WO1997007494A1 - Crecelle - Google Patents

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WO1997007494A1
WO1997007494A1 PCT/GB1996/001972 GB9601972W WO9707494A1 WO 1997007494 A1 WO1997007494 A1 WO 1997007494A1 GB 9601972 W GB9601972 W GB 9601972W WO 9707494 A1 WO9707494 A1 WO 9707494A1
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handle
rattle
laminae
sound production
resiliently
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PCT/GB1996/001972
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Adrian John Marino
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Maple World Limited
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Priority to AU67473/96A priority Critical patent/AU6747396A/en
Publication of WO1997007494A1 publication Critical patent/WO1997007494A1/fr

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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H37/00—Jokes; Confetti, streamers, or other dance favours ; Cracker bonbons or the like
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H5/00—Musical or noise- producing devices for additional toy effects other than acoustical
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10K3/00—Rattles or like noise-producing devices, e.g. door-knockers

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  • This invention relates to a rattle, of the kind comprising a body rotatable about a handle, the body having a centre of gravity which is offset from its axis of rotation about the handle so that it can be caused to rotate about the handle by appropriate movement of the handle by a user; there being means for causing sound production when such rotation takes place.
  • Such rattles traditionally have been made predominantly of wood.
  • Even the sound-producing means which usually comprise a resilient tongue held by the body and engaging the periphery of a toothed wheel carried by the handle so as to produce a series of clicks when the body rotates about the handle, have been of wood.
  • Such rattles have been banned from football stadiums, because of the potential hazards of their use. In a tightly-packed crowd, the rapid rotation of a heavy wooden body about a handle held by a person presents a danger of injury to adjacent persons if hit thereby accidentally or intentionally. The user of such a rattle might even hit and injure himself.
  • GB-A-1247088 discloses a wood rattle having a body which is rotatable about the handle. The rattle noise is made by a flexibly mounted tongue contacting a toothed portion of the handle. The disclosure suggests that the tongue may be made of plastics and that a plastics window may be represented to cover a window portion of the body.
  • GB-A- 2156569 discloses a body whose components are injection moulded of plastics. In each case it is clear that the plastics component or the whole article is moulded of a solid plastics and that the risk of injury is not addressed.
  • a rattle comprising a body rotatable about a handle, the body having a centre of gravity which is offset from its axis of rotation about the handle so that it can be caused to rotate about the handle by appropriate movement of the handle by a user, and means to cause sound production when such rotation takes place, wherein the body includes an extemal body portion formed of resiliently deformable material of low density.
  • the material is foamed polymeric material, typically polystyrene, polyurethane; or the like.
  • substantially the entire body of the rattle is made of the foam material.
  • the body is made of the defined material the risk of injury is reduced as compared with that of being struck by a comparably sized piece of a material such as wood, metal, or rigid plastics having a density comparable with typical densities of natural or processed wooden materials. (The risk of injury from impact with an article can never be reduced to zero as even a lightweight and/or extremely soft resilient material can cause injury if it is applied to a part of the body with sufficient force, or if it meets a particularly vulnerable part of the body).
  • the sound-producing means of a rattle in accordance with the invention comprises a tongue held by the body and resiliently engaging a toothed, notched, or otherwise non-circularly configured peripheral part of an element carried by the handle.
  • a series of clicks is produced when the body rotates relative to the handle and element carried thereby.
  • the body is constructed of a number of laminae or layers of the material, held together by the use of adhesive or by any other suitable securing method, e.g. fusion.
  • the construction may include spaced laminae each extending substantially the whole length of the body, separated from one another at their end regions by relatively short spacing laminae so as to define a recess or hollow wherein the sound producing means of the rattle is accommodated.
  • the laminae may be of different coloured material so that the rattle presents the colours of a particular football team, other sporting team, or other cause which the user wishes to support.
  • the tongue of the sound-producing means may be held between said spacing laminae.
  • the handle which preferably is a tubular element of plastics material of tubular configuration, may be rotatably supported relative to the body with the intermediary of bushing means held in the body, to provide support therefor by bearings which do not wear rapidly in use.
  • FIG 1 is a perspective view of a rattle in accordance with the invention
  • Figure 2 is a section through the rattle of Figure 1.
  • the rattle comprises a body 10 and a handle indicated generally at 11.
  • the body is of generally rectangular shape in both elevation and plan views and also in transverse cross-sectional view but with the addition of bevelled comers, although it will be appreciated that the body could altematively be of some other shape in one or more of such views. For example, it could taper towards one or both of its ends or possibly could be of the overall shape of a rugby football or American football.
  • the body is made of a relatively lightweight and resiliently deformable material, specifically a foamed plastics material. There are many such materials which would be suitable to be used in the construction of the body as described hereafter, and selection thereof is a matter of choosing a material of appropriate density and rigidity.
  • the body comprises top and bottom laminae 12,13 which extend the full length of the body, spaced from one another at the ends of the body by intermediate laminae 14,15,16 at each end. Thus an opening or recess 17 is provided in the centre of the body.
  • the laminae are held together by adhesive or other suitable securing method.
  • bushes 18,19 are inserted in the top and bottom laminae 12,13 respectively, to provide bearing surfaces in which handle member 20 is rotatably supported.
  • the handle member 20 which preferably is of a relatively rigid plastics material of tubular configuration, carries collars 21,22 so that although the handle is rotatable relative to the body about axis 23 it is not movable therethrough in the direction of such axis.
  • the free end of the handle member 20 above the laminae 12 carries an end cap 24 with a domed top surface, and beneath the laminae 13 a free end portion of the handle member 20 has a hand grip 25.
  • the handle member 20 carries an element 26 in the fo ⁇ n of a wheel with a toothed or notched periphery. This is engaged by the free end of a resilient tongue 27, e.g. of plastics or wooden material, whose other end is held in a slot in the laminae 15 at the remote end of the body 10.
  • a resilient tongue 27 e.g. of plastics or wooden material
  • the laminae 12 to 16 are of colours chosen to represent a particular football or other team.
  • laminae 13,13,15 might be the same colour as one another whilst laminae 14 and 16 are the same as one another but a different colour.
  • FIG. 1 there are illustrated streamers 28 connected to the handle and body, which may be strips of colour material again in “team” colours or possibly merely decorative and/or eye catching, e.g. of a reflective "tinsel" type material.
  • the handle may be provided with a resilient bulb and a reed to act as a hom, operable by squeezing of the bulb by the user.
  • the handle member 20, being of tubular configuration, is readily usable as the body of such a hom: in this case it would not be closed by the end cap 24.
  • the body 10 of the rattle may incorporate a whistle, siren, or other sound-producing means operable by air flow when the body is rotated rapidly about the handle. This is preferably provided at the end of the body remote from the handle 10, and may comprise either a suitable sound-producing element or elements held in the laminae 12 to 16 at such region of the body or the laminae themselves may be shaped to operate in this manner.
  • the rattle may be provided with means for producing a lighting effect, e.g. by providing a battery accommodated within the handle member 20, commutating means, and lamps or light-emitting-diodes which are thereby caused to flash when the body rotates about the handle.
  • Two or more tongues engaging non-circular elements carried by the handle member 20 could be provided if required.
  • the body of the rattle is formed of an inflatable material.
  • the body may be formed of a skin which is inflated using air or an inert gas to provide a non- injuring element.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne une crécelle, qui comprend un corps (10) pouvant tourner autour d'une poignée (11), le centre de gravité de ce corps (10) étant décalé, par rapport à son axe de rotation autour de la poignée (11), de telle sorte que l'utilisateur puisse le faire tourner autour de la poignée (11) par un mouvement approprié qu'il imprime à cette poignée. La crécelle comprend aussi des moyens (26, 27) permettant de produire un son quand la rotation a lieu. Le corps (10) comporte une partie extérieure (12, 13, 14, 15, 16) faite d'une matière choisie pour donner un faible risque de blessure si elle frappe une personne.
PCT/GB1996/001972 1995-08-17 1996-08-13 Crecelle WO1997007494A1 (fr)

