US2934856A

US2934856A - Weeping and wetting dolls

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Publication number: US2934856A
Application number: US549701A
Authority: US
Inventors: Cohn David
Original assignee: Model Plastic Corp
Current assignee: Model Plastic Corp
Priority date: 1955-11-29
Filing date: 1955-11-29
Publication date: 1960-05-03
Anticipated expiration: 1977-05-03

Description

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WEEPING AND WETTING DOLLS Filed Nov. 29. 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVEN TOR.

DAVID COHN May 3, 1960 D. COHN I 2,934,856

WEEPING AND WETTING DOLLS Filed Nov. 29, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. F 2 DAVID COHN ATTORNEY WEEPING AND WETTING DOLLS David Colin, New York, N.Y., assignor to Model Plastic Corp., White Plains, N .Y., a corporation of New York Application November 29, 1955, Serial No. 549,701

12 Claims. (Cl. 46-135) This invention relates to dolls. It is particularly directed to a weeping and wetting doll.

An object of this invention is to provide a highly improved doll of the character described, including a collapsible syringe container within a collapsible doll body, so that water may be fed to said container and said container may be squeezed upon squeezing the body, and means to causewater to pass from the container to openings adjacent the dolls eyes when said container is squeezed simulating weeping, the arrangement being such as to permit overflow of water from the container, which may drop to the bottom of the body and pass out through an opening at the bottom of the body to simulate wetting, the construction being such, furthermore, that the overflow occurs only when squeezing the body and container without overflowing during feeding of water to the container.

Yet a further object of this invention is to provide in a doll of the character described, a soft head having openings adjacent the eyes, and including tubes having their ends stuck into said openings and cemented in place for carrying water to the openings.

Yet a further object of this invention is to provide in a weeping doll of the character described, a squeezable syringe arranged with a vent opening to allow air to escape through the syringe when water is fed to the syringe and which also will permit overflow of water during squeezing of the syringe, so that such overflow water may drop to the bottom of the body for wetting.

Still -a further object of this invention is to provide in a wetting doll of the character described, a mouth opening in the head into which the nipple of a bottle may be placed so that Water from the bottle may pass to the syringe, the construction being such that when the body and syringe are squeezed, water is sucked from the bottle into the syringe, thereby facilitating passage of water to the syringe.

Yet another object of this invention is to provide in a doll of the character described, a squeezable body, a soft head mounted thereon and provided with openings adjacent the dolls eyes, and with a mouth opening, a rigid tube fixed to the mouth opening and projecting rearwardly therefrom, a manifold having a pair of outwardly extending nipples, a forwardly extending nipple and a downwardly extending nipple, all interconnecting within the manifold, the tube from the mouth opening being connected to the forwardly extending nipple, and flexible tubes interconnecting the outwardly extending nipples to the respective eye openings, and a depending tube connected at its upper end to the downwardly extending nipple and having its lower end projecting into and attached to a collapsible syringe container formed with a vent opening at its upper end, whereby a bottle may be inserted into the mouth opening so that water may pass through the rearwardly extending tube to the manifold and then down to the syringe container, and whereby when the body of the doll is squeezed and the syringe 2,934,855 Patented May 3, 1960 container is squeezed through the body, water from the container may pass upwardly through the eye tubes and come out, simulating tears, through the eye openings.

Yet a further object of this invention is to provide in a doll of the character described, means to prevent the lower end of the tube projecting into the syringe container from being closed up when said tube is inserted into said container.

A further object of this invention is to provide a strong, rugged and durable doll of the character described, which shall be relatively inexpensive to manufacture, easy to manipulate and which shall yet be practical and efficient to a high degree in use.

Other objects of this invention will in part be obvious and in part hereinafter pointed out.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter described, and of which the scope of invention will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings in which is shown various illustrative embodiments of this invention:

Fig. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view through a doll embodying the invention and taken on line 1-1 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the head showing a bottle inserted into the mouth opening;

Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 5--5 of Fig. 1.

