[FYI] Umwerfendes Business Method Patent US-A-5,851,117 in den USA

["Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>]

United States Patent 5,851,117 Alsheimer, et al.

Building block training systems and training methods 

                         Abstract

A building block training system and method of training of cleaners 
of facilities to be used on the job which utilizes a plurality of 
pictorial displays showing a specific set of steps to accomplish a 
cleaning operation in an efficient safe manner, e.g., dusting or 
vacuuming of a facility as well as a plurality of pictorial displays 
as to what must not be missed and must be avoided in performing the 
cleaning operation.  

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                         Claims:

1. A method of a trainer teaching a cleaner, the method comprising: 

(a) providing a training system for use in on the job training of 
worker whose job functions include the cleaning of a facility, the
training system comprising a plurality of sections, each training 
system section containing instructions for cleaning a typical
facility, each training system section limited in instructions to a 
specific physical job function to be performed in the facility, and
each training system section containing illustrations of what is to 
be done and illustrations of what is not to be skipped and what
is to be avoided in performing the cleaning job functions; 

(b) in the facility, the trainer showing the cleaner a document of a 
section of the training system, the document pictorially
indicating what the cleaner is to do in each step of a specific job 
function; 

(c) the trainer telling the cleaner about each step pictorially 
depicted in the document; 

(d) the trainer showing the cleaner how to perform each step 
pictorially depicted in the document; and 

(e) the trainer having the cleaner perform the step in the presence 
of the trainer while the trainer coaches and the trainer having
the cleaner tell the trainer about the step while referring to the 
document. 

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