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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas W Bein, Annapolis, MD (US);
Woodwerth C Bein, III, Lavallette, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
84418 ;
Abstract
An improved tambourine which generates additional sounds that supplement the conventional jingle sound using the same playing motion as the conventional tambourine. It is a feature of the invention that the player can adjust the effort required to generate the additional sounds so that the player can turn the additional sounds 'on or off' simply by adjusting the playing effort. The invention is applicable to cylindrical as well as non-cylindrical tambourine frames. Implementations are also presented that are applicable to modifying existing tambourine frames to enable them to generate additional sounds to supplement the conventional jingle sound.