Doll

Abstract: Involves a doll able to permit the introduction of cookie type slabs through the mouth, which simulates eating and having been eaten they fall by gravity to the bottom of an internal box, from which they can easily be extracted, while at the same time it reproduces at intervals a series of sounds, in the form of changing phrases, which it emits through an acoustic device connected to an electronic circuit. Outwardly it assumes the conventional form of a baby, and it contains in its interior an electromechanical assembly, including a set of wheels situated in line with the mouth, and when the cookie type slabs are introduced through the latter, they cause their intermittent entrainment and subsequent fall into the internal box.

Description: The present invention relates to a doll as described in the preamble of claim 1. Such a doll is disclosed in US-A-3 685 200. According to this prior art publication, the acoustic device for emitting a series of sounds comprises a cassette player for reproducing a previously recorded audio signal. Means are provided for moving parts of the doll, such as the jaw, in reponse to the intensity of the audio signal. This prior art doll is not adapted for simulating eating. According to the invention, a doll of the above-mentioned type is characterized by the features of the characterzing part of claim 1. More concretely stated, it involves a doll adapted to permit cookie type slabs to be introduced through the mouth, which simulates eating, and having been eaten they fall by gravity to the bottom of an internal box, from which they can easily be extracted, and at the same time it reproduces at intervals a series of sounds, in the manner of changing phrases, which it emits through an acoustic device connected to an electronic circuit. The doll, which outwardly assumes the conventional form of a baby boy or girl, contains in its interior an electromechanical assembly, including a set of wheels, situated in line with the mouth, and when the cookie type slabs are introduced, they cause their intermittent entrainment and subsequent fall into the internal box, from which they can be extracted through an opening with flap cover on the doll's back. At the same time and coordinated with the entrainment of the cookies, one hears externally, through an acoustic device, sounds in the form of phrases which begin to be emitted when the electronic circuit that regulates their emission is connected and continue, with different phrases, during the penetration of the cookie, to return to the original phrase once the cookie has finally fallen into the box. US-4 192 092 describes a doll utilizing an internal conveyor mechanism for simulating eating, which comprises a sound-generating mechanism for generating typical sounds associated with an eating action. This publication does not, however, disclose spoken phrases which change in coordination with the displacement stages of the food being "eaten". The description of this object will be illustrated with a set of drawings, showing a preferred example of execution, which is not limiting but merely explanatory, as it may be the subject of changes of detail in whatever does not affect its characteristic purpose. In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective front view of the doll, showing the internal mechano-electrical mechanism. Figure 2 is the side view of the same doll represented in the previous figure, with the internal mechanism visible from this position. Figure 3 is a double overall view, from the front and back, of the doll shown in foregoing figures. Figure 4 is a perspective of the mechanism for entrainment of the cookie slab, in exploded view. Always referring to the example of execution represented in the drawings, the doll -1- of the invention assumes outwardly a desired conventional form, and it contains in its interior a mechanism, lodged in a housing -2- and formed on the basis of a combination of parts and wheels -3-, with its corresponding drive pinions -4-, functionally coupled together, for the intermittent displacement of a cookie -5- introduced in the doll's mouth. The housing -2- extends below to a box -6- closed at its base, into which the cookie falls by gravity after it has been swallowed by the doll, so that it is deposited therein until it is extracted, which is achieved through the outer opening -7- provided on the back of the doll and covered externally by a flap cover. Inside the doll is lodged also a second closed housing -8- which contains a set of batteries which in turn are connected to the electronic circuit -9- which they control and through which the various mechanisms are actuated. Access to the interior of the housing is obtained by means of an opening, located on the back of the doll, which is closed on the outside by the cover -10-, adjustable thereon. The electronic circuit is connected to an on-off switch -11-, which is operated by means of the pushbotton -12- also situated on the doll's back. Forming part of the assembly of elements included in the doll's body is an acoustic device -13-, controlled by the electronic circuit -9- to which it is connected. By this device different phrases are emitted, the content of which varies in coordination with the displacement stages of the cookie -5- and its final fall into the box -6-. Hearing of these phrases is facilitated in that the doll has been provided, in the zone of the chest behind which said device is coupled, with a succession of holes -14- (sic) which permit the projection of the sounds in due intensity and clarity. The doll having been organized in this inner and the internal mechanism set in operation by pressing the switch -12- situated on the back of the doll (sic), the first emission of sound in the form of a phrase takes place. After the cookie slab -5- has then been placed in the doll's mouth, the assembly of parts and wheels -3-4- takes it along at intervals toward the interior and coordinated with these intervals the phrase pronounced changes. Having been introduced all the way, the cookie falls to the bottom of the box -6- where it stays until it is extracted manually, these successive stages representing a new change of sounds.

Claims: Toy doll (1), assuming as a whole a suitable conventional form, comprising a body and a head with a mouth; said doll (1) comprising further: an electronic circuit (9) located in the interior of the doll and connected to an on/off switch (11) which is operated from a button (12) located on the outside of the back of the body; a set of batteries connected to said electronic circuit (9), said set of batteries being located within a housing (8) lodged in the doll's body, said housing being associated with an opening in a zone of the back of the body, said opening being closed by an adjustable cover (10); and an acoustic device (13) located within the doll for emitting a series of sounds that are audible from the outside of said doll; characterized in: that a second housing (2) is contained within the interior of the doll, said second housing (2) communicating with said mouth, said second housing (2) containing a displacement mechanism comprising wheels (3) and pinions (4), which are adapted to make possible the entrainment and penetration of a cookie slab (5) through the mouth and its final fall into a closed box (6) which is located within the doll, reached only from the outside through an opening (7) made in the back of the doll; that said electric circuit (9) is connected to said mechanism for controlling the operation of said mechanism such that it displaces said cookie slab (5) intermittently; that said electric circuit (9) is connected to said acoustic device (13) for controlling said acoustic device (13) such that a series of sounds in the form of phrases, generated by said electric circuit (9), are emitted by said acoustic device (13); and that the contents of the phrases generated by said electric circuit (9) change in coordination with the displacement stages of the cookie slab (5). Toy doll according to claim 1, wherein said sounds are emitted by said acoustic device (13) through a succession of orifices (14) made in the chest of the doll.

Inventors: RODRIGUEZ FERRE JOSE MANUEL, RODRIGUEZ FERRE, JOSE MANUEL, Rodriguez Ferre, José Manuel
Applicants: CREATIVIDAD & DISENO SA, CREATIVIDAD Y DISENO, S.A.
Application year: 1991
Main classification: A63H3
IPC codes: A63H3