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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7368648 | Set of clave blocks A percussion musical instrument comprising a set of clave blocks each comprising a body having an open cavity therewithin. The bodies of the clave blocks have substantially equal exterior dimensions and assorted volumes of the open cavities therewithin provided to g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7256685 | Applause device An applause device including a sound generator capable of generating at least one applause sound. The sound generator preferably can generate at least one sound which can indicate approval or disapproval, such as clapping, hollering, whistling, booing, and hissing. ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7225753 | Bell device 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... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7166045 | Installation for a competitive game with hockey stick and hockey puck 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 | 01/23/2007 |
| 7087824 | Device for striking a percussion instrument The present invention relates to a striker device for striking the playing surface of a percussion instrument. The striker device includes a flexible slapper plate upon which a ball is mounted. A means for adjustably mounting the striker device allows it to be mount... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7001238 | Clapping apparatus A clapping apparatus preferably having a knob like handle securely fastened to a clapping plate. The clapping plate preferably having a recessed area with air holes placed though the clapping plate enabling air to fill the void created when two contacting clapping p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6889466 | Deer stomp simulator 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. ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6739282 | Bell assembly having actuatable clapper 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 se... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6588788 | Noise feedback for training wheels 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 ge... | 07/08/2003 |
| 5813899 | Game call and method 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 ca... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5407216 | Wheel-driven percussion instrument for a baby car 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 in... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5207769 | Strikerless percussion musical instrument 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 ... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5112266 | Noise making device 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 elemen... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4750670 | Riding crops 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 o... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4658694 | Percussion noisemaker 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 ful... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4599932 | Handchime with elastomeric hinge 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 swi... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4266459 | Asynchronous slapping musical instrument A musical instrument for producing slapping sounds occurring at an audibly distinct asynchronous rate. A rigid slat member has a plurality of flexible slat members disposed adjacent thereto on at least one side and connected at one end to form a gripping ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4127053 | Percussion instrument A percussion instrument includes a sound chamber having a cavity therein with at least one opening thereinto, support means secured to the chamber within the cavity, a resilient, elongated member disposed within the cavity of the chamber, one end of which... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4075922 | Decorative percussion rhythm instrument and noisemaker A multiple bladed clapper-noisemaker is provided with a stiff central blade and adjacent thinner blades of flexible sheet material whose lower ends are held in closely juxtaposed stacked relationship by the user and whose upper ends are free to flex and b... | 02/28/1978 |
