US232403A - Doll-support - Google Patents

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L. HBRRIGK. Doll Support.

No. 232,403. Patented sept. 21,1880.

NA FEIERS, PHOI'LLLITHDGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LIZZIE HERRIOK, OF IOWA CITY, IOWA.

DOLL-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of `Letters Patent No. 232,403, dated September 21, 1880.

Application filed June 8, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, LIZZI'E HERRIGK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Iowa City, Johnson county, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Doll- Supports; and I do hereby declare the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the annexed drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which drawings- Figure lisa view, in elevation, ot' a doll, the doll being clothed and sustained in erect position by the doll-support shown in Figs., 2 and 3; Fig. 2 is a like view, the doll heilig divested ofclothing. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the doll-support to which the doll shown in Figs. l and 2 is applied; and Fig. .tis a like View of t-he doll-spport shown in Figs. 2 and 3, save that its foundation portion is in rectangular form, instead of in the form as shown in the other ligures.

The object of my invention is the production of a cheap, yet suitable, pedestal upon which dolls may be supported in an erect position, and which may also be utilized for supporting either large or small show-figures in the'showcases or windows of dressing establishments, in order to display dress 0r fancy goods.

In the drawings,- Figs. 3 and 4 show a pedestahA, having two upright supports, as at b b, which project from fonn(lation-supports, as at O and O. The pedestal A, I form of a single length of wire, two stra-nds ot' the wire being twisted togetherin 'order vto give volume and strength to the pedestal when completed, as shown in the figures. The upright supports b b, I make of any suitable height to accommodate the tigure or doll I) to be supported, and

upwardly through the corresponding legs of the pantaloons of a boy doll, and so on to the armpits thereof, and, in ease ot' a girl doll, that said supports b b may be pa-ssed up through and under the skirts or clothing to the armpits, and that when so passed into position, as shown in Fig. 2, neither straps nor braces nor any other appliance is necessary in order to hold the doll or figure in proper erect position, the doll being held erect and its weight falling upon the rests b at the armpits ot' the doll, as signified in said Fig. 2; and, further, that the doll may readily be withdrawn from such position when a child using such toy desires to place the doll in a sitting or in a reclining posture and separated from the pedestal.

Another advantage possessed by the pedestal is that after inserting it beneath the clothing of a doll the Hexiblity ofthe wire coniposing it admits of a compression of the uprights b b to the outline or conn'guration of the doll at its waist, while at the same time such compression will not prevent the Withdrawal ofthe doll from the pedestal when a child playing with the doll desires so to do.

The simplicity of construction, ease of adj ustment, avoidance ot' all auxiliary clasps, waistbands, straps, or other appliances of a like characterxfor giving poise to the doll and for holding it in position are, in addition to inex-A pensiveness of construction, advantages due to 1n y improved doll-support, and ill. cases Where the foundation C is constructed as in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the front portions,ff, thereof may be formed to receive a doll-shoe, thus adding to the completeness and beauty of the doll when mounted upon the pedestal.

.I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a doll-support consisting of a foundation` C, provided with two upright supports, b b, terminatingin forked or 't/#shaped armpit-rests b b', substantially as and for the purpose described.`

LIZZIE HERRICK. Witnesses:

W. J. HUFE, JOHN M. GEIssEL.

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