Musical toy with a motor driven display
AssigneeShelcore, Inc.
InventorMichael Greenberg
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Abstract
A toy includes a housing, a plurality of buttons arranged to initiate playback of a tune or other sounds, a transparent enclosure containing a plurality of balls, an agitator extending into the enclosure, a motor mounted within the housing for causing the agitator to oscillate and propel balls that encounter the agitator against the walls of the enclosure, a sound generator and speaker, and control circuitry for causing the sound generator to play selected sounds upon pressing of one of the buttons, and for intermittently activating the agitator during playback of the sounds. The housing of the toy may be arranged to resemble a piano, and the buttons may be configured to resemble keys of the piano.
Claims9
A toy, comprising:
- at least one button;
- control circuitry arranged to play sounds upon pressing the button, and to intermittently generate a motor actuation signal after playing of the tune has begun;
- a motor arranged to be actuated by said motor actuation signal;
- and
- a mechanism driven by the motor for providing a sudden, frenetic, motion upon actuation of said motor,
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.