US1521279A - Sleeping doll's head - Google Patents

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Dec. 30. 1924.

A. COHN SLEEPING DOLLS HEAD Filed April 19, 1923 Patented i 30, 1924.

SLEEPING DOLLS H.

Application filed April 19, 1923. Serial No. 633,179.

To all wiwm it may concern: Be it known that 1, Anton Conn, a o1t1- zen of the United States'of America, and

resident of 161 Queen Street East, in the city of Toronto, Province of Ontario, -D ominion of Canada, have invented certaln new and useful Improvements in Sleeping Dolls Heads, do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in sleeping dolls head as described in the present specification and shown. in the accompanying drawing that forms part of the same.

The invention appertains more particularly to mechanism for opening and closing a dolls eyes, which eyes are floatingly mounted and resiliently disposed in their sockets thus permitting smooth movement of the eyes and acting as a guard against breakage or displacement in the event of the dolls user putting their finger into the eye socket as is frequently done by children when playing with their dolls.

The objects of the invention are primarily to provide interior mechanical parts of. a sleeping dolls head that can be fitted into the head without any attachment in adhesive or other formof connection, thereby eliminating considerable labour in the manufacture thereof. Contraction and expansion, due to atmospheric conditions, of the material from which the head is made, is

furthermore accommodated b the resiliency of its interior mechanism thus preventing adhesion between the eye-balls and their sockets as frequently occurs in sleeping dolls of conventional construction.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the dolls head illustrating the mechanism therein.

Figure 2 is a front view of the mechanism removed from the head.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure of the drawlieferring to the drawing, 1 designates a dolls head of conventional construction with the usual crown aperture over which the hair is borne.

2 are a pair of spherical eyes adapted upon oscillation to represent the closing and opening of the natural eye.

The eyes are spaced a distance apart equivalent to their sockets by a supporting shaft 3 to which theyare centrally afiixed, said shaft constituting the axis about which the said eyes rotate.

4 is a bridge comprising a curved float bar adapted to bridge the front and rear portions of the head and is provided with prongs 5 and 6 integral or .secured to" the opposing extremities thereof engageable in indenture in said-head provided for the purpose of their location and securation. I

The bridge bar is bent rearwardly for a short distance as. at 7 and thereupon bent upwardly abruptly as at 8 for about an equal distance, thus forming a slot receptive to said shaft 3 and a spring support. Positioned in advance of the end of said slot is a projection 9 formed by an indenture in the bar, or otherwise constructed as may be found desirable. Said shaft is inserted in the slot by spreading same suficiently to permit of 1ts passing the projection therein, whereupon the slot is closed and the shaft held therein, the said projection acting as a stop to limit its movement rearwardly.

10 is a spring aflixed to the terminus of the portion 8 of the bridge, comprising curved arms adapted to exert an outward pressure upon the shaft 3, thereby efiecting the retention of the eyeballs in their sockets. 1]. are converging rods depending from the eyes, to which is affixed a resilient pendulum 12 whereby the eyes are actuated.

It will be manifest that to place the eyeballs. together with their accompanyin mechanism in position within the dolls hea it is merely necessary to engage the prongs 5 in the provided'indenture and then dispose the tongue 6 in the indenture situated at the rear of the head, at the same the curvature of the bridge in order to embed the prongs firmly within the head.

What I claim is e 1. In a sleeping dolls head, a bridge comprising a curved bar adapted to span the front and rear of the head interior, prongs projecting from the opposing extremities of said bar, said prongs being adapted to be embedded in the walls of the head by elongation of the bar through straightening of its curvature; a pair of spring-pressed eyes floatingly supported upon said bar, and a endulum actuating the opening and closmg thereof.

2. In a sleepin dolls head, a bridge comprising a curve bar ada ted to span the front and rear of the head interior, prongs time adapting r llO projecting from the opposing extremities of said bar, said prongs being adapted to fit in indentures within the head by elongation of the bar through straightening of its curvature; a pair of spring-pressed eyes floatingly supported upon said bar, and a pendulum actuating the opening and closing thereof.

3. In a sleeping dolls head, a bridge comprising a curved resilient bar adapted to span the front and rear of the head interior, prongs projecting from the opposing extremities of said bar, said prongs being adapted to be embedded in the walls of the head by elongation of the bar through straightening of its curvature; a pair of eyes fioatingly supported upon the bar, a wire spring rigidly afiixed to such bar and engaging said eyes to retain them in their sockets, and a pendulum actuating the opening and closing thereof.

4. In a sleeping dolls head, a bridge comprising a curved resilient bar adapted to span the front and rear of the head interior, the frontal end of said bar being bent rearwardly forming a slot and thereupon bent upwardly forming a spring support, prongs projecting from the opposing extremities of said bar, said prongs being adapted to be embedded in the walls of thehead by elongation of the bar through straightening of its curvature, a shaft mounted in the aforesaid slot carrying spherical eyes, a spring aflixed to the support having arms exerting pressure upon said shaft to ur e the eyes into their sockets, and a pendu um actuating the opening and. closing of the .said eyes.

5. In a sleeping dolls head, a bridge comprising a curved bar adapted to span the front and rear of the head interior, means to fix the ends of said bar against the interior of the dolls head by elongation of the bar through straightening of its curvature, a pair of eyes rotatably supported on said bar and a pendulum actuating said eyes to simulate the opening and closing thereof.

Signed at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, this sixteenth day of April, 1923. I

AARON COHX. Witnesses:

WmFRnn H. WARSDEN, F. O. BROMLEY.

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