US3268127A - Apparel display device and method for the making thereof - Google Patents

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Aug. 23, 1966 c. M. AGUILAR 3,268,127

APPAREL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE MAKING THEREOF Filed Sept. 1, 1964 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 0 i INVENTOR G'm's toba M. AyuzLZar 4| l4 a L BY 4 mfimwgm ATTORNEYS Aug. 23, 1966 c. M. AGUlLAR 3,268,127

APPAREL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE MAKING THEREOF Filed Sept. 1, 1964 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Cristobal M Ayalar film fl M M ATTORNEYS United States Patent 3,268,127 APPAREL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHGD FOR THE MAKING THEREOF Cristobal Mora Aguilar, Juan J. Diaz 897, San Isidro F.N.G.B.M., Buenos Aires, Argentina Filed Sept. 1, 1964, Ser. No. 393,694 4 Claims. (Cl. 223-68) This invention is related with a method of making an apparel display device and the resulting article manufactured thereby.

More specifically the invention relates to the above mentioned manikin and to a method of manufacturing a hollow manikin of wire-mesh material featuring the anatomical characteristics of the upper part of the human body.

The manikin manufactured by the method of the in vention is capable of being advantageously used, in modern displays and exhibitions.

An ever growing development of the art of window and apparel display decoration, principally in stores, periodically requires the renovation of practical items to conform with modern decoration trends.

The foregoing is specifically true as regards garment exhibition and display, where the art has remained behind in the utilization of props as regards principally new forms of expressions and corresponding devices.

Accordingly, a principal object of the invention is to supply this particular art with a new method of making such an apparel display device in following with the modern artistic tendencies, concomitant to the commercial and artistic utilization of these new apparel devices.

Another object of the invention is to make, by the invented method, a manikin of much simpler construction, but at the same time including all the needed and desired features of this type of article, such as: sturdiness combined with lightweight, originally in design and aspect together with a noticeable reduction in cost.

The invented method is principally directed to making a manikin of the upper part of the human body. However, my invention is not necessarily restrained to such anatomical limitation. In fact, smaller or larger anatomical portions or sections of the human body as well as the whole human figure itself, in the form of a manikin, may be made by my invented process and, accordingly, should be considered within the scope of the invention. Additionally, although an adult feminine figure is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, the method of my invention is not so limited. Manikins also representing babies, children, and teen-agers of both sexes may be made by the method of my invention and should be considered within the scope of my invention.

The invented method comprises a series of steps necessary to manufacture this particular type of manikin.

The description of the invented method illustrates a preferred mode of making an adult feminine manikin of the upper part of the human body. This should not be taken as a limitation of the invention, but merely as illustrative and descriptive of the steps involved on the overall method.

The method is initi-ated by die-molding a pair of wiremesh material blanks to impart thereto the anatomic general characteristics of the upper part of a human body. However, the molding of the wire-mesh material blanks may also electively be made by manual means without departing from the invented method. This means that one of the blanks, when molded, by any of the said means, will correspond to a front portion, while the other will correspond to the back portion of the upper part of the human body, considered from the waist up.

Due to the molding operation these blanks will take a hollow configuration and each section will acquire Patented August 23, 1966 bodily attributes particular to each corresponding part.

A second stage in the process comprises the preparation and positioning of strengthening and reinforcing elements for the molded sections.

First, a pair of metallic wire rods, having a heavier wire gauge than the sections, is die-molded or electively, configured by any other means, to define, in registry, the contour of the cross-section median plane of the upper part, as above described, of a human body.

Subsequently, a pair of similar gauge metallic wires, as above described, are molded to impart to each, a semicircle configuration. These contoured wire rods will respectively provide vertical and horizontal strengthening and reinforcing elements for the manikin.

Each one of these median plane contoured rods is next positioned in registry with the contour of a sectioned molded material, in registry coincidence with the elongated outline periphery thereof, but within the material. These sections are each mechanically and/or manually cut along the lines defined by the peripherally positioned median plane rods and spot welded to each section.

As regards the semi-circular contoured rods, each rod is positioned adjacent the bottom of each section in registry with a respective part of the sectioned molded material coinciding with the transverse intern-a1 periphery thereof. The bottom wire-mesh portions of each section are mechanically or manually cut along a line defined by the semi-circular rods and spot welded thereto.

