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US 2007/0184751 A1Published application
Animated hand puppet & animator therefor
AssigneeFolkmanis, Inc.
InventorErica Kawata
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Abstract
A soft sculpture puppet and a pliable animator therefor which is in the form of an elongated member that is inserted in an appendage of the puppet in a position accessible to the hand of a puppeteer and which includes controls that can be manipulated to cause the animator to curve and bend and thereby move the appendage.
Claims36
A puppet animator comprising:
- an elongate flexible body section having a first side and an opposing second side and terminating in a tip end;
- a first control strap having two ends and extending along said first side of said body section to said tip end where one of its ends is affixed;
- and
- a second control strap having two ends and extending along said second side of said body section to said tip end where one of its ends is affixed;
- whereby a pulling force on said first animation strap causes said flexible body section to bend in one direction and a pulling force on said second animation strap causes said flexible body section to bend in a second direction.
2 more elements
A soft sculpture puppet having disposed therein any of the animators of clams 1-24.
An animated soft sculpture puppet having a body with an internal chamber sized to receive a person's hand and an elongated member extending from the body comprising:
- a flexible elongated animator having a base section, and a body section terminating in a tip end, wherein at least a portion of said base section is disposed within the internal chamber and said body section extends into the elongated member;
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- hand-manipulable controls attached to said animator and accessible from the internal chamber by which said elongated animation member is made to bend.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.