Mechanism for the crying and sucking motion of dolls

• US 5,092,811 A
• Filed: 09/19/1990
• Issued: 03/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Irwin Toy, Ltd. (Livgroup Investments Ltd)
• Original Assignee: Irwin Toy, Ltd. (Livgroup Investments Ltd)
• Inventors: Bergenguer, Juan J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Muir, David N.
• Application Number:
  US07/584,748
• Time in Patent Office: 531 Days
• Field of Search: 446/301, 446/300, 446/302, 446/303, 446/299, 446/298, 446/297, 446/304, 446/341, 446/344, 446/345, 446/352, 446/353
• US Class Current: 446/301
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/48 Mounting of parts within dolls, e.g. automatic eyes or parts for animation self-moving A63H13/00

Abstract

A mechanism for dolls which allows for crying, movement of the lips and swivelling of the eyeballs. The mechanism includes a control circuit and timing element which is connected to a switch placed in the mouth of the doll, a magnetic field detector placed in the proximity of the mouth, a voice apparatus, and a motor attached to a mechanism for moving the lips and eyes. The latter mechanism consists of an eccentrically mounted shaft which is attached to one end of a spring having its other end connected to a piece that ends in the shape of an arrow-head connected to the doll face in the proximity of the mouth of the doll. A pacifier inserted in the mouth of the doll, opens the switch to maintain inactive all the devices. If the pacifier is removed, the voice device is activated. A bottle having a magnetic element can be inserted into the mouth, and operates the magnetic field detector to start the motor and operate the lips and the eyes. Upon removal of the bottle the whole mechanism stops; the timing element starts and after an interval the voice device reactivates.

Claims

1. A doll having a face with lips defining a mouth and with movable eyeballs, and having crying and sucking mechanisms which produce movement of the lips of the doll, as well as swivelling movement of the eyeballs, and also having a voice device which produces a crying sound, the doll being characterized by a timing control circuit which is connected to a switch placed in the mouth of the doll so as to be operated by a simulated pacifier inserted into the mouth, and also connected to a magnetic field detector located adjacent the mouth of the doll, as well as the voice device and to a motor that governs the functioning of a lip moving device which is mechanically linked with an eye moving device;

the timing/control circuit being arranged to activate said motor when the magnetic field detector indicates that a magnetic nipple has been placed in the vicinity of the doll'"'"'s mouth and to activate the voice device to produce a crying sound at a predetermined time interval after removal of the nipple from the mouth, said switch being operable to terminate the crying sound when the simulated pacifier is inserted into the mouth.

2. A doll according to claim 1, characterized in that the lip moving device constitutes an eccentrically mounted shaft rotatable by the motor around an axis parallel at all times to the shaft but displaced therefrom, and a spring, which is attached at one end to the shaft and at an end remote from said one end to a piece having an arrow head end which arrow head end connects with the doll face in the proximity of the lips of the doll, such that the motor when activated produces the movement of the lips.

3. A doll according to claim 1 characterized in that the eye moving device is related to the lip moving device by an eccentrically mounted shaft rotatable around an axis parallel at all times to the shaft but displaced therefrom, which shaft is movable in a slot in an actuator which is slidably connected to sockets containing the eyeballs with allowance for lateral swivelling movement;

the sockets being mounted on a support and the eyeballs each having a rod extending rearwardly through slots in the support and into the actuator such that when movement of the eccentric shaft is produced, lateral displacement of the actuator which occurs as the shaft moves in the slot produces swiveling of the eyes.

4. A doll having a face with lips defining a mouth and with movable eyeballs, and having crying and sucking mechanisms which produce movement of the lips of the doll, as well as swiveling movement of the eyeballs, and also having a voice device which produces a crying sound, the doll being characterized by a timing control circuit which is connected to a switch placed in the mouth of the doll so as to be operated by a simulated pacifier inserted into the mouth, and also connected to a magnetic field detector located adjacent the mouth of the doll, as well as the voice device and to a motor that governs the functioning of a lip moving device which is mechanically linked with an eye moving device;

wherein the lip moving device includes an eccentrically mounted shaft rotatable by the motor around an axis parallel at all times to the shaft but displaced therefrom, and also includes an element connecting said shaft to the doll face in the proximity of the lips, said doll face being pliable such that movement of the element by the shaft produces a sucking movement of the lips; and

whereon said shaft is movable in a slot in an actuator which is slidably connected to sockets containing eyeballs with allowance for lateral swivelling movement;

the sockets being mounted on a support and the eyeballs each having a rod extending rearwardly through slots in the support and into the actuator such that when the movement of the eccentric shaft is produced, the lateral displacement of the actuator which occurs as the shaft moves in the slot produces swiveling of the eyes.