Amusement devices: toys – Figure toy or accessory therefor – Having sounding means
Reexamination Certificate
2000-11-10
2003-04-15
Ackun, Jacob K. (Department: 3712)
Amusement devices: toys
Figure toy or accessory therefor
Having sounding means
C446S175000, C446S265000, C446S330000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06547631
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to dolls and more particularly to prayer dolls.
2. Background Art
Prayer is considered to be a devout request or petition to God, each religion having its own beliefs, approach to prayer, and the teaching of prayer to its disciples. Religious beliefs are most often passed on from parent to child with the educational process starting at home and then often carried on at a religious institution.
Although many major religions originate from the same basic beginnings and belief structures, these religions have taken different paths, with the resulting prayers, rituals, and approaches to prayer often differing significantly. As a result of these differences and the need for parents to educate their children, as well as adults interested in learning and/or reeducating themselves in their respective religions and learning about other religions, there is a need for a universal prayer teaching aid, which may be adapted to different religions. The teaching aid should be easy to use, inexpensive at all socioeconomic levels, programmable and adaptable for use in different religions, cultures, and languages, provide comfort to and be adaptable for use by children and adults, and capable of being carried by and used by a user at all times.
A user friendly teaching aid, which emulates and teaches prayer, provides a child with a warm and cuddly feeling, and which teaches and gives people of all ages a feeling of comfort, self esteem, and confidence in learning prayer is needed. A teaching aid which emulates and teaches prayer, may be carried with and used by the user at all times, and may also be used for play, is best suited to be in the form of a prayer doll. The prayer doll should be programmable and emulate the sounds, movements, and motions of prayer in the selected religions, and may optionally be provided with costumes and appearance of choice for the selected religion, culture, racial, and ethnic requirement. Both child and adult alike may mimic the movements and sounds of the prayer doll, during the learning process.
The prayer doll should offer the flexibility of demonstrating prayer in selectable religions, and emulate a plurality of sounds, movements, and motions, for different prayers in each of the selected religions. The prayer doll should be inexpensive, durable, programmable to emulate sounds, movements, and motions for different prayers in each of the selected religions, be adaptable and programmable for use in other religions, and be usable by a wide variety of cultures and in different languages.
The child and/or adult learning prayer from the prayer doll may mimic the sounds and movements of the prayer doll to effectively learn prayers and prayer techniques in the selected religion. Children often learn best during play. The prayer doll should be capable of being used for play, and may serve a plurality of purposes, offer a warm and cuddly feeling to children, and provide the confidence, self esteem, and comfort to people of all ages and children learning prayer. The prayer doll should provide the flexibility of selectably demonstrating prayer in selectable religions, and emulate a plurality of sounds, movements, and motions for different prayers that people of all ages may mimic as part of the learning process, provide the proper form and words of prayer, and encourage the child and/or adult to make prayer part of his or her daily routine
There is thus a need for an inexpensive, durable, attractive, easy to use prayer doll that may be used as a teaching aid to demonstrate prayer in selectable religions, and emulate a plurality of sounds, motions, and movements for different prayers. The prayer doll should provide a feeling of comfort to people of all ages, emulate and teach prayer, provide a child with a warm and cuddly feeling, and provide people of all ages with a feeling of self esteem and confidence in learning prayer. The prayer doll should be usable and programmable for a plurality of prayers in different religions, different cultures and languages, and have different costumes and appearances, as required for different cultures, races, and ethnic requirements, and capable of being carried by and used by the user at all times. The prayer doll should be optionally voice activated.
Different dolls have heretofore been known. However, none of the dolls adequately satisfies these aforementioned needs.
Dolls with religious themes and winged figures have been disclosed.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,456,625 (Dumond) discloses a doll formed in the likeness of the Lord Jesus with a movable head and extremities comprised of a torso section, including a loin cloth molded into its lower portion and a pair of movable leg sections. U.S. Pat. No. 5,588,895 (Larson) discloses an angel action figure comprising a small adjustable mannequin provided with a wing assembly, a structure mounted against a back of the small adjustable mannequin for mounting the wing assembly, and a head mounted halo.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,571,206 (Mayer et al.) discloses an action figure which includes a torso having a pair of pivotally mounted wings and a pair of legs, the legs being mounted to the torso for both pivotal and rocking movement. A pair of actuating mechanisms within the torso converts the rocking movement to a pivotal movement, so that the wings are moved in a flapping manner. A spring returns the legs and wings to their normal or unactuated positions whenever the child stops pressing the legs together.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,867,729 (Weinman et al.) discloses an angel doll having movable wings that are hinged together. A mechanism is provided within the doll to impart movement to one of the wings, when the doll's head is pressed down. U.S. Pat. No. Des. 353,634 (Walsh) discloses an ornamental design of a Guardian Angel doll. U.S. Pat. No. Des. 303,694 (Auricchio et al.) discloses an educational toy doll. U.S. Pat. No. Des. 313,446 (Froutzis) discloses an ornamental design for a religious doll.
Sound controlled toys and sound producing toys have been disclosed.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,647,787 (Ravi, et al.) discloses a programmable sound controlled toy including a programmable toy activity driver assembly having a plurality of selectable activities, an audio receiver and a memory for receiving and storing a user determined and audio communicated sequence of activity commands, and a controller for causing the driver assembly to operate the toy in accordance with the user determined sequence of activity commands. The sound controlled toy has an audio receiver to intercept audio commands and an activity driver assembly, which selectively causes the action figure to take specific movement actions, as determined by received and decoded sound commands.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,197,855 (Friedel) discloses a therapeutic doll for self help having a speech-producing device to output encouraging messages.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,607,336 (Lebensfeld et al.) discloses a doll or action figure capable of delivering subject specific messages relating to one desired, precise subject, activity, profession, or area of interest for which the doll or action figure is dressed. The toy doll or action figure has an audio generator contained therein for producing audible messages, message containing components removably interconnectable therewith, and outfits of wearing apparel for designating or relating to one specific subject, activity, profession, or area of interest.
A movement producing toy having motions similar to certain portions of prayer motions has been disclosed.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,470,270 (Beamon, Jr. et al.) discloses a doll with baby hugging capabilities having a main body portion with a chest and with arms extending outwardly therefrom; a motion imparting mechanism within the doll having a horizontally disposed central plate, the plate having a forward end with a shield positionable in the chest area of the doll. The doll has a secondary plate positioned beneath the central plate, the secondary plate being adapted to move toward and away from the shield u
Ackun Jacob K.
Francis Faye
Lunenfeld Harvey
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