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US 4,048,749 AGranted
Marionette bird
OwnerCarl Edward Zitting, George Fredrick Zittinginventors
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Abstract
A hand operated puppet which is operable from overhead puppet strings with the generally articulated figure of a bird. A plurality of styrofoam and fabric balls are strung together to form the legs and body with strips of fake fur attached to the body balls, and feathers on the head. One of the eyes is open and one closed to give the appearance that the bird is blinking.
Claims5
A manually operable bird puppet, comprising
- a generally spheroid body,
- an elongated flexible neck attached to said body and having
- a plurality of generally spheroid balls slidably
- carried on a flexible forwardly extending string,
- a head having eyes and a beak slidably and rotatably carried on said flexible forwardly extending string with said balls between said body and said head and with said string being longer than the aggregate diameters of said balls and said head,
- a pair of flexible legs secured at one end to said body and terminating at their distal ends in weighted feet,
- a cross-shaped control device having a crossbar and a longitudinal bar attached at its forward end to the end of said flexible forwardly extending string remote from said body,
- a rear string secured to said body and the rear end of said longitudinal bar and shorter than said forwardly extending string,
- and a pair of side strings secured between the ends of said crossbar and said feet, said side strings having a length sufficient to cause appreciable slack in said flexible legs when said control device is elevated.
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