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US 5,041,045 AGranted
Wind instrument toy
AssigneeTomy Company, Ltd.
InventorMichiya Ohashi
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Abstract
The present invention provides a wind instrument toy having a plurality of melody pipes played by air fed from a blower. A plurality of valves open and close vent portions of the melody pipes. A plurality of vent pipes connect to the corresponding vent portions of the melody pipes and have vertically movable floats therein which float on the air in accordance with music played.
Claims19
A wind instrument toy comprising:
- a blast fan;
- a plurality of melody pipes, each of said melody pipes having an air outlet;
- a plurality of valves controllably disposed between said blast fan and said melody pipes, each of said valves correspondingly associated with one of said melody pipes;
- a plurality of vent pipes, each of said vent pipes having a first end coupled to an air outlet of a corresponding melody pipe;
- and
- a plurality of vertically movable floats, each of said floats contained within a corresponding vent pipe.
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