Articulated assembly for puppets and stuffed toy dolls

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1992-04-06

1993-10-19

Hafer, Robert A.

Amusement devices: toys

Figure toy or accessory therefor

Having mechanism or manipulatable means to move figure or...

446359, 446376, A63J 1900

Patent

active

052540294

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to an articulated assembly consisting of various structural elements for creating puppets or stuffed toy dolls. Puppets, on the one hand, are made in a straightforward design type, while stuffed dolls are provided with a cross-shaped control bar and control threads, in order to hang them primarily as decorative articles. These display puppets do not have any specially formed and technically complex body articulations. Their bodies are actually identical to those of ordinary dolls, for example, of stuffed dolls which are sewn together from a pattern and then stuffed. This kind of display doll lends itself on a very limited scale to being played with. Puppets used for professional puppetry, on the other hand, are usually individually produced articles, assembled with great attention to detail and in which every individual joint is technically of considerable complexity so that in their characteristics these joints approximate as much as possible the body's own natural articulations. Consequently, separately manufactured hinges are made for the neck joint, the shoulder joints, the elbow and even wrist joints as well as for the hip joint, knee, and foot joints.
In recent years stuffed dolls have witnessed a veritable rebirth of interest in them. Such dolls are distinguished by a body surface made of tricot fabric, while predominantly natural materials are used for the whole doll. Through the introduction of deep-drawn masks, today even hobbyists with little artistic talent can make very attractive dolls. Increasingly, there is a desire to design such dolls as puppets and, in particular, to make stuffed puppets capable of being manipulated, requiring but modest assembly effort on the part of the hobbyist.


SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The task of the present invention is to create an articulated assembly for the fabrication of such puppets and stuffed toy dolls which provides maximum manipulability while at the same time, keeps the amount of technical complexity required for its assembly to a minimum.
This task is solved on the basis of an articulated assembly for puppets and stuffed toy doll which is characterized by a neck-shoulder element for the neck and shoulder articulations, whereby each of said articulations is formed by a closed eyelet and a loop passing through it, which loop is fastened by its free end to one side of the articulation.
A practical embodiment of the articulated assembly is illustrated in the drawings and is described in detail in the description that follows, as is the function of the individual elements.


BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURES

FIG. 1 shows a puppet made using the articulated assembly in accordance with the invention, with a wooden head, wooden hands and feet, in a frontal view;
FIG. 2 shows a deep-drawn plastic mask diagonally from the back, with inserts enabling use of the mask as a puppet head;
FIG. 3 shows a puppet made using the articulated assembly in accordance with the invention, with a stuffed mask head and stuffed extremities, in a frontal view.


DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURES

FIG. 1 shows a first puppet made using the articulated assembly in accordance with the invention. The central element of the articulated assembly is the cross-shaped neck-shoulder element 1 with the articulation for the neck and head as well with both shoulder articulations 3, 4. This neck-shoulder element 1 consists of a round wood 6 which extends longitudinally along the trunk 5 of the puppet and a thinner round wood 7 which traverses said roundwood 6 in the shoulder area and which forms the puppets shoulder. Near the upper edge of the roundwood 6 the puppet exhibits a groove 8 around its circumference. In addition, two holes 9, 10 have been drilled from the upper front side 11 of the roundwood diagonally downwards and outwards, whereby the holes 9, 10 open out on the side below the groove 8. The holes 9, 10 in the front side exhibit a distance which corresponds approximately to one-third the diameter of the r

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