In the method of my invention, alternatively to the above mentioned operation, these reinforcing and strengthening elements may be made of a continuous wire rod without departing from the basic process of making the manikin, and thus avoiding the need of welding the said median plane rods with the semi-circular rods at the bottom of the manikin.

In this variation of the method, each of a pair of continuous wire rods are die-molded to impart to. a portion of said wire, corresponding to a head-to-waist section, the contour of the median plane of the upper of the human figure, and at the same time by die-molding, bending at right angles with said median plane portion, the remain.- ing part of said wire, to form a semi-circle at a portion corresponding to the waist section of a human figure.

Once these anterior and posterior body parts have been provided with their respective vertical and horizontal strengthening rods, both sections are brought together to coincide in registry therebetween and spot welded one to the other, thus imparting form to an assembled manikin.

Another step in my invented method is to provide the section-welded manikin with arms or lateral members. To this purpose the following operations are needed:

Each one of a pair of stub-like elongated metal elements is fixedly secured by one end, to left and right shoulder sides of the back part section of the manikin and positioned in slight angular orientation beneath each shoulder outline contour approximately corresponding to imaginary right and left arm pits.

Each elongated element is threaded at its point oppositely remote from the said back portion section at least for a third of its extension, and subsequently a perforation is bored through each element immediately adjacent a threaded portion. This perforation is preferably bored in right angle orientation with the cross-section of the manikin, however, an acute or obtuse angle orientation will similarly serve an identical purpose.

A malleable wire providing the manikin with lateral arm-like structure is inserted in the hole bored on each elongated element. A regulating nut is screwed to the threaded portion of the element, to immobilize the in: serted wire at a desired arms length, and finally, the said wire and nut are covered with plastic material, or elective- 3 1y, plastic tubing to define contoured arms for the manikin.

Although the manikin made by the method of my invention may be used once the above-described steps are accomplished, in certain occurrences the needs of the trade may require that a base, a supporting stand, or both, may be provided for the manikin in order to increase the versatility and usefulness of the device. In fact, in certain cases the manikin may be used suspended in the air by invisible thread, thus obtaining interesting decorative effects.

To provide the manikin with a base and/ or a supporting stand, both said structures are separately built and further joined together by means and steps as outlined in this description.

To provide a base for the manikin the following operations are required: An elongated, preferably flat plate is screwed, through longitudinally spaced holes thereon performed, to the upper side of a circular wooden disc. The said disc having substantially the same diameter dimensions as the bottom end of the manikin. The mid-portion of the elongated plate includes a circular opening which is threaded in its entirety. The bottom of the said wooden disc is also screwed to a number of radially extending tabs secured to the previously mentioned semi-circular rods or horizontal strengthening elements for the manikin, and a frusto-c-onical bottom piece of cork or any other suitable decorative material, having a center opening concentrical with and of the same diameter as the openings in the mentioned plate and wooden disc, is secured to the under portion of the pair of semi-circular rods, and accordingly joined to the manikin.

To provide a stand for the manikin the following operations are required:

A number of horizontal radially extending struts are joined and welded at a common center point. A vertically positioned elongated strut is welded to the radial struts at the center thereof. The said elongated rod having a. portion at least a third part of the extension of its free end threaded and of a diameter coinciding with the diameter dimensions of the elongated plate, and the said wooden disc.

Finally, the above-mentioned threaded free portion of the said elongated strut is inserted through the bottom frustoconical piece, through the said wooden disc and screwed to the threaded hole in the elongated plaite, thus providing a strong standing support for the manikin.

Any other known type of foot for the stand in substitution of the said radially extending struts may be used, such as a circular, oblong, or triangular plate.

The manikin made by the invented methed, may, when the decorator so desired, may be provided with a Wig. The wig may be made to adapt to any desired kind of coiifure. The said w-ig may be made by means of nylon threads inserted through the openings of the wire-mesh forming the head portion of the manikin. Obviously the use of nylon threads of different coloration will provide the manikin head with any desired hair tone, such as blonde, brunette, red, or, any imaginative type of hair desired.

The manikin of my invention may be covered with a finishing coating of a synthetic paint. However, it is desirable that the grain of [the mesh shall not disappear because of the painting or varnish operation. Accordingly, a light kind of synthetic paint or varnish should be used in order to give the manikin the desired lustre or brilliancy without damaging or diminishing the decorative effect of the wire-mesh material being chosen and utilized.

