1981-12-22
1983-07-05
Yu, Mickey
46177, A63H 2916
Patent
active
043910610
ABSTRACT:
A musical toy having audio-visual characteristics. A plurality of identical pneumatic systems, each for actuation of one of a plurality of vertically moveable ornaments, are positioned in the interior of a housing. Each of the pneumatic systems consists essentially of an air manifold in fluid communication with a bellows, a whistle and a vertical tube having a piston moveably positioned therein. Each of the bellows is operatively positioned in an access opening through the housing and the upper end of each of the vertical tubes extends out of an opening through the housing. Each of the pistons extends out of the upper end of its respective tube. One of the vertically moveable ornaments is affixed to the upper end of each of the pistons. When one of the bellows is compressed, air is simultaneously forced through the associated whistle to create a whistling sound and through the associated vertical tube to move the associated piston and vertically moveable ornament upward for their maximum distance of travel. When the bellows is released, the piston and ornament return to their at rest position. If the vertically moveable ornaments resemble the heads of birds, the simultaneous whistling sound and vertical movement creates an illusion of whistling birds.
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Fogarty A. Edward
Fogarty Bonnie R.
Reese, II Benjamin P.
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