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AU67473/96A AU6747396A (en) 1995-08-17 1996-08-13 Rattle

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GB9516867.0 1995-08-17
GB9516867A GB2304450A (en) 1995-08-17 1995-08-17 Rattle

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FR2767214A1 (fr) * 1997-08-07 1999-02-12 Jean Delauzun Dispositif pour faire tourner une echarpe tout en provoquant du bruit par un supporter dans le milieu sportif
NL2007641C2 (en) * 2011-10-21 2013-04-23 Adar Golad Hand-held game device and game assembly comprising such a device.

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WO1999057713A1 (fr) * 1998-05-04 1999-11-11 Nauschuetz Moritz Dispositif de signalisation acoustique multifonctionnel
GB2408378B (en) 2003-11-21 2006-11-29 Stephen Geoffrey King Animal training device

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GB1247088A (en) * 1969-10-22 1971-09-22 William Thomas Taylor Improvements in or relating to rattles
FR2523691A1 (fr) * 1982-03-22 1983-09-23 Wonder Crecelle lumineuse
GB2156569A (en) * 1984-03-24 1985-10-09 Derek Jack Gower Plastic moulded rattle
GB2169521A (en) * 1985-01-16 1986-07-16 Gerard Khourie Clacker
US4957057A (en) * 1986-06-05 1990-09-18 Albert Marcucci Jogger's nightstick

Patent Citations (5)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB1247088A (en) * 1969-10-22 1971-09-22 William Thomas Taylor Improvements in or relating to rattles
FR2523691A1 (fr) * 1982-03-22 1983-09-23 Wonder Crecelle lumineuse
GB2156569A (en) * 1984-03-24 1985-10-09 Derek Jack Gower Plastic moulded rattle
GB2169521A (en) * 1985-01-16 1986-07-16 Gerard Khourie Clacker
US4957057A (en) * 1986-06-05 1990-09-18 Albert Marcucci Jogger's nightstick

Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2767214A1 (fr) * 1997-08-07 1999-02-12 Jean Delauzun Dispositif pour faire tourner une echarpe tout en provoquant du bruit par un supporter dans le milieu sportif
NL2007641C2 (en) * 2011-10-21 2013-04-23 Adar Golad Hand-held game device and game assembly comprising such a device.
WO2013058657A1 (fr) * 2011-10-21 2013-04-25 Adar Golad Dispositif de jeu portatif et ensemble de jeu le comportant

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