Step actuated noise maker and means for attachment to a shoe

• US 3,878,641 A
• Filed: 12/07/1973
• Issued: 04/22/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sid Noble
• Original Assignee: Sid Noble
• Inventors: Noble, Sid
• Primary Examiner(s): Shay, F. Barry
• Application Number:
  US05/422,786
• Time in Patent Office: 501 Days
• Field of Search: 36/2.5AC,2.5AF 220/315 46/175R,189,177 273/DIG.18 272/70
• US Class Current: 446/26
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 5/00 Musical or noise- producing devices for additional toy effects other than acoustical musical tops A63H1/28; sound-producing dolls A63H3/28; musical toy vehicles A63H17/268; acoustical vehicle-signalling devices A63H17/32; whistling toy locomotive arrangements A63H19/14; music, sound or noise production in general G10

Abstract

A step actuated noise maker including a one-piece housing having a closed interior with a cricket being located in said interior. Means is provided for attaching the housing to the shoe and a movable button projects from the housing for actuating said cricket when said step actuated noisemaker is brought in contact with the ground.

Claims

1. An actuateable noisemaker which can be selectively secured to a shoe so as to be step actuated comprising a housing, said housing including a first section and a second section, said first and second housing sections being hinged to each other, said first and second housing sections being secured to each other so as to define a closed interior, a cricket, said cricket including a leaf mount and a leaf, said cricket being located in said closed interior, means integral with said second housing section for preventing said cricket from freely moving in said interior, said second housing section including a wall, an opening extending through said wall, a button actuator, said button actuator including a first section and a second section, said first section of said button actuator being located in said interior and abutting said leaf and having a larger cross section than said button actuator second section, the second section of said button actuator extending through said opening and being external of said interior, a securing means adapted to be placed on the upper portion of a shoe, elastic retaining means attached to said securing means and attached to said housing whereby said securing means can be placed on the upper portion of a shoe and the housing on the sole of the shoe and as the shoe comes in successive contact with the ground the button actuator is depressed causing the cricket leaf to flex and a series of sounds to be emitted.

2. An actuateable noisemaker according to claim 1 wherein said securing means includes two plates which are held parallel to each other by a separating means, said elastic retaining means selectively securable to said separating means.