Musical adaptor for baby nursing bottles
OwnerChris S. Eaganinventor
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Abstract
An electronic musical adaptor for removable attachment to a baby nursing bottle to produce a musical tune to soothe and amuse the baby upon movement of the bottle during the feeding process. The adaptor comprising a cup-shaped housing, a melody producing circuit including an integrated circuit microchip within which is stored musical tune information, a battery power source, a buzzer-type speaker and a motion-activated microswitch for activating the microchip, and a wafer-like container encapsulating the melody producing circuit removably situated within the cup-shaped housing proximate the bottom thereof.
Claims11
An electronic musical adaptor for removable attachment to a baby nursing bottle to produce a musical tune to soothe and amuse the baby upon movement of the bottle during the feeding process, said adaptor comprising:
- a) a cup-shaped housing having a cylindrical side wall and a bottom wall, the upper portion of said side wall including bottle-gripping means for releasably holding said housing onto the lower portion of a baby nursing bottle;
- b) melody producing circuit means including an integrated circuit microchip within which is stored musical tune information, a battery power source electrically interconnected to said microchip, a buzzer-type speaker electrically interconnected to said microchip, and a motion-activated microswitch electrically interconnected to said microchip for activating said microchip;
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- c) a wafer-like container encapsulating the melody producing circuit means and removably situated within the cup-shaped housing proximate the bottom wall thereof, said melody producing circuit means including means external of said container for interacting with said housing to activate said circuit means only when said container is seated within said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.