US1660594A - Doll structure - Google Patents

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Feb. 28, 1928. x

H. B. BRUCKNER DOLL STRUCTURE Filed Auz. 24. 1925 INVENTOR Bruohzez;

ATTORNEY Fatented Feb. 28, 1928.

UNITED STATES HENRY BAILLET BRUCENER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

DOLL STRUCTURE.

Application filed August 24, 1925.

This invention relates to, toy figures or manilrins and has for its primary object to provide a novel device of this kind consisting primarily of a doll or other toy figure provided with means for mounting a telephonic rceeiver unit in the body thereof.

More particularly, in one embodiment of the invention, I provide the body of the doll with a transversely ext-ending chamber 1 opening upon the front and rear sides of the doll body and within one end of which the telephonic receiver unit is adapted to be inserted. The sounds emanating from said receiver unit have free egress in amplified volume from the other end of said chamber. In this manner, juvenile and bed-time stories such are being widely broadcasted by wireless or radio may appear to emanate from the doll, and thus be presented in a very realistic manner.

It is another object of provide a device of the which may be applied to dolls of various forms and constructions as now produced. in the art without greatly increasing the manufacture or selling coststhereof.

With the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in the improved radio loud speaker, and in the form, construction and relative arrangement of the several parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and subsequently incorporated in the subjoined claims.

In the drawing, wherein I have illustrated one simple and practical embodiment of the invention, and in similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,-

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a doll provided with my present improvements whereby the doll subserves the purpose of a loud speaker for radio receiving apparatus;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section 4:- taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation as indicated by the line 8-3 of Fig. 2.

In the type of doll which I have selected for purpose of illustration and which is commonly referred to in the art as a soft body doll, the body consists primarily of a suitable padding material indicated at 5 confined between front and rear walls of fabric designated 6 and 7 respectively. In a doll of this type, the walls 6 and 7 are provided with openings therein of predetermined size the invention to above character Serial No. 51,918.

or area: and the padding material extending transversely between these openings is removed. A tube 8 preferably of cardboard is then inserted through this transverse opening and the edges of the fabric walls 6 and 7 surrounding the openings therein are suitably attached to the opposite ends of this tube whereby the latter is held in place. This tube is open at its opposite ends and within the front end thereof a relatively short tube 9 also preferably of cardboard is inserted and permanently fined to the tube 8 by an adhesive or other suitable means. This inner tube 9 likewise is entirely open at its opposite ends and it will be seen that the rear end edge 10 thereofpresents an annular shoulder at a point intermediate the ends of the tube 8;

s fithin the rear end of the tube 8 the telephonic receiver unit 11 is adapted to be i: erted. This unit may be of any conventional form purchasable in the open market and is commonly referred to as a head phone receiver, or one of the two receivers provided in head phones used in connection witii radio receiving apparatus. This receiver is'provided with the usual current conducting wires 12 and the switch plug 13. The annular shoulder 10 above referred: to constitutes a stop limiting the inward move ment of the receiver 11 into the rear end of the tube 8, thus providing a substantialspace between the receiver diaphragm and the front open end of the tube 8, said space constituting a sound box or chamber into which the sounds initially issue and from which they find egress in amplified volume through the front end of the inner tube 9. It will be understood that the casing of the receiver 11 has a more or less tight frictional fit within the tube 8 so that it will not become accidentally displaced therefrom. The front and rear open ends of the tube 8 are covered or concealed by the clothing of the doll, indicated at 14.

While I have above described my present improvements as they will be embodied in a soft body or stuffed doll, it will of course, be apparent that the device may also be incorporated in doll bodies of other construction such as metal or wood. In the latter case, when a solid wood body is used, it will be understood that a transverse opening of suitable area may be bored therethrough and provided with an internal shoulder as the equivalent of the annular shoulder 10 above diaphragm will issue into the tube 9 or the referred to for limiting the inward movement of the receiver unit.

From the foregoing description considered in connection with the accompanying drawing, the construction and several advantages of my improved radio loud speaker Will be readily understood. Ordinarily, when the device is not in use, the child may play With the doll in the same manner as any ordinary doll of conventional manufacture.

' however, it is desired to use the doll as a loud speaker, as for instance, When bed-time stories or other stories appealing to children are being broadcasted, it is only necessary to detach one of the head phones or receivers 11 from the head band and insert the same beneath the clothing of the doll at the rear side of the body and into the rear end of the transverse chamber or tube 8 until the front end of the receiver casing abuts against the shoulder 10. V-Vhen the switch plug 13 is then inserted, the sounds from the receiver scribed aspecific embodiment of the several novel features of the device, it Will neverthe less, be understood that the same may be incorporated in various other alternative structures, and I accordingly reserve the privilege of adopting all such legitimate changes in the form, construction and relarive-arrangement of the several parts as may be fairly embodied Within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

I claim: e c

1. In a structure of the class described, a doll having a chamber extending through the body thereof and open at its opposite ends, one of the open ends of said chamber adapted to removably receive atelephonic receiver unit, the remaining portionof said chamber constituting sound amplifying means, and stop means preventing movement ofthe receiver unitfrom its inserted posi tion towards the other end of said chamber.

2. In a structure of the class described,

a figure or manikin having a chamber eX- tending transversely through the body thereof and provided intermediate the ends or said chamber with an annular stop shoulder adapted to limit the insertion of a telephone 10 rece ver unit into one end of said chamber.

3. In a structure of the class described, a doll having abody provided with a transverse opening therethrough and an annular shoulder intermediate the ends of said openi ing, one end of said opening adapted to receive a telephonic receiver unit frictionally engaging the Wall of the opening and sald shoulder limiting the insertion of said unit into the opening.

4. In a structure of tlieclass described, a doll having a tube extending transversely through the body thereof open at its opposite ends and connected to thefront rear Walls of the doll body, a second tube secured Within the front end of said first-named tube and also open at its opposite ends, the rear end of said second tube presenting an annular stop shoulder and the rear end of said first-named tube adapted'to receive a telephonic receiver unit frictionally 'engagingthe Wall of, said first-namedtube and abutting against said annular stop shoulder.

I In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have s1 gned my name hereto.

HENRY BAILLET BRUGKNER

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