Amusement devices: toys – Figure toy or accessory therefor
Patent
1986-08-11
1988-03-08
Kannan, Philip C.
Amusement devices: toys
Figure toy or accessory therefor
446901, A63H 300
Patent
active
047297514
ABSTRACT:
A doll with fastening means attached to its hands and back to enable the doll to hold objects or to hold on to a mating fastening means attached to another doll. Dolls of the prior art that are capable of holding objects usually have hands that are shaped to hold a rounded object or a rounded portion of an object between the thumb and index finger by means of a resilient clamping action between the thumb and index fingers or by merely creating an interference fit with the object to be held. This type of construction is severely limiting as to the types of objects the doll can grasp and hold onto, and with age and wear, the dolls hand members attain a permanently stretched apart condition after which the ability to hold objects is greatly diminished or entirely lost. The doll constructed according to the invention has a doll body including a head, a torso poriton, a pair of arms with hands, and a pair of legs with feet, as well as doll clothing. A fastening means is attached to the outer surface of at least one of the hands of the doll, preferably both. Another fastening means is centrally attached to the outer surface of the clothing covering the rear upper torso portion of the doll. In this fashion, the fastening means of a pair of dolls cooperate for a mutually engaging and capturing one another in a holding position in which an arm and hand of one doll is held with its arm around the back of the other doll. The two hands of a doll may also be releasably held together, in an alternate embodiment of the invention.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3789547 (1974-02-01), Chemarin
patent: 4197670 (1980-04-01), Cox
patent: 4373292 (1983-02-01), Pelura
Faller Carol P.
Schiavo Cynthia G.
Hollingsworth Don A.
Kannan Philip C.
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