Assembly for Tactile Promotion of Simplicity and Amusement

Abstract

An assembly for tactile promotion of simplicity and amusement incorporating a quadruple of rear extraction stops; a quadruple of flexible ties attached to and extending forwardly from the rear extraction stop; a rear torso and head silhouetting sheet having a first quadruple of eyes, wherein the quadruple of flexible ties forwardly extends through the first quadruple of eyes; a quadruple of appendages having proximal ends having a second quadruple of eyes, wherein the quadruple of flexible ties further forwardly extends through the second quadruple of eyes; a front torso and head silhouetting sheet having a third quadruple of eyes, wherein the quadruple of flexible ties further forwardly extends through the third quadruple of eyes; a quadruple of front extraction stops attached to forward ends of the quadruple of flexible ties; and a twig attached to and extending downwardly from the rear and front torso and head silhouetting sheets.

Claims

1. An assembly for tactile promotion of simplicity and amusement comprising: (a) a quadruple of rear extraction stops; (b) a quadruple of flexible ties fixedly attached to and extending forwardly from the rear extraction stops; (c) a rear torso and head silhouetting sheet having a first quadruple of eyes, wherein the quadruple of flexible ties further forwardly extends through said quadruple of eyes; (d) a quadruple of appendages having proximal ends having a second quadruple of eyes positioned at the appendages' proximal ends, wherein the quadruple of flexible ties further forwardly extends through the second quadruple of eyes; (e) a front torso and head silhouetting sheet having a third quadruple of eyes, wherein the quadruple of flexible ties further forwardly extends through the third quadruple of eyes; (f) a quadruple of front extraction stops fixedly attached to forward ends of the quadruple of flexible ties; and (g) a downwardly extending twig, said twig being either fixedly attached to the rear torso and head silhouetting sheet or being fixedly attached to the front torso and head silhouetting sheet.

2. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the twig is fixedly attached to both the rear and front torso and head silhouetting sheets.

3. The assembly of claim 2 wherein the twig is asperous.

4. The assembly of claim 3 wherein the stem comprises a plurality of stem base protuberances.

5. The assembly of claim 3 wherein the quadruple of flexible ties comprises strings.

6. The assembly of claim 5 wherein the rear and front quadruples of extraction stops comprise knots.

7. The assembly of claim 6 wherein the rear and front torso and head silhouetting sheets comprise left and right shoulder clevis leaves and comprise left and right hip clevis leaves.

8. The assembly of claim 7 wherein the first and third quadruples of eyes are positioned at the left and right shoulder and hip clevis leaves.

9. The assembly of claim 8 wherein the appendages comprise an arm pair and a leg pair.

10. The assembly of claim 9 wherein the arm pair is pivotally received between the shoulder clevis leaves and wherein the leg pair is pivotally received between the hip clevis leaves.

11. The assembly of claim 10 wherein head portions of the back and front torso and head silhouetting sheets are adhesively bonded to each other.

12. The assembly of claim 11 wherein the twig has an upper end, and wherein the fixed attachment of the twig to the back and front torso and head silhouetting sheets positions said upper end between said sheets.

13. The assembly of claim 12 wherein the fixed attachment of the twig to the back and front torso and head silhouetting sheets comprises adhesive bonds.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0017] FIG. 1 is a view of flexible tie components of the instant inventive assembly for tactile promotion of simplicity and amusement.

[0018] FIG. 2 redepicts the structure of FIG. 1, the view of FIG. 2 further showing a rearward torso and head silhouetting sheet component.

[0019] FIG. 3 redepicts the structures of FIGS. 1 and 2, the view of FIG. 3 further showing glue depositions and a twig component.

[0020] FIG. 4 redepicts the structures of FIGS. 1-3, the view of FIG. 4 further showing arm and leg components.

[0021] FIG. 5 shows a frontward head and torso silhouetting sheet component.

[0022] FIG. 6 redepicts the structure of FIG. 4, the view of FIG. 6 showing an installation of the FIG. 5 front sheet component.

[0023] FIG. 7 depicts the instant inventive assembly in twirling motion.

[0024] FIG. 8 is a reverse view of the structure of FIG. 7.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0025] Referring now to the drawings, and in particular to Drawing FIG. 1, a quadruple of flexible ties 2, 4, 6, and 8 are preferably provided. For purposes of consonance with the instant invention's simplicity ethic teaching and promoting object, the ties 2, 4, 6, and 8 are preferably composed of natural jute fibers or cotton fibers which, in their twine or string forms, are easily and simply threaded and knotted. Clevis pin extraction stops in the form of knots 10, 12, 14, and 16 are preferably tied at the back or rearward ends of each of the flexible ties 2, 4, 6, and 8.

