JPS584551Y2 - soap bubble toys - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a soap bubble toy, and more specifically, a soap bubble toy that is formed to imitate the appearance of an animal and that blows out soap bubbles from the mouth when the mouth is opened. It is related to.

BACKGROUND ART Conventionally, as shown in US Pat. No. 3,093,925, for example, there has been known a soap bubble toy in which a soap bubble is blown out from the mouth of an animal-shaped toy when the mouth is opened.

However, conventionally, the mouth of this type of toy was disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 3093.
As shown in the specification of No. 925, a structure was adopted in which the upper jaw was opened by rotating the upper jaw directly by hand, or by air pressure using a bellows or the like.

For this reason, there were various drawbacks, such as opening by hand would reduce the interest in half, and opening by air pressure would require high air pressure.

The present invention was developed in order to eliminate the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional technology, and employs a piston-cylinder mechanism as a means of sending air to blow out soap bubbles, and to move the piston of this piston-cylinder mechanism. To provide a highly interesting soap bubble toy in which an upper jaw is connected to a rod using a lever mechanism, and the upper jaw opens and soap bubbles are blown out by simply moving the rod.

Hereinafter, details of the present invention will be explained along with embodiments shown in the drawings.

1 and 2 illustrate one embodiment of the present invention, in which a soap bubble toy, designated as a whole by reference numeral 1, is formed to imitate the external shape of an animal, for example, a frog, and has a hollow body 2. , and a head 3 that can be opened and closed.

The upper part of the body part 2 is a lower jaw part 4, and a piston-cylinder mechanism 8 consisting of a cylinder 5, a piston 6, and a rod 7 is built in the body part 2.

A piston 6 is slidably fitted into the cylinder 5, and the outer end of the rod 7 of the piston 6 is slidable in a guide tube 9 that is integrally provided on the back surface of the body 2. Guided by
A flange 7a is formed at its tip.

Further, the tip of the guide tube 9 is also formed with a flange 9a on which a fingertip can be caught during use, as will be described later.

On the lower side of the rod 7, a serrated portion 7b is formed over a predetermined range in the portion accommodated in the body portion 2,
The leaf spring 1 is held in a state where the free end is in contact with this sawtooth portion 7b.
0 is fixed at its lower end to the lower part of the body part 2.

Therefore, each time the rod 7 reciprocates, the leaf spring 10 is struck by the serrated portion 7b, producing an onomatopoeic sound similar to the cry of an animal such as a frog.

The lower end of a flexible tube 11 is individually defined at the distal end of the cylinder 5 so as to communicate with the inside of the cylinder 5, and the other end of the tube 11 faces from the back of the lower jaw part 4 to the front of the upper part. .

Therefore, by pressing the rear end of the rod 7 with a finger, the air inside the cylinder 5 is discharged from the open end of the tube 11.

On the other hand, within the lower jaw part 4 and toward the front, a reservoir part 12 is fixed with its upper end open, and jumbo liquid 13 is filled therein.

On the other hand, the head 3 has its rear end connected to the lower jaw part 4 by the shaft 14.
It is rotatably supported on the rear end.

The front part of the head 3 is an upper jaw 15, which is configured to cover the lower jaw part 4 from the outside.

The upper end of a membrane lattice 16 is fixed to the inside of the upper jaw 15 near the front end.

This lattice 16 is made of, for example, a wire mesh, and the storage part 12
It is desirable that the upper jaw 15 is curved into a shape that can be freely inserted into and taken out of the upper jaw 15, and that the upper jaw 15 is large enough to cover almost the entire opening when the upper jaw 15 is opened.

By the way, in the vicinity of the boundary between the body part 2 and the lower jaw part 4, a bent part of a lever 17 formed in a substantially L-shape is rotatably supported in the body part 2 by a pin 18.

The upper end 17a of this lever 17 is in a position where it can come into contact with a protrusion 19a protruding from the lower end of the bracket 19 integral with the head 3, which also serves as a bearing member for supporting the head 3, and the lower end 17b It faces the lower part of the body 2.

A lever 20 is rotatably supported below the lever 17.

The upper end of this lever 20 is connected to the lower end 17 of the lever 17.
b, and the lower end of the lever 20 is in contact with a protrusion 7C projecting from the upper side of the rod 7.

Next, the operation of this embodiment configured as above will be explained.

First, when the rod 7 is pulled outward all at once, the protrusion 7C retreats and the operating lever 20 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG.
The upper end 17a of the lever 17 is separated from the protrusion 19a of the bracket 19, and the head 3 is rotated counterclockwise in FIG. 2 due to its own weight.
The upper jaw part 15 and the lower jaw part 4 are brought together to close the mouth.

