US1545083A - Doll - Google Patents

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July 7, 1925.

G. M. COX

DOLL

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Application filedbctober 18, 1923. Serial No. 669,214.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERTRUDE MARCY Cox, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dolls, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of this invention is the construction of a rag-doll which shall as closely as possible approximate in appearance a diminutive human being; To this end, I provide means whereby the nose shall be more or less protuberant, instead of being flat as in usual makes of dolls of this type; whose eyes shall be deep-set; whose mouth shall have real lips, and whose cheeks, chin and forehead shall be given a natural roundness. In addition, the ringlets shall appear to grow out from the head, instead of being glued thereto, and the complexion shall be that of nature on both face and body.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a face view of the head and upper part of the body of a doll embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the core about which the head and shoulders of the doll are formed. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view.

In the production of this doll, a core 1 is made from any suitable fabric stitched together and stufied with cotton batting or the like, as indicated at 2 in Fig. 2, to compose a head 3, neck 4 and shoulders 5, as shown in Fig. 3.

Before this core has been stitched together and stuffed, numerous stitches of embroidery 6 are suitably applied thereto on a vertical line to coincide with the proposed nose of the doll, these stitches being overlaid sufficiently to approximate the degree of projection desired for the nose. After this is done, another layer of fabric, preferably white cotton, 7, is laid over the core 1, and embroidery stitches 9 passed through both fabrics and disposed to represent eyes, eyebrows and lips.

Then the core-fabric is stitched together and stuffed with cotton-batting or the like; and the fabric 7 also stitched together and stuffed with the same or other fibrous material, the core 1 being introduced therein prior to the stitching. Vhen the body has been stuffed, and more or less of the cotton forced up between the core and the throat and face, three or more stitches 10 are passed through the chest of the doll immediately below or through the lower part of the core 1, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2; stitches 11 are passed entirely through the head from the extreme points of the mouth, and drawn sufficiently tight to suitably depress these points. Similarly, stitches 12 are passed through the head from the corners of the eyes, but drawn more tightly than the stitches 11, in order to render the eyes suiticiently deep-set.

Although the embroidery stitches 6 beneath the fabric 7 will make the latter stand out to represent the nose of the doll, the same is rendered more life-like both in shape and in the appearance of nostrils, by means of a stitch 14 run transversely through the fabric 7 in the lower part of the nose, such stitch or stitches showing only at their ends.

For representing the hair, I take strands of worsted 15 and thread them through the fabric 7 throughout the top, back and sides of the head, as indicated in Fig. 2, the worsted being loosely spun in order to represent curls and ringlets.

By means of a pin or the like, which I stick obliquely through the fabric 7 at various points I work some of the cotton between the core and the outer fabric 7 up between the hair and the eyes until enough is packed above the eyes to give a rounded contour to the forehead, as indicated in Fig. 2. Similarly, the cheeks are packed with the cotton, and finally the chin.

Arms 16 are attached to the doll-body in a well known manner, and then the face, bust and arms are tinted a flesh-color, and the checks suitably colored.

After this doll has been provided with feet and legs in a well known way, and suitably dressed, it becomes a very attractive nonbreakable toy the core 1 serving not only to keep the head and features in shape, but so to strengthen the neck as to ensure against its getting distorted or broken.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A doll comprising a core enclosed in flexible material, the latter having numerous embroidery stitches to give elevation to the portion representing the nose of the doll, said stitches passing through said material from side to side of the nose and over it in order to give sufficient elevation, a fabric enclosing said flexible material, and a stitch passed through said fabric from side to side of the nose to indicate nostrils.-

2. The herein-described method of manufacturing dolls, which consists in cutting out a section of fabric of proper dimensions" for enclosing a core, applying embroidery stitches thereto at the place where the nose is to be and to provide elevation for such nose, cutting out a section of fabric of a suitable size to enclose the head and body,

stitching said fabrics together along lines to compose the mouth, eyebrows and eyes, uniting the edges of the first-mentioned fabric and stufiing it to form a core, and finalgly stitching together the ed es of the secon mentioned fabric and smng it both in the body portion and between it and said core.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention, I have hereunto set my hand this 16 day of October, 1923.

GERTRUDE MARCY COX.

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