. Hence present idea is a universal solution for them. Cost of modification of telephone instrument (of course, during manufacturing phase) and Dial-Card is negligible as compared to the expensive telephone instruments available in the market.
Problem this idea/invention addresses:
Phone for Blinds and Illiterates’, a patent pending technology, provides a convenient method for dialing ,programming and storing telephone numbers equally beneficial for a common, illiterate, aged, visually handicapped and physically challenged person. Generally, to dial a number one has to press a long series of buttons
Attached files:
Dialer.pdf
Dial-Card.pdf
Working.pdf
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Available for consultation? Yes
Invention #11110
Date posted: 2008-11-06
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