US3285609A - Speech and sound reproducing device in dolls, figures and other objects - Google Patents

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US3285609A
US3285609A US414025A US41402564A US3285609A US 3285609 A US3285609 A US 3285609A US 414025 A US414025 A US 414025A US 41402564 A US41402564 A US 41402564A US 3285609 A US3285609 A US 3285609A
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    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11B—INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER
    • G11B33/00—Constructional parts, details or accessories not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G11B33/02—Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon
    • G11B33/06—Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon combined with other apparatus having a different main function
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
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    • A63H3/28—Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds

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  • the present invention relates to a speech or sound reproducing device for dolls, imitations of animals, advertising boxes or novelties, savings banks or like other figures and articles.
  • Prior speech and sound reproducing devices are comparatively expensive in fabrication because many mechanically moved parts are necessary for their function; and therefore they are also subject therefore to rapid wear.
  • the present invention proceeds from the problem of manufacturing a speech and sound reproducing device which is very simple in construction and, has a long life.
  • the stationary sound record preferably as a fiat body with straight running sound grooves cut or impressed therein, be disposed in a housing which is inset in an aperture of and is secured to the article; the sound pick-up stylus being secured on a slide provided with an outwardly extending hand grip and displaceably disposed as a cover on the housing, whereby the pick-up is guided in the sound grooves and directly moved by hand.
  • the sound carrier or record in accordance with a further feature of the invention is fixed to the bottom of the housing and provided with deeply cut, and preferably several, straight and parallel extending sound grooves, which are joined one to another through reversing connecting grooves, so that with forward and backward movement or turning in both directions the sound pickup remains in engagement and the sound pick-up styluscarrying cover is guided in slots.
  • the slots for guiding the cover on which the sound pick-up stylus is disposed have such a depth that the cover in addition to its displacement or sliding longitudinally of the sound grooves is also displa-ceable transversely thereto, enabling a switching over or transfer of the stylus from one groove to another.
  • cover be supported in guide slots displaceably essentially only lengthwise of the sound grooves and be provided with a slot extending transversely to the displacement direction, in which in turn is displaceable the sound pick-up stylus with the outwardly extending hand grlp.
  • the cover can be fabricated as a circular disc with the sound pick-up stylus eccentrically disposed thereon.
  • FIG. 1 is a side view of the torso of a doll incorporating a device embodying the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a section through the wall forming the back of the doll, with the speech and sound reproducing device set therein; v
  • FIG. 3 is a section through the device of FIG. 2 taken along the line III-III;
  • FIG. 4 is a side view taken as indicated by the arrow IV in FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 5 is a view similar to FIG. 3 for a modified construction
  • FIG. 6 is a top plan view of the slide represented in FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 shows a modified slide
  • FIG. 8 is a top plan view of the slide of FIG. 7.
  • a speech and sound reproducing device 11 is inset in the back of the doll torso 10, for which purpose the back of the doll is apertured to receive the housing 12.
  • the housing 12 On its periphery the housing 12 has flat surface portions 13 bearing against the external wall of the back of the doll, and further opposed surfaces 14 with sloped or wedge-shaped starting surfaces so that upon insertion of the housing 12 into the aperture, an automatic anchoring of the housing 12 is obtained in the back of the doll.
  • Other types of fastening are also possible.
  • a record or sound carrier 15 which can be comprised of a thin plate and is provided with sound grooves 16, out relatively deep therein, whereby the sound pick up 17 secured in a slide 18 is also guided in the sound grooves; while the slide 18 is guided in opposed facing parallel slots 19 and 20 on opposite sides of anelongated opening of the housing 12.
