Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1887
Complete Left, 16th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 14th July, 1888
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County
of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a doll, which is as light as possible,
and at the same time strong, the separate parts thereof, such as the trunk, the head,
etcetera being formed by pressure being applied in the manner hereafter described.
The material employed for this purpose is a paste of glazed appearance, which is
prepared from wood, and known in the trade as leather-paste, because of its toughness
and colour. After this leather-paste has been cut in pieces of suitable size, it is placed
in hot press-moulds (matrices and stamps) and submitted to a high pressure; in this
manner the half of a head, body or limb is formed. The two halves are then placed
in their respective matrices for the purpose of uniting them together, glue or any
other sort of binding substance being laid over the edges; the two halves are then
joined together by pressure. After this, clay is laid over the heads, bodies or limbs,
where this is necessary, to fill up all the irregularities and interstices left in uniting the
two halves. The dolls or bodies etcetera, in this rough ready state can, according to
requirements, receive a coat of common varnish, or be waxed, provided with glass
eyes, have their hair dressed, etcetera.

page_text: The bodies can be covered with any sort of material or stuff, either by hand or
through the moulds, in which latter case the paste casts or mouldings are covered
beforehand with the material, or the halves of the parts are covered with it prior to
their being united, according to the material which is employed.
Up to the present, limbs and heads have been cast in porcelain, and baked, or made
of a paste of flour, pulp and of softened paper waste, which was pressed in moulds,
and then dried in the air, or by heat. The bodies, on the other hand have been made
up to the present, with leather or other material sewn together, and filled up with
various materials, such as bair, oakum, sawdust, wood wool etcetera.
It is clear that this mode of manufacturing dolls can only produce articles which
are comparatively heavy and easily breakable, whilst by my new process, the
unbreakable and light bodies, heads and limbs of dolls of any size, and description can
be easily manufactured.
The same process can also be employed for the manufacture of masks.

page_text: I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The object of the present invention is to provide a doll, which is as light as possible
and at the same time strong, the separate parts thereof, such as the trunk, the head,
etcetera, being formed by pressure being applied in the manner hereafter described.
The material employed for this purpose is a paste board of glazed appearance, which
is prepared from wood, and known in the trade as leather board because of its tough-
ness and colour. After this leather paste has been cut in pieces of suitable size it is
placed in hot press moulds (matrices and stamps), and submitted to a high pressure,
in this manner the half of a head, body or limb is formed. The two halves are then
placed in their respective matrices for the purpose of uniting them together, glue or
any other sort of binding substance being laid over the edges, the two halves are then
joined together by pressure. After this, clay is laid over the heads, bodies or limbs,
where this is necessary, to fill up all the irregularities and interstices left in uniting
the two halves. The dolls or bodies etcetera, in this rough ready state can, according
to requirements, receive a coat of common varnish, or be waxed, provided with glass
eyes, have their hair dressed, etcetera, etcetera.
The bodies can be covered with any sort of material or stuff, either by hand or by
dies or moulds. In the latter case, the covering material is applied to the pieces of
leather board previous to their being placed in the moulds, or the halves already formed
are covered with it previous to their being united, according to the material which is
employed.
Up to the present, limbs and heads have been cut in porcelain and baked, or made
of a paste of flour, pulp, and of softened paper waste, which was pressed in moulds,
and then dried in the air, or by heat. The bodies on the other hand have been made
up to the present, with leather or other material sewn together, and filled up with
various materials, such as hair, oakum, saw dust, wood flock, etcetera.

page_text: It is clear that the above mode of manufacturing dolls can only produce articles,
which are comparatively heavy and fragile, whilst by this invention, unbreakable and
light bodies, heads, and limbs of dolls of any size and description, can be easily
manufactured.
The invention is also applicable to the manufacture of masks.
Having now particularly described, and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
The manufacture of dolls, masks and the like from paste board of glazed appearance
prepared from wood and generally known in the trade as leather board, whereby
greater lightness and increased solidity is attainable, the several parts of the dolls
being moulded into the desired shape and joined together in the manner, substantially
as described.
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