Improvements in Paper Dolls.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec, 1894-4ccepted, 2nd Feb., 1895
Improvements in Paper Dolls.
A communication from abroad by EDWARD CHARLES BETZIG, of 110, Fifth
Avenue, City of New York, County and State of New York, United States
of America, Designer.
I, JOHN CORRY FELL, of the Fum of Fell and Wilding, of 1 Queen Victoria
Street, in the City of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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 .-
My invention relates particularly to paper dolls or figures, which may have
detachable garments, preferably of paper, combined with the body; and the
objects of my invention are, (1) to provide a doll having an integral head, with
efficient means to engage a detachable garment, (2) to provide a doll-body with
arms so disposed that the arms or the hands may be usefully employed to assure
the engagement of a detachable garment with the body; and (3) to provide novel
detachable garments for paper-doll bodies
Referring to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 is a front view of a paper-doll provided with my detachable garment and
detachable hat.
Fig. 2 18 a font view of such doll, with the dress and hat removed.
Fig. 3 is a rear view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a rear view of the detachable garment.
The body, A, of my unproved doll is made of a single piece of material,
preferably paper or paper-board, with head, a, and arms, b, inade of the same
integral piece of paper. The paper from which the body is made is cut or slit,
near the upper end, at each side, toward the neck portion, as at a', to provide the
extensions, c, which may be made to represent curls, a collar, or, in the case of a
male figure, a board or hair on the face, or they may represent other desired parts
of the figure.
The arms, b, ale proferably given an inward inclination at the lower ends,
the hands &', in the figures accompanying being but slightly separated from the
body.
The several parts of the body are normally in the same plane, and the
extensions, c, and the hands, , tend to remain in such position by reason of
the resiliency of the material.
The part B, representing the dotachable garment, may be made in a single
piece, and it is given such a conformation as to its marginal edges that it will fit
over the body A Thus, for instance, it is cut away at the central part, d, so that
a colla is formed to fit the neck portion of the body, and it is provided with
shoulders, e, e, and with pointed tabs or projections, ff, on either side of the collar
portion, d. The arrangement 18 such that the garment is attached to the body by
passing the tabs, ff, rearwardly through the shits, a', so that the extensions, c, of
the head overlie the said tabs and adjacent portions of the shoulders, e, and the
collar, d, snugly fits the neck portion of the head, whereby an efficient engagement
of the garment and neck of the body is secured The atiain upon the tabs, f, 18
relieved by the engagement of tho shoulders, e, and extensions, c, of the head.
The resiliency of the extensions, c, which gives them a tendency to resume their
no mal position in the plane of the body with which they are integral, serves to

page_text: give the necessary pressure to provide the proper interlocking engagement, whilst
any lateral displacement is provented by the engagement of the tabs, f, and the
sides of the neck portion of the figure.
The engagement of the parts A and B is further effected by providing the
body with aims, b, the lower parts of which, as the hands, ', are turned inward
towards the body, the said hands engaging the sides of the garment, B, which is
wider between the points to be engaged by the hands than the normal distance
from one hand to the other, the garment being also adapted to rest upou the
inturned parts of the arms. In the doll shown, the edges of the lower part of
the garment are inclined downwardly and outwardly, as at h, k, and are of the
desired width at the points of engagement by the hands. The garment,
above such inclined edges, h, 4, 18 provided with laterally projecting parts, 1, i,
which are finished to represent sleeves, and form angles, ',, with the
edges, h, h, thereof. As stated, the garment, B, at the points to be engaged by
the bands, is of greater width than the normal distance between the hands, so
that, when the garment is adjusted to the body, the hands overlie the edges, h, h,
of the garment
This engagement of the hands and garment may be attained by
moving the hands outward and allowing them to spring inward to overlie the edges
of the garment, immediately below the ends of the sleeves The resiliency of
the arms causes the hands to press the garment to the body, and the garment
is secured from falling downwards by the angles, ', 1', of the sleeves resting
upon the hands. Other means for engaging the garment and the body may be
employed.
It will thus be seen that accidental movement of the garment in any direction
is prevented, and but two parts are employed to complete the dressed doll
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim 19.
1. The herein-described paper-doll, comprising a body having an integral head
and slits cut from the edges of the body toward the neck poition, forming thereby
integral extensions, 10 combination with a detachable garment having parts over-
lapped by the said extensions when the garment is adjusted to the body, substantially
as described.
2. The here-described paper-doll, comprising a body having an integral head
and slits cut from the edges of the body toward the neck portion, forming thereby
integral extensions, in combination with a detachable garment having tabs or
projections adapted to be overlapped by the said extensions, when the garment is
adjusted to the body, substantially as described.
3. The herein-described paper-loll, having a body and integral aims inturned
towards said body, combined with a detachable garment having parts adapted t
be overlapped by the intuined arms, when the gaiment is adjusted to the body,
substantially as described.
4 The herein-described paper-doll having a body and integral arms inturne |
towards said body, combined with a detachable garinent having parts adapted to
be overlapped by the inturned aims, and parts to rest thereon, when the garment 13
adjusted to the body, substantially as described.
5. The herein-described paper-doll, comprising a body having an integral head
and slits cut from the edges of the body toward the neck portion, forming thereby
integral extensions, and having also arms inturned towards the body, in combina-
tion with a detachable garment having paris adapted to be overlapped by sand
extensious, and by said inturned arms, when the garinent is adjusted to the body,
substantially as described.
6. The heiein-described paper-doll, comprising a body having an integral head
and slits cut from the edges of the body toward the neck portion, forming thereby
integral extensions, and having also arms inturned towards the body, in combina-

page_text: tion with a detachable garment having parts adapted to be overlapped by said
extensions, by said inturned arms and adapted to rest on the latter, when the
garment is adjusted to the body, substantially as described.
Dated this 27th day of December 1894.
FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Applicant.