JP7539698B2 - Rotating Orin - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a bell, a type of Buddhist altar implement that is used by striking it with a bell stick or the like, and in particular to a rotating bell whose bell part is rotatable.

The present applicant has previously proposed a bell that has an open bottom and is supported so that it can swing (Patent Document 1).
This is because the bell part is supported by a support member so that it can swing. When the bell is struck with a bell stick or the like, the bell part swings, resulting in a bell with an excellent tone and a long reverberation.
The inventor noticed that when the bell part is rotated, the vibrating sound is perceived by people nearby as having a fluctuating sound due to the so-called Doppler effect, adding an additional characteristic to the tone, and that when the bell part rotates, a rotating image appears, like a design top, and this led to the invention.

Patent document 2 discloses a bell with a finial that acts as a knob on the top, but this knob is for removing the resonance box from the support rod. The bell tool disclosed in the publication is not capable of rotating the bell, nor is it capable of placing the bell upside down using the knob.

Patent Document 3 discloses an example with a knob in Figure 5, but this knob is simply for making the bell easier to carry.

Patent No. 4907141 JP 2012-81193 A Utility Model Registration No. 3203314

The purpose of this invention is to provide a rotating bell that utilizes the Doppler effect.

The rotating bell of the present invention has a support base, a support part erected on the support base, and a bell part rotatably placed on the support part, and is characterized in that the bell part has a knob part on the upper outer part for rotating it.
"The bell part is rotatably placed on the support part" means that the bell part can be placed on the support part in a rotated state, and the bell part can be easily rotated by pinching the knob part with fingers or the like.
When the ring portion is rotated by the knob portion, a rotating image may appear.
Depending on the design of the knob, it can add decoration to the rotation of the bell, so that not only can you enjoy the fluctuations in the vibration sound with your ears, but a rotating image can appear on the rotating bell (including the knob), providing visual enjoyment as well.
This rotating image appears as an afterimage, like a so-called design top.

In the present invention, the knob portion may have a mounting portion on an upper side, so that the phosphorus portion can be removed from the support portion and placed upside down.
By grasping and lifting the knob, the ring can be removed from the support.

In the present invention, having a placing portion on the upper side of the knob means that the bell can be placed on a flat surface such as an altar or a table with the knob facing downward.
Therefore, the mounting portion provided on the upper side of the handle portion is not limited to a flat surface, and in addition to this flat surface shape, examples include frame shapes such as a donut shape, a triangle shape, and a polygonal shape, as well as a planar structure supported on a flat surface by multiple protrusions or legs at three or more points.

The rotating bell of the present invention can employ various shapes and structures for the bell portion.
For example, the bell part is bowl-shaped with an opening at the bottom, and when it is removed from the support part and placed upside down via the handle part, it can function as a bowl-shaped bell with an opening at the top.
The phosphorus portion may be placed so as to be capable of swinging relative to the support portion.
In this case, it is preferable that a convex portion is formed on one of the inside of the bell portion and the support portion, and a concave portion is formed on the other, so that the bell portion is rotatable and swingable.

The rotating bell of the present invention can be easily rotated by pinching the knob while the bell part is supported on the support part, so that the vibration sound made when the bell is struck produces fluctuations due to the Doppler effect.
In addition, if the knob has an irregular shape, a rotating image will appear due to an afterimage when it is rotated, which is visually enjoyable.
In this case, a decorative pattern may be applied to the surface of the ring portion.
Furthermore, if the knob can be grasped with the fingers, the bell can be removed from the support, and the bell can be placed on an altar or the like by itself via the knob, so that it can also be used as a bell.

1 shows an example of the structure of a rotating bell according to the present invention, in which (a) is an external view, (b) is a cross-sectional view, and (c) shows the bell part standing upside down. 1 shows examples of the support structure of a rotary bell, in which (a) shows an example in which a recess is provided on the support side, and (b) shows an example in which a recess is provided on the bell side. 1 shows an example of a disk-shaped support base, in which (a) is an external view and (b) shows the state in which it is placed upside down by the grip part. An example of the cross-sectional structure of the type shown in FIG. Examples of various knob shapes are shown in (a) to (e). (f) to (h) show examples of the appearance of rotating bells with various knobs, and (i) to (k) show examples of their rotation.

The following is an example of the structure of a rotating bell according to the present invention, with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 1(a), an example having an overall substantially spherical appearance is shown.
The cross-sectional view is shown in FIG.
A columnar support 12 stands upright near the center of the upper surface of the support stand 11, and a roughly inverted bowl-shaped bell 13 having an opening 13a on its lower side is placed on the upper end of this support.
The support portion 12 may be provided integrally with the upper surface of the support base 11, or may be a separate part provided by means of a screw or welding.
A knob portion 14 is provided at the center of the upper outer side of the bell portion 13 either integrally with the bell portion 13 or as a separate part.
In this embodiment, the upper side of the grip portion 14 is a flat mounting portion 14a, and as shown in FIG. 1(c), the grip portion can be picked up from the state shown in FIG. 1(a), turned upside down, and placed on a flat mounting surface G.
In this way, it can be used as a bowl-shaped bell with the opening 13a located on the upper side.
In this embodiment, as shown in the cross-sectional view of FIG. 1(b), a convex portion 12a is formed at the upper end of a pillar-shaped support portion 12, and a concave portion 13b provided in the inner center of a ring portion 13 is placed on this convex portion 12a for support.
As a result, in the state shown in FIG. 1( a ), by lightly pinching and rotating knob portion 14 , ring portion 13 rotates as shown by arrow W.
When the phosphorus portion 13 is lightly struck with a phosphorus rod or the like, the phosphorus portion 13 swings about the protruding portion 12a of the support portion 12 as indicated by f in FIG.
This creates a unique tone that combines the Doppler effect caused by rotation with the oscillating motion.

