ANIMATED DOLL RESPONSIVE TO MOUTH-INSERTED ELEMENT

• US 3,641,703 A
• Filed: 03/09/1970
• Issued: 02/15/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hyman P. Boydman, Sidney Tepper
• Original Assignee: Hyman P. Boydman, Sidney Tepper
• Inventors: Tepper, Sidney, Boydman, Hyman P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mancene, Louis G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lever, J. Q.
• Application Number:
  US05/022,740
• Time in Patent Office: 708 Days
• Field of Search: 46/232,228,247,141
• US Class Current: 446/295
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 13/00 Toy figures with self-moving parts, with or without movement of the toy as a whole
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/001 simulating physiological processes, e.g. heartbeat, breathing or fever with fluid ingestion or emission A63H3/24
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/006 provided with electrical lighting electrical lighting F21

Abstract

The doll has electrical circuit means including one or more loads, e.g., an electric motor and/or light source, and a switch operable by an element, e.g., a nursing bottle nipple or a simulated pill, inserted into the doll'"'"''"'"'s mouth. With more than one load, a separate parallel circuit is provided for each load, and the switch, which has several positions, completes no more than one of the parallel circuits in any of its positions. The switch may be operated by a ratchet and pawl mechanism.

Claims

1. A doll comprising:

a. a body, b. a head on said body formed with a mouth, c. electrical activating means carried by said body, said means including;

I. an electrical load, II. an electrical circuit for energizing said load, and III. switch means forming part of said circuit, said switch means having at least two positions, said circuit being completed and said load energized when said switch means is in at least one of its positions and said circuit being open and incapable of completion, and said load deenergized, when said switch means is in at least another of its positions, d. means responsive to successive insertions of simulated pill means into said mouth for moving said switch means to successive ones of its positions, e. means through which simulated pill means move from said mouth into said body, and f. an opening in said doll body through which the pill means can be recovered and reinserted into said mouth.

2. A doll as defined in claim 1, wherein said electrical activating means includes at least two separate electrical loads, and at least two parallel electrical circuits, one of said loads being in each of said circuits, and wherein said switch means in any one of its positions completes no more than one of said parallel circuits to energize its respective load.

3. A doll as defined in claim 1 wherein said load is an electric light source.

4. A doll as defined in claim 3 wherein said light source is located within said head to simulate a fever when said light source is energized.

5. A doll as defined in claim 1 wherein said load is an electric motor.

6. A doll as defined in claim 5 including a crying mechanism carried by said body, and means responsive to energization of said motor for activating said mechanism to simulate crying.

7. A doll as defined in claim 6 wherein said responsive means includes a cam rotatable in response to energization of said motor, and a follower engaging said cam and operatively connected to said crying mechanism for operating the latter when said cam rotates.

8. A doll as defined in claim 5 including a limb movably connected to said body, and a mechanism carried by said body and responsive to energization of said motor for moving said limb.

9. A doll as defined in claim 7 wherein said mechanism includes a cam rotatable in response to energization of said motor, and including a follower engaging said cam and operatively connected to said limb for moving the latter when said cam rotates.

10. A doll as defined in claim 8 including a crying mechanism carried by said body, and another follower engaging said cam and operatively connected to said crying mechanism for operating the latter when said cam rotates.

11. A doll as defined in claim 1 wherein said switch means includes a movable switch contact, and said means (d) includes a ratchet movable with said contact, a movable pawl for engaging and moving said ratchet and hence said contact, and means located in the mouth region of the doll for moving said pawl in response to insertion of an element into said mouth.

12. A doll as defined in claim 11 wherein said means for moving said pawl includes a pivotally mounted lever carrying said pawl, a portion of said lever being located immediately inside said mouth for engagement by an element inserted into said mouth, such insertion causing pivotal movement of said lever.

13. A doll as defined in claim 12 including a spring urging said lever in a direction causing said pawl to move said ratchet, said lever being moved against the force of said spring upon insertion of an element in said mouth.

14. A doll as defined in claim 1 including conduit means for guiding pill means inserted into said mouth to said opening.

15. A doll as defined in claim 1 including an opening in said doll body, and a nOrmally closed switch forming part of said circuit arranged within said body at said opening, said normally closed switch being operable to open said circuit upon insertion of an element through said opening.

16. A doll as defined in claim 2 wherein said switch means has at least three positions, said switch completing one of said parallel circuits when in one of its positions, said switch completing a different one of said parallel circuits when in another of its positions, and all of said parallel circuits being incapable of completion when said switch is in a third position.