US1726184A - Eye set - Google Patents

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Aug. 27 19290 A. KONOFF 1,726,184

EYE SET Filed Oct. 16, 1926 INVEN TOR Qmwaq I A TTORNEY Patented Aug. 27, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER KONOFF, OF YORK, N. Y., ASSIGIN'OR TO MARKO'N MANUFACTURING CO. INC, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

EYE SET.

Application filed October 16, 1926. Serial No. 141,943.

This invention relates to an eye set, and particularly to means embodied therein by which to attach the eye set within a doll head, the invention being in the nature of an improvement over what is shown and described in my pending applications Serial Nos. 95,198 and 105,678.

An object of the present invention is to provide increased efliciency for insuring a proper operative positioning of the eyes within the eye sockets of the doll head.

A. further object is to so construct the eye set that it may be quickly, easily and accurately attached within the doll head, by

relatively unskilled labor.

A more detailed object is to provide an eye set including a carrier which is adapted to be attached to the material of the doll head by the outward thrust of a pair of attaching members into opposite portions of the doll head, and to provide means to insure uniform functioning of the two attaching members.

Other objects and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles constituting the invention; and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as a part of this specification, and in which I have shown merely a pre- .ferred form of embodiment of the invention:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevational view of an eye set constructed in accordance with this invention, said set being shown as it appears when in position within a doll head, the

doll head being shown in vertical section.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View taken substantially upon the plane of line IIII of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of one of the attaching members employed.

Referring to the drawings for the purpose of a detailed description of the exemplary structure illustrated therein, the reference character L indicates a doll head. Although a doll head is herein shown and referred to, nevertheless it will be understood that this invention is equally well adapted for use 1n connection with any other toy or toys in whlch moving eyes are utilized.

The doll head illustrated has the usual spaced eye sockets 1 and 2 at opposite sides of the central nose portion 3. Beyond the eye sockets 1 and 2 the cheek portions of the head are preferably thickened as at 4 and 5 so as to reinforce the cheek portions in the region adjacent to the eye sockets and so as to provide opposite interior wall surfaces as 6 and 7 which are substantially parallel to each other andthereby adapted to constitwo eyes as 11 and 12, said eyes being adjustably connected with the cross rod in any desired manner such for instance as shown in my Patents Nos. 1,566,105, 1,580,051, 1,578,83a and 1,566,966 or otherwise.

The body portion 8 of the carrier G is made from an elongated piece of sheet metal bent into channel shape, and within the channel or guide-way it carries a pair of attaching members as 13 and 1 1.

The attaching members 13'and 1 1 are lon- 1 gitudinally slidable along the channel and their outer end portions are formed with prongs as 15 and 16 which, when the attaching members are slid outwardly away from each other, sink into the reinforced walls 6 and 7 of the head.

Before the insertion of this eye set into the doll head the attaching members 13 and let are of course in their innermost or normal positions, that is so that their outer ends do not project objectionably beyond the outer ends of the body 8, and their movement outwardly for driving the prongs 15 and 16 into embedded. relation within the cheek portions of the head is not performed until after the eye set has been moved into position with the eyes 11 and 1.2 held firmly into and against the eye sockets 1 and 2 of the head.

Since it is intended that when the attachiug members have been once driven outwardly into the cheek portions of the head they shall thereafter maintain their positions for continuing to properly support the eyes, the attacliing members are fitted so tightly within the channel of the body 8 that retrogressive movement of the attaching members will not be likely.

Each of the attaching members 13 and 1a is provided with a suitable aperture 17., or other appropriate means, for co-operating with a tool to be user in operating the attaching members. The body 8 is also provided with an aperture as 18, or other appropriate means, which may be usable in conjunction with the tool and the openings 1: to assist in the proper operation of the attaching members by the tool as will be more fully set forth in an application presently to be filed.

When the supporting carrier his been once placed into position and the attaching members l3 and 14 have been driven outwardly said carrier will thereafter be rigid with the doll head.

The eye carrying portion 9 of the carrier G may take any desired form, its essential characteristic beinrsimply that it serves as a pivot bearing for directly supporting the cross rod ll) of the eye member H. In the form illustrated it consists of a pair of arms l9 and 20 projecting forwardly from the not y 8 spaced apart, each of said arms having a suitable bearing, at 21-21, therein within which the cross rod 10 is free to to tate and to have a suitable longitudinal movement as may be required, said bearing serving also to hold the cross rod a definite distance from and parallel to the carrier G.

The pronged portions 15 and 16 of each of the attaching members are bent slightly backwardly out of the normal plane of carrier that during the time while said pronmd portions are being thrust into the ma Vial of the doll head they will operate to ease the carrier backwardly a distance commensurate with the degree of inclination of said pronged portions and thus correspondingly ease the eyes 11 and 12 out of tight frictional engagement with the walls of the eye sockets to thus permit of free oscillatory movement of the eyes, as more fully set forth in my co-pcnding application Serial, No. waste.

