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US 5,212,333 AGranted
Musical baton apparatus
OwnerFrederick O. Aryeeinventor
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Abstract
A musical baton is arranged to include an illumination source therewithin projecting into a translucent rod extending from the baton, with the translucent rod arranged to receive illumination from the handle portion of the baton structure, with the illumination projected through one of a plurality of contrastingly colored lenses to alter illumination within the baton structure during use.
Claims5
A musical baton apparatus, comprising,
- an elongate handle body, the handle body including a handle socket, and
- a wand support tube, the wand support tube including a support tube rear end, with the support tube rear end received within the handle socket and longitudinally aligned relative to the handle body, and
- the wand support tube including a translucent tubular wand mounted in a longitudinally aligned relationship relative to the wand support tube at a forward distal end of the wand support tube, and
- illumination means mounted within the handle body for projecting illumination through the wand support tube into the translucent tubular wand, and
- illumination control means mounted to the wand support tube and arranged for manual manipulation relative to the handle body and oriented for projecting various colorations of illumination into the tubular wand, and
- the translucent tubular wand includes a wand rear wall flange plate, the rear wall flange plate extends laterally and orthogonally beyond the tubular wand, and the wand rear wall flange plate including a flange plate bore directed therethrough, and the translucent tubular wand including an elongate cavity directed through the tubular wand coextensively therewith in communication with the flange plate bore, and a plurality of parallel flutes arranged coextensively within the tubular wand, with the tubular wand oriented about a wand axis and the flutes oriented parallel relative to the wand axis, and the wand support tube including an externally threaded forward outer wall portion, and an internally threaded cap formed with a cap bore receiving the wand therethrough, the cap including a cap top wall, the cap top wall in abutment with the wand rear wall flange plate received within the cap, and the cap threadedly secured to the wand support tube threaded forward outer wall portion to longitudinally align the translucent tubular wand relative to the wand support tube.
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