Resiliently Restored Swinging Percussive Member Patents (Class 446/422)
  • Patent number: 10770046
    Abstract: Percussive interactive device characterized in that it is composed of an external polyhedric case of deformable material and of an internal case housing an electronic device, whose purpose is to detect external forces applied on said device and to transmit the data collected, once converted into electronic data for audio applications, to an external device used to process and emit sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ODDBALL STUDIOS LTD
    Inventors: Pasquale Totaro, Nathan Webb
  • Patent number: 9992993
    Abstract: A system, apparatuses, and methods for an animal call are shown and described. A hunting call of the present disclosure may include a base, a radiating arm having an attachment point to the base, a bottom click and a top click. The radiating arm may be resilient at one end to suspend the top click above the bottom click. The top and bottom click may be aligned to allow an interface of the top and the bottom click.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventor: Robert D Greene
  • Patent number: 9965004
    Abstract: A heat dissipating system comprises a heat dissipating device including a carrying structure, a driving structure, and at least one swing structure. The carrying structure has a base seat and at least one buffering pad disposed on the base seat. The driving structure is configured to be driven by a periodic power for generating a magnetic field, which has cyclical changes. The swing structure includes a non-metal sheet having an elongated shape and a magnetic actuation disposed on the sheet. The sheet has a fixing end and an opposite free end. The fixing end is fixed on the base seat, the base seat and the fixing end clips the buffering pad. When the magnetic actuation is driven by the magnetic field to repeatedly move forward and backward with respect to the driving structure, the sheet repeatedly swings by the movement of the magnetic actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: Hsienchin Su
  • Patent number: 9756846
    Abstract: A game call striker utilizes a hollow axially opening counter weight to its striker shaft as a chamber within which a weight supported on an axially extending resilient member is mounted in axial alignment with the striker shaft and in non-contacting relation to the walls of said chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory S. Burcham
  • Patent number: 9700808
    Abstract: Apparatus for use with a bottle or other tube structure including a wall which extends from a first end to a second end. A cover piece is attachable to the tube structure along one end about a tube opening. One end of a rod member is attached to the cover piece. With a mass attached to a second end of the rod member, when the second rod member end and the mass are positioned within the tube, the rod member and the mass can be swung within the tube, causing the mass to hit the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventor: Geoffrey Porter Carroll
  • Patent number: 9211478
    Abstract: A cheering device includes an upper head portion resembling an upper jaw and head of an animal and a lower head portion resembling a lower jaw and head of an animal. Each of the upper and lower head portions has a back side having a hand receiving well therein. The lower head portion has a planar upper surface and the upper head portion has a planar lower surface. Each of the upper and lower portions may be positioned on a person's hands and the upper surface of the lower head portion struck against the lower surface of the upper head portion to create an audible sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Inventor: Peter Bleus
  • Patent number: 8142253
    Abstract: A box turkey call comprising a sound box with a bottom wall, side walls, front end wall and back end wall, a first quick changeable attachment component secured to the front end wall, a striker having a front end, a distal back end, a top surface and a bottom surface, where the back end of the striker comprises an integrated handle, where the bottom surface of the striker is rounded laterally, and where the front end of the striker has a second quick changeable attachment component, where the first quick changeable attachment component and the second quick changeable attachment component are in pivotal but quickly detachable engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventor: G. David Peel
  • Patent number: 7572965
    Abstract: A compound percussion instrument comprises a first percussive instrument, such as a tambourine (1). The tambourine (1) has a frame (2) having a rim (3). A plurality of jingles (6) is mounted to the rim (3). A second percussive instrument includes a hammer and an anvil. The hammer or anvil may be a temple block (7) and the other of the hammer or anvil may be a fixed or movable striker (11, 14). A trigger (13) is mounted to a handle (5) of the tambourine (1). Actuation of the trigger (13) causes the hammer to strike the anvil to sound a musical note from the second percussive instrument. The compound percussion instrument may be played with a single hand and allows two different musical sounds to be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Inventor: Matthew Ledgar
  • Patent number: 7225753
    Abstract: A bell device includes a housing having two housing members secured together, and one or more peripherals rib extended into an opening of the housing, a securing device includes a shank engaged in the opening of the housing, and includes a peripheral flange extended from the shank for engaging with the peripheral rib of the housing and for anchoring the shank to the housing when the two housing members are assembled together, a bell member is supported in the housing with the securing device, a clapper includes a stem pivotally attached to the securing device and a striking member for striking onto the bell member. A push rod may actuate the clapper to strike onto the bell member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Inventor: Yi Hsuan Lo
  • Patent number: 7166045
    Abstract: Disclosed is an installation for competitive play with an ice hockey stick and an ice hockey puck. The installation includes a game platform, a goal with targets, target identifiers and a computer. A computer controlled puck circuit includes a puck magazine (30), a passing unit (46) which feeds pucks (1) to a player (40), a conveyor apparatus (2) which sorts and conveys shot pucks (1) into the puck magazine (30). The points value of shots made by the player (40) are evaluated with the help of a light barrier A (48) and a light barrier B (49), a camera (50) und a corresponding underlying computer program and the points assigned form the basis for a competitive play which can be played over the international data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: RapidShot North America Inc.,
