Abstract:
A fashion doll with a fall-type hairpiece which can be adjusted in length without the necessity for knobs, buttons, or the like on the outside of the doll. The apparatus includes a string having an inner end wound on a wheel within the doll and an outer end tied to an end of the hairpiece which is within the doll. A spring urges the wheel to rotate in a direction to shorten the apparent length of the hairpiece. The wheel has several recesses spaced about its axis of rotation, and a ball is normally disposed partially within a recess on the wheel and another recess on a wheel-supporting frame, to lock the position of the wheel when the doll is up-right. However, turning of the doll to a face down position causes the ball to fall completely into the frame recess, to release the wheel so it can retract the hairpiece into the head as far as it is allowed to retract by a child who holds the outer end of the hairpiece. The wheel which winds up the string is located in the chest of the doll, and the string extends downwardly therefrom, around a second wheel in the abdomen portion of the doll and upwardly to the hairpiece, to enable a long hairpiece to be received in a small doll without tangling.
Abstract:
A method for removing foamed plastic bodies from the molds in which they are formed comprising opening a portion of the mold to allow the product therein to be affected by external pressure, either placing the mold in a closed chamber or attaching it externally to such chamber, pressurizing said chamber to the point where the foamed product in said mold is sufficiently compressed to remove it from the mold, and subsequently withdrawing the body from the mold within the pressure chamber where, upon the release of the pressure within the chamber, the body fully expands to its formed shape.
Abstract:
Drawing apparatus including a doll with pivotable joints, a desk which can capture the shoes of the doll so that the doll''s arms lie over the upper desk surface, a drawing instrument designed to be held by a hand of the doll to feed a crayon therefrom so that the doll can draw on paper laid on the upper surface of the desk, and a wand for movement by a child, the wand having a magnet that can be moved around a region beneath the upper desk surface to pull the drawing instrument and crayon therein along a sheet of paper on the desk. A template defining a design to be drawn is placed on the desk beneath a sheet of paper, so that movement of the crayon results in the template design being drawn on the paper. The drawing instrument includes a spring or flat plate of rubber with a hole through which a crayon can be inserted so that the crayon is held tightly in place, and so that the crayon tends to be fed outwardly with a predetermined force.
Abstract:
A SCISSORS-TYPE DEVICE FOR CUTTING A PAPER COMPRISING A FIRST RIGID SHEARING MEMBER FIXED TO A HOUSING AND A SECOND SHEARING MEMBER MOUNTED TO OSCILLATE RELATIVE TO THE FIRST MEMBER. A TRIGGER MOUNTED ON THE HOUSING HAS A WAVY UPPER PORTION THAT ENGAGES THE SECOND SHEARING MEMBER TO MOVE IT RAPIDLY UP AND DOWN A SMALL DISTANCE WHEN THE TRIGGER IS PULLED.
Abstract:
AN ANIMATED DOLL ENERGIZABLE BY A REVERSIBLE DC MOTOR SELECTIVELY ANIMATING A STEPPING MOTION OR A ROTATIONAL MOTION WITH HEAD-SPOTTING. THE DOLL INCLUDES A ROTATABLY SHAFT WHICH IS MOVABLE ALONG ITS AXIS OF ROTATION FROM A NEUTRAL POSITION TO AN UPWARD POSITION IN WHICH THE SHAFT ENGAGES A CRANKSHAFT ASSEMBLY TO CAUSE THE DOLL''S LEGS TO MOVE WITH RESPECT TO THE DOLL''S TORSO TO PRODUCE A STEPPING MOTION. THE ROTATABLE SHAFT IS ALSO MOVABLE TO A DOWNWARD POSITION IN WHICH THE SHAFT DRIVINGLY ENGAGES A FLOOR-CONTACTING MEMBER WHICH IS INHIBITED FROM ROTATING THEREBY CAUSING THE DRIVE TRAIN AND THE MOTOR''S HOUSING, WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE DOLL''S TORSO, TO ROTATE AND TO ROTATE THE TORSO THEREWITH . THE DOLL''S HEAD IS COUPLED TO THE TORSO WITH A TORSION SPRING, WHICH FORMS PART OF A HEAD-SPOTTING ASSEMBLY. THE LATTER IS USED TO INHIBIT THE ROTATION OF THE HEATED DURING A FIXED PRESELECTED PORTION OF EACH REVOLUTION OF THE DOLL''S TORSO.
Abstract:
A doll whose arms move in a manner to simulate hair washing actions, while shampoolike foam is produced in its hair, comprising a hollow doll body with a pair of upwardly extending arms, the body having elastic walls so that when a child repeatedly squeezes the sides of the body together, the arms move up and down. The head is hollow and has numerous threads that extend through hole therein to form hair. As the elastic body is squeezed, air is pumped through the thread-holding holes, and if a soap solution has been spread on the hair, the air flowing through the holes creates foam in the hair.
Abstract:
A constant tension spring motor arranged to advance, from one drum to another, a tape having a plurality of groove sound tracks, a needle and speaker reproduces the sound from one of the tracks when the tape advances in one direction but is free of the tape when it is returned in the other direction. A drawstring is used to wind the motor and return the tape in the other direction and tension in the drawstring also acts to retract the tape from contact with the needle.