Teething ring with an enclosed amusement member on a diametral shaft

• US 4,816,003 A
• Filed: 04/02/1987
• Issued: 03/28/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CHUN YIP Silver Ware Limited
• Original Assignee: CHUN YIP Silver Ware Limited
• Inventors: Yip, Chun-Tong, Yip, Chun-Kuen
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US07/033,287
• Time in Patent Office: 726 Days
• Field of Search: 446/227, 446/236, 446/237, 446/265, 446/269, 446/270, 446/418, 446/419, 446/411, 446/412, 446/413, 446/421, 446/450, 128/359
• US Class Current: 446/419
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/02 Teething rings
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/1011 Emitting sound, e.g. having rattles or music boxes

Abstract

A combined teething ring and rattle in which the rattle is rotatably mounted on a continuous shaft which extends through the rattle and into bores in the ring. The shaft is held in place in the ring by plugs which seal the open ends of the bores and which are permanently secured in place, such as by gluing or welding.

Claims

1. A teething ring having an amusement member rotatably mounted therein and comprising:

a continuous ring molded of hard rigid synthetic plastic material and having formed therein a pair of substantially diametric bores which pass entirely through the ring and have outer ends,

a shaft fixed substantially diametrically across said ring and extending into both of said bores, said shaft having shaft ends and a length which is less than the outer diameter of the ring,

plugs permanently secured in said outer ends of said bores closely adjacent each of the shaft ends,

said ring being sufficiently hard and said shaft being sufficiently long for rendering impossible dislodgment of the shaft during normal usage, and

said amusement member being rotatably supported on said shaft within said ring.

2. A teething ring according to claim 1 wherein the amusement member is a hollow rattle component within which are loosely confined particles for causing a rattling sound when shaken.

3. A teething ring according to claim 1 wherein the shaft ends are closely surrounded by the walls of said bores.

4. A teething ring according to claim 1 wherein said plugs are glued or welded into said ends of said bores flush with the outer surface of said ring.

5. A teething ring according to claim 1 wherein said rattle component is in the shape of a figure, said shaft extending through said rattle, holes being provided at opposite ends of said figure for the shaft to extend through.

6. A teething ring according to claim 1 further comprising sleeves surrounding said shaft to act as spacers between said rattle component and said ring.