Illusion Caused By Simulation Of Or Attachment To Human Body Part Patents (Class 472/70)
  • Patent number: 9205342
    Abstract: A stand includes a supporting structure for supporting a doll and an electrostatic charge generating device supported by the supporting structure for causing hair of the doll to move when the doll is supported by the supporting structure and the electrostatic charge generating device is activated. A method of using a stand for a doll includes supporting the doll with a supporting structure of the stand and activating an electrostatic charge generating device that is supported by the supporting structure to cause hair of the doll to move. The supporting structure may include a conductive member made of carbon-impregnated plastic for contacting the doll and for transferring charge generated by the electrostatic charge generating device to the doll. The conductive member may be moveable in response to a positioning of the doll to provide for user safety. The stand may also include an electrical disconnect mechanism for user safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter E. Teel, Scott E. Wilger, James A. Molina, James P. Zielinski
  • Publication number: 20130344971
    Abstract: A kit and method is disclosed to facilitate the transferring of a prosthetic appliance to the skin of a wearer. The kit includes first and second transfer portions, which may be provided in combined form. The first transfer portion includes a prosthetic appliance and a release film. The second transfer portion includes a transfer substrate, an adhesive layer and a release coat therebetween. The second transfer portion may include a seal layer disposed between the adhesive layer and the release coat. The kit may include a package portion which may non-adhesively restrain the other components so as to protect and display the prosthetic while enabling the package portion to be opened without causing damage to the remainder of the kit. A method for producing the kit is disclosed and involves the use of a cavity mold and respective retainer plate to produce the requisite transfer portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Tinsley Transfers, Inc.
    Inventor: Christien Tinsley
  • Patent number: 8403766
    Abstract: A kit and method is disclosed to facilitate the transferring of a prosthetic appliance to the skin of a wearer. The kit includes first and second transfer portions, which may be provided in combined form. The first transfer portion includes a prosthetic appliance and a release film. The second transfer portion includes a transfer substrate, an adhesive layer and a release coat therebetween. The second transfer portion may include a seal layer disposed between the adhesive layer and the release coat. The kit may include a package portion which may non-adhesively restrain the other components so as to protect and display the prosthetic while enabling the package portion to be opened without causing damage to the remainder of the kit. A method for producing the kit is disclosed and involves the use of a cavity mold and respective retainer plate to produce the requisite transfer portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Tinsley Transfers, Inc.
    Inventor: Christien Tinsley
  • Patent number: 8398449
    Abstract: A light-weight toy is attached to a player via a near-invisible fixed-length tether, typically using a low-tack adhesive at the ends of the tether. In especially preferred embodiments, the toy has a mechanism that creates an appearance of plausible possibility of flight without actually providing sufficient lift and/or propulsion for flight. Imaginary flight is achieved by manual lifting and moving the toy via the tether. Thus, the tether forms an integral part of the imaginary play for the player and is not used as an implement of a ‘magic trick’ for an audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: William Mark Corporation
    Inventor: William Mark Forti
  • Patent number: 8206231
    Abstract: An improved novelty teeth device for use with a user's teeth movable between a first concealed position and a second visible position. The novelty teeth device has a pair of spaced apart tooth wells for receiving the user's teeth. Between the tooth wells is a central lever element that connects and interacts with two rods, each of which is inserted across each tooth well. The other end of each rod is connected to a curve arm. At the distal end of each curve arm is one or more teeth elements. When the central lever element is pivoted up or down, it rotates the rods, which causes the curve arms to move up or down, concealing or revealing the teeth elements, respectively. A moldable putty can be used in the tooth well to improve comfort to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignees: HPI Hong Kong Limited
    Inventors: Steve Zuloff, Tak On Chan
  • Patent number: 7946966
    Abstract: This invention provides a device for increasing the apparent height of persons, such as may be called for in theatrical and cinematographic applications. The device enables active normal-appearing walking and other motion, and is sufficiently compact to be used under costumes, and sufficiently light to enable extended use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Inventors: Kimberly Ann Graham, Pavel Amigud, Brandy Marie Cannon, Jasmine Gilbert, Ernest Joeseph Leimkuhler
  • Patent number: 7100539
    Abstract: A novelty dog toy includes an elongated substantially flat surface portion having a first end and a second end and a substantially spherical portion disposed at the first end of the elongated substantially flat surface portion. The substantially spherical portion is modeled after a dog fetch ball and rests comfortably in a dog's mouth. The elongated portion is shaped, textured, and colored to resemble an oversized human or animal tongue, such that it provides a novel and comical appearance to a pet when the pet holds the spherical portion in his mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Inventor: Michele Levan
