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V.I.P The Busy Boss

Susuki & Eduards

Bear seated in front of a desk with a lamp and a phone coupled to a large independent telephone

Type
Animals
Topic
Professions / Industrial
Mechanism
Battery
Movement
Dialing the phone initates the action; the telephone rings and lights, bear raises left arm to hold the phone, while right arms comes down to "write", moves mouth and "speaks". Light of desk lamp is on.
Materials
Tin, plastic and cloth
Dimensions (LxWxH cm)
16x15x19
Condition
Very Good
Manufactured
1955 – 1959

Research notes

Distributed by Cragstan; rarity 3/10 desirability 4/6

Notes

Lamp is new (usually missing); phone cable is broken

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How it works

V.I.P The Busy Boss mechanism 1V.I.P The Busy Boss mechanism 2

Bell (1) rings (a rotating double hammer hits a ledge on the side of the bell) during the time defined by cam (2), as this causes the hammers’rod to displace horizontally to the left. Simultaneously, a light goes on inside the telephone (wires (3)). Lever (4) raises rod (5), which causes left arm (6) to raise, rotate and raise further, and left arm (7) to lower. Now, lever (8) goes repeatedly down and up at a pace defined by the toothed cam (9). Since lever (8) is coupled to rod (10), it also makes the lower jaw (11) to open/close, and bellows (12) to blow air into a whistle (13). The rotation of the motor (14) pinion is transmitted to various shafts through gears. Shaft (15) transmits rotation to the hammers’ rod. The main shaft rotates due to gear (16). From left to right, it contains cam (17) which controls the displacement of lever 4, disk (18) with an insulating sector and in contact with copper tab (19), serving as switch of the telephone’s light (3), and cam (20), which controls the displacement of lever 8. The battery compartment is (21).

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