US1232856A - Doll. - Google Patents

Description

F. B. SCHULTZ.

L APPLICATION FTEDL ocT. l1. 1916. Lm. l y Patented my 10, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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,application mea october 17, me. serial No. 120,083.

To all whom t may concern."

Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. SoHULTz,

a citizen of the United States, and .a resident of the city of vNew York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Doll, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to dolls, and has to deal particularly with means for jommg the arms, legs and headto the trunk.

The invention has for its general objects to improve and simplify the construction of articles of this character so as to 'be durable and substantial, comparatively 1nexpensive to` manufacture, and so deslgned that persons of ordinary skill can readily repair the doll. s

A more specific object of the linvention 1s thef rovision of a novel joint between the mem ers of the doll and the trunk, the joint involving an elastic band which extends entirely through the trunk from one leg to the other, or from one arm to the other, and engaging with the ends of the elastic loop aare button-like fasteners havlng open shanks which are easily and quickly hooked into engagementy with the ends of the loop, the vbuttons being disposed outsideV the limbs so as to be readily attached or detached.

A further object is to improve the connection of the head with the trunk by means of a hook on the head which engages with the leg or arm-attaching elastic loop.

With such objects in view, and others which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be set forth with particularity in the following description and claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention and wherein similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a front view of the doll with portions broken away to show the means for joining the head, arms and legs to the trunk; p

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the said joining means; and

Fig. 3 is a view of a modified form of fastener in which the head is swiveled on the hook or open eye.

Referring to'the drawing, 1 dates the trunk, 2 the head, 3 the arms, and 4 the legs, all of which parts are made according to any approved method. The means for joining the arms to the body are the same as the means for joining the legs thereto, such means comprising an elastlc loop 5 and. headed fasteners or buttons 6, the shanks or eyes 7 of which are open so as to constitute hooks for engaging with the ends of the loops. These buttons lie outside the limbs at the ends joined with the body. The loops are normally under tension and are of such length as to extend entirely through thetrunk. In attaching the limbs to the trunk a button is applied to one end of the loop, and then the loop is passed through the opening 8 'of one limb, through the openings 9 of the body, thence through the opening 8 of the opposite limb, and then the other button is hooked onto the loop, a suitable instrument being engagedwith the loop so that it can be easily threaded through vthe limbs and body and pulledout far enough to permit the second button to be easily hooked on the loop, and after the button is hooked on, the pull on the elastic loop is removed, so that the same contracts and draws the buttons close into the openings in the limbs. The head 2 has a hook 10 anchored therein, and this hook engages the middle of the upper elastic loop, which latter is pulled upwardly by a suitable instrument far enough to permit the hook 10 to be engaged therewith, and when such engagement is made, the instrument is removed and the upper loop will be under sucent method of operation will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation, to-

. gether with the article which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I.

' movably changes may be made when desired as fall within the scope of the appended claims. Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Let'-` fasteners havlng enlarged portions disposed outside the arms and hooks extending intov ters' Patent:

1. In a doll, a body, an elastic element extending through the body and having its extremities projecting from opposite sides thereof, limbs having ends presented` to the body, there bein apertures in said ends and into which t e extremities of the elastic element extend, and fasteners having eyes disposed in the said apertures and' reengaged with the extremities of the said element.

2. The combination of a doll body, limbs at opposite sides thereof, an endless elastic element extending through the body, and fasteners having heads disposed outside the limbs and having open eyes extending into Ythe limbs and hooked into the ends of the' elastic.

3. A doll body, arms at opposite sides thereof, said body and arms having alining a ertures, an elastic member extending t rogh the body from one side to the other,

the arms and detachably engaged with the elastic member, and a head having a hook ,engaged with the middle of the elastic member. l

4. Means for flexibly connecting the limbs to the body of a doll, comprising an elastic having looped ends, and buttons having open Shanks engaged with the looped ends of the elastic the heads being swiveled. y 5. Means for fastenlng limbs to the body of a doll, comprising an endless elastic, and headed fasteners having hooks detachably engaging the ends of the elastic.

FREDERICK B. SCHULTZ.

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