US3555723A - Doll with skin-covered articulated skeleton - Google Patents

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US3555723A
US3555723A US721524A US3555723DA US3555723A US 3555723 A US3555723 A US 3555723A US 721524 A US721524 A US 721524A US 3555723D A US3555723D A US 3555723DA US 3555723 A US3555723 A US 3555723A
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Heinz Kopsch
Gunther Wilbring
Wilhelm Hanf
Paul Fay
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
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  • a jointed doll includes a plurality of articulated skeleton portions including frame and shell sections which together define the outline of a body.
  • the frame sections may include hinged joints and are surrounded by associated shell sections, the latter being formed of half sections.
  • a discrete skin of resilient material tightly surrounds the skeleton portions to conceal the same and protect the same against the intrusion of contaminants while permitting full freedom of relative movement for the articulated skeleton portions. The skin may be relied upon to keep the shell section half sections assembled, or they may be bonded.
  • the present invention relates to a doll, in general, and more particularly to a jointed doll. Still more specifically, the present invention relates to a jointed doll comprising a plurality of articulated skeleton portions which define the outline of a body and which are tightly surrounded by a flexible skin of resilient material.
  • dolls whether they be resemblances of the human body, of an animal body, or of an imaginary body such as a robot, with articulated limbs is of course not new. In fact, it is well known to articulately connect the arms and legs of the doll to the torso thereof. However, in all such constructions which are known to us there is a relatively large gap between the articulately connected portions, that is at the joint connecting such portions. These joints are usually of the ball-and-socket type.
  • a more particular object of the present invention is to provide a jointed doll which is simple and inexpensive to construct and which provides suflicient freedom of move- 3,555,723 Patented Jan. 19, 1971 ment of the articulated body portions without adverse effect upon the life-like natural appearance of the doll.
  • this skin of resilient material permits freedom of relative movement of the articulatedly connected skeleton portions.
  • a doll constructed in accordance with our invention makes it possible to construct all extremities in a most lifelike form, that is the extremities may have knee joints and elbow joints, they may have leg joints and arm joints, and they may even have hip joints.
  • the skeleton portions closely dene the outline of the body and the skin which is entirely separate from the skeleton portions but tightly surrounds the same, conceals the skeleton portions as well as the joints connecting the same so that the skeleton portions and these joints are protected not only from the intrusion of contaminants but also against visual observation.
  • this skin provides for the doll an extremely lifelike appearance without, however, in the slightest interfering with the desired articulated movements of the skeleton portions because, not being in any way secured to these skeleton portions, the skin and the skeleton portions can perform sliding movement with reference to one another when the skeleton portions are articulatedly moved.
  • FIG. 1 is a front view, partly broken away and partly in section, of a doll embodying our invention
  • FIG. 2 is a detail view illustrating an alternate joint construction according to our invention.
  • FIG. 3 is a view of FIG. 2 as seen looking from the left-hand towards the right-hand side of the drawing.
  • FIG. 1 thereof,4 it will be seen that the doll illustrated resembles a human body.
  • the invention will be discussed in detail with respect to the leg of the doll which is shown in longitudinal section.
  • this leg comprises a joint which is not illustrated in detail but which is located within a joint housing constituted by two hemispherical housing sections 2 and 3. These housing sections are turnable with reference to one another, about the axis A which is indicated with a chain line.
  • the joint here discussed is a knee joint and the joint for the foot is shown in the same leg, with the axis of rotation being indicated in the same manner.
  • Each of the sections 2 and 3 carries a projecting portion which is respectively identified with reference numeral 1 and with reference numeral 4.
  • the projecting portions 1 and 4 are turnable about the axis A because they are respectively rigid with one of the sections 2 and 3.
  • the sections 2 and 3 and the portions 1 and 4 constitute in elect inner frame sections.
  • a pair of outer shell sections 5, which together surround these inner frame sections and in part delne the exterior outline of the leg, are connected to the upper portion 1 by means of projections 6 and 7 which respectively extend into recesses provided in the portion 1.
  • projections 6 and 7 which respectively extend into recesses provided in the portion 1.
  • they are adhesively secured in these recesses.
  • sections 5 dene the upper thigh of the leg
  • two additional sections 8 are located below the knee region, that is they extend downwardly from the joint housed within the housing portions 2 and 3.
  • These additional sections 8 are provided with projections 9 and 110 which respectively engage in a recess provided in the portion 4 carried by the housing portion 3 and in a recess provided in a portion 11 which corresponds to the portion 1 but is provided on a housing portion of the foot joint 12.
  • the articulation of the various portions of the other leg and of the arms is carried out in the same manner.
  • the sections 5 and 8 consist of synthetic plastic material and may be adhesively or otherwise bonded together along the lines 14 at which they respectively abut, as indicated by the legend provided in FIG. 1.
  • outer shell sections are made them in one-piece construction as hollow bodies.
  • they will be slotted or slit along a line corresponding to the line 14 and, because they are elastic, it is possible to distend them along the line so as to introduce the components which constitute the inner frame sections into the interior. Release of the distended portions of the hollow body outer shell sections then results in closing of the same along the slit line.
  • the end portions Sa, 8a of the shell sections 5 and 8 which, as shown in FIG. 1, tightly and elastically abut against the hemispherical housing portions 2, 3 or those of the joint 12, are chamfered or tapered so as t properly engage the outer surfaces of the housing portions 2 and 3. It will be understood, of course, that it is also possible to form the sections and 8 integrally with the portions 1, 4 and 11 if desired.
  • the remainder of the doll is constructed in the same manner in which this has been shown with reference to the leg illustrated in section in FIG. 1.
  • an outer skin 15 which consists of a highly elastic material and which is, according to a presently preferred concept of our invention produced by the dipping process from natural and/or synethetic rubber or latex.
  • the skin 15 may be produced by the extrusion blow-molding process from an elastic material, such as a thermoplastic styrol-butadiene rubber, a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer or ethylene-vinyl acetate-copolymerizate.
  • an elastic material such as a thermoplastic styrol-butadiene rubber, a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer or ethylene-vinyl acetate-copolymerizate.
  • t0 produce the skin by casting in a hollow mold.
  • the skeleton, including the joint portions and the various shell sections is advantageously produced by injection molding of synthetic plastic material.
  • the arms and legs thus surrounded and protected are then secured to the torso in the usual manner known in the art.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 shows an alternative joint which may replace the joint 12 shown in FIG. l, that is the joint connecting the foot with the leg.
  • this alternative 4 joint will be seen to include a part-spherical end portion 21 at the lower end of the leg and a complementarily coniigurated socket 24, in the foot.
  • the two thus connected parts can be displaced articulatedly with reference to one another to a limited extent. Two extreme positions are shown in FIG. 2 in full lines and in chain lines, respectively.
  • a jointed doll comprising, in combination, skeleton means including a plurality of skeleton portions together defining the outline of a body having a trunk and extremities, said skeleton portions comprising inner frame sections and outer shell section dening the outline of said body and surrounding said frame sections; a pluarity of joints articulately connecting said skeleton portions and comprising hinged joints each including a pair of hemispherical outer housing portions surrounded by the associated shell sections and connected to some of said inner frame sections with the housing portions of each pair being rotatable relative to each other about an axis and together defining a spherical joint housing; and discrete skin means of resilient material tightly surrounding said skeleton means at least partially, said skin means concealing the surrounded parts of said skeleton means and protecting the same but permitting freedom of relative movement of said articulately connected skeleton portions.
  • a doll as dened in claim 1 wherein at least some of said shell sections comprise two cooperating shell halves which together constitute a shell section.
  • a doll as defined in claim 5 said shell halves being discrete members maintained by said skin means in the position in which said shell halves together constitute a shell section surrounding an associated frame section.
  • a doll as defined in claim 5 said shell halves surrounding an associated frame section and being bonded to one another in the position in which they together constitute a shell section.
  • a doll as defined in claim 1 said frame sections and said shell sections being provided with mating coupling members which engage one another in mating relationship when said shell sections surround the associated frame sections.
  • said coupling members comprise pins provided on said shell sections nteriorly thereof, and recesses provided on the respective frame sections and being adapted to receive said pins.
  • a doll as dened in claim 1 said shell sections being provided with male coupling portions interiorly thereof, and said housing portions each being provided with an exterior extension projecting from the respective housing portion normal to said axis and being provided with female coupling portions adapted to matingly receive a cooperating male coupling portion of the associated shell section.
  • a doll as defined in claim 1 said skin means being dipped skin consisting of a substance selected from the lgroup comprising natural rubber, synthetic rubber and atex.

