GB1278689A - Improvements relating to walking dolls - Google Patents

Abstract

1278689 Walking doll ROVEX TRI-ANG Ltd 19 April 1971 [28 Oct 1969 20 March 1970] 52818/69 and 13641/70 Heading A6S [Also in Division E2] A walking doll has a second body part, e.g. the upper body 5, rocked from side to side about a horizontal axis 8 relative to a first body part, e.g. the pelvis 4, by a pressure sensitive device 15 pneumatically connected to a manual actuator 17. When the doll is upright the C.G. of the legs is behind the axis 23 about which they are pivoted to the pelvis 4 and the inertia of the upper body 5 is sufficient to rock the pelvis 4 and thus alternately raise the feet from the ground, each leg swing- ing foreward under its own weight when so raised. A cross-piece 10 is connected between webs 11 and 12 on the upper body 5, the webs co-operating with abutments 13, 14 on the pelvis to limit the rocking movement. The pressure device 15 may be a diaphragm, a piston or, as shown, a bellows acting on a rod 16 connected to the piece 10. The actuator 17 is also a bellows. The axis 8 may be displaced to one side of the upper body's 5 C. of G., or a spring may be used to return the part 5 after rocking. Solid weights 29, 38 or water may be included in the head and heels. The feet may have transverse ribs 35, an arm 25, 26 projects from each leg and the two are joined by a pivoted rod 27. The first and second body parts may be inner and outer parts of the doll. The legs are articulated to the pelvis by a bush and spring, Fig. 2 (not shown) co-axial with the axis 23 and urging the leg against a second washer and arm 25, 26. Dimples on the arm and second washer hold the leg and the washer and arm together but permit relative rotation against the spring action.