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US 4,121,835 AGranted
Sound producing straw
OwnerGeorge V. Garabedianinventor
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Abstract
A sound producing device where a recorded sound track on the external surface of an elongate member, such as a drinking straw, produces sound as the straw is moved through a resilient lid of a container.
Claims1
A sound producing device comprising, in combination,
- an open topped container having a closed bottom and sidewall forming a cup shape for holding liquid,
- a lid retained on said open top of said container,
- said lid having an aperture therein,
- a hollow elongate substantially rigid member adaped to be passed through the aperture in said lid,
- means comprising embossed ridges on the external surface of said rigid member representing a recorded intelligible sound track,
- means formed on said lid adjacent said aperture for engaging said embossed ridge means so as to vibrate upon relative movement between said rigid member and said lid so that the recorded sound track is reproduced with said container providing a sound reproducing box, and
- means for reproducing the recorded sound track successively at varying pitches.
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