Abstract: A self-righting carousel toy having an eccentrically mounted internal weight for inducing oscillation of the toy about an upright position upon rotation of the weight relative to the base. The toy includes a drive mechanism for selectively rotating a display assembly relative to the base, independent of the self-righting forces.

Abstract: The percussion rhythm apparatus includes an elongate base member to which one end of each of two hollow tubular members is engaged in a pivotable manner. The tubular members are spaced from one another and both extend outwardly to one side of the base member. The free end of each tubular member includes an angled graspable section, the open end of which is covered by an end cap. The graspable sections are of unequal length to protect fingers from pinching when the tubular members are brought together.

Abstract: A golf game wherein a first ball is suspended above a putting green surface for being struck by a putted ball, and a second bell is supported above the first bell, for being struck by an airborne driven game ball, which ball includes chimes therein.

Abstract: An electronic percussion synthesizer assembly incorporates a novel structure for supporting the drum heads. The novel supporting structure comprises a spider assembly (83) comprised of a plurality of legs (150) joined at one end for defining a hub (152) and secured at their free ends to the perimeter of the drum head (65) on the underside thereof. The spider assembly (83) minimizes mechanical damping of the striking surface and, where a plurality of drum heads (62, 63, 64, 65) are used, also minimiizes "cross talk" between the drum heads. A novel foot pedal control (120) for altering the sounds produced by the drum head is also disclosed.

Abstract: A training device to create an attention getting sound by striking a surface with the device, the material from which the device is formed producing a relatively loud sound but without painful impact irrespective of the striking vigor.

Abstract: A novelty device is presented as a therapeutic and entertaining organization to permit positioning of an actual or simulation of insect upon an anvil and utilizing a hammer member mounted upon a forward surface of a support base underlying the anvil to effect impact of the insect. A modification of the instant invention includes an audible device actuated upon impacting the anvil by the hammer assembly.

Abstract: A game call device for ruminant animals is provided having an elongated cylindrical member which includes a corrugated section for stropping with a similar device to produce the sound of deer antler gashing. The game call also includes an air driven sound producing mechanism whereby blowing through an inlet at one end of the cylindrical member creates a sound similar to the vocal sounds made by a deer.

Abstract: A starter device for a toy drive mechanism that simulates manual starting of a small engine. The starter device includes an input mechanism, operable by a user, for providing a first drive force; a memory mechanism for storing the number of operations of the input mechanism by the user; a sound generating mechanism for producing sounds in response to at least one of the first drive force and a second drive force; a motor mechanism for providing the second drive force in response to at least one of an intermittent input and the number of operations of the input mechanism being a predetermined number; and a mechanism for providing the intermittent input based on operation of said input mechanism and on the second drive force.

Abstract: A novelty grinder includes a grinder base with a pair of guide channels extending across its upper surface and intersecting near its center. The guide channels are preferably perpendicular to one another, and dovetailed in transverse cross-section. A pair of shuttle members or shoes is slidably disposed in the guide channels, each shoe being adapted for reciprocating translational movement in one of the channels. The shoes are preferably trapezoidal in transverse cross-section, and wider at their widest points than the widths of the channels at their upper edges. Alternatively, the channels may be straight-sided and provided with axially extending grooves for receiving pins disposed on the shoes for retaining the shoes in the grooves and preventing their removal in a direction transverse to the direction of their reciprocating movement. Such grooves may have a T-slot configuration for receiving a T-pin on the shoes. The T-slot may be on a side, or on the bottom, of a channel.

Abstract: A noisemaker for bicycles and the like includes a housing having a shoulder and a resonator plate seated in the housing on the shoulder. The resonator plate is biased against the shoulder by a compressed spring. A resonator chamber extends from the shoulder, away from the housing. Use of a camming mechanism raises the resonator plate above the shoulder and releases same as it passes so that the resonator plate is urged back against the shoulder by the spring and a surface-engaging noise and air compression noise are directed into the resonator chamber to simulate the sound commonly associated with a vehicle engine.

