Patent ID: 7480391

Claim:
A cone speaker having a vibratory edge couplable to a frame, the cone speaker comprising: a gasket formed in a rectangular sheet with a flat opening of a girth of a prescribed length at a center, the rectangular sheet having two long sides and two short sides; and a flame-comprising a gasket holding means formed along an edge opening to hold the gasket and a region configured to hold the vibratory edge, the gasket holding means being separate and spaced from the region configured to hold the vibratory edge, wherein the gasket is deformable whereby the opening deforms from a first opening configuration to a second opening configuration generally corresponding to the edge opening and attachable along the edge opening of the frame; and the gasket holding means of the frame holds the gasket and keeps the gasket deformed so that the opening remains in the second opening configuration wherein the gasket holding means is an annular groove formed at an edge of the frame, and wherein the vibratory edge is held to the frame separately from the gasket.