Percussion musical instrument

Rohner , et al. August 25, 2

Patent Grant D737368

U.S. patent number D737,368 [Application Number D/448,475] was granted by the patent office on 2015-08-25 for percussion musical instrument. This patent grant is currently assigned to PANART HANGBAU AG. The grantee listed for this patent is PANArt Hangbau AG. Invention is credited to Felix Rohner, Sabina Scharer.


United States Patent D737,368
Rohner ,   et al. August 25, 2015

Percussion musical instrument

Claims

CLAIM We claim the ornamental design for a percussion musical instrument, as shown and described.
Inventors: Rohner; Felix (Bern, CH), Scharer; Sabina (Bern, CH)
Applicant:
Name City State Country Type

PANArt Hangbau AG

Bern

N/A

CH
Assignee: PANART HANGBAU AG (Bern, CH)
Appl. No.: D/448,475
Filed: March 12, 2013

Foreign Application Priority Data

Dec 3, 2012 [WO] 706555101
Current U.S. Class: D17/22
Current International Class: 1704
Field of Search: ;D17/22,24,99 ;84/102,103,104,402,403,404,406,409,410,411R,414,411M,411P,422.1-422.3,457,DIG.12,645 ;D21/405

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Foreign Patent Documents
693319 May 2003 CH
DM/071656 Oct 2009 WO

Other References

Instrumundo Instrumentos Musicales. http://instrumundo.blogspot.com/2012/08/hang-drum.html. Aug. 2012. "Hang Drum". cited by examiner .
World Percussion: David Kuckhermann. http://worldpercussion.net/instruments/panart-hang-and-handpans/. Date Viewed: Feb. 2015. "The PanArt Hang (Drum) and HandPans". cited by examiner .
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Hansen, U.J. and Rossing, T.D., "The Caribbean Steelpan, and some Offsprings," Forum Acusticum 2005, Budapest, Hungary, 6 pages. cited by applicant .
Panart Hangbau AG, "Hang," Jan. 2008, Bern, Switzerland, 24 pages. cited by applicant .
Rohner, F. and Scharer, S., "Hang Guide," Spring 2010, Bern, Switzerland, 24 pages. cited by applicant .
Rohner, F. and Scharer, S., "History, Development and Tuning of the Hang," International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA 2007), Sep. 9-12, 2007, Barcelona, Spain, 8 pages. cited by applicant .
Rossing, T.D. et al., "Acoustics of the Hang: A hand-played steel instrument," International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA 2007), Sep. 9-12, 2007, Barcelona, Spain, 8 pages. cited by applicant .
Wessel, D. et al., "Sound of the Hang," Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, vol. 4, 035002, 2008, 8 pages. cited by applicant .
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Primary Examiner: Johnson; Rashida
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pearne & Gordon LLP

Description



FIG. 1 is a front view of the percussion musical instrument.

FIG. 2 is a right side view of the percussion musical instrument.

FIG. 3 is a left side view of the percussion musical instrument.

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the percussion musical instrument.

FIG. 5 is a top view of the percussion musical instrument.

FIG. 6 is a bottom view of the percussion musical instrument.

FIG. 7 is a right front perspective view of the percussion musical instrument; and,

FIG. 8 is a left front perspective view of the percussion musical instrument.

In FIGS. 1-8, the broken lines represent the portions of the percussion musical instrument that form no part of the claimed design.

The dot-dashed lines, in FIGS. 1-4 and 6, represent a boundary line, which forms no part of the claimed design.

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