  • Patent number: 7066820
    Abstract: An illusion toy has a housing in which a blade is rotated in one direction too rapidly to be seen through 270 degrees between rest positions on respective opposite sides of an article receiving through hole, providing the illusion that the blade has rotated in an opposite direction across the through hole, through the article. An actuating lever for a blade rotating overcenter mechanism has a loop aligned with the through hole so that a trigger end of the lever can be visibly moved between opposite sides of the through hole in the same direction as the apparent movement of the blade. A hollow housing handle forms a candy dispensing store and connects to a delivery chute extending across the housing obscuring a radially outer portion of the blade path providing an impression that rotation of the blade in the one direction is blocked by candy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Inventors: William L King, Mark Setteducati, Robert Carignan, Terry Chan
  • Publication number: 20030187518
    Abstract: A self-adhesive prosthetic make-up and a method of using the same is disclosed. Prosthetic make-up is applied to a person's body to create an illusion or for enhancing a costume. The disclosed prosthetic make-up comprises a matrix of thermosetting polymer. The top surface of the matrix may be ornamented by way of features including structure and color to represent an anomaly on or embedded in the skin of the user. Among other anomalies, the disclosed prosthetic make-up may be used to create the illusion of a laceration, a sutured wound, a bullet wound, an eye, bite marks, or a circuit board implanted into the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 2, 2003
    Inventor: Jeffrey Carls
  • Patent number: 6342014
    Abstract: An entertainment and educational center based on human anatomy has a major unit corresponding to a major organ, or group of closely spaced and related organs, surrounded by related organs. The major unit, for example the heart, will be of adequate dimensions to allow movement by children and even adults through the several chambers and experience the architecture of the organ as well as its function. The major unit would be connected to associated organs, in this example lungs, by slides or bridges representing the arteries and other anatomical connections. The center may be provided with simulations of blood flow and beating and can be associated with nearby interactive teaching games.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Inventor: Karin Lynch
  • Patent number: 5662523
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a game apparatus using a video display device especially a game apparatus that displays an interactive video with a co-driver, particularly a virtual reality video. The game apparatus having a video display device of the present invention comprises, as the basic elements, a plurality of video display devices for displaying a video watched by each of the plurality of players, a plurality of player control units for controlling the video display of the corresponding video display device and an position sensor device for detecting the positions or the movements of the players. Base on the position information of one player detected by the position sensor device, the player control units for the other players control the corresponding video display device to give some change to the displaying video watched by the other players.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Yasumaru, Kazunari Shimamura, Nobuyuki Takano
  • Patent number: 5584741
    Abstract: A Halloween toy comprises an image member received within a frame. A mechanism is provided for moving the member into and out of the frame so as to achieve a scary effect. The image member may represent a face and movement of the member may be accompanied by light and sound effects. The image member may be covered by a sheet of material such that it is not readily visible when received within the frame but becomes visible when it it projects out of the frame. The mechanism for moving the image member is designed so as to occupy only a minimum of space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Seven Seas Plastic Fty Ltd.
    Inventor: Chik-Ting Cheung
  • Patent number: 5558550
    Abstract: A simulated finger is mounted for unnatural movement on a finger-ring structure so that the simulated finger appears to a casual observer to be the person's natural finger. In different examples, the movements are rotational or axial, and can expose a simulated bone and can be accompanied by appropriated sounds such as screeching or ratchetting. In another example, the simulated finger incorporated a whistle sounded by holding the tip of the simulated finger to the lips and blowing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Inventor: Mark Setteducati
  • Patent number: 5407391
    Abstract: A negative bust illusion is formed of a surface (representing a negative of an object) that presents a concave side to viewers to generate an illusion that the object always gazes at viewers as they move within an enlarged field of view. The negative bust is analogous to a mold of the object, with its depth flattened to impart a wider effective range the illusion. The rigid shell has a cavity that defines the bust and is formed of a thin, translucent styrene material such that rear projection is readily imparted to the convex side for imparting animation to the gaze effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: The Walt Disney Company
    Inventors: Marshall M. Monroe, William G. Redmann
  • Patent number: 5356330
    Abstract: An apparatus for simulating a "high-five" including a lower arm portion having a simulated hand removably attached thereto, an upper arm portion, an elbow joint for pivotally securing the lower arm portion to the upper arm portion, and a spring biasing element for biasing the upper and lower arm portions towards a predetermined alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 18, 1994
    Inventor: Albert Cohen