US3918199A - Doll simulating natural sucking motion and control device for same - Google Patents
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- ABSTRACT A doll of elastically deformable material having a hollow head and chest connected at a hollow head, said material permitting relative movement of the head and chest.
- a face part includes a mouth opening, normally recessed, and cheeks adjacent thereto.
- a geared electric motor within the chest adjacent the neck has a vertical output shaft rotated at low velocity, The shaft upper end forms a crank and rotates in a plane perpendicular to the principal axis of the doll adjacent the mouth level.
- a linkage is pivotally connected at one end of the cranks and at the other to a support slate.
- the plate is secured to a tubular element connected to the mouth opening. Energizing the motor reciprocates the linkage for reciprocal deformation of the mouth and adjacent face portions, and for relative movement of the head and chest.
- a sound reproducer in the chest simulates weeping noises and may be energized through a push button.
- the plate carries two normally engaged spring contacts in the sound reproducer circuit and a third spring contact in the motor circuit.
- a nipple simulating element inserted in the mouth spreads the two contacts, breaks the sound reproducer circuit and engages one of the two contacts with the third to close the motor circuit. Insertion of a longer element into the mouth opens both circuits.
- This invention relates to simulating natural sucking motions such as those performed by a child or newborn baby in a doll, puppet or the like, in particular having a well known design and structural arrangement of different doll body and head main components.
- This invention also relates to a doll, puppet or the like comprising mechanism adapted to carry-out these motions i.e. to controllably move pre-established zones of the doll head and body in order to simulate, with the highest possible approximation, the natural sucking motions of a child or newborn baby while swallowing e.g. a liquid sucked from a babys feeding bottle, or other similar action.
- an object of this invention is to simulate, in a doll or the like, the typical natural sucking motions with the highest possible approximation to reality and by means of inexpensive and simple devices, that do not require substantial changes in the design and production of already known dolls and puppets.
- the doll head zones that must not follow the sucking motions, and in particular the cheek-bones, eyes, forehead and cranium, are advantageously locally stiffened by a preferably light and soft material that is suitably applied within the head recess to prevent even small undesired motions of such head zones.
- the reciprocating motions are obtained, e.g. by means of a small linkage, from an eccentric rotary motion controlled by suitable motor means, e.g. in the form of a small electric motor, coupled to a reduct-ion gear.
- suitable motor means e.g. in the form of a small electric motor, coupled to a reduct-ion gear.
- This motor is controlled by an electric circuit including contact means adapted to close the circuit when a mechanical action is exerted thereon, e.g. by means of the elongated end of a babys feeding bottle simulating toy, or the like, that is introduced into the doll mouth opening.
- a doll according to this invention may comprise, besides the previously mentioned means and devices, already known means and devices to simulate the natural behaviour of a newborn baby, and in particular it may comprise a sound reproducer, e.g. simulating the weeping of a newborn baby, which reproducer is electrically deactivated concurrently with the starting of said sucking motions, as actually occurs.
- a sound reproducer e.g. simulating the weeping of a newborn baby, which reproducer is electrically deactivated concurrently with the starting of said sucking motions, as actually occurs.
- FIG. I is a diagrammatic longitudinal section showing the upper body and head components of a doll or the like, comprising means and devices to simulate a sucking action according to this invention, as well as a sound reproducer.
- FIG. 2 is a partial plan view, in section along the.line IIII of FIG. 1, showing a sucking simulating device according to this invention, in an enlarged scale and in its rest position.
- FIG. 3 is a view similar to that of FIG. 2 and showing the same device in its on position.
- FIG. 4 is a view similar to that of FIG. 2 and showing the same device in a different position.
- FIG. 1 shows the chest 10 and the head 12 of a doll or puppet as conventionally produced, e.g. in an elastically deformable plastics material, head 12 being connected to the chest 10 in an already known manner, i.e. by mutual engagement of projections and recesses suitably formed in the chest and head components.
- a known sound reproducer l4 e.g. simulating the weeping of a newborn baby, can be titted within the doll body in an already known manner and may be operated through a pushbutton 16 or the like.
- the doll body houses a geared motor unit 18, e.g. in the form of a suitable battery fed electric motor and a reduction unit, adapted to reduce the motor RPM to a suitably low value at an output shaft 20.
- a geared motor unit 18 e.g. in the form of a suitable battery fed electric motor and a reduction unit, adapted to reduce the motor RPM to a suitably low value at an output shaft 20.
- Geared motor unit 18 may be suitably supported within the doll body, e.g. adjacent the neck thereof, in order to impart a reciprocating motion to the doll mouth and the doll face zones adjacent thereto. Accordingly, motor shaft 20 controls a circular, eccentric motion of a point 22 lying in a plan substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal middleline of the doll body and near the doll mouth. In the shown embodiment, circular eccentric motion of point 22 is obtained by suitably slanting the free end of shaft 20, but obviously it might be obtained by any other suitable means.
