Inventors:
Harriet K. Ehrenreich - Baldwin Harbor NY
International Classification:
G10K 500
Abstract:
The invention contemplates a personal safety device in the form of a whistle which has the appearance and action of a police whistle, while providing for retention of and ready access to essential items and data, such as a key, a pay-phone coin, and various personal-identification data and/or emergency instructions. The cylindrical body of a whistle is extended at one or both axial ends, beyond internal closure of a cylindrical ball-race whistle chamber. Such extensions define axially open chambers for retention of a key, a coin and other items; the mouthpiece arm of the whistle establishes a passage for tangential delivery of blown air to the ball-race chamber, and provision is made alongside this arm for separate accommodation of the stem of a key which is accessible via one of the axially open chambers. Separate covers carried by the body enable selective removable closure of the axially open chambers, and these covers may be inscribed with or otherwise carry personal-identification data and/or emergency instructions.