Abstract: A noise generating device which has a pair of plastic elongated blades pivotally secured at their distal ends to each other and interconnected intermediately. A spacer is interposed between the blades between the distal and interconnected intermediate portions of the blades. The clapper being used by an operator grasping the ends of the blades and shaking the blades to produce a clapping sound. An improved method of producing the device.

Abstract: A wheeled toy duck is attached to a stick which allows it to be pushed along a ground surface. Flexible flap members are attached to the wheels and alternately "slap" the floor to produce sound while the toy is being pushed by a child.

Abstract: A toy musical instrument comprising a toy body, an imitation mouthpiece projecting outward from one side portion of the wall of said toy body, formed similarly to a mouthpiece of a trumpet and adapted to generate an imitation sound of a trumpet when a blast is given on the imitation mouthpiece with the imitation mouthpiece held in the mouth, an imitation bell, from which the imitation sound of a trumpet is sent out, projecting outward from the other side portion of the wall of the toy body, and some other kinds of imitation musical instruments provided on the remaining portion of the wall of the toy body, which include imitation castanets formed similarly to castanets and assembled so that an imitation sound of castanets occurs when they are beaten, an imitation piano formed similarly to a keyboard of a piano and assembled so that an imitation sound of a piano occurs when it is beaten, an imitation drum formed similarly to a parchment of a drum and assembled so that an imitation sound of a drum occurs when it

Abstract: An eye-hand coordination game includes a hand-held hoop assembly and an untethered ball. A plurality of connecting posts and clicking assemblies join two rings of the hoop assembly. The game is utilized by keeping the unconstrained ball in motion along the inner edges of the rings via centrifugal force, whereupon a rhythmic, clicking sound is produced in time with the movement of the ball.

Abstract: A toy musical playset having a teapot with xylophone keys which is filled with styrene plastic beads, a number of pots with xylophone keys and a pan with a xylophone key, tambourine symbols and musical ribs. The pots, pan and teapot may be stacked on top of each other. The toy pan may be used like a tambourine, or the musical ribs may be used with a toy spatula or spoon to make musical sounds. In addition, the toy teapot filled with beads may be shook to produce musical sounds. A child may strike the xylophone keys with a spoon producing musical sounds during play when the pots, pan and teapot are in a stacked configuration, or when they are spread out on top of a table. The pots or pan may also be hung on a child's belt.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a toy toaster oven that simulates real toaster ovens used by adults. The toy toaster oven has a turn-on knob which uncovers a skylight for illuminating light-reflecting material in the oven with ambient light to simulate a glowing electrical heating element for initiation of a heating cycle. To turn off the toy toaster oven, a drive motor latch on-off button is depressed to its "off" position, causing the drive motor to close the skylight, the simulated glowing heating element to cease glowing and a bell to ring indicating that the simulated food item placed in the oven has been fully toasted or baked.

Abstract: A toy tree for use as a toy box and an amusement device for small children has a hollow trunk and a removable lid. Openings in the side of the hollow trunk are connected to enclosed chutes which have bells which ring when toys are inserted through the side openings. The toy tree has a weighted suction base for stability. Various assorted toys are suspended from the top of the tree.

Abstract: A toy windmill and noise maker comprises a frame and handle. The frame rotatably carries a shaft that has a windmill mounted at one end for rotating the shaft. The handle is connected to the center of the bottom member of the frame so that the device is balanced. Radially extending paddles are carried by the shaft and these actuate drumsticks that beat upon a metal drum supported by the frame. A rubber band having two enlarged ends is stretched across two side members of the frame and supports the drumsticks and causes them to strike the drum after they have been released by the paddles. The bottom member of the frame defines a depression therein near the drum to avoid damping the drum. The windmill is formed from a single square blank which has cuts therein to define the four blades. The four blades have integral extensions where the extensions of diagonally opposed blades are connected to each other in two pairs to hold the blades in concave shape.