At this time, the grid 16 is almost entirely immersed in the soap liquid 13 within the reservoir 12.

In this state, if you put your index finger and middle finger on the guide tube 9 inside the flange 9a of the guide tube 9 and press the flange portion 7a formed at the end of the rod 7 with your thumb, the rod 7
moves forward.

As the rod 7 moves forward, the serrations 7b strike the free end of the leaf spring 10, producing an onomatopoeic sound.

Eventually, when the protrusion 7C contacts the rear of the lower end of the operating lever 20, the operating lever 20 is rotated clockwise in the figure around the pin 21, and the upper end of the operating lever 20 contacts the lower side of the lower end 17b of the lever 17. Push this up.

As a result, the lever 17 is rotated counterclockwise in the figure about the pin 18, and the tip of its upper end 17a pushes the protrusion 19a of the bracket 19 from behind.

Therefore, the head 3 is rotated clockwise in FIG. 2 about the shaft 14, and the upper jaw 15 opens away from the lower jaw 4.

This opening operation is performed together with the generation of onomatopoeia by the leaf spring 10 described above.

When the upper jaw 15 is opened, the lattice 16 is pulled out from the reservoir 12 with a film of soap liquid stretched between the meshes and covers the front surface of the opening.

Almost simultaneously with the opening operation, the air in the cylinder 5 is pushed out through the tube 11 as the piston 6 moves forward, and is blown out from the open end thereof, which is open toward the grid 16.

As a result, the film of soap liquid spread between the meshes of the grid 16 is blown away by the air blown out from the tube 11, and as is well known, a large number of soap bubbles 22 are generated, and the air flow blown out from the tube 11. It can be floated outwards by placing it on a ship.

At this time, if the area of the grid 16 is large enough to cover almost the entire surface of the opening as described above, the soap bubbles 22 will be blown out in a wide range forward at the same time as the mouth is opened.

When one soap bubble blowing operation is completed in this manner, the rod 7 is pulled again and the above-described operation is repeated.

The reservoir 12 may be provided only in the front portion of the lower jaw portion 4 as described above, but it may also be provided over almost the entire surface of the lower jaw as shown by the chain line in FIG.

At this time, the lever 17 needs to be provided at a position away from the reservoir 12.

Further, in the embodiment, a lever mechanism is used as a means for opening the upper jaw 15 by moving the rod 7, but other linking means may be used.

Furthermore, although the above embodiment has an external shape imitating the shape of a frog,
As exemplified in FIG. 3, it may be formed to imitate the outer shape of a dragonfly or the like, and its shape can be arbitrarily selected.

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the head, which is freely openable and closable with respect to the body, is opened and closed in conjunction with the operation of the rod for moving the piston of the piston-cylinder mechanism for blowing out air. The structure is such that when the head opens and closes, the grid, which is covered with a film of soap liquid between the meshes by the soap liquid in the reservoir, can be inserted and removed so as to cover the entire surface of the opening. Just by peeling it off, you can get a soap bubble toy that has a humorous action that blows out soap bubbles as soon as you open it, and if you also use a sound producing member using a leaf spring or the like, you can blow out soap bubbles with an onomatopoeic effect. , it becomes an even more interesting toy.

In addition, since the structure is extremely simple, it can be accommodated in a limited space and can be made into an extremely small soap bubble toy.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figures 1 and 2 show one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a side view with the mouth open, FIG. 2 is a longitudinal side view with the mouth open, and FIG. 3 is a side view showing a different external shape. 1... Soap bubble toy, 2... Torso,
3...Head, 4...Lower jaw, 5...
...Cylinder, 6...Piston, 7...
... Rod, 8 ... Piston cylinder mechanism, 11 ... Tube, 12 ... Reservoir, 13 ... Soap liquid, 5 ... ... Upper jaw, 16 ... Lattice, 17 ... Lever 20
・・・・・・Activation lever

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] The upper end is formed into a lower jaw shape with an upper opening, and the upper end is provided with a reservoir section filled with soap liquid, and the upper jaw section is attached to the open end of the body section so as to be openable and closable. a head, a lattice whose upper end is fixed to the upper jaw of the head, and whose lower end enters and exits the storage section as the upper jaw of the head opens and closes; A piston/cylinder mechanism that blows out air when operated, a tube that guides the air blown by the screw cylinder mechanism in the direction of the lattice, and a linear movement of the rod during the compression stroke of the piston of the piston/cylinder mechanism as described above. A soap bubble toy equipped with a lever mechanism that converts the jaw opening movement.