Musical ornament

An improved Christmas tree ornament comprising:

• a separate, rectangularly shaped battery box unit;
• a separate, holiday - type, generally spherically shaped ornament unit;
• an elongated flexible cable that has a predetermined length and that is formed of at least two electrical conductors, the flexible cable interconnecting the battery box unit and the ornament unit;
• the battery box unit having
• its outer surfaces visually ornamented for disguising the battery box unit as a Christmas wrapped gift box;
• first hook means adapted for hanging the battery box unit at a first point within a Christmas tree;
• the battery box unit also having:
• means in one of its outer surfaces for permitting removal and replacement of a battery supply within the battery box unit;
• electrical contact means for interconnecting the battery supply stored within the battery box unit to the electrical conductors for developing a D.C. voltage across the electrical conductors;
• and electrical switch means for selectively activating the electrical contact means so as to interconnect and disconnect the battery supply stored within the battery box unit to the electrical conductors, the electrical switch means being mounted, at least in part, on an outer surface of the battery box unit so that the electrical switch means may be activated from without the battery box unit, with the part of the electrical switch means mounted on the outer surface of the battery box unit having a shape and visual appearance such that it forms an integral part of and blends with the visual ornamentation of the battery box unit;
• the ornament unit comprising:
• an outer generally spherical shell that is, in part transparent and, in part nontransparent;
• that has a first interior portion which is disposed within the transparent part of the shell and which is visually decorated with a holiday - type theme;
• at least one part that is movable along a preselected path within the interior of the shell so as to cooperate with and enhance the first visually decorated portion of the interior of the shell and so as to provide a decorative visual effect;
• a D.C. motor being disposed within the nontransparent part of the shell and being connected to the one moveable part for the moving the same, the motor also being electrically connected to the electrical conductors for powering of the motor by said D.C. voltage;
• and
• second hook means adapted for hanging the ornament unit at a second point, within the Christmas tree spaced from said first point, with the first and second points being spaced apart a distance less than the predetermined length of the flexible cable.