Abstract: A flow actuated pulsator for shooting water in consecutive pulses. The pulsator is powered by water flowing under pressure therethrough and includes a nozzle for ejecting water at high speed, a pulse valve which cycles through opened and closed states to effect on-off cycling of water flow and a sound effects generator for producing sound effects with each water pulse. The pulse valve is biased to an open state when the pulsator is not being actuated by flowing water so that an initial water flow initiates open-closed cycling. The pulse valve is biased to an open state following each closed cycle. The pulsator is built into a compressed air powered water gun designed to contain water and air under pressure and including an air pump for compressing air into the gun to pressurize water contained therein and a trigger coupled to a valve for manually shooting the gun by controlling flow of pressurized water to the pulsator.

Abstract: A toy telephone having a base, a dial connected to the base and noise generating means within the base actuatable by the dial, characterized in that the dial is connected to the base for both rotary and axial motion relative to the base and the noise generating means within the base is actuatable to generate one noise upon rotary actuation and a different noise upon axial actuation of the dial.

Abstract: A tagging stick has a long, solid, rod-like, cylindrical body composed of resiliently flexible cellular foam material, such as polyurethane foam, being stiff enough to allow grasping and swinging by a human without bending but soft enough to permit striking objects and human bodies. The stick body has an exterior surface configured to form a plurality of pockets of air which, upon impact of the body against an object, cause compression of the air and production of loud popping sounds. Preferably, the body surface which defines the air pockets has an undulating configuration composed of alternating ridges and troughs with respect to a cross section along a longitudinal axis of the body.

Abstract: A musical percussion instrument wherein percussion element are removably held by force-fit within nominally undersized holes in side-rails of substantially rigid but readily elastically deformable material to form a unitary assembly without further means of interconnection.

Abstract: A device for attracting deer and elk includes a pair of members made of a synthetic polymer having a specific gravity from about 0.8 to about 1.2. Each of the members includes an elongate portion with a manually graspable handle near one end and at least two prongs formed on each of the elongated portions. Advantageously, at least three prongs are included and some of the prongs may be curved out of the plane of the elongate portion to facilitate the intermeshing of the members. A blowing agent and talc may be incorporated into the synthetic polymer. These added substituents are capable of creating a device which produces a sound very close to the sound created by deer or elk when they butt or clash their antlers during the mating season.

Abstract: A toy stove with an enclosure having a rotatable vertical threaded shaft therein, with a bell carrier threadedly received thereon, the carrier having a bell attached thereto. A hinged door mechanism is provided with an actuating lever, which upon opening of the door, elevates the bell carrier by first lifting the shaft to allow it to rotate during lifting of the bell insert member. After closing of the door, the shaft drops and oscillates with the bell descending thereon until contact by the bell with a striker member for emitting a sound simulating completion of the timing cycle.

Abstract: A game call includes a support member having a base with an upwardly extending flange around a perimeter thereof, defining a substantially U-shaped cross section. Ribs extend upwardly from the base to a height less than that of the flange. The base includes a plurality of apertures. A first planar member is adapted to be affixed to the distal ends of the ribs. A second planar member is adapted to be affixed to the distal end of the perimetric flange. A tool is provided for vibrating the second planar member, especially by scraping the tool over a roughened outer surface of the second planar member, thereby generating a game calling sound. The first and second planar members are preferably made of glass.

Abstract: A musical drum includes a generally spherical shell of a ceramic material having a thickness less than 3/8 of a inch as defining a resonant cavity therein; the shell having a bottom and an upper end; the shell being cut-out at the upper end thereof to define a first opening having a size sufficiently small to be entirely covered by the palm of a hand; the shell being cut-out, at a position between the first opening and a plane substantially mid-way between the bottom and the upper end, to define a second opening smaller than the first opening; and the shell being cut-out at a position below the plane to define a third opening for insertion of a microphone.

Abstract: A portable, easy to use cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) pressure indicator is described which can be placed on a patient's chest to transmit successive resuscitation compression forces applied by a treating person and give a perceptible (e.g., audible) signal when an appropriate force and resultant compression stroke has been achieved. In preferred forms, the indicator device includes force transmitting structure presenting a first surface for placement on a patient's chest region, a second surface for engagement by the hands of a person treating the patient, and structure for transmitting force supplied by the person through the first surface and to the chest region of the patient. The overall device further includes a signal generator operably coupled with the force-transmitting structure for giving a perceptible signal when a predetermined force has been transmitted to the patient's chest region.