The invention includes together with the method previously described, the manikin product resulting therefrom; and, may also include other objects and features of advantage, some of which together with the foregoing will appear hereinafter. With reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof, a preferred embodiment of the product of the invention is illustrated.

FIGURE 1 is a side elevation of the manikin having a portion adjacent the bottom of the manikin removed to show structural arrangements of the base and supporting stand.

FIGURE 2 is a cross-section rear elevation of the manik-in along lines 22 of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 3 is a top view of the bottom of the manikin corresponding to the waist portion thereof along lines 3-3 of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 4 is a top view of the supporting manikin stand.

FIGURE 5 is a cross-sectional view of the arm-like structures of the manikin, along lines 55 of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 6 is a partial top view along lines 6-6 of FIGURE 1 showing the engagement contact of the strengthening elements with the wire-mesh material of the manikin.

FIGURE 7 is an enlarged cross-section view of the armlike supporting structure of the manikin as shown in FIG- URE 2.

In a preferred embodiment of my invention the manikin shown in FIGURE 1 represents the upper part, from the waist up, of a female body. However, the manikin of my invention is not so limited, in fact, smaller or larger portions of the human figure whether male or female, or of any convenient size or within any desired age group, may be represented by means of my manikin.

FIGURE 1 shows an assembled manikin comprising a pair of molded sections 18 made of wire-mesh material. In making the manikin body, varied gauges of wire-mesh material may be used, in regards to whether a smooth or grained texture is to be given the manikin. Obviously small portions of the human body will preferably be made utilizing light gauge wire-mesh material, while on the other hand larger portions representative of the human figure will be decoratively enhanced by a grained-like texture obtained from the use of a heavy-gauge wire-mesh material.

Numeral 1 shows the body of an assembled manikin made of wire-mesh metallic material. This manikin comprises uniting a pair of molded sections 18, which have previously been molded by dies, or any other means, such as manual, to impart to these sections front and back part characteristics corresponding to stylized representation of the upper part of a human figure. A pair of strengthening and reinforcing elongated wire rods, 2, which have been molded by dies or manual means to the contour of the median plane of the upper part of the human body, are secured to the front and back portions 18 of the manikin. It should be noted that the wire-mesh material 1 covering the said pair of rods 2 has been cut mechanically at a point adjacent the periphery of each of the said rods. Additionally, a pair of semi-circular wire rods 3 corresponding to the waist portion of a body and having identical gauge as the above-mentioned elongated rods 2 are each secured to corresponding front and back sections of the manikin after the wire-mesh sections have been out along lines defined by the said semi-circular wire rods.

A number of elongated tabs 14 are secured by one of their ends to the internal periphery of the semi-circular rods 3 at the bottom of the formed manikin. Each one of said tabs 14 includes a hole 22 bored substantially adjacent a free end thereof remote from the point of contact with the internal periphery of rods 3. Said tabs 14 are intended to provide a securing place for the manikins base as will be further described.

Numeral 4 shows a malleable wire inserted into arm supporting means (not shown). The wires 4 are intended to provide the manikin with arm-like structures. Due to the malleability of the wire used these arms may be bent or placed in any desired position convenient to the purpose of the decorator utilizing the manikin. In order to further provide the manikin with improved arm roundness and structure, a plastic material 7 is used to cover the said wire 4. As a plastic material substitute a plastic or any light weight material, having a lengthwise perforation, for the insertion of the said wire 4, may be also utilized.

A portion of the bottom section of the manikin shown in FIGURE 1 has been removed in the drawings to allow a view of the assembled structures for the manikins base and supporting stand. Similarly, FIGURE 3 shows corresponding numerals of several of said structures providing a top view along lines 3-3 of FIGURE 1.

In both figures, numerals 2 and 3, respectively, show the pair of elongated and semi-circular strengthening and reinforcing rods secured by welding to the wire-mesh front and back portions 18 of the manikin. However, in my method of making the manikin, rods 2 and 3 may not be separatedly die-molded and separatedly secured to the manikin sections. A continuous rod may be die-molded to provide the strengthening and reinforcing vertical and horizontal structures of both rods.

