A Doll's Apparel of Printed Fabric.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Doll's Apparel of Printed Fabric.
We CHARLES GREGORY MASON, of 61 James Street, Malden Designer,
and FRANCIS APPLETON FOSTER, 3 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, JAMES
CORNELIUS ELMS, Junior, 21 Washington Street, Newton, aud SETH SPRAGUE
3 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, trading as F. A. Foster & Co. of Boston, Dry
Goods Merchants, all in the State of Massachusetts, United States of America,
lo 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 :-
Our invention has relation to the production of outfits for dolls, and the like
from woven fabric, and it consists in printing or otherwise producing, upon a piece
of otherwise plain or unprinted fabric, in color and in imitation of the weave of any
desired fabric, a single article or a group of articles, each one being so outlined
that when cut from the fabric the shape and lines of union will be present, and
when united as indicated a complete individual article for doll's dress wear will be
present.
Our invention therefore consists in the article hereinafter described and further
pointed out in the claims.
Reference is had to the drawing forming part of this Specification, in which an
embodiment of our invention is shown consisting of--
Figures 1 and 2, the cape and collar of a doll's cloak, the print or weave of the
fabric in the cape being only partially shown; Figure 3, the hood and Figure 4
the frilling; and Figures 5 and 6, the boots, Figure 5 showing the complete print
in color.
In practising our invention we produce a suitable pattern upon a printing roll or
other printing device, both as to shape and in imitation of the weave or figuring the
desired fabric, and then transfer the same in color to the plain fabric, the result
being an article of wear of the desired shape or style and printed with an imitation
of some desired fabric.
At A in the drawing is shown a doll's cloak and B the collar for the same.
Both are produced on the fabric with a printed design C in imitation of the desired
fabric, and with a printed border D of suitable trimming or frilling, and with a
further dotted line E at a suitable distance from the body of the article and
following its general contour, and which forms a guiding line for cutting the
article from the fabric and for sewing the parts together, or for forming a suitable
selvage.
The other illustrated articles, consisting of a hood, frilling, and boots, are
produced in the same way, except that the boots, the two parts of which are to be
sewn together after being cut out, are united by a suitably colored and conformed
band F, which ultimately forms the sole.
Thus by our invention we produce an article of doll's wear upon an otherwise
plain piece of fabric, which bears a suitable fabric pattern, is of the desired shape,
and is ready to be completed by simply following the dotted line E in cutting out,
sewing together, or forming the selvage.
Our invention differs essentially from printed paper patterns for dress making,
and from paper printed in imitation of a doll's dress, etc., as in neither case no shaped
and printed fabric for final or permanent use is present which can be united to form
an article of wear, which forms the essential feature of my invention.

page_text: We do not limit ourselves to the articles disclosed herein, nor to their particular
shapes, as underwear, nightgowns, dresses, cloaks, and other articles of dress wear
can be produced either singly or in groups to form outfits, without departing from
the spirit of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. As a new article of manufacture, a piece of otherwise plain fabric having
printed or otherwise produced thereon in color and in correct outline an article of
wearing. apparel of a defined shape or style, and simulating the desired weave,
print, or texture, so as to readily cut from the said piece the actual article to be
worn, as and for the purposes set forth.
2. As a new article of manufacture, a piece of otherwise plain woven fabric
imprinted with a suitably shaped and colored article, and a border line following
substantially the shape of the article and removed therefrom, as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of October 1894.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
Agent for Applicants.