EP0512162A1

EP0512162A1 - Doll

Info

Publication number: EP0512162A1
Application number: EP91201282A
Authority: EP
Inventors: José Manuel Rodriguez Ferre
Original assignee: Creatividad y Diseno SA
Current assignee: Creatividad y Diseno SA
Priority date: 1991-05-07
Filing date: 1991-05-29
Publication date: 1992-11-11
Anticipated expiration: 2011-05-29
Also published as: DE69114478D1; AU7819091A; CA2043697A1; ES1017345U; JPH04338478A; DE69114478T2; GR3018903T3; CA2043697C; HK36596A; EP0512162B1; AU647793B2; DK0512162T3; ATE129919T1; ES1017345Y

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.

Description

As indicated in the title, the present invention to which this specification corresponds relates to a toy doll.
More concretely stated, it involves a doll adapted to permit cookie type slabs to be introduced 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, and at the same time it 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 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 coordinated with the entrainment of the cookies, one hears externally, through an acoustic device, 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 once the cookie has finally fallen into the box.
The description of this object will be illustrated 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 -1- of the invention assumes outwardly a desired conventional form, and it contains in its interior a mechanism, lodged in a housing -2- and formed on the basis of a combination of parts and wheels -3-, with its corresponding drive pinions -4-, functionally coupled together, for the intermittent displacement of a cookie -5-introduced in the doll's mouth.
The housing -2- extends below to a box -6- 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 -7- provided on the back of the doll and covered externally by a flap cover.
Inside the doll is lodged also a second closed housing -8- which contains a set of batteries which in turn are connected to the electronic circuit -9- which they control and through which 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 -10-, adjustable thereon.
The electronic circuit is connected to an on-off switch -11-, which is operated by means of the pushbotton -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 -13-, controlled by the electronic circuit -9- to which it is connected. By this device different phrases are emitted, the content of which varies in coordination with the displacement stages of the cookie -5- and its final fall into the box -6-. 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- (sic) which permit the projection of the sounds in due intensity and clarity.
The doll having been organized in this inner and the internal mechanism set in operation by pressing the switch -12- situated on the back of the user (sic), the first emission of sound in the form of a phrase takes place. After the cookie slab -5- has then been placed in the doll's mouth, the assembly of parts and wheels -3-4- takes it along at intervals toward the interior and coordinated with these intervals the phrase pronounced changes. Having been introduced all the way, the cookie falls to the bottom of the box -6- where it stays until it is extracted manually, these successive stages representing a new change of sounds.

Claims

Toy doll, characterized in that it assumes as a whole a suitable conventional form, containing in its interior an electronic circuit connected to an on-off switch, which is operated from a pushbutton located on the outside of the back, and connected further to a set of batteries controlling it and remaining coupled in the interior of a housing lodged in the doll's body, which is reached from an opening, also located in the zone of the back, closed by an adjustable cover.
Toy doll according to claim 1, characterized in that it contains in its interior a second housing, positioned facing the mouth, which contains an assembly of parts, wheels and pinions, connected together to make possible the entrainment and penetration of a cookie slab through the doll's mouth and its final fall into a closed box, reached only from the outside through an opening made in the back of the doll, the operation of the entire assembly being brought about by its connection to the electric circuit.
Toy doll according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that the connection to the electronic circuit generates the emission of sounds in the form of phrases, which change in coordination with the stages of introduction of the cookie and are picked up by an acoustic device which reproduces them, being audible from the outside through a succession of orifices made in the chest of the doll.