Doll simulating natural sucking motion and control device for same

Claim 1

In a doll including a hollow head and a hollow chest interconnected at a hollow neck, and formed of elastically deformable material permitting relative movement of the head and chest, the head having a face part including a mouth opening portion, having a natural position somewhat recessed into the hollow head, and cheeks adjacent the mouth portion, mechanism for simulating natural sucking motions comprising, in combination, a geared electric motor means mounted within said chest adjacent said neck and having a generally vertically oriented output shaft rotatable by said motor means at a low angular velocity; a crank formed by the upper end of said output shaft within said head for rotation of said upper end in a plane perpendicular to the principal axis of the doll and substantially at the level of said mouth opening portion; connecting means secured at one end to said mouth opening portion and pivotally connected at the opposite end to said crank for reciprocation by said crank responsive to rotation of said output shaft; whereby, upon energization of said motor means, said mouth opening portion and the adjacent portions of said face part are reciprocally deformed to simulate natural sucking and said head and chest are subjected to relative movement; said connecting means including a rigid component firmly coupled to said mouth opening portion; guiding means on said component operable to house and guide a stem-shaped control device, simulating the end of a baby''s feeding bottle or the like, insertable into said mouth opening portion; means for controlling energization of said motor means, said controlling means including a first pair of normally disengaged spring contacts, mounted on said connecting means in a position wherein at least one said contact is encountered by a stem-shaped control device inserted into said mouth opening portion and brought into engagement with the other, said pair of contacts being disengaged responsive to withdrawal of the stem-shaped element from said mouth opening portion; electrically energized sound reproducing means mounted in said hollow chest; and means for controlling energization of said sound reproducing means including a second pair of contacts mounted on said connecting means and normally engaged, said second pair of contacts including one contact of said first pair; said second pair of contacts being positioned to be encountered by the stem-shaped control device upon insertion thereof into said mouth opening portion to disengage the contacts of said second pair from each other, said contacts of said second pair being reengaged responsive to withdrawal of the stem-shaped elEment from said mouth opening portion.