[0026] Referring simultaneously to FIGS. 1 and 2, a back or rearward sheet 18 having an upper head silhouetting portion 20 and a lower torso silhouetting portion 17 is provided, such sheet 18 preferably being composed of card stock paper. The torso silhouetting portion 17 of the back sheet 18 preferably defines right and left shoulder clevis ear or clevis leaf zones 22 and 24, and further defines right and left hip clevis ear or clevis leaf zones 26 and 28. In the preferred embodiment, such clevis component zones have perforated clevis eyes 30, 32, 34, and 36. The front ends of flexible ties 2, 4, 6, and 8 are preferably manually threaded forwardly through clevis eyes 30, 32, 34, and 36, until the knots 10, 12, 14, and 16, abut and stop against the back surface of sheet 18.

[0027] In accordance with the invention, a small tree branch or twig 40 having an asperous bark surface 42 and having a plurality of stem base protuberances 44 is preferably provided. The twig's bark surface and protuberances advantageously visually and tactily communicate simplicity features which are associated with the twig's common presence in nature. Depositions of glue or paste 38 and 48 are placed upon the inner surfaces of the head 20 and the torso 17, and the upper end of the twig 40 is bonded with the torso 17 at the torso's glue deposition 38. A third deposition of glue 46 is preferably applied to the front surface of the upper end of the twig 40.

[0028] Referring to FIG. 4, the instant inventive assembly preferably further comprises a plurality of appendages in the form of right and left arms 50 and 52 and right and left legs 54 and 56, such arms and legs having clevis eyes 58, 60, 62, and 64 at their proximal ends 51, 53, 55, and 57. Similarly with the forward extensions of the flexible ties 2, 4, 6, and 8, through clevis eyes 30, 32, 34, and 36, such ties are preferably further forwardly threaded through the appendages' clevis eyes 58, 60, 62, and 64.

[0029] Referring simultaneously to FIGS. 4-6, a front sheet 66, which like the back sheet 18 is preferably composed of card stock paper, has a head silhouetting portion 84 and a torso silhouetting portion 67. Similarly with the back sheet's clevis forming zones 22, 24, 26, and 28, the front sheet 66 has left and right shoulder clevis forming zones 68 and 70, and has left and right hip clevis forming zones 72 and 74. A third quadruple of clevis eyes 76, 78, 80, and 82, preferably extends through such zones 68, 70, 72, and 74, and the flexible ties 2, 4, 6, and 8, are preferably further forwardly threaded through such clevis eyes 76, 78, 80, and 82. Thereafter, a quadruple of front knots 86, 88, 90, and 92, are preferably manually formed upon the flexible ties for service as forward clevis pin securing stops.

[0030] Substantially simultaneously with the forward extensions of the flexible ties through the clevis eyes 76, 78, 80, and 82, a back or inner surface of the front sheet 66 advantageously adheres to the upper front end of the twig 40 at the glue deposition 46, while the front sheet's head silhouetting portion 84 adheres to the back sheet's head silhouetting portion 20.

[0031] Referring to FIG. 6, Reference Arrow 1 identifies the completed assembly of the invention. In the assembly 1, clevis forming zones 22, 24, 26, 28, 68, 70, 72, and 74, in combination with proximal appendage ends 51, 53, 55, and 57, in further combination with clevis eyes 30, 32, 34, 36, 58, 60, 62, 64, 76, 78, 80, 82, and in further combination with the clevis pin forming ties 2, 4, 6, and 8 and their front and rear knots 86, 10, 88, 12 , 90, 14, 92, and 16, advantageously form a quadruple of simply configured hinge attachments.

[0032] In a preferred embodiment, the front surface of the front sheet 66, the back surface of the back sheet 18, and the front and back surfaces of the arms 50 and 52, and legs 54 and 56, may be graphically decorated in conformity with the appearance of various types of animated characters having arms and legs.

[0033] In use of the instant inventive assembly, a user may grasp the twig 40 between his or her palms and may reciprocatingly move his or her hands forwardly and rearwardly with respect to each other. Such hand motion rolls and counter-rolls the twig 40 in the directions of the elliptical arrows drawn in FIGS. 6 and 7. Such hand actuated rotation advantageously causes the character's arms 50 and 52, and legs 54 and 56, move in an amusing and animated fashion between the downward positions depicted in FIG. 6, and the upward positions depicted in FIGS. 7 and 8.

[0034] During the user's palm rolling manipulations of the twig 40, the asperous bark surface 42 and the stem base protuberances 44 are felt and tactily perceived by the user, while other simplicity ethic teaching features of the invention, such as its manually tied hinge knots are simultaneously visually perceived. Such simultaneity of simplicity ethic teaching perceptions and amusement constitutes an intended beneficial function of the invention, wherein, by virtue of the simultaneity, the perceptions and the amusement mutually reinforce each other.

[0035] While the principles of the invention have been made clear in the above illustrative embodiment, those skilled in the art may make modifications to the structure, arrangement, portions and components of the invention without departing from those principles.

[0036] Accordingly, it is intended that the description and drawings be interpreted as illustrative and not in the limiting sense, and that the invention be given a scope commensurate with the appended claims.