Patent ID: 7244166

Claim:
A soft toy and pacifier for aiding infants in recognizing simple shapes, the toy comprising: a soft, flexible filling; a body comprising a pair of planar sheets of a flexible material, each of the planar sheets having a similar perimeter, the perimeter terminating in an edge, the sheets extending around the filling and being connected to one another by way of a seam that joins the edges along a plane to form a body perimeter that encloses the edges, the body perimeter including sections of the seam that converge towards one another at an angle of from 20 to 40 degrees to create an approximately conical section defining a pacifier; a pressure activated musical device, said musical device being positioned along the plane between the pair of planar sheets of flexible material; a tether, the tether being positioned opposite to the conical section defining said pacifier, so that when the toy is suspended by the tether a pull on the conical section defining said pacifier causes the pressure activated musical device to be squeezed by the panels thereby activating the pressure activated musical device.