  • the depth of these slots in FIG. 3 is so dimensioned that, in addition to its displacement lengthwise of the sound reproduction grooves 16, the slide 18 can likewise -be slid transversely thereto in the direction indicated by the arrow 21, and thereby the sound pick-up stylus can also switch into adjacent parallel extending sound grooves.
  • the sound pick-up has a point and the slide plate 18 is constructed as a sound box, so that a sound playback is obtained through movement of the sound pick-up 17 in the groove 16, achieved by manually grasping and moving the knob 22 disposed on the sound pick-up stylus.
  • FIG. 3 only four adjacent parallel sound grooves are shown, but there can be several, ten, for example.
  • the sound grooves need not be cut so deeply as represented in FIG. 3.
  • the guiding channels 16a, in the bottom surfaces of which the actual sound reproduction grooves are located are not necessary in every case, but are, however, advantageous for improved sound pick-up guidance. Also merely a single sound reproduction groove may be present.
  • FIG. 4 shows that the sound reproduction grooves with the associated guide channels open at their ends into the turning or switching grooves 22; and in the embodiment of FIG. 4, these latter grooves 22' extend transversely to and across all the sound grooves. It is also feasible at times to connect two sound grooves by an arcuate switching groove and to cut two adjacent sound grooves in opposite directions, so that the one sound groove with contact in one direction and the adjacent sound groove with contact in the other direction reproduces the sound. Also in a group of sound grooves there may be included a groove without a recording, that is a free-running groove from which the stylus obtains no sound.
  • a radially extending flange or disc 23 is provided thereon; and .further, there is a helical spring 24 surrounding the sound pick-up stylus to urge the stylus point into the sound
  • FIG. 7 shows the sound pick-up stylus 17 eccentrically disposed on a circular disc 25, which is guided in the slots 19 and 20 in manner like to that of the previously described slide 18. Through turning ofthe disc there can result a displacement of the sound pick-up stylus transversely to the sound grooves for changing from one sound groove to the other.
  • a speech and sound reproducing device having a sound record and a sound pick-up stylus guided in grooves of said record, said device comprising: a housing inset in an opening of and secured to the article; a stationary elongated record secured on the bottom of and withinsaid housing and having a plurality of straight grooves thereon extending longitudinally of said record and parallel to each other and to said bottom; at least some of said grooves being sound grooves having respective sound tracks therein; a said stylus; a slide carrying said stylus and shiftably mounted and guided in parallel slots at the top of the housing for movement parallel to said bottom; the mounting of said stylus on the housing through said slide afiording stylus displaceability both longitudinally and transversely of said record; the ends of adjacent said grooves interconnected through switching grooves; an outwardly extending hand grip connected to the slide; whereby said sound pick-up stylus is movable by hand while guided and remaining in engagement in the said grooves
  • said parallel slots are a pair of slots opening toward each other to receive opposite end portions of said slide, said slots extending parallel to said sound grooves; said slots being of such depth that said slide in addition to displaceability longitudinally to the sound grooves is also displaceable transversely thereto.
  • the slide comprises a circular disc shiftable rotationally in, as well as longitudinally along, said slots with said sound pick-up stylus eccentrically disposed thereon.
  • one groove in a sound groove group is formed as a free running groove without sound reproductions.

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US3363905A (en) * 1966-10-26 1968-01-16 Mattel Inc Phonograph toy
US3389915A (en) * 1965-10-18 1968-06-25 Ideal Toy Corp Audio device
US3410564A (en) * 1965-07-27 1968-11-12 Roger Duncan T Miniature phonograph
US3640539A (en) * 1967-02-03 1972-02-08 Bolt Beranek & Newman Linear phonograph record strip

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US1792528A (en) * 1927-05-02 1931-02-17 Bleyer Hermann Robert Talking machine
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US3410564A (en) * 1965-07-27 1968-11-12 Roger Duncan T Miniature phonograph
US3389915A (en) * 1965-10-18 1968-06-25 Ideal Toy Corp Audio device
US3363905A (en) * 1966-10-26 1968-01-16 Mattel Inc Phonograph toy
US3640539A (en) * 1967-02-03 1972-02-08 Bolt Beranek & Newman Linear phonograph record strip

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