US1374343A - Doll - Google Patents

Description

n. WIENER.

DOLL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 28, I918.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patgntqed Application filed December 28, 1918. Serial No. 12,458,590.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID WIENER, a citizen of the United States, residing atNew York city, in the county of Bronx, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dolls; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the This invention relates to dolls, and par ticularly to the structure of the headand shoulders of dolls of the stuffed or filled t Y e. 3

l Heretofore it has been the practice to provide dolls of this type with heads formed with integral necks adapted to, be sewed or otherwise attached to the usual fabric body of the doll. In case of breakage of the head, and this is liable to occur even. with the best of the so-called unbreakableheads, it is customary. to discard the entire doll or to send itawayto be repaired, for while new heads are readily obtainable, it is somewhat inconvenient, and also injurious to the body covering of the doll, to remove the old head from the body, particularly if the latter is stuffed with sawdust or similar material. In other words, one usually finds it easier to discard the entire doll and purchase a new one, than to attempt to replace the damaged, head.

It is an object of this invention to avoid the loss incident to stuffed dolls of the usual construction, by providing a separate head piece suitably connected togather so that in case of breakage of the head, it can be quickly and easily replaced without the necessity of removing the shoulder piece from the body. This construction possesses the further advantage over dolls of the usual construction, that a number of different heads maybe provided for each body, and since these heads may be easily interchanged, a child can obtain different expressions and other characteristics of the head of its doll, thereby increasing the use-- fulness of the doll as a source of amusement for the child.

Other advantages of the invention will appear from a detailed description of certain preferred embodiments as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 shows an arrangement provided with one kind of detachable connection and one mode of attaching the shoulder piece to the body of the doll; Figs. 2?, and are elevation and plan views, respectively, of a detachable connection in which threads is avoided; Figs. 4 and show other arrangements that may be employed for attaching the heads to the shoulder pieces, and also a modified arrangement for attaching the shoulder piece to and Figs. 6, 7 and 8 represent in elevation -and plan. a still further arran ment for detachably connecting a head to e shoulder piece.

In Fig. 1 the shoulder niece l to be sewed to the fabric body 11 2. and the arms 13 may be attached to the Slfltzii of the shoulder piece by suitable connecting devices 14. The shoulder piece provided with an inwardly extending soclrct l. is screw threaded to receive the neck tion 16 of the head 17. lVith this arrangement it is intended that the shoulder piece shall remain permanently attached to the body of the doll, and there is no pose. of the stufling falling from i r when the head is removed, the shoulder piece forms a closure contents oi the body. While one pair head is shown, any

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.icnlar may be provided, and these heads can be quickly interchanged as desired.

' Figs. 2 and 3 show an arrangem nt that may be employed in case it is dc eliminate the use of screw threads in the structure of the head and shoulder piece. In this case the shoulder piece 10 is, as in lg. 1, sewed to the body of the doll and carries the arms. provided with an a ierture having outwardly extending radial sl ot's 18' adapted to receive correspondingly s taped lugs 19 projecting m I she slots are so disposed with relation to the W from the neck portion 16 of the head.

shoulder piece that when the head is in normal relation to the body, the lugs idwill occupy substantially the position shown in Fig. 3. In order to hold the headin this position so that and disengagedfrom the shoulderpiece. a. plate 20 of cardboard, thin metal or similar" material may be placed at the top of the shoulder piece and pressed upwardlyagainst the lugs on the neclr by the stufiing 11* the doll.

. In Figs. 4 and 5, the shoulder 10 the use of screw 69 the body of the doll,- s5

5 which it number of heads each formed with a screw threaded neck portion red to The top of the shoulder piece is as it will not be easily turned shoulder piece is provided with a threaded I draw the movable member stud 21, onto which the head may be screwed. In Fig. 5 the shoulder piece is formed with an inwardly extending socket 22 provided with a central rovided with an inwardly threaded socket adapted to fit in the annular recess formed in the shoulder piece.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show another arrangement that may be employed for attaching the head to the shoulder piece. In this case the shoulder piece is closed at its top to prevent the leakage of the stufiing, and is additionally provided with an inwardly directed flange 2 1' of substantially semi-circular contour. The bottom of the neck is provided with an outwardly extending flange 25 adapted to fit under the flange 24:. For holding the head in place when inserted a coiiperating flanged movable member 26 of semi-circular contour is provided, and this inovahleinrember is connected to the'lixed flange 24: by ,an elastic band 27 located beneath the neck of the doll and adapted to against the fixed member to hold the head in place. this arrangement it is only necessary to draw member 26 forwardly to permit a head to be removed 9r replaced, and when the movable member is released it will be drawn against the front of the neck portion to hold the head securely in place.

stud 23 to which the headmay be secured, the head being substantially With- While the stufiing of the doll has been shown as filling the shoulder piece in some of the figures, it may be kept out of the shoulder piece by a wall 28 of any suitable material, fitted into the bottom of the shoul- ,der piece as shown in Figs. 6 and. 7. This arrangement results in a saving of stuiling material and also leaves the shoulder piece empty or other mechanical arrangements that may be applied to the doll.

I claim:

In a stufied doll, the combination of a stuffed body a shoulder piece secured thereto, and a head formed separately'from the shoulder piece, said shoulder piece being provided with one element or" a detachable connection and said head being provided with another element of said connection, said elements cotiperating to hold the head rigidly on the shoulder piece so that the head and shoulder piece constitute in'efi'ect a single rigid structure, and said elements being employed for detachably connecting for the reception of voice-producing readily connectible to permit ready appli-

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