EP0362061A1 - Weichkörperpuppe - Google Patents

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EP0362061A1
EP0362061A1 EP89402655A EP89402655A EP0362061A1 EP 0362061 A1 EP0362061 A1 EP 0362061A1 EP 89402655 A EP89402655 A EP 89402655A EP 89402655 A EP89402655 A EP 89402655A EP 0362061 A1 EP0362061 A1 EP 0362061A1
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Jacques Refabert
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H3/00—Dolls
    • A63H3/04—Dolls with deformable framework
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H3/00—Dolls
    • A63H3/36—Details; Accessories
    • A63H3/46—Connections for limbs

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  • the invention relates to dolls or similar toys, such as stuffed animals representing living beings and comprising a flexible body, generally consisting of a fabric envelope stuffed with fibers and rigid or semi-rigid members generally made of a material. molded plastic.
  • the members are generally connected to the flexible body by a simple seam or gluing line which assumes a role of attachment, but no role of relative maintenance: these members then hang along the body, except in the case of a tight assembly for which they occupy with respect to the body a practically invariable position.
  • the object of the invention is, above all, to remedy this drawback by proposing for the frames a very economical construction and very easy to adapt to dolls of different dimensions.
  • the reinforcements in question are essentially characterized according to the invention in that they are in the form of at least one rod constituted by a metal wire having a section of between 3 and 13 mm2, coated or not with a plastic sheath, rod capped at at least one of its ends by a ball.
  • the rod extends along a winding path comprising a U
  • - the course of the stem has the general shape of a capital omega
  • the armature comprises two rods of the above kind each serving as an articulation support for two members, one of the two rods being assigned to the articulation of the two arms and the other to the articulation of the two legs
  • - the two above rods are rigidly assembled one on the other
  • - the body of the doll contains an additional rigid rod of the above kind, one end of which carries a ball serving as a gentle friction articulation for the head of the doll, said rod being rigidly assembled with at least one rod assigned to the joint of limbs.
  • the invention includes, apart from these main provisions, certain other provisions which are preferably used at the same time and which will be more explicitly discussed below.
  • the doll comprises: a flexible body 1 composed of an envelope 2, in particular made of fabric, filled with a stuffing mass or bench 3 made in particular of synthetic fibers or of cotton wool, a head 4 linked to this body 1, in particular by sewing or gluing, - And four rigid or semi-rigid members, in particular in molded plastic, namely two arms 5 and two legs 6.
  • a frame or frame having the shape of a small dumbbell that is to say composed of a rigid but slightly deformable rod 7, the two ends of which carry two rigid balls 8, - And two rigid shells 2 suitable for covering the balls 8 with a slight tightening so as to be able to slide against them with friction, said shells being attached respectively to the ends to be articulated of the two members 5 or 6 concerned.
  • the rod 7 is advantageously constituted by a metal wire having a cross section between 3 and 13 mm2: if it is a circular section, as is the preferred case, its diameter is therefore between 2 and 4 mm, limits included, preferably being of the order of 3 mm.
  • Said wire is in particular steel, but it could also be an insulated electric wire, that is to say comprising a metallic core 7 quo (FIG. 2) and a plastic sheath 72: by way of example , the core is made of copper, with a polyvinyl chloride sheath.
  • the rod 7 is long enough so that the two balls 8 which terminate it can be placed at the locations of the articulations of the arms or legs of the doll, even after deformation of the said rod along a sinuous path allowing it to be properly held in place inside bench top 3.
  • This length is generally between 10 and 20 cm.
  • the balls 8 are advantageously obtained by injection of a hard plastic material such as a polyamide and their diameter is generally between 10 and 15 mm.
  • the shells 9 are made of a plastic material which is more flexible than the balls, in particular of polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene or polypropylene.
  • each shell 9 has the shape of a partial sphere whose diameter is equal to or very slightly less than that of the balls 8.
  • This cavity opens outwards at the level of a circular lip 9 adjuvant forming a slightly constricted opening: in this way, each shell 9 can be force-fitted onto a ball 8 by means of a momentary expansion of the lip 91 followed immediately by its return elastic to normal shape.
  • the position of the shell 9 relative to the overlapped ball 8 is stable, but it can be easily modified, the relative movements shell-ball being braked by friction soft of the two spherical surfaces mutually juxtaposed of these two elements.
  • Each shell 9 is connected to a rigid base 10 which may have come from molding with it and against which a member (5 or 6) of the headstock is attached, in particular by tight interlocking and / or gluing.
  • Each ball is then capped by the shell 9 associated with said member 5, 6, which involves the above-mentioned snap effect with momentary elastic expansion of the corresponding lip.
  • each ball frame that is to say the mass of fibers or the like constituting its bench 3 as well as the envelope 2 containing and delimiting this bench, preferably at the tight state.
  • the envelope 2 is hollowed out of the openings necessary to let the members 5,6 pass: the days remaining between these members and these openings are then filled in any desirable way, for example by seam or gluing lines.
  • the doll is then finished.
  • Each ball 8 of a given frame is then exactly positioned in relation to the other ball of the same frame, and the member articulated on this ball can occupy a plurality of distinct stable positions angularly offset relative to each other around the center of said ball.
  • the doll obtained then has both the advantages of softness, flexibility and lightness of dolls with flexible bodies and that of rigid dolls, residing in the possibility of conferring on their different members stable relative positions and easy to modify.
  • a given ball frame of the kind described above can be used both for the articulation of the arms and for that of the legs of the same doll and can be adapted to dolls of very different dimensions.
  • the invention is in no way limited to those of its modes of application and embodiments which have been more especially envisaged; on the contrary, it embraces all variants, in particular: - those where only one of the two ball frameworks described above would be used, being assigned to the articulation of the two arms only or to that of the two legs only, - those where the two balls of the same frame would be assigned respectively to the articulation of an arm and that of a leg, - those where at least one of the two ball frameworks would be deformed according to a sinuous course different from those described above, extending for example along a V or along a three-dimensional line, - those where, the doll considered comprising two frameworks with balls of the kind described above, these would be rigidly assembled one on the other, by example by common twisting of their central portions then juxtaposed side by side, or using a strand of wire or other intermediate solid body, - And those where the body of the doll would contain, in addition to at least a ball frame

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FR8812820A FR2637196B1 (fr) 1988-09-30 1988-09-30 Perfectionnements aux poupees a corps souple
FR8812820 1988-09-30

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EP (1) EP0362061B1 (de)
DE (1) DE68905423T2 (de)
ES (1) ES2038432T3 (de)
FR (1) FR2637196B1 (de)

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FR2666514A1 (fr) * 1990-09-07 1992-03-13 Di Nota Diane Poupee articulee.
ES2098172A1 (es) * 1992-08-05 1997-04-16 Ferre Jose Manuel Rodriguez "perfeccionamientos introducidos en las estructuras articuladas para muñecos"

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EP0362061B1 (de) 1993-03-17
FR2637196B1 (fr) 1991-02-01
FR2637196A1 (fr) 1990-04-06
DE68905423D1 (de) 1993-04-22
US4954118A (en) 1990-09-04
DE68905423T2 (de) 1993-08-19

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