Numeral 9 shows a circular wooden disc having a diameter corresponding to that of the interior bottom of the manikin and numeral 20 shows a circular aperture bored in the center of the wooden disc 9. The said wooden disc 9 is positioned over elongated tabs 14, once said elongated plate 8 has been secured to the upper side of the said disc. This elongated plate 8 includes a number of holes spaced along the said plate, and includes a circular threaded hole 15 in the middle thereof. By means of a number of screws 11 the said plate 8 is secured to the upper side of the wooden disc 9 in such a fashion that both circular holes 15 and 20 concentrically coincide.

Numeral 24 of FIGURE 2 shows a number of screws inserted through holes 22 of the elongated tabs 14 as appean'ng in FIGURE 3, by means of which screws 24 the elongated plate 8 and the said wooden disc 9 are firmly secured to semi-circular rods 3 at the bottom of the manikin. Numeral It) shows a preferably frustro-conical piece of decorative material, such as wood, metal, or plastic adhered by one end to the bottom portion of the said semicircular rod 3. The said base may be adhered by cementation, glueing or any other suitable adequate method. Numeral 21 shows a hole extending through said piece 10, the said hole 21 being of an identical diameter and concentrical with holes 20 and of wooden disc 9 and the elongated plate 8, respectively.

Numerals 12 and 13 appearing in FIGURES 1 and 4 show component structural elements of the supporting stand for the manikin. Numeral 13 shows a number of horizontal radially extending struts secured together, preferably by welding, at a center point of contact. Numeral 12 shows a vertical strut secured into vertical position at said center point of contact of the said radial struts 13. Numer-al 23 shows a threaded portion at the upper end of strut 13; the threaded portion 23 is provided to allow securing the said strut 13 to the manikins base by inserting the said strut 13 through hole 21 of decorative piece 10, through hole of the wooden disc 9 and screwed to threaded hole 15 of elongated plate 8, thus providing a strong and firm stand for the assembled manikin.

However, the manikin of my invention may, in certain occasions be used without the said supporting stand. In these opportunities, the said rod 12 is unscrewed from the said threaded circular hole 15 in plate 8 and pulled away from the manikin, which will be ready to be used according to the decorators fancy.

FIGURE 2 also shows a pair of arm supporting means and structures positioned at opposite sides of the median plane of the back portion section of the manikin. These structures appear conveniently enlarged in FIGURE 7, wherein numeral 2 shows an elongated median plane contoured rod to which a stub element 25 is secured by welding. These elements 28 are preferably positioned each beneath left and right shoulder contour sides of the manikin substantially corresponding to imaginary left and right arm-pits. The free end of element 25 is conven- 6 iently threaded to allow a nut 5 being screwed thereto in order to immobilize malleable wire 4 which has been inserted into said element 25 by means of a hole 16 bored thereto substantially engaging the said threaded portion 17.

The structures and method herein disclosed constitute the preferred embodiment of my invention. It should be understood that other structures, or changes maybe adopted which do not depart from the teachings herein incorporated. Such are deemed to come within the purview of the invention.

I claim:

1. A process for making a manikin comprising:

(a) Molding a pair of sections of wire-mesh material to impart thereto anatomic characteristics corresponding to the upper part of the human body, said molding including:

(1) Die-molding one of the sections to impart thereto anatomic characteristics corresponding to the front upper :part of the human body;

(2) Die-molding the other section to impart thereto anatomic characteristics corresponding to back upper part of the human body;

(b) Molding a number of strengthening and reinforcing wire-rods for said molded wire-mesh sections, said molding including:

( 1) Die-molding a pair of wire rods to impart thereto the elongated contour of the cross-section median plane of the upper part of the human body;

(2) Die-molding a pair of wire rods imparting to each one a semi-circular form;

(c) Joining said strengthening and. reinforcing wirerods to said wire-mesh molded sections including:

(1) Positioning an elongated wire-rod in lengthwise contour registry and within each wire-mesh section, and adjacent the external periphery of each said section;

(2) Positioning a semi-circular wire-rod in transverse contour registry adjacent and within the bottom periphery of each wire-mesh section;

(3) Removing the wire-mesh section along the lines defined by the said wire-rods;

(4) Attaching the said wire-rods to the wire-mesh sections;

(5) Attaching, at right angles to the interior portion of each semi-circular wire rod, means radially extending elongated rigid tabs, each tab including a hole adjacent its free end;

(d) Joining together said wire mesh sections 'by uniting a front body section to a back body section to form a manikin unit of the upper part of the human body;

(e) Joining arm-like members to the back portion of the manikin, said joining including:

