AU647793B2 - Doll - Google Patents

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. <IMAGE>

Description

6477 4 P/00/0011 Regulation 3.2

AUSTRALIA

Patents Act 1990 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION FOR A STANDARD PATENT

ORIGINAL

Name of Applicant: Actual Inventor(s): CREATIVIDAD Y DISENO, S.A.

Jos6 Manuel RODRIGUEZ FERRE Address for service in Australia: CARTER SMITH BEADLE Qantas House 2 Railway Parade Camberwell Victoria 3124 Australia Attorney Code SA Invention Title: DOLL The following statement is a full description of this invention, including the best method of performing it known to us: Our Ref: #7136 BC:WB 06cre -1- -2 The present invention to which this specification corresponds relates to a toy doll.

In one aspect, the present invention provides a toy doll having a head, limbs and body and a mouth, said doll comprising a storage area for cookies fed to the doll, a passageway leading from the mouth to said storage area, a pair of cookie rollers for advancing a cookie into the dolls mouth and an electrically driven motor including a drive train for rotating the cookie rollers intermittently so that the cookie is drawn into the mouth in an intermittent step by step manner, rather than in a single continuous movement, and for discharging the cookie into the passageway whereby the cookie is passed into the storage area and stored until retrieved for further use.

e Preferably, the doll further includes an electronic 15 circuit for generating sound, connected to the electrically driven motor for creating audible sounds and/or message

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phrases. The audible sounds and/or message phrases may be generated during passage of the cookie through the mouth of the doll and/or through the passageway.

20 In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides a doll t .l adapted to permit cookie type slabs to be introduced through

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t ,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 25 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 acoustic device may be a speaker.

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 co-ordinated with the entrainment of the cookies, one hears externally, through an acoustic device, ell GN:AM:03:7136:RES 17 JaUary 1994 I721 1 1 -3sounds 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.

The description of this object will be illustr&ted 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 side, 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 of the invention assumes outwardly a desired conventional form, and it contains in its interior a mechanism, lodged in a housing including an 25 electrically driven motor and formed on the basis of a combination of parts and wheels with its corresponding drive pinions functionally coupled together, for the intermittent displacement of a cookie introduced in the doll's mouth.

The housing extends below to a box 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 -7provided on the back of the doll and covered externally by a flap cover.

Inside the doll is lodged also a second closed housing -8which contains a set of batteries which in turn are connected to the electronic circuit which they control and through I I Il

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II I ~7~ V'7 S Fl-n 'S iCp GN:AM:03:7136:RES 13 Dccember 1993 -4which 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 adjustable thereon.

The electronic circuit is connected to an on-off switch which is operated by means of the push-button -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 controlled by the electronic circuit to which it is connected. By this device different phrases are emitted, the content of which varies in co-ordination with the displacement stages of the cookie and its final fall into the box 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- which permit the projection of the sounds in due intensity and clarity.

The doll having been organised in this manner and the internal mechanism set in operation by pressing the switch -12situated on the back of the user, the first emission of sound in the form of a phrase takes place. After the cookie slab has then been placed in the doll's mouth, the assembly of parts tand wheels takes it along at intervals toward the interior and co-ordinated with these intervals the phrase pronounced changes. Having been introduced all the way, the cookie falls to the bottom of the box where it stays until it is extracted manually, these successive stages representing a new change of sounds.

The claims form part of the disclosure of this specification.

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Claims (11)

1. A toy doll having a head, limbs and body and a mouth, said doll comprising a storage area for cookies fed to the doll, a passageway leading from the mouth to said storage area, a pair of cookie rollers for advancing a cookie into the dolls mouth and an electrically driven motor including a drive train for rotating the cookie rollers intermittently so that the cookie is drawn into the mouth in an intermittent step by step manner, rather than in a single continuous movement, and for discharging the cookie into the passageway whereby the cookie is passed into the storage area and stored until retrieved for Sb.. ee ~further use. rr

2. A toy doll as claimed in claim 1 wherein said drive train includes elements for simulating eating by said mouth as the cookie passes through said mouth.

3. A toy doll as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2 wherein said doll further includes an electronic circuit for generating sound, connected to said electrically driven motor for creating I. audible sounds and/or message phrases.

4. A toy doll as claimed in claim 3 wherein said audible sound and/or message phrases are transmitted in a mutually cooperative manner with the operation of the cookie eating toy doll. A toy doll as claimed in claim 3 wherein the audible sound and/or message phrases are generated during passage of the cookie through the mouth of the doll. GN:AM:03:7136:RES 17 JaDuary 1994 -6- 6 l

6. A toy doll as claimed in claims 4 or 5 wherein different audible sounds and/or message phrases are generated in coordination with the passage of the cookie through the mouth and the passageway.

7. A toy doll as claimed in any one of claims 3 to 6 wherein said electronic circuit is operatively connected to a speaker to generate said audible sounds and/or message phrases.

8. The toy doll according to any one of claims 3 to 7 wherein said motor and said electronic circuit are battery powered and said electronic circuit for generating sound is Soperable only when a switch in a circuit is energised or closed by a user of said toy doll.

9. The toy doll as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8 I :iwherein said motor and said drive train are housed in the head of said doll and said electronic means and means for powering Sthe electronic means and the motor are housed in said body of said doll. t J The toy doll as claimed in claim 9 wherein said means for powering comprises batteries.

11. The toy doll according to any one of the preceding claims wherein an access door is located on the back of said doll to enable a user to retrieve said cookie from said storage 1 area. S :O3:7136RES GNAN;0Cr3~' :136:RES 13 Decembr 1993 I, 4 7 i 7

12. A toy doll as claimed in claim 10 wherein said batteries are removably or replaceably housed in the body of said doll.

13. A toy doll substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying Figures. DATED: 13 December 1993 CARTER SMITH BEADLE Patent Attorneys for the Applicant: CREATIVIDAD Y DISENO S.A. GN:AM:03:7136:RES 13 December 1993 1 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 (13) connected to an electronic circuit Outwardly is assumes the conventional form of a baby, and it contains I. in its interior an electromeciianical assembly 3, including a set of it'E wheels situated in line with the mouth, and when the cookie type slabs I are introduced through the latter, they cause their intermittent entrainment and subsequent fall into the internal box In coordination with the entrainment of the cookies, one hears externally through an acoustic device (13) 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 after the cookie has finally fallen into the box. i