- a linkage 24 acts as a connecting rod extending in such perpendicular plane and has one end pivotally connected with shaft 20 at point 22, while the opposite end of linkage 24 is connected, as at 26, with support and connecting means 28 directly joined to the doll mouth.
- Support and connecting means 28 comprises a supporting plate 30, pivotally connected to linkage 24, as well as a substantially tubular element 32, rigidly secured to plate 30 and adapted to be inserted into an orifice or opening formed in the doll mouth, tubular element 32 being connected with the mouth opening edges by a suitably shaped projection 34.
- a substantially straight reciprocating motion in a plane substantially perpendicular to the doll body longitudinal middleline and across the doll mouth is imparted to support and connecting means 28.
- Such motion is identically performed by the doll mouth 36, starting from its natural position toward the inside of a recess 40 in the head 12, through a given length, and then back into such natural position, at a rate as established by the rotary speed of shaft 20 and obviously similar to the sucking rate of a child or newborn.
- reciprocating motion of doll mouth 36 is followed by other doll face zones and in particular by the cheeks 38, in a more or less greater extent, according to their distance from the mouth, the material thickness and the design of the zones, to perfectly simulate the required natural motions.
- Such a simulation is even more enhanced by the fact that at least a part of the reciprocating motion acts on the connection between the doll head 12 and chest 10, to cause a relative motion of these two components, simulating the childs motions as performed by the chest while swallowing a liquid.
- these zones can be suitably stiffened, e.g. by a padding 42 of soft and light material, such as expanded polyurethane, expanded polystyrene, cotton wadding or the like, that is applied within the head recess 40.
- a padding 42 of soft and light material such as expanded polyurethane, expanded polystyrene, cotton wadding or the like, that is applied within the head recess 40.
- the controlled reciprocating motions are performed only by the required doll face zones, e.g. as shown by dot-and-dash lines in FIG. 3, wherein the the doll mouth and adjacent portions of doll cheeks are shown in their rest position and, respectively, in an intermediate position during a sucking step.
- support plate 30 supports contact means adapted to simultaneously control both the sound reproducer 14 and the geared motor unit 18.
- this contact means comprise a pair of blade contacts 44,46 to close and open the sound reproducer electric circuit, as well as a pair of blade contacts 44 and 48 for controlling the geared motor unit 18, contact 44 appertaining to both contact pairs.
- the contact blades 44,46 are elastically urged toward each other and mutually engage in a point substantially aligned with the axis of tubular element 32.
- the circuit of sound reproducer 14 is closed and the weeping ofa newborn baby or the like may be simulated, e.g. by pressing the pushbutton 16, while the geared motor unit 18 is inoperative, since the circuit thereof is kept open by the spaced apart contacts 44 and 48.
- an elongated control member 52 e.g. in the form of a stem-shaped end of a babys feeding bottle toy
- the stemshaped end causes the contacts 44 and 46 to be spaced apart from each other and the sound reproducer circuit to be opened in order to discontinue the simulated weeping or the like.
- the contact 44 engages with the contact 48 and closes the circuit of 4 geared motor unit 18, starting the previously described simulated sucking motions.
- a second stem-like control member 52 e.g. associated with a babys comforter toy 54 (FIG. 4), has an axial length greater than that of member 52 in order to act upon a suitably shaped portion 56 of contact 48 and space the same from contact 44. Accordingly, the circuit of the geared motor unit 18 is opened also and member 52 acts as a main switch to discontinue both the doll sucking and weeping actions, while the arrangement of contacts 44,46 and 48 allows to obtain the sucking motion only after the doll simulated weeping is discontinued, in conformity to what actually occurs.
- a doll including a hollow head and a hollow chest interconnected at a hollow neck, and formed of elastically deformable material permitting relative movement of the head and chest, the head having a face part including a mouth opening portion, having a natural position somewhat recessed into the hollow head, and cheeks adjacent the mouth portion, mechanism for simulating natural sucking motions comprising, in combination, a geared electric motor means mounted within said chest adjacent said neck and having a generally vertically oriented output shaft rotatable by said motor means at a low angular velocity; a crank formed by the upper end of said output shaft within said head for rotation of said upper end in a plane perpendicular to the principal axis of the doll and substantially at the level of said mouth opening portion; connecting means secured at one end to said mouth opening portion and pivotally connected at the opposite end to said crank for reciprocation by said crank responsive to rotation of said output shaft; whereby, upon energization of said motor means, said mouth opening portion and the adjacent portions of said face part are reciprocally deformed to simulate natural sucking
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