US 4,710,145 A · Therapeutic doll figure

Abstract

A therapeutic doll figure having a doll body with at least a head section and a torso section. A transport, such as a tape transport, with a recordable medium, such as a tape cassette is located within the doll body and is capable of having a message recorded thereon and which message may also be reproduced therefrom. A speaker is located within the doll and preferably at a representation of a mouth portion on the head section of the doll for generating the reproduced message. A microphone can be located on the doll and preferably in the ear of the doll and connected to the tape transport for recording a message on the tape cassette. Further, a manually actuable switch can be located behind a representation of a heart on the doll in order to start or stop the tape transport. In another aspect of the invention, the facial expression of the doll can be changed in order to represent known or unknown human persons.

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A therapeutic doll figure capable of receiving and recording speech of a person and generating speech of that person to simulate the presence of that person and capable of having the facial expression altered to represent known or unknown persons through the doll figure, said doll figure comprising:

(a) a doll body having a head section and a torso section, said head secton having a representation of a human face thereon including a representation of eyes, a representation of a mouth and a representation of a nose,
(b) a first means of attachment associated with and closely located with respect to the representation of a mouth and which enables attachment and removal of an element to enable alteration of facial appearance,
(c) a second means of attachment associated with and closely located with respect to the representations of eyes and which enables attachment and removal of an element to also enable alteration of facial appearance, and where the elements for attachment and removal enable the doll figure to represent a known or unknown human person,
(d) a transport having a recordable media on which a spoken message may be recorded and from which the message may be reporduced,
(e) read-write means associated with said transport for recording and reproducing the message from the recordable media,
(f) a speaker located in or on said doll figure and operatively connected to said transport and read-write means to reproduce the message of a person through the doll figure to simulate the presence of the person producing the message, and
(f) a microphone located in or on said doll figure and operatively connected to said transport and read-write means to enable a message to be recorded on said recordable media.

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A therapeutic doll figure in which facial expression of the doll figure can be altered to represent a known or unknown person, said doll figure comprising:

(a) a doll head having a representation of a human face thereon and including a representation of eyes, a representation of a mouth and a representation of a nose,
(b) a first main fiber containing attachment strip located around the representation of a mouth to represent the lips surrounding the mouth and which also enables attachment and removal of an element to enable alteration of facial appearance,
(c) second main fiber containing attachment strips closely located with respect to and immediately above the representations of eyes to represent eyebrows and which also enable attachment and removal of elements to also enable alteration of facial appearance, and where the elements for attachment and removal enable the doll figure to represent a human known or unknown person,
(d) a first element adapted for attachment to the doll head in the region of the representation of the mouth strip and having a cooperating first main attachment strip for releasable attachment to the first main attachment strip, and
(e) second elements adapted for attachment to the doll head in the region of the eyes and having cooperating second attachment strips for releasable attachment to the second main attachment strips.

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A therapeutic doll figure comprising:

(a) a doll body having a head section and a torso section where the head section has a representation of a human face including a representation of ears, a representation of a mouth, and a representation of eyes,
(b) a transport having a recordable media on which a spoken message may be recorded and from which the message may be reproduced,
(c) read-write means associated with said transport for recording and reproducing the message from the recordable media,
(d) a speaker located in or on said doll figure and operatively connected to said transport and read-write means to reproduce the message of a person through the doll figure to simulate the presence of the person producing the message,
(e) a microphone located in or on said doll figure and operatively connected to said transport and read-write means to enable a message to be recorded on said recordable media,
(f) a first means of attachment associated with and closely located with respect to the representation of a mouth and which enables attachment and removal of an element to enable alteration of facial appearance, and
(g) a second means of attachment associated with and closely located with the representations of eyes and which enables attachment and removal of an element to also enable alteration of facial appearance, and where the elements for attachment and removal enable the doll figure to represent a known or unknown human person.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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