(1) Welding a stub-like elongated element to each opposite side of a contoured wire-rod corresponding to a back portion wire-mesh section;

(2) Threading a part of the free end of each said stub-like element welded to the said contoured rod, the said stub-like element further including a hole bored at a point substantially engaging the said threaded part;

(3) Inserting a heavy gauge malleable wire through the said hole bored on the stub-like element;

(4) Immobilizing the said malleable wire by fixedly securing it to the said stub-like element by means of a nut screwed to the said threaded portion;

(5) Covering the said malleable wire and nut with plastic material to define contoured arms for the manikin;

(f) Fixedly securing a supporting and decorative base to the bottom of the manikin; and

(g) Fixedly securing to the supporting base an inserted stand for the manikin.

2. The process of claim 1, wherein: (a) The operation of providing the manikin with a base further includes:

(1) Boring a number of longitudinally spaced holes lengthwise in an elongated plate;

(2) Boring and threading a circular hole in the middle of the said elongated plate;

(3) Boring a circular hole in the mid-center portion of a wooden disc, the said disc having a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the bottom of the formed manikin;

(4) concentrically screwing the said elongated plate to the upper side of the said circular wooden disc;

(5) Positioning upside of the said screwed elongated plate and wooden disc over the elongated rigid tabs radially welded to the semi-circular rods;

(6) Securing the joined plate and disc to the said tabs by means of screws passing through the endopenin-gs of the said tabs and into the under side of the said wooden disc;

(7) Adhering to the under side of the semi-circular rods a frustro-conical piece of plastic material, the said piece including a central bore concentrical with and of identical diameter as the bores in the elongated plate and the said wooden disc;

(b) The operation of providing a manikin with a stand further including:

( 1) Welding at their points of contact a number of horizontal radially extending struts;

(2) Welding a vertically positioned elongated rod to the said point of engagement to the radially extending rods;

(3) Threading the free end of the vertical rod re mote from the said engagement point through a part of its extension;

(4) Inserting the said threaded end of the vertical rod through the frustro-conical plastic piece, the said wooden disc; and

(5) Screwing the threaded end of the vertical rod to the threaded hole in the center of the elongated plate.

3. A manikin having anatomical characteristics of the upper part of the human body including a pair of joined wire mesh sections, said sections having attached thereto a pair of molded, elongated strengthening and reinforcing wire rods, a pair of arm-like members attached to opposite sides of said wire rods, a pair of stub-like elements attached to upper opposite sides of said wire rods whereto being die-molded to impart to each section relief and anatomic characteristics corresponding to front and back parts of the upper portion of the human 'body, said pair of elongated wire rods being contoured to the outline of the median plane of the human body, the said elongated wire rods being secured to the internal periphery of the said front and back portions, a pair of semi-circular wire rods, the said semi-circular rods being secured to the bottom part of the united sections forming a complete circle, said base secured to the semi-circular bottom wire rods, said stand secured to the said base, and said pair of armlike members attached to, each opposite shoulder contour side of the manikin.

4. A rnanikin as described in claim 3, further comprising a number of elongated tabs secured by one of their ends to the internal periphery of each one of the pair of semi-circular rods, the said tabs including a hole adjacent their free end and remote from the point of contact with the said internal periphery, a circular wooden disc having a central opening therethrough is positioned over and screwed to the said elongated tabs, an elongated plate having a number of holes spaced along its length and including a central threaded hole having an identical diameter as the said center hole in the wooden disc is concentrically positioned above the wooden disc and screwed thereto, a frustro-conical piece is secured to the under portion of the semi-circular rod, the said frustroconical piece having a center bore therethrough, the said hole being of an identical diameter as that of the said holes in the elongated plate and the circular wooden disc, an elongated strut having a diameter substantially identical to that of the center openings of the frustro-conical piece, the wooden disc and the elongated plate, is inserted therethrough and screwed to the threaded hole in the elongated plate, the said strut being secured in vertical orientation by its opposite end at the point of con-tact engagement therewith to a number of horizontal radially extending struts secured by their contacting ends.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 257,398 5/1882 Smith 223-68 505,133 9/1893 Schell 223-68 2,056,740 10/1936 Rosenfeld 223-68 3,096,916 7/1963 Ronell 223-68 FOREIGN PATENTS 563,005 5/1957 Italy. 329,230 4/ 1958 Switzerland.

JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

G. V. LARKIN, Assistant Examiner.

Claims (1)

1. A PROCESS FOR MAKING A MANIKIN COMPRISING: (A) MOLDING A PAIR OF SECTIONS OF WIRE-MESH MATERIAL TO IMPART THERETO ANATOMIC CHARACTERISTIC CORRESPONDING TO THE UPPER PART OF THE HUMAN BODY, SAID MOLDING INCLUDING: (1) DIE-MOLDING ONE OF THE SECTIONS TO IMPART THERETO ANATOMIC CHARACTERISTICS CORRESPONDING TO THE FRONT UPPER PART OF THE HUMAN BODY; (2) DIE-MOLDING THE OTHER SECTION TO IMPART THERETO ANATOMIC CHARACTERISTICS CORRESPONDING TO BACK UPPER PART OF THE HUMAN BODY; (B) MOLDING A NUMBER OF STRENGTHENING AND REINFORCING WIRE-RODS FOR SAID MOLDED WIRE-MESH SECTIONS, SAID MOLDING INCLUDING: (1) DIE-MOLDING A PAIR OF WIRE RODS TO IMPART THERETO THE ELONGATED CONTOUR OF THE CROSS-SECTION MEDIAN PLANE OF THE UPPER PART OF THE HUMAN BODY; (2) DIE-MOLDING A PAIR OF WIRE RODS IMPARTING TO EACH ONE A SEMI-CIRCULAR FORM; (C) JOINING SAID STRENGTHENING AND REINFORCING WIRERODS TO SAID WIRE-MESH MOLDED SECTIONS INCLUDING: (1) POSITIONING AN ELONGATED WIRE-ROD IN LENGTHWISE CONTOUR REGISTRY AND WITHIN EACH WIRE-MESH SECTION, AND ADJACENT THE EXTERNAL PERIPHERY OF EACH SAID SECTION; (2) POSITIONING A SEMI-CIRCULAR WIRE-ROD IN TRANSVERSE CONTOUR REGISTRY ADJACENT AND WITHIN THE BOTTOM PERIPHERY OF EACH WIRE-MESH SECTION; (3) REMOVING THE WIRE-MESH SECTION ALONG THE LINES DEFINED BY THE SAID WIRE-RODS; (4) ATTACHING THE SAID WIRE-RODS TO THE WIRE-MESH SECTIONS; (5) ATTACHING, AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE INTERIOR PORTION OF EACH SEMI-CIRCULAR WIRE ROD, MEANS RADIALLY EXTENDING ELONGATED RIGID TABS, EACH TAB INCLUDING A HOLE ADJACENT ITS FREE END; (D) JOINING TOGETHER SAID WIRE MESH SECTIONS BY UNITING A FRONT BODY SECTION TO A BACK BODY SECTION TO FORM A MANIKIN UNIT OF THE UPPER PART OF THE HUMAN BODY; (E) JOINING ARM-LIKE MEMBERS TO THE BACK PORTION OF THE MANIKIN, SAID JOINING INCLUDING: (1) WELDING A STUB-LIKE ELONGATED ELEMENT TO EACH OPPOSITE SIDE OF A CONTOURED WIRE-ROD CORRESPONDING TO A BACK PORTION WIRE-MESH SECTION; (2) THREADING A PART OF THE FREE END OF EACH SAID STUB-LIKE ELEMENT WELDED TO THE SAID CONTOURED ROD, THE SAID STUB-LIKE ELEMENT FURTHER INCLUDING A HOLE BORED AT A POINT SUBSTANTIALLY ENGAGING THE SAID THREADED PART; (3) INSERTING A HEAVY GAUGE MALLEABLE WIRE THROUGH THE SAID HOLE BORED ON THE STUB-LIKE ELEMENT; (4) IMMOBILIZING THE SAID MALLEABLE WIRE BY FIXEDLY SECURING IT TO THE SAID STUB-LIKE ELEMENT BY MEANS OF A NUT SCREWED TO THE SAID THREADED PORTION; (5) COVERING THE SAID MALLEABLE WIRE AND NUT WITH PLASTIC MATERIAL TO DEFINE CONTOURED ARMS FOR THE MANIKIN; (F) FIXEDLY SECURING A SUPPORTING AND DECORATIVE BASE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MANIKIN; AND (G) FIXEDLY SECURING TO THE SUPPORTING BASE AN INSERTED STAND FOR THE MANIKIN.

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