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AssigneeEugene Doll & Novelty Co., Inc.
InventorRobert J. Seidenberg
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This doll has means to simulate the sound and feel of a kiss. One arm and hand of the doll, made of elastic or resilient plastic material, constitutes a bulb connected by a tube sealed to an opening at the mouth and between the lips of the doll. In the tube is a reed through which air passes in a direction toward the opening, without sounding the reed, when the arm is squeezed. The lips of the doll can then be pressed against a persons cheek, and pressure thereafter released from the arm to allow the bulb to expand, to create a partial vacuum causing the cheek to be drawn and held to the lips in the manner of a vacuum cup. Upon thereafter pulling the doll's head away from the cheek, a suction feeling is created, simulating the feel of a kiss, and air rushes through the opening and back through the tube to said arm, to sound the reed, thus simulating the sound of a kiss. The reed is placed at a point remote from the arm, so that a slight squeeze of the arm or squeezing the hand of said arm, alone, will not expel sufficient air through the reed to create a back flow of air through the reed sufficient to sound the reed, when the doll's head is pulled away from the cheek. Reducing sleeves are fixed into the tube to prolong the whistling sound.
A doll comprising a doll head, a torso and an arm, said head having a neck and lips and being formed with an opening between the lips and open to the outside of said head, and said torso having a shoulder, said arm having an upper arm portion, an elbow portion, a forearm portion and a hand portion, said portions being attached to said shoulder and being hollow and constituting a collapsible bulb which may be squeezed and which will expand to normal condition when released, a tube communicating with said bulb, passing through said shoulder, torso and neck into said head, and connecting said bulb with said opening between said lips, and a sounding reed in said tube in position to be sounded only when air flows through said opening into said tube toward said bulb, said bulb, when squeezed, causing air to be flowed out of said bulb and through said tube and opening to the outside air, and said bulb, when allowed to expand, causing air to flow through said opening and tube into said bulb, and simultaneously sound said reed, said reed being located remotely from said bulb substantially midway along said tube, said bulb being wholly closed except for its communication with said tube.
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