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US 9,640,155 B2Granted
Music box with visual animation
AssigneeReuge SA
InventorFrancois Junod
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Abstract
The invention relates to a musical box comprising: a comb (30) with a plurality of vibrating blades (3) of different lengths so as to produce audible sounds of different frequencies when the vibrating blades are vibrated; a plate or a cylinder (2) provided with points (20) so as to alternately vibrate the different vibrating blades (3) when the plate or cylinder is rotated; and a visual animation device (4, 5) actuated by said blades.
Claims18
A music box including:
- a comb (30) with a plurality of vibrating blades (3) with different lengths so as to produce audible sounds with different frequencies when the vibrating blades are vibrated;
- a plate or a cylinder (2) provided with tips (20) so as to alternately vibrate the different vibrating blades (3) when the plate or cylinder is rotated;
- a visual animation device (4, 5) actuated by said vibrating blades (3);
- characterized in that said visual animation device includes a plurality of projectiles (5) arranged to be actuated by said vibrating blades (3) so as to be projected by the displacement of the blades.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.