Sound emitting and wetting doll

• US 4,160,338 A
• Filed: 12/05/1977
• Issued: 07/10/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NED Strongin Associates Incorporated
• Original Assignee: NED Strongin Associates Incorporated
• Inventors: Lyons, Paul, Resnick, Charles, Zant, Fred
• Primary Examiner(s): Kinsey, Russell R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yu, Mickey
• Application Number:
  US05/857,253
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 46/44, 46/117, 46/118, 46/141
• US Class Current: 446/184
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/24 Drinking dolls; Dolls producing tears; Wetting dolls
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/28 Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds

Abstract

A toy doll has a mouth opening adapted to receive a simulated nursing bottle from which water is fed to the interior of the doll, some of such water producing a wetting action. The doll is also adapted to produce a burping sound when its back is patted, and simultaneously to spit up through the mouth opening some of the water previously fed from the bottle. The burping sound is produced by a bellows in the body portion of the doll which is successively compressed upon patting the back of the doll and which progressively feeds air into another bellows located in the head of the doll until the head bellows reaches an expanded position. An actuating member then automatically releases the air from the expanded head bellows, which air flows in a sudden controlled flow through a sound producing device. Some of this released air also causes liquid to be emitted from the mouth opening to produce the spitting-up effect.

Claims

1. A doll comprising a hollow head and a hollow body communicating with said head and having a flexible wall,

a body bellows mounted within said body and operatively associated with said flexible wall for compression when said flexible wall is depressed inwardly, said body bellows having an air outlet opening,

a head bellows mounted within the interior of said hollow head and having an inlet port, and outlet port, an outlet valve normally closing said outlet port, and biasing means urging said head bellows to a compressed position,

pneumatically-operated sound producing means mounted within said head and communicating with the outlet port of said head bellows through said outlet valve,

conduit means connecting the air outlet opening of said body bellows to the inlet port of said head bellows for supplying a charge of air to the interior of said head bellows with each compression of said body bellows, said head bellows being adapted to expand in successive increments from said compressed position to an expanded release position upon successive compressions of said body bellows, and

valve release means mounted within said head bellows and operatively connected to a movable portion of said head bellows and to said outlet valve for opening said outlet valve in response to expansion of said head bellows to said release position,

whereby upon opening of said outlet valve, said biasing means moves said head bellows to said compressed position, causing air in said head bellows to escape through said outlet port in a sudden flow through said sound producing means.

2. A doll according to claim 1 in which said outlet valve comprises a flexible valve disc sealingly overlying said outlet port of said head bellows and in which said valve release means comprises a lever pivotally mounted within said head bellows and having a first arm connected to a movable portion of said head bellows and a second arm engaging the portion of the valve disc which overlies the outlet port.

3. A doll according to claim 2 in which said head bellows has an end wall immovably mounted in said head and a movable end wall, said first arm of said lever being connected to said movable end wall.

4. A doll according to claim 2 in which said flexible valve disc overlies both said inlet port and outlet port and serves as both an air inlet valve and an air outlet valve for said head bellows.

5. A doll according to claim 4 in which the second arm of said lever depresses into said outlet port the portion of the valve disc which overlies said outlet port when said lever is actuated in response to said head bellows reaching said expanded release position.

6. A doll according to claim 2 in which said hollow head has a mouth orifice and a hollow mouthpiece communicating with said mouth orifice, said mouthpiece comprising a closed housing and a flexible diaphragm dividing the interior of said housing into a first chamber and an adjacent second chamber, said first chamber communicating with said mouth orifice, conduit means connecting said second chamber in communication with the outlet port of said head bellows, whereby when said head bellows is moved to said compressed position, air is fed from said head bellows into said second chamber, causing said flexible diaphragm to reduce the size of said first chamber.

7. A doll according to claim 6 in which said mouth orifice is sized to receive the outlet of a feeding bottle for supplying water to the first chamber of said mouthpiece, said doll also including a liquid discharge orifice at the lower end of said hollow body, and conduit means connecting said first chamber with said liquid discharge orifice.

8. A doll according to claim 6 in which said outlet port of said head bellows communicates with a manifold having a first air outlet opening communicating with said sound producing means, and a second outlet opening communicating with the second chamber of said mouthpiece through said conduit means.

9. A doll according to claim 8 in which said second outlet opening is of smaller size than said first outlet opening.

10. A doll according to claim 5 in which said head bellows has an open end and in which a cylindrical carrier closes off said open end of the head bellows, said cylindrical carrier having a bottom wall containing said inlet port at one side thereof and said outlet port on the other side thereof, said flexible valve disc overlying said bottom wall and the inlet and outlet ports therein, with a marginal edge portion of said valve disc positioned to be depressed into said outlet port by the second arm of said lever.