US1390820A

US1390820A - Doll

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Publication number: US1390820A
Application number: US367960A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harry E Schoenhut
Original assignee: A SCHOENHUT Co
Current assignee: A SCHOENHUT Co
Priority date: 1920-03-22
Filing date: 1920-03-22
Publication date: 1921-09-13
Anticipated expiration: 1938-09-13

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY E. SCHOENHUT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE A. SCHOENHUT COMPANY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A. CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

DOLL.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 22, 1920. Serial No. 367,960.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HARRY E. ScHoENHUT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Dolls, of which the following is a specification.

One object of my invention is to improve the construction of the movable eyes of dolls so that they can be mounted to rotate freely in sockets without pivot pins.

A further object of the invention is to provide an eye member for a doll, which can be readily assembled in a solid head.

This invention is especially adapted for use in connection with heads made of a solid piece of wood in which a cavity is formed for the reception of the eye member, which is allowed to turn freely therein.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a sectional view of a portion of a dolls head illustrating my invention, the section being on the line 11, Fig. 3;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line 2--2,

Fig` 3;

4 ig. 3 is a rear view with of the head removed, and member in place;

Fig. 4 is a view, similar to Fig. 3, showino' the sockets for the eye member;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the eye member; and

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the disk, which holds the eye member in the sockets.

Referring to the drawings, l is the head or a doll made of a solid block of wood, in the present instance, having a recess 2 at the back, closed by a back section la of the head, as shown in Fig. l. This recess extends well toward the front of the dolls head, and in the recess are two sockets 4. The front walls of the sockets have openings 3, similar to the natural eye openings. Mounted in the sockets are the ball sections 5 of the e e member 6, made as shown in Fig. 5.

hese two ball sections are connectedj together by a bar 7 to which is attached a wire 8 having a Weight 9, forming a pendu lum. Representations of eyes are formed on the ball sections 5 by rpainting, decalcomania, or other means. he sockets 4 are shaped to conform to the shape of the balls the back section showing the eye of the eye member, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The ball sections of the eye member are held in the sockets by a disk l0 of any suitable material, preferably flexible, and in the present instance, this material is cardboard which is secured in place by tacks l1, or other suitable fastenings. The cardboard disk. is slotted at l2 to allow free movement of the weighted wire or pendulum 8.

While the balls snugly in the sockets they are free to turn therein and the representations of eyes are so placed in relation to the pendulum that when the face of the doll is in an upright position, the eyes are exposed, but when the doll is 1n a rccumbent position the representation of the eyelids, which are above the eyes, are exposed, simulating sleep.

y this construction, all pvot pins are dispensed with and the eye members can be readily assembled and secured in position without expert manipulation, and the eye section can be removed and repaired or replaced without difiiculty.

I claim l. The combination of a substantially solid dolls head having a recess at the back, eye sockets spaced apart and extending from said recess toward the front of the head, said sockets having eye openings at their forward ends; an eye member' consisting of a cross bar having a ball at each end; a representation of an eye on each ball member; a pendulum depending from the cross bar; and a disk holding the balls in the sockets so that they will turn freely therein.

2. The combination of a dolls head having a recess at the back, two sockets connected to the recess; an eye member having a cross bar; a ball at each end of the cross bar, the front portions of the sockets conforming to the shape of the ball members; a pendulum depending from the cross member; a weight at the end of the pendulum; and a flexible disk secured to the head of the doll at the inner end of the recess and retaining the eye balls in their sockets, the disk being slotted for the free movement of the pendulum.

HARRY E. SCHOENHUT.

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