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US3900992A (en) * 1971-04-21 1975-08-26 Klamer R B Doll having limbs with hemispherical portions pivotally joined to its body
US4242830A (en) * 1978-04-04 1981-01-06 Hauser Maria T Three dimensional limbed doll
US4470784A (en) * 1982-05-28 1984-09-11 Mattel, Inc. Insert molding apparatus and retractable insert-molding pin
WO1989006564A1 (en) * 1988-01-13 1989-07-27 Karl Martin De Porteous Model construction
US20110297104A1 (en) * 2010-06-03 2011-12-08 T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Articulating chew toy
DE102012106595A1 (de) 2011-07-20 2013-01-24 Mattel, Inc. Flexible Spielzeugfigur mit Armatur

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US3900992A (en) * 1971-04-21 1975-08-26 Klamer R B Doll having limbs with hemispherical portions pivotally joined to its body
US4242830A (en) * 1978-04-04 1981-01-06 Hauser Maria T Three dimensional limbed doll
US4470784A (en) * 1982-05-28 1984-09-11 Mattel, Inc. Insert molding apparatus and retractable insert-molding pin
WO1989006564A1 (en) * 1988-01-13 1989-07-27 Karl Martin De Porteous Model construction
US5044960A (en) * 1988-01-13 1991-09-03 Porteous Karl M De Model construction
US20110297104A1 (en) * 2010-06-03 2011-12-08 T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Articulating chew toy
US8789496B2 (en) * 2010-06-03 2014-07-29 T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Articulating chew toy
DE102012106595A1 (de) 2011-07-20 2013-01-24 Mattel, Inc. Flexible Spielzeugfigur mit Armatur
US9028292B2 (en) 2011-07-20 2015-05-12 Mattel, Inc. Flexible toy figure with armature

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