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Claim 1

A DOLL WITH ANIMATED ARTICULATED LIMBS, SAID DOLL COMPRISING (A) A HOLLOW SEMI-STIFF RESILIENT TORSO HAVING SHOULDERS AND HIPS AND PROVIDED WITH A WALL AT EACH SHOULDER AND WITH A WALL AT EACH HIP, SAID WALLS BEING IN ONEPIECE WITH THE TORSO, (B) EACH OF SAID SHOULDER WALLS AND HIP WALLS HAVING A THROUGH APERTURE, (C) TWO ARMS, (D) TWO LEGS, (E) EACH ARM BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A DIFFERENT SHOULDER AND SHOULDER WALL, (F) EACH LEG BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A DIFFERENT HIP AND HIP WALL, (G) EACH ARM HAVING A PROXIMAL END ADJACENT A DIFFEREND ASSOCIATED SHOULDER WALL, (H) EACH LEG HAVING A PROXIMAL END ADJACENT A DIFFERENT ASSOCIATED HIP WALL, (I) A DIFFERENT LOOSE JOINT ARTICULATELY CONNECTING THE PROXIMAL END OF EACH ARM TO ITS ASSOCIATED SHOULDER, (J) A DIFFERENT LOOSE JOINT ARTICULATELY CONNECTING THE PROXIMAL END OF EACH LEG TO ITS ASSOCIATED HIP, (K) AND A MECHANISM FOR ANIMATING THE ARM AND THE LEG ON ONE SIDE OF THE TORSO CONCURRENTLY WITH ONE ANOTHER AND FOR SEPARATELY ANIMATING THE ARM AND THE LEG ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TORSO CONCURRENTLY WITH ONE ANOTHER, SAID MECHANISM COMPRISING (1) TWO SELF-FORM-MAINTAINING ELONGATED WIRE FORMS, (2) ONE WIRE FORM BEING ASSOCIATED ONLY WITH AN ARM, A LEG, A HIP WALL AND A SHOULDER WALL AT ONE SIDE OF THE TORSO, (3) THE OTHER WIRE FORM BEING ASSOCIATED ONLY WITH THE ARM, THE LEG, THE HIP WALL AND THE SHOULDER WALL AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TORSO, (4) EACH WIRE FORM HAVING A CENTRAL PORTION AND END PORTIONS IN ONE PIECE WITH ONE ANOTHER, (5) THE CENTRAL PORTION OF EACH WIRE FORM BEING SHAPED AND DISPOSED TO CONTACT THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE FRONTAL PORTION OF THE TORSO, (6) THE END PORTIONS OF EACH WIRE FORM EXTENDING THROUGH SAID APERTURES IN THE WALLS AT THE SHOULDER AND HIP OF THE TORSO AT ONE DIFFERENT SIDE ONLY OF THE TORSO SO THAT EACH WIRE FORM IS ROTATABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE TORSO AT SAID APERTURES ABOUT AN AXIS PASSING THROUGH SAID APERTURES IN THE SHOULDER WALL AND THE HIP WALL ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE TORSO, THIS BEING A DIFFERENT SIDE FOR EACH WIRE FORM, (7) THE END PORTIONS OF ONE OF THE WIRE FORMS BEING PROVIDED WITH LIMB ACTIVATORS THAT EXTEND INTO THE ARM AND THE LEG ON ONE SIDE ONLY OF THE TORSO, (8) AND THE END PORTIONS OF THE OTHER WIRE FORM BEING PROVIDED WITH LIMB ACTIVATORS THAT EXTEND INTO THE ARM AND THE LEG ON THE OTHER SIDE ONLY OF THE TORSO, (9) WHEREBY WHEN THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE WIRE FORMS ARE PRESSED REARWARDLY THE ARM AND THE LEG ON ONE SIDE OF THE TORSO ARE SWUNG JOINTLY TOWARD OVER THE CENTER OF THE TORSO AND THE ARM AND LEG ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TORSO ARE SWUNG JOINTLY TOWARD OVER THE CENTER OF THE TORSO, (10) THE ARMS AND LEGS BEING THEREBY MUTUALLY SWUNG TOWARD ONE ANOTHER.