Another embodiment is shown in FIG.
FIG. 2A shows a second embodiment in which a recess 12b is formed at the upper end of the support portion 12 and a protrusion 13c is formed at the center of the inside of the phosphorus portion 13 in a corresponding manner.
FIG. 2B shows a third embodiment in which a thick portion 13d is formed on the inside of the bell portion 13 to change the vibration frequency and adjust the tone.

3 and 4 show a fourth embodiment in which the support base 11 has a disk shape.
FIG. 4A shows an example in which the knob portion 14 is a separate part from the ring portion 13 and is connected to the ring portion 13 by screws, welding, fitting, or the like.
4B and 4C show an example in which the knob portion 14 is integrally formed with the ring portion 13. In FIG.

FIG. 5 shows examples of various shapes of the knob portion.
In this embodiment, there are no restrictions on the structure of the knob portion, as long as it can rotate the bell portion 13 and can be used as a bowl-type bell with an open top by lifting the bell portion 13 and placing it upside down.
14A shows an example in which a small cylindrical knob portion 14A has a flat upper surface.
14B is an example in which the side of the knob portion 14B is a button-shaped knob having a convex surface.
14C shows an example in which the side surface of the knob portion 14C is inclined in a truncated cone shape.
(d) is an example in which the outer shape is larger than (a) to (c) so that it can be easily grasped, and the ring part 13 is made disk-shaped so that it can be placed stably on its own, and is connected to the ring part 13 via a connecting part 14b with a smaller diameter.
In this case, the placement portion of the disk-shaped knob portion 14D is not necessarily flat, and may be supported horizontally by three or more protrusions.
14E shows an example in which a recess 14c is formed in the mounting portion of a knob portion 14E, forming the mounting portion in a doughnut-like frame shape.

FIG. 6 shows an embodiment different from that shown in FIG. 5, and shows examples of various shapes of the knob portion, particularly examples of characteristic shapes for adding decoration to the rotating bell portion 13.
In this embodiment, the knob portion 14 is preferably asymmetric in the vertical or horizontal directions, for example, so that various rotated images appear when the knob portion 14 is rotated, but the shape of the knob portion 14 is not particularly limited.
Furthermore, in order to make it easier to hold with fingers etc., knob portion 14 may protrude significantly outward from ring portion 13, and knob portion 14 does not necessarily have to have mounting portion 14a.
13(f) shows an example in which two knobs 14F resembling the ears of an animal such as a rabbit or a cat are provided on the outside of the ring portion 13.
There is no limitation on the number, position, shape, etc. of the knob portions 14F to be provided, and for example, the knob portions 14F may have a pattern drawn thereon.
10(g) shows an example in which a knob portion 14G has two protruding portions 14g, each of which has a substantially elliptical shape in a side view, between a connecting portion 14b and a mounting portion 14a.
10(h) shows an example in which a knob portion 14H has two substantially elliptical projections 14h that project further from a disk-shaped connecting portion 14d that is connected to the connecting portion 14b.
In the rotating bells of (f) to (h) above, when the knob portion 14 is lightly grasped and turned, the bell portion 13 and knob portion 14 rotate as indicated by the arrow W as shown in (i) to (k).
By rotating in this manner, if the rotation is slow, a rotational movement occurs in the knob portion 14, and if the rotation is relatively fast, a rotating image due to an afterimage occurs.
For example, in (f) before rotation, knob portion 14F looks like wings or ears growing out of bell portion 13, but in (i) in the rotated state, the rotation of knob portion 14F makes it look like a small diameter ring is rotating on the top of bell portion 13.

In the present invention, there is no limitation on the material of the support base and the support part, as long as the phosphorus part can be placed and held.
On the other hand, it is preferable that the bell be made of metal in view of the tone and length of resonance of the bell.

11 Support base 12 Support portion 12a Convex portion 12b Concave portion 13 Ring portion 13a Opening 13b Concave portion 13c Convex portion 14 Knob portion 14a Placement portion G Placement surface

Claims (4)

The apparatus includes a support base, a support portion erected on the support base, and a bell portion rotatably mounted on the support portion,
The ring portion has a knob portion on the outer upper portion for rotating operation,
This rotating bell is characterized in that the handle portion has a flat mounting portion on the upper side, allowing the bell portion to be removed from the support portion, turned upside down, and stand on its own on the flat mounting portion . The rotating bell described in claim 1, characterized in that the bell part is bowl-shaped with an open bottom, and when removed from the support part and placed upside down via the handle part, it functions as a bowl - shaped bell with an open top. The rotary bell according to claim 2 , characterized in that the bell portion is placed so as to be able to swing relative to the support portion. A rotating bell as described in claim 3, characterized in that a convex portion is formed on one of the inside of the bell portion and the support portion, and a concave portion is formed on the other, thereby making the bell portion rotatable and swingable.

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