    Inventors: Rudolf Linner, Hans Linner
  • Patent number: 6889466
    Abstract: A device for imitating the sound of a footfall or stomp of an animal. The device includes a blunt for selectively striking the ground. The blunt can be engaged with a spring and an anchor. A cord can be attached to the spring to draw the blunt back from the ground. The cord can be released and the energy stored in the spring can move the blunt to strike the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Hamlett Environmental Technologies Company
    Inventor: Bruce Randall Hamlet
  • Patent number: 6739282
    Abstract: A bell device includes a securing device attached to a bell member, a seat rotatably secured to the securing device with a shaft and rotatable relative to the securing device about the shaft, and a resilient member having one end secured to the seat and a clapper secured to the other end. An actuator rod may rotate the seat relative to the securing device, to actuate the clapper to strike against the bell member and to make sounds, without moving the bell member. A spring member may bias the seat to disengage the clapper from the bell member. The clapper may be caused to strike against the bell member when shaking or moving the bell member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Inventor: Jui Jen Yuan
  • Patent number: 6588788
    Abstract: A system for sound generation and noise feedback is disclosed for attachment to a bicycle training wheel. The system includes a plurality of sound generators attachable by a means for fastening to a rotatable surface of the training wheel. As the sound generators rotate with the wheel, sound is generated in proportion to the speed of wheel rotation. The sound generation system further includes a sound generator attachable to the support frame of a bicycle wheel. A clapper is pivotably attachable proximal to the sound generator, for intermittent contact with the sound generator when the clapper is engaged by one or more projections connected to, and rotated by the wheel. The generation and feedback system further includes a light generator and an electrical circuit connected to the sound generator for intermittent generation of sound and light in proportion to the rotation of the training wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Inventor: Richard R. Clark
  • Patent number: 5813899
    Abstract: A game call method and device for locating a wild turkey. A wooden knocker ball is caused to repeatedly strike the opposite sides of an elongated wooden open sided box. The wooden knocker ball is mounted on the box by a coil spring. The knocker ball is caused to strike the opposite sides in short fast bursts to make long distance travelling pecking sounds like the sounds of a woodpecker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: Michael W. Hartley
  • Patent number: 5407216
    Abstract: A wheel-driven percussion instrument includes a cam made on an inner side of one wheel of a baby car. A spring supported transmission rod in a casing at the bottom of the baby car reciprocates by action of the cam. Two metal plates bilaterally disposed inside the casing, and pendulum horizontally is disposed inside the casing. When the transmission rod reciprocates, the pendulum is moved to sound the metal plates alternatively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Inventor: Yu-Mean Liu
  • Patent number: 5207769
    Abstract: A hand-held percussion musical instrument includes a swinging tone-generating plate, which is hinged and moved when being played. The tone plate is sounded by impact with the body of the instrument, which includes a resonator and impact member located at the point of contact with the tone plate. The tone plate swings on a hinge, which is a flexible elastomeric joint that secures the tone plate to the resonator. A pleated, accordion-type elastomeric member is affixed between the end of the tone plate and body of the instrument to control the lateral movement of the tone plate and limit its backswing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Malmark, Inc.
    Inventor: Jacob H. Malta
  • Patent number: 5112266
    Abstract: A noise making device for creating selective clapping sounds comprised of a pair of section halves of molded plastic construction, each section including a handle portion and an elongated flat blade portion extending therefrom together with locking elements for joining the section halves together along a planar mating surface, which locking elements are provided internally to define a smooth handle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Inventor: Shirl F. Hall
  • Patent number: 4750670
    Abstract: The present invention relates to riding clappers crops, in which the clapper (1) is made, at least partly, of molded material the mass of which surrounds at least the adjacent end of the crop (2) in order to provide the fixation of the two parts to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Inventor: Francois-Xavier Gabe
  • Patent number: 4658694
    Abstract: A percussion noisemaker capable of two distinctive noise effects comprises a pair of thin, flat, elongated wooden clapper arms having handle ends mounted together so that the two arms form a narrow V with flat surfaces of the arms facing each other; a fulcrum member is interposed between the arms near their handle ends. A pair of wood clapper knobs are mounted opposite each other on the inside of the V at the ends of the clapper arms remote from their handle ends, and two funnel shaped molded plastic sounding members are mounted on the outside of the V in alignment with the clapper knobs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1987
    Inventors: Lawrence Marks, deceased, by Esther Marks, administrator
  • Patent number: 4599932
    Abstract: This invention is directed to percussion musical instruments which incorporate striking elements for producing musical sound. The invention discloses a novel hand chime which contains a one-piece elastomeric clapper hinge which accurately controls the swing of the clapper yet is an accoustically "dead" element which does not transmit unwanted vibrations from the chime tines to the clapper. The invention further includes novel adjustable elements such as a clapper bar bumper and a damper which may be adjusted to vary the musical characteristics of the sound. Molded polypropylene has been used successfully as the material for the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Inventor: Jacob H. Malta