Musical toy
AssigneeTomy Kogyo Co., Inc.
InventorAtsuo Tanaka
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Abstract
A musical toy consisting of a plurality of separately operated dolls each having a flexible bellows provided with an air chamber having an outlet, and a passageway connecting the opening of the bellows and the air chamber, the air chamber and passageway of each of the dolls being of a size to produce a pre-determined musical note, and wherein each of the dolls is also provided with indicia designating the note.
Claims6
A toy, comprising a plurality of sound producing mechanisms for producing different musical notes, each of said sound producing mechanisms having an upper portion with a bellows-like mechanism, a lower housing having an external wall with an opening therethrough and at least one internal wall surface, an upper housing complementary in configuration to said external wall of said lower housing and slidably mounted thereon, said bellows-like mechanism extending into said upper housing, a disc positioned between said upper and lower housings, said disc having a slit therethrough and at least one ridge on the bottom thereof located to abut said internal wall surface to define an air chamber in said lower housing, said plurality of sound producing mechanisms having the same size bellows-like mechanism, upper housing, lower housing and disc, the size of said slit and the location of said ridge and internal wall surface being selected to produce the particular note of each of sound producing mechanisms whereby each of said sound producing mechanisms may be manufactured by assembling all elements except said disc and lower housing from a common stock pile of parts, said disc and lower housing being individually selected for the note desired.
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