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Enhanced comfort headless tambourine

US7714219B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 12, 2007
Grant dateMay 11, 2010
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Expiry dateMar 12, 2027

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10D13/10
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

An improved tambourine has a rigid, enclosed, jingle-supporting frame that defines a center of gravity and a number of pairs of percussion jingles connected to the frame at determined locations around one of the frame's segments. A handle for manually grasping the frame is connected to a second segment of the frame. The second segment is closer to the center of gravity of the tambourine than is the first segment, which is arcuate in shape. The second segment includes radial, inwardly turned portions and a handle-bearing portion that is substantially parallel to a chord formed between the ends of the arcuate first segment and spaced a determined distance from the geometric center of the handle.

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