Improvements in the Manufacture of Dolls and other Toy Figures.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Dolls and other Toy Figures.
I, THOMAS BROWNE, of 56, Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, S.W,, Mechanical
Toy Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of dolls and other
toy figures, and has for its object to so construct dolls and other toy figures or
effigies, as to render them practically indestructible and unbreakable, while at
the same time, they shall contain nothing in their composition or construction
that will be injurious to health or liable to injure the children and others handling
them.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings, wherein is shewn a doll made in accordance with
my invention.
In carrying my invention into practice, I form the trunk, head and limbs of
the figure, integrally, such figure being composed of a strip or strips of sateen,
calico or other suitable textile fabric, which is shaped into the desired pattern
and then brought together and sewn to form a bag which is filled with flock
or wool impregnated with a suitable or disinfectant or deodorizing substance.
The pupils of the eyes are formed of earthenware upholstering buttons a,
which have interposed between same and the face 6 of the figure, discs c covered
with white linen, to constitute the white portions of the eyes. The mouth is
formed of a number of red woollen stitches, d, surrounding central stitches of
white wool d to represent teeth. To form the hair for the head, I provide a
strip of fur e which is fastened in any suitable manner to that portion of the
figure representing the head.
If desirable, I may provide the figure so formed with a nose ring g, fur loin
girdle h, necklace i, and arm-lets and anklets j or other suitable ornamentations
or articles of clothing as adornment.
With a doll or other figure so fashioned, it will be impossible for a child
to cut, or otherwise injure itself as is the case with dolls and the like at present
in use, while by the employment of a stuffing or deodorized or disenfected
flock or wool, the risk of spreading disease hitherto very great, where saw-dust,
rags and the like were employed, is entirely eliminated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The improvements in the manufacture of dolls and other toy figures, con-
Bisting in stuffing such figures with deodorized or disinfected flock or wool, and
DEAviding eves formed of earthenware upholstering buttons sewn to the faces

page_text: of the figures, white linen covered discs being interposed between said buttons
and the faces and the mouths formed of rows of woollen stitches, substantially
as and for the purpose described, and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 6th day of January 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.