Dog bone toy with variable sound emitters

• US 6,679,927 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2001
• Issued: 01/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HandsOnToys Incorporated
• Original Assignee: HandsOnToys Incorporated
• Inventors: Strongin, Ned
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Francis, Faye
• Application Number:
  US09/982,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20020129774A1
• Time in Patent Office: 824 Days
• Field of Search: 446/213, 446/397, 446/188, 446/203, 446/218, 446/175, 446/404, 446/409, 119/702-711
• US Class Current: 446/213
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 15/025 Toys specially adapted for animals

Abstract

A toy which emits sounds as it is moved, comprising: a toy body; and a plurality of mechanically-operated sound tubes carried within the toy body, each sound tube including a sliding whistle which moves along the tube by the force of gravity, and each sound tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which the axes are transverse to one another, so that the sound tubes emit sound when the toy is moved along various axes.

Claims

1. A toy which emits sounds as it is rolled, comprising:

a generally dog-bone shaped toy body; and

three substantially orthogonal mechanically-operated sound tubes carried within said toy body, each said sound tube including a sliding whistle which moves along said tube by the force of gravity, and each said sound tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which said axes are substantially orthogonal to one another, so that said sound tubes emit sound when said toy is moved along various axes;

wherein said toy body includes six indented areas, and in which the ends of each said sound tube are located at the toy surface in an indented area, to inhibit the sound tubes from contacting a surface against which said toy is contacted.

2. The toy of claim 1 in which said toy body is hollow, and is made from a pliable material.

3. The toy of claim 2, further including means for tightly holding the ends of each said sound producing device proximate the surface of said toy body.

4. The toy of claim 3 in which said means for tightly holding includes a lip formed in said toy body, which partially overlays the end of said sound producing device.

5. The toy of claim 4, in which said lip lies below the apparent surface of said toy body, to inhibit the ends of said sound producing devices from contacting a surface against which said toy is contacted.

6. A toy which emits sounds as it is moved, comprising:

a hollow toy body made from a pliable material; and

three substantially orthogonal mechanically-operated sound tubes carried within said toy body, each said sound tube including a sliding whistle which moves along said tube by the force of gravity, and each said sound tube lying along a longitudinal axis, in which said axes are substantially orthogonal to one another, so that said sound tubes emit sound when said toy is moved along various axes;

wherein said toy body includes six indented areas, and in which the ends of each said sound tube are located at the toy surface in an indented area, to inhibit the sound tubes from contacting a surface against which said toy is contacted;

wherein said toy body includes a lip below its apparent surface, said lip partially overlaying the ends of each said sound tube, to tightly hold the ends of said sound tubes proximate said surface at said indented areas.