Patent ID: 6774296
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G10D,G10G

Abstract:
A clarinet weather shield cover for shielding hands of a musician from weather conditions while playing a clarinet outdoors, comprising:a tubular envelope; the tubular envelope having a rear end and a forward end; the tubular envelope having a length greater than that portion of a clarinet containing a clarinet's finger holes and keys but less than a length of a clarinet so that when the clarinet weather shield cover is mounted on a clarinet a mouth piece at a rear end of the clarinet and a flared portion of a forward end of the clarinet extend beyond the tubular envelope; the tubular envelope having a first opening at the rear end of the tubular envelope and a second opening at the forward end of the tubular envelope through which a tubular body of a clarinet passes when the clarinet weather shield cover is mounted on a clarinet; the first opening at the rear end of the tubular envelope and the second opening at the forward end of the tubular envelope each having means for closing the first and second openings of the tubular envelope about a tubular body of a clarinet to seal an interior of the tubular envelope against weather conditions and retain heated air within the tubular envelope; the tubular envelope having an upper portion extending from the rear end to the forward end of the tubular envelope and a lower portion extending from the rear end to the forward end of the tubular envelope; the lower portion of the tubular envelope having a left hand opening and a right hand opening therein through which hands of a musician are inserted to play a clarinet on which the clarinet weather shield cover is mounted; and the right hand opening being forward of the left hand opening; and the tubular envelope having semi-rigid end walls at the rear end and the forward end of the tubular envelope to space that portion of the tubular envelope extending between the semi-rigid end walls of the tubular envelope from that portion of a clarinet mounted within the tubular envelope.