IMPROVEMENTS IN DOLLS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Frederick Haas, of Jewin Street, in the
City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DOLLS."
-A communication from abroad by Fischer Naumann and Company, of
Ilmenau. Saxe Weimar.
Sealed the 31st January 1861, and dated the 2nd August 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Frederick Haas
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd August 1860.
I, ALBERT FREDERICK HAAS, of Jewin Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN DOLLS," (a communication from abroad by Fischer Naumann and
Company, of Ilmenau, Saxe Weimar,) to be as follows:-
Dolls hitherto made have never been so constructed as to allow of their
being placed in a sitting posture with the legs bending at and hanging down
from the knee. Now this Invention consists in constructing dolls with an
enlarged part at the bottom of the body, and in connecting the upper part of
the legs to the fore part of the body in such manner as to allow of the body
being placed and remaining erect when put in a sitting posture. There is
also a joint at the knee, which allows of the doll being seated, say upon a chair,
with the feet and legs from the knee downwards in the position of a living
person.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Albert Frederick Haas in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd February 1861.
⚫ TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALBERT
FREDERICK HAAS, of Jewin Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Albert Frederick Haas, Her special licence that T, the said Albert Frederick
Haas, niy executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said.
Albert. Frederick Haas, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to tinie and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
DOLLS," (a communication from abroad by Fischer Naumann & Co., of
Ilmenau, Saxe Weimar,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Albert. Erederick Haas, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE,' that I; the said Albert Frederick Haas, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 'Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
Dolls hitherto made have never been so constructed as to allow of 'their
being placed in a sitting posture with the legs bending at and hanging down
from the knee. Now this Invention consists in constructing dolls with an
enlarged part at the bottom of the body, and in connecting the upper part of
the legs to the fore part of the body in such manner as to allow of the body
being placed and remaining erect when put in a sitting posture. There is
also a joint at the knee, which allows of the doll being seated, say upon a chair,

page_text: with the feet and legs from the knee downwards in the position of a living
person.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a back view of a doll made in
the manner before described. a is the enlarged part at the bottom of the
body; b, b, are the legs joined to the front of the enlarged part; c, c, are the
joints at the knee.
Figure 2 shows in side view the doll in a sitting posture. Sometimes
I make the enlarged part a flat or nearly so at the bottom, as shewn at
Figure 3.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the improve-
ments in dolls, forming an enlarged part at the bottom of the body, and
connecting the upper part of the legs to the fore part of the body, and jointing
the knees to the legs in such manner as to allow of the body being placed and
remaining erect when put in a sitting posture, substantially as herein-before
described, and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Frederick Haas, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of February, One thousand.
eight hundred and sixty-one.
FREDERICK HAAS. (L.S.)