Ball With A Plurality Of Mechanical Sound-Producing Devices
AssigneeHandsOn Toys, Inc.
InventorsRustam Booz, Andrew Farrar
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Abstract
A toy ball which emits sounds as it is rolled and including a ball body and a plurality of mechanically-operated sound producing tubes carried within the ball body, each sound producing tube including a sound-producing device which moves by the force of gravity, and each sound producing tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which the axes are transverse to one another so that the sound producing devices emit sound when the ball is rolled along various axes. The ends of the sound-producing tubes are held by sleeves that are molded as integral parts of the ball body.
Claims14
A toy ball which emits sounds as it is rolled, comprising:
- a ball body;
- and
- a plurality of mechanically-operated sound producing tubes carried within the ball body, each sound producing tube including a sound-producing device which moves by the force of gravity, and each sound producing tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which the axes are transverse to one another so that the sound producing tubes emit sound when the ball is rolled along various axes;
- wherein the ends of the sound-producing tubes are held by sleeves that are molded as integral parts of the ball body.
A toy ball which emits sounds as it is rolled, comprising:
- a generally spherical ball body with six spaced indented areas;
- and
- three sound tubes carried within the ball body, each sound tube comprising a sliding whistle that is configured to move by the force of gravity, each sound tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which the axes are substantially orthogonal to one another so that the sound producing whistles emit sound when the ball is rolled or moved along or about various axes;
- wherein the ends of the sound tubes are located below the ball surface in an indented area and held by sleeves that are molded as integral parts of the ball body.
A toy ball which emits sounds as it is rolled, comprising:
- a generally spherical ball body with six spaced indented areas, wherein the ball body is made from a plurality of portions that are separately molded and then fixed together;
- and
- three sound tubes carried within the ball body, each sound tube comprising a sliding sound-producing device that is configured to move by the force of gravity, each sound tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which the axes are transverse to one another so that the sound producing devices emit sound when the ball is rolled or moved along or about various axes;
- wherein the ends of the sound tubes are located below the ball surface in an indented area and held by sleeves that are molded as integral parts of the ball body;
- wherein one portion of the ball body comprises six separate inwardly-protruding integral sleeves, each configured to overlie one end of a sound tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.