Doll having an improved mouth together with sounding means and lip moving mechanism cooperable therewith

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION IN A DOLL, A DOLL''S HEAD HAVING A FACE OF SLOT FLEXIBLE RESILIENT MATERIAL, SAID FACE INCLUDING A PAIR OF SPREAD LIPS AND AN INTERNAL HOLLOWED SAC IN ONE PIECE WITH THE FACE AND HAVING THE FORWARD PORTION THEREOF INTEGRALLY JOINED TO THE LIPS, HOLLOW RESILIENT FIRMING INSERT MEANS WITHIN THE SAC, SAIDD INSERT MEANS BEING CONSTRUCTED, SHAPED AND DIMENSIONED TO ENGAGE THE TOP AND BOTTOM INNER SURFACES OF THE SAC FROM THE FRONT TO THE BACK THEREOF SO AS TO SPREAD THE SAC AND THEREBY IMPART OF THE SAC A FIRM BULBOUS CONFIGURATION AT LEAST IN A VERTICAL PLANE SUCH THAT THE ROOF AND BOTTOM OF THE SAC FLARE AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER REARWARDLY FROM THE LIPS, SAID SAC HAVING AN OPEN END AT THE LIPS, A LIP ACTUATOR INCLUDING A PAIR OF ELEMENTS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY ACROSS THE SAC ADJACENT THE INSIDE SURFACES OF THE LIPS WITH ONE OF THE ELEMENTS IMMEDIATELY ABOVE AND ONE OF THE ELEMENTS IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE SAC, MANUALLY MANIPULATABLE MEANS INTERCONNECTED WITH SAID ELEMENTS TO MOVE SAID ELEMENTS TOWARD AND AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER, SAID MANUALLY MANIPULATABLE MEANS BEING RESTRICTED IN ITS ELEMENT OPENING MOVEMENT TO SPACE THE ELEMENTS APART A DISTANCE LESS THAN THE MAXIMUM VERTICAL HEIGHT OF THE SAC WHEREBY THE ELEMENTS ARE CAPTIVELY RETAINED BETWEEN THE INSIDE SURFACES OF THE LIPS AND THE MAXIMUM VERTICAL HEIGHT OF THE SAC, AND A SOUNDMAKER HAVING A SOUND PASSAGEWAY CONNECTED TO A PORTION OF THE INTERIOR OF THE BULBOUS SAC SAC REARWARDLY OF THE OPEN END OF THE SAC.