Articulated doll arrangement

• US 4,643,691 A
• Filed: 05/31/1985
• Issued: 02/17/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kawada Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Kawada Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Keiji, Iwabuchi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MUIR, DAVID N
• Application Number:
  US06/740,020
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 446/97-99, 446/100, 446/369, 446/376, 446/377, 446/381, 446/384, 446/390, 446/383
• US Class Current: 446/97
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/16 made of parts that can be put together facial parts only A63H3/365
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/46 Connections for limbs

Abstract

An articulated doll arrangement having a head, a body, arms, upper legs, lower legs and hands. The parts of the articulated doll are interconnected to provide simulated anthropomorphic movements between various of the parts. A central connecting member extends through the hollow body means and projects from the top of the body upon which the head having a simulated neck is pivotally mounted. The remote end of the central connecting has the two upper legs pivotally mounted thereon adjacent the bottom edges of the body. A simulated shoulder joint is provided on the sides of the body adjacent the top and the arms are pivotally connected at the shoulder connecting joints. Hands are detachably mounted in the remote ends of the arms. Lower legs are pivotally connected to the upper legs at a simulated knee joint.

Claims

1. Miniature articulated doll arrangement comprising, in combination:

a body means, having a front wall, a back wall spaced from said front wall, a top wall and spaced apart side walls defining an open bottom body cavity, and said top wall having walls defining an aperture therethrough, shoulder joint connecting portion on each of said side walls in regions adjacent said top wall, and each of said front wall, back wall and side walls having lower edges spaced from said top wall, and said lower edge of said back wall and said side walls spaced a first preselected distance from said top wall, and said lower edge of said front wall spaced a second preselected distance from said top wall;

central connector means in said body cavity of said body means and having a neck connecting portion extending through said aperture in said top wall and an upper leg connecting portion having a pair of spaced apart side surfaces and extending a third preselected distance from said top wall of said body means and spaced from said neck connecting portion, and said upper leg connecting portion of said central connector means extending from said open bottom body cavity;

a head means pivotally mounted for pivotal movement about the neck axis on said neck connecting portion of said central connecting means adjacent said top wall of said body means and having a head simulating portion and a neck simulating portion extending from said head simulating portion, said neck simulating portion having walls defining a neck connecting portion receiving aperture therein for receiving said neck connecting portion of said central connecting member, and said head simulating portion having a head covering connecting portion receiving aperture therein;

a pair of arm means, one of said arm means movably mounted on each of said shoulder joint connecting portions of said body means for pivotal motion thereon, said arm means having a shoulder end for pivotal connection to said shoulder joint connecting portions to define a simulated shoulder joint therebetween and a wrist end spaced from said shoulder end, said wrist end having walls defining a hand connecting portion receiving aperture therein;

a pair of hand means, one of said hand means pivotally mounted on said wrist ends of each of said arm means, and said hand means having a hand simulating portion and a hand connecting portion extending therefrom, said hand portion receiving aperture of arm said means for providing said pivotal motion of said hand means;

a pair of spaced apart upper leg means movably mounted on said upper leg connecting portion of said central connecting means for limited pivotal motion thereon about a fourth axis and having a hip end connecting portion for mounting on said upper leg connecting portion of said central connecting means to define a simulated hip joint therebetween, and a lower leg connecting portion spaced from said hip end connecting portion, a first of said pair of upper leg means pivotally mounted adjacent one of said pair of spaced apart side surfaces of said central connecting member and having a rod portion extending through said upper leg connecting portion of said central connecting member and in pivotal engagement therewith, and said rod portion having a tab section on the remote end thereof, and the second of said pair of upper leg means pivotally mounted adjacent the other of said pair of side surfaces of said central connecting member and pivotally engaging said tab section of said rod portion of said first of said pair of upper leg means and restrained adjacent said upper leg connecting portion of said central connecting member thereby;

a pair of lower leg means, one of said lower leg means movably mounted on each of said lower leg connecting portions of said upper leg means at a knee end portion thereof for limited pivotal motion about a fifth axis to simulate a knee joint therebetween, and having a foot simulating portion spaced from said knee end portion.

2. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said upper leg means further comprises;

said hip end of said upper leg means comprises a first hip stop means for engaging said lower edge of said front wall of said body means for limiting pivotal motion of said upper leg means toward said front wall, and the second hip stop means for engaging said lower edge of said back wall of said body means for limiting pivotal motion of said upper leg means toward said back wall of said body means.

3. The arrangement defined in claim 2, wherein:

said limited pivotal motion of said upper leg means toward said front wall is to a position wherein said upper leg portions extend at substantially 90 degrees from said front wall of said body means.

4. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said first preselected distance is greater than said second preselected distance; and

said third preselected distance is greater than said first preselected distance.

5. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said movable motion of said arms means on said shoulder connecting portion is pivotal motion about three mutually perpendicular axes.

6. The arrangement defined in claim 5, wherein:

said pivotal motion of said arm means is 360 degrees about a first of said three mutually perpendicular axes and less than 360 degrees about each of the second and third axes; and

said movable motion of each of said arm means is independent of motion of the other arm means.

7. The arrangement defined in claim 6, wherein:

said pivotal motion of each of said arm means about each of said three axes is independent of pivotal motion about the other two axes.

8. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said pivotal motion of said head means is 360 degrees.

9. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said fourth axis is substantially perpendicular to said neck axis.

10. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said hand simulating portion of said hand means further comprises finger simulating sections.

11. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said hand simulating portion further comprises hook simulating portion.

12. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said fifth axis is substantially parallel to said fourth axis.

13. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said simulated knee joint further comprises;

first knee stop means on said knee end portion of said lower leg means for engaging said lower leg connecting portion of said upper leg to limit pivotal motion of said lower leg means toward said front wall of said body means, and a second knee stop means on said knee connecting portion of said lower leg means for engaging said lower leg connecting portion of said upper leg to limit pivotal motion of said lower leg toward said back wall of said body means.

14. The arrangement defined in claim 11, wherein:

said limited pivotal motion of said lower leg means at said simulated knee joint is approximately 90 degrees.

15. The arrangement defined in claim 1 and further comprising:

head covering means for detachably mounting on said head simulating portion of said head means.

16. The arrangement defined in claim 15, wherein:

said head covering means further comprises;

connecting portion positionable in said head covering connecting portion receiving aperture of said head means.

17. The arrangement defined in claim 15, wherein:

said head covering means further comprises hair simulating means.

18. The arrangement defined in claim 15, wherein:

said head covering means further coprises a simulated helmet means.

19. The arrangement defined in claim 1, wherein:

said hand means are detachably mounted on said arm means.