Referring now in detail to the drawing, 10 designates a doll embodying the invention. The same comprises a body 11 of the soft collapsible type, made of rubber-like synthetic plastic. When the body is collapsed or squeezed.

and pressure is released it will spring back to its normal shape. Connected to the body 11 are legs 12 of usual construction, preferably likewise of the soft rubber-like type of material. Also connected to the body 11 are usual arms 13 which also may be of the soft, collapsible, rubher-like material. The body 11 has usual openings to swingably receive portions of the legs 12 and arms 13. Said body 11 has a bottom wall 15 formed with a small wetting opening 16. Said body 11 has a front wall 17, a rear wall 18 and side walls 19. It is formed also with shoulder portions 20 and, with an upwardly extending open neck 21 provided with an outwardly extending top annular flange 22.

Mounted on the neck 21 is a head 23 which may likewise be made of soft rubber-like material, such as any suitable synthetic plastic. The head 23 has an opening 24 at the bottom to receive the neck 21. Said head engages beneath the flange 22 to retain the head from I coming off the neck. The head is hollow as shown in the drawing and has side walls 27, a top wall 28 and a front face portion 29. The face portion 29 may be provided with a nose portion 30 and a mouth portion 31. Said mouth portion 31 has a forwardly opening tapered recess or socket 32 and a rearwardly opening countersunk cylindrical recess 33. interconnecting the sockets or

recesses

32, 33 is an interconnecting narrow passage 34. The dolls head may be formed with a pair of reanvarclly extending eye sockets 35 to receive dolls eyes 36. The face portion 29 is formed between the eye sockets 35 and on opposite sides of the nose 30 with a pair of hori-.

zontal aligned, through openings 40. v Fixed within the inwardly opening horizontal socket or recess 33 is a rigid horizontal tube 45'. The tube 45 projects rearwardly within the head 23 to a point above the,

neck 21. Attached to the rear end of the tube 45 is a manifold member 56 which may be made of rigid synthetic plastic material. The manifold 50 comprises a central cylindrical chamber portion 51 having a forwardly projecting nipple 52 received within the rear end of the tube 45. The front end of the tube 45 may be cemented or otherwise adhered within the socket 33, whereas the rear end of said tube may be cemented to the nipple 52. Extending downwardly from the center of the cylindrical wall 51 is a nipple 55. At the outer ends of the cylindrical wall 51 are end walls 60 formed with outwardly extending nipples 61. Inserted into the nipples 61 are the ends of flexible tubes 62. The tubes 62 cross within the head and have their outer ends inserted into the tear openings 40. Received over the downwardly extending nipple 55 is the upper end of a vertical, flexible tube 64 which passes down through the neck opening and into the body. The lower end of the tube 64 may be beveled, as shown at 65 in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The lower end of the tube 64 is preferably somewhat below the middle of the body.

Mounted on the tube 64 is a syringe container 67. The container 67 is preferably made likewise of soft, collapsible rubber-like synthetic plastic material. The container 67 may be squeezed and collapsed and will spring back to its normal shape when pressure thereon is released. The container 67 has a bottom wall 68 from which extends upwardly a cylindrical wall 69. At the upper end of the wall 69 is a top wall 70 formed with an upwardly extending vent nipple 71. The top wall 749 is also formed with a central, upwardly extending, nipple 72 through which the tube 64 passes down into the container. The lower edge of the tube 64 may substantially strike the bottom wall 68. It will be noted that due to the beveled lower end of the tube 64, said tube cannot be closed up by the bottom wall 68. The tube 64 is preferably cemented to the nipple 72 so that the container 67 hangs from and is supported by said tube 64. The operation of the doll for feeding water to the doll, for weeping, and for wetting will now be described.

When it is desired to feed water to the container 67, a bottle 70a, provided with a nipple 71a is employed. The perforated tip of the nipple 71a is inserted into the mouth socket 32, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawing. Water from the nipple may then pass through the opening 34, tube 35, nipple 52 to the interior of the manifold 50. The water may then pass down through nipple 55 and tube 64 into the container 67. As water enters the container 67, air passes out through the vent 71.