The channel or guide-way provided in the carrier for slidably supporting the attaching members is a straight line guide-way so that said attaching members are adapted to move in a straight line away from each other, the outer ends, or pronged portions of said attaching members being bent backwardly from said straight line and into angular relation with each other.

Any suitable means may be employed for causing the eye member to oscillate as the doll is moved from reclining position to upright position etc., and for this purpose the drawing illustrates the usual weight as 22 connected by an arm 23 with the cross rod 10. The gravity movements of the weight, under change of the position of the doll, will oscillate the cross rod and cause the eyes to move between open and closed positions.

It is a particular feature of the present invention to provide positive means for limitin the extent to which the pronged portions 15 and 16 may be driven into the parallel walls 6 and 7, and to this end the attaching members are shown as being formed with relative extensive stop walls 24c facing outwardly therefrom and adapted to engage directly against the walls 6 and 7 when the prongs have reached a suitable depth. For convenience these walls 24: are formed by berntling laterally a lug portion as 25 of the material of the attaching member intermediate the prongs 15 and 16.

By this means the eye set itself is made to be self centering within the doll head, that is to say that the tool which is employed to drive the attaching members need not be provided with features for insuring against excessive insertion of one or the other of the attaching members since when one attaching member has reached its appointed limit of movement the stop wall thereof will become effective, and any attempt to drive it further will re-act upon the opposite attaching member. Thus when the tool has driven the two attaching members to their prescribed distance away from each other said attaching members will of necessity be each driven the same distance into the doll head and the eye set thus centered with respect to said head.

Since the extent to which the prongs l5 and 16 are driven into the material of the doll head determines the extent to which the carrier, and consequently the eyes, are eased backwardly from the eye sockets, it is apparout that the stop walls or lugs in given rela-' tion to the length of said inclined prongs serve in concert with the degree of inclination of said lugs to definitely determine the extent to which the eyes are eased from'the sockets.

As many changes could be made in this construction without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carrier therefor, attaching means comprised in the carrier by which to attach the carrier in position within a doll head, said attaching means consisting of a pair of pronged members movable with respect to each other to drive the prongs thereof into embedded relation within the material of the head, said prongs being inclined with respect to their path of movement to thereby cause an adjusting movement of the eyes with respect to the head co-incident with the movement of the prongs into the material of the head, and stop walls provided upon said pronged members arranged to engage'the material of the head to limit the extent to which they may be driven.

2. An eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carrier therefor, attache ing means comprised in the carrier by which to attach the carrier in position within a doll head, said attaching means consisting of a pair of pronged members movable with respect to each other to drive the prongs thereof into embedded relation within the material of the head, and said pronged members each having a portion thereof bent laterally therefrom to provide a stop wall thereon at one side only thereof arranged to engage the material of the head to limit the extent to which the prongs may be driven.

3. An eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carrier therefor, attaching means comprised in the carrier by which to attach the carrier in position within a doll head, said attaching means consisting of a pair of pronged members movable with respect to each other to drive the prongs thereof into embedded relation within the material of the head, the carrier providing a guide-way within which said attaching members are slidably movable away from each other during movement of the prongs thereof into the material of the head, the prongs of said attaching members respectively being spaced apart at the outer ends of the attaching members, and a portion of each attaching member intermediate the prongs thereof being projected laterally to provide a stop Wall upon the attaching member for engaging the material of the head to limit the extent to which the prongs may be driven.

4. In an eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a carrier therefor, the combination therewith of force producing means comprised in the carrier operable simultaneously to attach the carrier withiii a doll head and to positively adjustably move the carrier with respect to the head, together with means to engage the doll head to positively limit the extent of said adjustable movement.

5. The combination with a doll head having eye sockets, of an eye set therefor comprising a pair of eyes, attaching means for attaching said eyes within the doll head, said attaching means comprising movable parts to engage parts of the doll head for attaching the eye set within the doll head, said movable parts having portions adapted to co-act with the doll head to positively adjustably move a part of the eye set with respect to the doll head co-incident with movement of said movable parts to attaching position,'and means to positively limit movement of said movable parts and to thereby determine the extent of said adjustable movement.

6. An eye set for doll heads, said eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carrier therefor, the carrier including a main body portion and parts connected therewith and movable with respect thereto intended to be driven into the material of the doll head for retaining the carrier in position within the doll head, and stop walls provided at one side only of said movable parts intended to engage the surface of the doll head at one side only of said movable parts.

7. Aneye set for doll, heads, said eye set comprising a pair of eyes and a supporting carrier therefor, attaching means for said carrier comprising a pair of attaching members connected with the carrier one adjacent each eye, each attaching member having a pointed portion and the connection of the attaching members with the carrier providing for movement of the pointed portions away from each other whereby said pointed portions may be thrust into the material of the doll head adjacent the eyes respectively,

and a stop provided at one side only of each attaching member intended to engage against the surface of the doll head at one side only of said pointed portions.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ALEXANDER KONOFF.

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