Amusement devices: toys – Figure toy or accessory therefor – Having hand-or finger-accommodating means in figure
Patent
1986-04-07
1987-09-22
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Figure toy or accessory therefor
Having hand-or finger-accommodating means in figure
446339, A63H 314
Patent
active
046952659
ABSTRACT:
A puppeteer's kit includes a puppet and a disguise with a mustache for concealing the puppeteer's lip movements during a performance. The puppet has an internally located actuator lever which is movable in a horizontal direction to turn the head from side-to-side and in a vertical direction to move the mouth or another facial feature of the puppet. The puppeteer's thumb extends upwardly through an opening in the lower wall of the puppet body to the rear end of the actuator lever. The rear end of this lever has two surfaces which face toward each other and are spaced apart to receive a puppeteer's thumb. These surfaces are inclined downwardly and rearwardly to enable the puppeteer's thumb to engage the lever effectively during head movements, both when the lever is at its center position and at positions which are rotationally displaced therefrom.
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patent: 3526990 (1970-09-01), Edmonds
patent: 3900991 (1975-08-01), Kosicki et al.
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