It will be noted that the insertion of water into the container 67 may be facilitated by pressing opposite sides of the walls of the doll body toward each other to press and collapse the container. During such action, air will be expelled from the container through vent opening 71. When pressure is released from the doll body and container, and the container springs back to its normal shape, water will be sucked in from the bottle because of the reduced pressure within the container.

After the container 67 has suflicient water, the bottle 70 may be removed. When it is desired to cause the doll to weep, a pacifier 80 is inserted into the mouth opening or socket 32. Thereafter, the body of the doll is squeezed sufficiently to cause collapse of the container 67 During such squeezing action, water will pass upwardly through the tube 64, through the nipple 55, through the outwardly extending nipple 61, through the tube 62, and such water will pass out of tear openings to simulate tears or weeping of the doll. Also, during such squeezing action, Water will be pushed upwardly through the vent openings 71 and drop to the bottom of the body to provide water for wetting. It will be noted that there is no overflow from the container 67 during feeding but only when the container is squeezed for weeping.

It will thus be seen that there is provided a device in which the several objects of this invention are achieved and which is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

As various possible embodiments might be made of the above invention, and as various changes might be made in the embodiment above set forth, it is to be understood that all matter herein set forth or shown in the accompanying drawings is to be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A doll comprising a doll body of rubber-like material, a dolls head on the body, said dolls head being formed with a mouth opening, a rigid tube having its front end fixed t0 the mouth opening, said tube projecting rearwardy from the mouth opening to a point above the neck of the body, a manifold comprising a chamber, means to connect the rear end of said tube to the front side of the manifold chamber, said head being formed with a pair of tear openings, tubes interconnecting the sides of the manifold chamber with said pair of openings, respectively, a tube connected to the bottom of the manifold chamber and projecting downwardly through the neck of the body and into the body, a syringe container of rubber-like material having a bottom wall, an upstanding wall, and a top wall, said top wall being formed with an opening through which said downwardly extending tube projects into the container, said container being attached to said downwardly extending tube and hanging therefrom.

2. The combination of claim 1, said tubes interconnecting the sides of the manifold chamber with the tear openings crossing each other within the head.

3. The combination of claim 1, said pair of tubes having their forward ends inserted Within the tear openings and adhered to the head at said openings.

4. The combination of claim 1, the lower end of the downwardly extending tube being beveled and disposed near the bottom wall of the container.

5. In a tearing doll, a collapsible body, a head on said body, said head being formed with a mouth opening and with a pair of outlet openings, a manifold, a pair of separate conduits connecting opposite sides of said manifold with said pair of openings, respectively, a conduit connecting the front of the manifold with the mouth opening, a collapsible container within the body and conduit means connecting said manifold with said container, whereby water fed through the mouth opening will pass through the conduit connecting the manifold with the mouth opening, through the manifold and through the conduit means to the container, for storing tearing water in the container, and whereby when the collapsible body is squeezed sufficiently to squeeze the container, water from the container will pass upwardly, through the conduit means and through the manifold, to said pair of conduits to said outlet openings to simulate tears.

6. The combination of claim 5, said container being supported by said conduit means, and being dependent therefrom.

7. The combination of claim 6, said manifold being rigid, said pair of separate conduits being flexible, and the conduit connecting the mouth opening with the manifold being rigid.

8. The combination of claim 7, said pair of separate conduits extending from opposite ends of said manifold, the conduit connecting the mouth opening with the manifold being connected to the front of the manifold, and said conduit means extending downwardly from the bottom of said manifold.

9. The combination of claim 8, said manifold being located within the head of the doll, and said container being located within the doll body.

10. The combination of claim 5, said container being formed with a vent opening.

11. The combination of claim 10, the conduit means connecting the manifold with said container, and its lower- 5 end projecting into the container and terminating adjacent t-he lower end of the container.

12. The combination of claim 5, said separate conduits being flexible.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Konikoif May 9, 1939 Gilbraith Apr. 9, .1940 Senior Apr. 20, 1954 10